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
Target 178
CATCH ITTTT!
No! Not quite.
Harleen Deol tries to whip it through the leg side, but a leading edge loops up in the air, over the umpire at the non-striker's end, and Mady Villiers can't quite there from mid on, despite a good dive.
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special
She was almost caressing the ball, like you do with a baby. A beautiful shot.
Offt! Even better!
There's very little width on this from Katherine Brunt, but Smriti Mandhana just opens the face of the bat, and guides between a reinforced off side field for four more.
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special
A little bit of width from Brunt but Mandhana is such an elegant left-hander, she just leant on it.
Smriti Mandhana picks up her second boundary with a guide through backward point.
She doesn't have an awful lot of foot movement, but she's got superb hands.
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special
I am surprised Sciver is opening the bowling. She's a disciplined bowler but you kind of know where it's going to land.
Target 178
Shot!
The pressure was starting to build on Smriti Mandhana after five dots to start, but she carves Nat Sciver over mid off to relieve some of it.
A top edge, which loops over Amy Jones, brings her two more. A slice of fortune.
Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match Special
This is a game where it feels like there's electricity and energy out there.
Nat Sciver is going to share the new ball.
She's already had a really good day...
Target 178
A couple of leg byes end an eventful first over.
Absolutely no way near the bat.
A gigantic waste of a review from England.
Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match Special
I don't think there's much conviction from Brunt.
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special
That moved an awful lot after it passed the bat and I think that's why they're interested in it.
Is this out?
Heather Knight has reveiwed a caught behind after a wofty drive by Smriti Mandhana.
Katherine Brunt wasn't even remotely interested, and starts cross her hand, as if to say no, once Knight had reviewed. That says a lot.
Harleen Deol is the new batter.
She'll have to go some to beat this catch!
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special
The tussle, the competition, the rivalry between the veteran Brunt and young prodigy Verma is a theme that has interwoven the entire series.
Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match Special
It was a weird shot, it was all a little bit messy.
Verma b Brunt 0 (Ind 0-1)
The number one batter in the world is gone without scoring!
Shafali Verma backs away looking to leg, perhaps preparing for the short ball. But it leaves her whole stumps exposed, and when she misses with a defensive prod, Katherine Brunt hits the top of leg stump.
What a start for England.
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Test Match Special
The pandemonium of the last two overs took away from what an incredible total it is from England.
Here it is! The sensational Harleen Deol catch that dismissed Amy Jones.
Watch it. Watch it again. Oh go on, watch it again.
It is magnificent.