Summary

  • England win first T20 by 18 runs on DLS method and take 8-4 lead in multi-format series

  • Rain stopped play with India on 54-3 after 8.4 overs, DLS par score 72

  • England posted 177-7 after India won toss

  • Sciver 55 (27) hit joint-fastest T20 fifty by England player

  • Jones 43 (27) fell to sublime juggling catch on boundary by Deol

  • Highlights on BBC Red Button at 22:00 BST

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews

  1. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    Sophie Ecclestone is a solid fielder, she has a safe pair of hands.

  2. Emily Windsor
    Southern Vipers player on BBC Test Match Special

    Big, big wicket. Now they're three down, it's a long way back from here.

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Kaur c Ecclestone b Glenn 1 (Ind 47-3)

    Sarah Glenn takes wickets.

    Before this game Sarah Glenn averaged 12.5 in Twenty20 cricket, she knows how to take wickets.

    Harmanpreet Kaur tries to go over mid off, but tamely drives to Sophie Ecclestone, who takes a simple catch.

    England are in charge of this game.

  4. Sarah Glenn is into the attack.

    Heather Knight is really rotating her bowlers. We've seen five now.

  5. Emily Windsor
    Southern Vipers player on BBC Test Match Special

    A huge wicket and brilliantly executed. It was short and she was always going to for it. The pressure is now on India.

  6. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    England's short ball theory does the job.

  7. wicket

    WICKET

    Mandhana c Ecclestone b Sciver 29 (Ind 44-2)

    She can do even better! A BIG wicket for England.

    Once again the short ball works for England, and does for Smriti Mandhana. She plays with low hands, so is always playing up on the ball, and that leads to her being caught on the square leg boundary by Sophie Ecclestone.

    England edge the powerplay.

  8. Emily Windsor
    Southern Vipers player on BBC Test Match Special

    Mandhana is the big wicket for England. If anyone has the potential to go on and do damage, it's her.

  9. Ind 44-1

    Target 178

    Nat Sciver goes round the wicket to Smriti Mandhana but she can't get her line right.

    A fine tickle brings four, before another leggy ball is pulled away for four.

    Can she get out of the over without any more damage?

  10. Ind 35-1

    Target 178

    Superb bowling!

    Harleen Deol comes down the track, and Nat Sciver sees her coming, and throws down a brilliantly-executed bouncer, that hits Deol on the shoulder.

  11. Nat Sciver is back on to bowl the final over in the powerplay.

    Amy Jones has come up to the stumps.

  12. Isabelle Westbury
    Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special

    They have got Verma but Mandhana is another real marquee player in this India team.

  13. Ind 35-1

    Target 178

    Can they afford to see her out? That's the question. There's no obvious weak link in this bowling attack. They may target Sarah Glenn or Mady Villiers, but both are extremely good bowlers.

    That's a shot! Sophie Ecclestone is bowling across Smriti Mandhana, which opens up Mandhana's arc, and she slots her over mid-wicket. Beautiful.

  14. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    It will be interesting to see how India approach Ecclestone. Do they try and see her out or look to score with the risk of potentially giving out wickets?

  15. Here's how Katherine Brunt got the key wicket of Shafali Verma.

    Brunt is being replaced by Sophie Ecclestone.

  16. Ind 28-1

    Target 178

    One of the fielders has described this for me: "Carnage".

    Mady Villiers hits the stumps at the non-striker's end, but the batter is comfortably home, and an unfortunate ricochet gives India another run.

    An eventful over brings seven runs. The required rate is up to 9.37.

  17. Isabelle Westbury
    Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special

    The pressure was starting to build on Deol but that was gloriously timed and needed for India.

  18. Ind 25-1

    Harleen Deol has some wrists! She's constantly looking to move the ball into the leg side, and she picks up this delivery from Freya Davies, and whips it to the mid-wicket fence.

    A superb shot.

  19. A chance for England as Freya Davies replaces Nat Sciver.

  20. Isabelle Westbury
    Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special

    India don't quite have the depth of England but with T20 being a more volatile, unpredictable format, it just takes the one big innings.