An economical over from Gunn, but perhaps more because of the failure to time the ball on the slow surface.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"You can see from the replay it's hit Pandey's glove and then her forearm. Sarah Taylor has caught it just before it bounces. The umpire may have only seen the contact with the forearm."

Rebecca Grundy, in for Dani Hazell, is into the attack with her slow left-arm and England wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor is convinced she has caught Pandey's mis-timed reverse sweep off the glove but nothing from the umpire. To compound matters Raj sweeps the final ball to the boundary.

Jenny Gunn is the new bowler, with that distinctive windmill-style action that has been scrutinised by the powers that be - and cleared of any wrongdoing we should add. The first three deliveries result in singles.

Dropped catchpublished at 7 overs

7 overs

Ind 24-2

A second spill, Dani Wyatt the guilty girl this time and Shrubsole the unlucky bowler. It went straight to her on the boundary, her hands were in the ideal place, the dark glasses shielding her eyes from the sun..but the ball escapes her clutches and so do some Anglo-Saxon expressions. 

Raj, with eight T20 fifties to her name, clips a beautifully timed, wristy stroke for the third boundary of the innings. A rueful Brunt can only shake her head. The end of the powerplay overs.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"A really important wicket, nipping through the gate. Brilliant into the left-hander and she still got it go on straight. It definitely gripped on the surface. It's a fantastic delivery."

Shikha Pandey is the new batter and she gets away second ball with a single.

The bespectacled Mandhana is clearly going to take on anything short and she latches quickly on to a Brunt bouncer to thump another leg-side boundary. Her diminutive, elegant captain gets off the mark with an rather inelegant heave into the leg-side for two.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"The drop from Natalie Sciver is pretty gutting for England. She saw the ball early but didn't get herself back enough. When it goes high you need to be agile on your feet for last-minute drift on the ball. That should be taken every day of the week."

Just the single that resulted from that dropped catch. Shrubsole thought she had a wicket with her opening delivery but a confident lbw appeal was denied and in truth the ball was probably heading down the leg-side.

Dropped catchpublished at 10:10 Greenwich Mean Time 22 March 2016

10:10 GMT 22 March 2016

Mandhana dropped on 6

Mandhana has top-edged another one, this time off Anya Shrubsole, but the ball squeezes between the hands of Natalie Sciver in the sunshine at backward square-leg.

Left-hander Smriti Mandhana is the other India opener and she records the first boundary of the match with a delightful straight drive, Sourav Ganguly-style. A top-edge from the final ball of Katherine Brunt's over is top-edged but it evades the fielders, much to the chagrin of the combative fast bowler.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"What Heather Knight did was move Lydia Greenway back to the edge of the ring because they knew there could be that bottom edge with little pace on it. It's a shame because India walked straight into it."

A full toss is the one blemish in a tidy first over but it only goes for a single.

We have had the anthems and England are running out in their coral red shirts and navy trousers, India in the famous light blue, sun beating down, snow capped Himalayas beyond...not bad really. Heather Knight to open the bowling.

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