Summary

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  • Renuka Singh Thakur finishes with 5-15

  • Seamer removes Danni Wyatt, Alice Capsey and Sophia Dunkley in powerplay, before removing Amy Jones and Katherine Sciver-Brunt in final over

  • Nat Sciver-Brunt makes 50 off 41 balls, with Amy Jones adding 40 off 27

  • India win toss and bowl first

  • Both sides have won opening two games

  • Winner will likely top Group 2 and avoid defending champions Australia in semi-finals

  1. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 18.2 overs

    Sharma run out (Sciver/†Jones) 7 (Ind 119-5)

    Great work from Nat Sciver-Brunt at deep midwicket as she finds the gloves of Amy Jones as Deepti Sharma looks to come back for an ambitious second run.

  2. Umpire reviewpublished at 16:03 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2023

    It's all happening.

    From Sophie Ecclestone's second ball we have a review for a run out as Deepti Sharma struggles to make her ground.

  3. Not outpublished at 16:01 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2023

    Must have been some glove on that. Deepti Sharma survives.

  4. India reviewpublished at 16:01 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2023

    Sophie Ecclestone strikes Deepti Sharma on the pad as she attempts to sweep. The finger goes up, but Sharma reviews.

  5. Postpublished at 16:00 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2023

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It's the most important over, especially when you're defending. Ecclestone needs to make sure her fields are right, and make sure she bowls as if the game was a lot closer.

  6. Postpublished at 16:00 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2023

    So 34 off 12 balls needed for India.

    Sophie Ecclestone with her final over.

  7. Postpublished at 15:59 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2023

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Richa Ghosh hits Lauren Bell for sixImage source, Getty Images

    That's a great pick-up from Ghosh. She's so powerful, and showing why she went for so much money in the Women's Premier League. Slightly short from Lauren Bell, it is a shorter boundary down there.

  8. 6 runs

    Ind 118-4published at 17.4 overs

    Lauren Bell has her head in her hands as Richa Ghosh picks a slower ball and wallops it back over her head for six.

  9. Ind 112-4published at 17.3 overs

    Spot on, Henry. Far from flawless in the field but held their nerve at crucial times. England look favourites now.

    "Come on Belly" encourages Amy Jones from behind the stumps as Lauren Bell continues to use variations to good effect.

  10. Postpublished at 15:56 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2023

    Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Credit to England's captaincy, because they've been spot-on all game. There's not been a time where it's felt like they're chasing the game.

  11. Ind 109-4published at 17.0 overs

    Target 152

    The worm shows India are 11 runs behind England. India are 109 for 4 after 17 overs. At the same stage England were 120 for 5.Image source, BBC Sport

    Getting tense now. England can smell blood. Every run vital for India.

    Nat Sciver-Brunt hustles through an over which goes for just five. England starting to turn the screw with 43 needed off 18 balls.

  12. Postpublished at 15:54 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2023

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Sarah Glenn and England celebrate the wicket of Smriti MandhanaImage source, Getty Images

    Trying to go again, trying to go up and over. She's trying to pierce long-on and deep mid-wicket but picks out Sciver-Brunt. England are on top of this game and you fear that's it for India.

  13. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 16.0 overs

    Mandhana c K Sciver-Brunt b Glenn 52 (Ind 105-4)

    Well, well, well...

    That's a vital wicket for England as Smriti Mandhana, a little premeditated, goes down the track and looks for another six.

    This time she's gone to cow corner where Katherine Sciver-Brunt is stationed a few yards in from the boundary and she gobbles up the catch.

  14. Postpublished at 15:51 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2023

    Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    It's a brilliant, sumptuous, lofted drive for six runs!

  15. 6 runs

    Fifty for Mandhanapublished at 15.5 overs

    Wowsers. Smriti Mandhana goes after the penultimate ball of Sarah Glenn's over and again creates an angle to wallop a six on the angle.

    A great knock. If she's here at the end it will be India's game.

  16. Ind 93-3published at 15.0 overs

    The worm shows India are 13 runs behind England. India are 93 for 3 after 15 overs. At the same stage England were 106 for 4.Image source, BBC Sport

    Sophie Ecclestone concedes six off her over.

    There's a glimmer of a stumping off her final ball as Richa Ghosh gets herself in a tangle attempting an innovative paddle, but the India batter manages to get her bat back behind the line.

  17. Postpublished at 15:47 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2023

    Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    106 is par on Duckworth-Lewis. It's quite bright and rainy - it's not full-on rain, it's a heavy drizzle.

  18. Ind 91-3published at 14.3 overs

    Indeed it's started to drizzle midway through Sophie Ecclestone's third over.

  19. Postpublished at 15:45 Greenwich Mean Time 18 February 2023

    Brooding grey skies over the ground. Is there a chance of rain here?

  20. Ind 87-3published at 14.0 overs

    Katherine Sciver-Brunt dives on the boundary sponge to save a boundary off the penultimate ball of Sarah Glenn's over. Body on the line from the veteran.