Summary

  • Day three of the only women's Test between England and India

  1. Postpublished at 17:06 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    And that's where we got to when the rain came.

    India are 83-1 in their second innings, still 82 short of making England bat again.

    With the scene in Bristol looking grim, we're going to leave it here for now. We'll be back if there is any more action.

  2. Postpublished at 17:01 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    But then it was the Shafali Verma show.

  3. Postpublished at 16:56 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Brunt got in the action again at the start of the India second dig...

  4. Postpublished at 16:52 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Before Katherine Brunt and Anya Shrubsole produced these two beauties to give England the chance to enforce the follow-on.

  5. Postpublished at 16:49 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Sophie Ecclestone got to work on the India lower-order first up...

  6. Postpublished at 16:47 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Just joining us? Where have you been?

  7. Postpublished at 16:42 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Perhaps we should relocate to St Lucia?

    They are under way in the second Test between West Indies and South Africa, with the visitors already reduced to 35-2.

    You can follow that one here.

  8. Postpublished at 16:37 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

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  9. Postpublished at 16:32 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Amy Lofthouse
    BBC Sport at Bristol

    It's misty and grey and just downright grim in Bristol. The mizzle is all around the grounds, obstructing the view of the houses in the distance, while the wind is blowing the flags at full pelt. All the big covers have been brought out and, it has to be said, it doesn't look promising.

  10. Postpublished at 16:31 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Amy Lofthouse is doing more reporting on weather than cricket at the moment...

  11. Postpublished at 16:23 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Amy Lofthouse
    BBC Sport at Bristol

    It is, I'm sorry to say, properly miserable out there.

  12. Postpublished at 16:22 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Very, very grim in Bristol now. The sort of weather that makes you wonder if we'll see play again today.

  13. Postpublished at 16:21 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

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  14. Postpublished at 16:16 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Snehal Pradhan
    Ex-India seamer on BBC Test Match Special

    Shafali Verma kind of burst on the scene pretty quickly, she batted with Danni Wyatt in the Women's T20 Challenge where she really made an impression. I was commentating on that game and I contacted her father after to find out where she'd been all this time!

    But there are so many more Shafali Vermas out there. We just need to find them.

  15. Postpublished at 16:15 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    The track and the square is covered in Bristol. Tea should be done at about 16:25, but it seems unlikely they'll be back out by then.

  16. Postpublished at 16:09 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Snehal Pradhan
    Ex-India seamer on BBC Test Match Special

    We have seen a different Deepti Sharma since the rain break, but I think it's the bowling that has allowed her to play that way. She loves a cover drive and she loves a sweep, and she's been given enough width to get a few boundaries away.

  17. Postpublished at 16:07 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

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  18. Rain stops play & tea takenpublished at 16:05 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Ind 83-1

    Ah, it's raining quite heavily now. Common sense prevails and tea is taken.

    India trail England by 82 runs.

  19. Postpublished at 16:03 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Tea will be taken at 16:10 BST. I mean we have no idea why, seeing as they were off the pitch for so long because of rain.

    On that note, I'm afraid to say it's drizzling again and the grounds team are lurking by the boundary.

  20. Postpublished at 16:03 British Summer Time 18 June 2021

    Alex Hartley
    England World Cup-winning spinner on Test Match Special

    What's remarkable for me is the pressure that India were under when they came back out to bat, but Shafali Verma hasn't even noticed. She hasn't changed her approach at all.