Postpublished at 20:52 British Summer Time 9 July 2021
Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match Special
Sophie Ecclestone is a solid fielder, she has a safe pair of hands.
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
Callum Matthews
Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match Special
Sophie Ecclestone is a solid fielder, she has a safe pair of hands.
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.
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.
Sarah Glenn is into the attack.
Heather Knight is really rotating her bowlers. We've seen five now.
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.
Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match Special
England's short ball theory does the job.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Nat Sciver is back on to bowl the final over in the powerplay.
Amy Jones has come up to the stumps.
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.
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.
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?
Here's how Katherine Brunt got the key wicket of Shafali Verma.
Brunt is being replaced by Sophie Ecclestone.
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.
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.
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.
A chance for England as Freya Davies replaces Nat Sciver.
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.