England women’s reboot gets rude awakening by India as England captain says team “didn’t do themselves justice”.
Sciver-Brunt plays lone hand as England women’s reboot gets a reality check.
This served as a wake-up call for England, and they will want assistance if they are to defeat India in the second of five Twenty20 Internationals, as captain Nat Sciver-Brunt hopes.
In the first game of the series at Trent Bridge, Sciver-Brunt played a lone hand with the bat, hitting 66 while wickets fell all around her and England was bowled out for a pitiful 113 chasing 211.
Sciver-Brunt scored 37 of England’s third-wicket partnership of 49, while Tammy Beaumont scored 10. The only player to achieve double figures was Em Arlott, at number 7.
That came after India’s interim skipper, Smriti Mandhana, destroyed the home bowling attack with her first-ever T20I century of 112 in 62 balls. Harleen Deol’s 43 off 23 and their 94-run partnership for the second wicket after a 77-run opening partnership with Shafali Verma provided her with strong assistance.”When a team scores 200, you’ve got to have some really good partnerships in there when you’re batting and we lost wickets early, so it made it very difficult for us,” Sciver-Brunt said.
“They are obviously a world-class side with some amazing batters who, if you give a chance to, they’re going to punish you. We probably didn’t do ourselves justice in terms of the first innings so we’ll be looking to put a few things right and probably just tighten up a little bit in terms of our lines.
“I think the plans were right, but we probably just didn’t execute so we will review honestly and make sure that we’re confident going into that second game.”