India scripted a landmark victory, clinching their first-ever Women’s T20I series win against England with a dominant six-wicket triumph within the fourth match, led by a stellar efficiency from their spinners.
With this win, India took an unassailable 3-1 lead within the five-match series, with the ultimate recreation scheduled to be performed in Birmingham on Saturday (July 12, 2025).
India had crushed England in a lone T20I match performed in Derby in 2006. Since then, the ‘Women in Blue’ have fallen brief in each girls’s T20I series against England, each at house and away.
Spin performed a starring position in India’s dominant win on Wednesday (July 9, 2025) as Radha Yadav (2/15), 20-year-old Shree Charani (2/30), and Deepti Sharma (1/29) mixed to assert 5 wickets, limiting the hosts to a modest 126 for 7.
Sneh Rana celebrates with followers following the fourth girls’s IT20 at Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, on July 9, 2025
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Openers Shafali Verma (32) and Smriti Mandhana (31) then chased with aptitude, placing on a 56-run stand that laid the inspiration for the win. The guests overhauled the goal with 18 balls to spare, capping off a memorable night.
The victory comes as a well timed enhance for India, serving to them acclimatise to English situations forward of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup scheduled to be held right here subsequent yr.
“We are really grateful that we were able to do this (series win). I’m really proud of my team the way we played this series. It was really important to get that momentum and I’m really happy the way we all contributed,” India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur stated on the post-match presentation.
“We had very good camps back home before coming here. We worked on all our plans, accordingly we have executed everything here. Everybody knew their role and accordingly we all played,” she added.
Smriti Mandhana will get hit within the helmet with a ball in the course of the fourth girls’s IT20 at Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, on July 9, 2025.
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Kaur and Co. have been in red-hot kind, having handed England a record-shattering 97-run defeat within the series-opener earlier than sealing a 24-run win in Bristol, England girls’s first-ever T20I loss on the venue. They misplaced the third T20I by 5 runs.
Electing to bat first, England discovered themselves beneath early stress as Indian spinners Radha and Deepti struck throughout the powerplay, eradicating each the openers.
Stand-in captain Tammy Beaumont, main within the absence of the injured Nat Sciver-Brunt, briefly counterattacked with a 16-ball 20 that included three boundaries. But her keep was reduce brief by Radha, and 5 balls later, Charani trapped Alice Capsey leg-before, leaving England wobbling at 93 for five.
India’s bowlers have been backed by a pointy fielding effort that squeezed England in the course of the center overs, retaining the hosts to a sub-par whole.
With the bat, Shafali got here out swinging, taking over the short-ball ploy with confidence and cracking six boundaries. Mandhana too joined the cost, placing 5 fours of her personal.
Though each openers fell in fast succession, the platform was nicely set. Jemimah Rodrigues (24 not out) and Harmanpreet Kaur (26) steered India house by means of a boundary-less part between overs 8 to 14 to ultimately take India to the win.
All data damaged and milestones achieved
For the primary time ever, India gained a bilateral T20I series against England, both at house or away.
Harmanpreet Kaur equalled Mithali Raj’s file for many worldwide caps for India (333).
Deepti Sharma and Sophie Ecclestone equal Katherine Sciver-Brunt’s file for highest wicket-taker in India vs England girls’s T20Is. Both Deepti and Ecclestone have 23 wickets.
