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now 10.47 EDT 15th over: India 160-1 (Mandhana 90, Deol 43) Superb from Mandhana. I’m running out of superlatives. Flier isn’t too short but Mandhana has enough time to move across her stumps and pull behind square for four. Flier isn’t too full but Mandhana has enough timing to lift a cover drive over the infield for four more. That second boundary could be the shot of the day. India’s stand-in skipper, who now has her highest score in the format, gets a couple off an edge from a Flier bouncer and then a single after Beaumont does well to prevent the boundary at deep square leg. Share

4m ago 10.43 EDT 14th over: India 148-1 (Mandhana 79, Deol 42) High class from both batters who collect boundaries with shots that have become trademarks. Deol sweeps Ecclestone – back into the attack but unable to stem the flow of runs – and Mandhana unfurls a gorgeous inside out lofted cover drive that finds the rope. Just superb batting. England needed a sterner test than what the West Indies could offer. They’re certainly getting one now. Share

8m ago 10.39 EDT 13th over: India 136-1 (Mandhana 73, Deol 36) England can’t hold back the tide. Deol jumps down the wicket and pastes Arlott through the covers for four. 10 more runs thanks to sharp work between the wickets from the batters. Three for Mandhana who hoiked to the leg side fence. A pair of twos for Deol who is moving around her crease and causing confusion for Arlott who doesn’t have an answer. Share

12m ago 10.35 EDT 12th over: India 122-1 (Mandhana 69, Deol 27) India are disappearing over the horizon. Deol nails Capsey down the ground from the first ball of the over. A single brings Mandhana on strike who skips down the track and opens her body before lifting a four wide of long-off. Deol then tried to clear the rope but only offered Wyatt-Hodge some catching practice. Good thing for the Indian batter that England’s fielding has been utter dross. That was a dolly. No question about it. Edwards in the pavilion looks livid. She has every right to be. Share

14m ago 10.32 EDT Wyatt-Hodge puts down a goober! My word, England have been so poor! Deol launches Capsey into the deep at midwicket where Wyatt-Hodge is stationed and she puts it down. Just so far below standard for this level. View image in fullscreen England's Danni Wyatt-Hodge drops the catch of India's Harleen Deol. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA Share Updated at 10.39 EDT

17m ago 10.29 EDT 11th over: India 110-1 (Mandhana 63, Deol 23) Flier is back and Mandhana sends the first ball – ahem – flying over the rope with a sensational pull shot. She absolutely nailed that. Flier mixes up her pace but is a little loose. Two wides and a no ball is not what the doctor ordered. There just doesn’t seem to be a coherent plan on how to get a wicket. Is Sciver-Brunt short of ideas or are her bowlers not following orders? Chance of a bit of both I reckon. Share

28m ago 10.19 EDT 10th over: India 98-1 (Mandhana 55, Deol 20) Wow, if England were keen to keep Deol on strike they might want to rethink that plan. Having hit her second ball for four in the last over, she’s added three more. Smith’s spin is too slow and too straight and the right-handed Deol is a mighty sweeper of the ball. First she sweeps towards midwicket. Then in front of square. Then behind square. All reach the rope. Two singles close the set and that’s 14 off it. Smith has now coughed up 28 from her two overs. England need a spark. They’ll have a chance to catch their breath with a drinks break. Share

31m ago 10.15 EDT 9th over: India (Mandhana 54, Deol 7) England bag the breakthrough they desperately needed. The new batter Deol looks a treat, though, as she collects two past point, then unleashes a drive through the covers for four and keeps the strike with a swivelled pull down the fine leg. England will want to target her and keep Mandhana itching at the non-striker’s end, but Deol can bat. No doubt about that. Share

34m ago 10.12 EDT WICKET! Verma c Ecclestone b Arlott 20 (India 77-1) England needed that! Verma, perhaps sensing that she needed to match her skipper’s scoring, tried to force the issue. She ran out her crease to the returning Arlott and almost yorked herself but still went through with the lofted drive. She couldn’t find the elevation required to clear mid-off and Ecclestone had a simply grab. View image in fullscreen England’s Nat Sciver-Brunt and Em Arlott celebrate the wicket of India’s Shafali Verma. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/Reuters Share Updated at 10.21 EDT

37m ago 10.09 EDT 8th over: India 75-0 (Verma 19, Mandhana 53) Mandhana looks a dream. Capsey into the attack but it doesn’t make much difference. The skipper skips down the track and lofts a drive for four, though Arlott in the deep really made a mess of that. Then there’s a wide down the leg side before Mandhana rocks back and cuts behind square for four to reach her milestone. England are scrambling and now desperate for a wicket. Share

39m ago 10.08 EDT 50 for Mandhana “Magical Mandhana” says Nasser Hussain. She gets there with a perfectly placed late cut off Capsey that shoots away for four. She’s never got a ton in this format. Don’t bet against her. Share

41m ago 10.05 EDT 7th over: India 66-0 (Verma 19, Mandhana 45) Ecclestone is welcomed back to international cricket by Mandhana who spanks the first ball of the over for six with a mighty slog sweep. She repeats the trick three balls later and Verma closes the set with a thumping cover drive over the infield for four. Three singles elsewhere means that over cost a whopping 19 runs. Wow, these Indians look in great touch. View image in fullscreen India's Smriti Mandhana hits a six. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA Share Updated at 10.23 EDT

45m ago 10.01 EDT 6th over: India 47-0 (Verma 14, Mandhana 31) That’s the powerplay. Another good over, this time from Bell who changed ends. It started with a wide but there were only four more runs off it. Mandhana lofted a couple over cover and Verma was bamboozled by a sumptuous slower ball. An extra coat of varnish on the stumps and she’d be a goner. Share

51m ago 09.56 EDT 5th over: India 42-0 (Verma 13, Mandhana 28) Better from England as Flier bangs it in short to Verma. One is called a no-ball as the slower ball slips out of her hand, but no boundaries and just four runs from that set means England have a rare moral victory in these early exchanges. Share

55m ago 09.52 EDT 4th over: India 38-0 (Verma 11, Mandhana 27) Three boundaries for the skipper in that saet. Smith is into the attack and Mandhana feasts on her left-arm finger spin. She kicked things off with two fours, one cut away off the back foot and the other mowed over square leg. A pair of singles brings Mandhana back on strike for the last ball and she clears her front leg and heaves it over mid-on for another four. India are flying! Share

1h ago 09.49 EDT 3rd over: India 24-0 (Verma 10, Mandhana 14) Verma survives a caught behind decision after getting sconed by Arlot’s vicious bumper. Still, that’s Verma’s over as she clattered boundaries either side of that moment. The first was boshed past mid-off and the second, after a skip down the track, was scythed through cover. View image in fullscreen Shafali Verma’s helmet gets clonked by the ball. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/Reuters Share Updated at 10.14 EDT

1h ago 09.44 EDT Review! Flier, into the attack, has landed a ripper of a bouncer. Has Verma edged it? NO! It’s hit her helmet. My goodness, what a bumper that is. But the original decision of out is reversed. Share

1h ago 09.41 EDT 2nd over: India 16-0 (Verma 2, Mandhana 14) Mandhana pastes two boundaries, one down the ground from a slower ball from Arlott, the other flayed over the slips. But the opener should be in the shed. She hoiked an ugly pull that looped towards midwicket where Capsey totally lost sight of the ball. It almost landed on her head! So the batters completed a single. What a let off that is. Share

1h ago 09.37 EDT 1st over: India 6-0 (Verma 1, Mandhana 5) Bell is full and straight and looking for swing. Verma gets off the mark with a bunt down the ground before Verma creams a drive past the bowler for four, showing off the bat maker’s logo as she does so. Verma firmly drives again but it’s half-stopped at mid-off so they scamper through for a single. Bell adjusts her length and gets away with the half-tracker as Verma fluffs the pull straight to mid-on. Verma then nails the final ball on the drive but clatters the stumps at the non-striker’s end. View image in fullscreen England’s Lauren Bell looks rueful after failing to stop the ball. Photograph: Philip Brown/Getty Images Share Updated at 10.11 EDT

1h ago 09.31 EDT Lauren Bell has the ball in her hands. After a short moment of silence remembering the victims of the Air India 171 crash, we’re ready to go. “The pitch will remain good,” says Ravi Shastri. Let’s get cracking! Share

1h ago 09.29 EDT Charlotte Edwards was chatting the BBC Radio earlier: There’s a real excitement around this series for us. A big opportunity to play at some bigger grounds and test ourselves against one of the best teams in the world. This is going to be a tougher test for us [than West Indies]. This India batting line-up provides us with an opportunity to expose some of our young bowlers and a new bowling group in many ways. It gives us an opportunity to look at options. I think the great thing about this group is we’re learning all the time Share

1h ago 09.19 EDT Here’s the official line from the BCCI on Harmanpreet’s injury: Captain Harmanpreet Kaur has been rested for the first T20I against England Women in Nottingham as a precautionary measure following a head injury [not a hand injury as I reported earlier] sustained during the T20 Warm-up match against ECB Select XI. She’s being closely monitored by the medical team and is recovering well. Smriti Mandhana is leading the side in her absence" Share

2h ago 09.13 EDT No Charlie Dean. Hmmm. Is that a mossed trick? Sure, conditions in India are different to Nottingham – one of the better decks in the UK – but I’d be getting miles in the arms of all spinners ahead of a World Cup on the sub continent. Also, Dean v Mandhana seems like match-up I’d want if I were an England captain. Share

2h ago 09.09 EDT Teams Tammy Beaumont and Sophie Ecclestone return. Two big players. Flier and Bell will tear in with seam and swing. As expected Shafali Verma makes her way back to the top of India’s order. Harampreet is out with a head injury. Shree Charani, the left arm finger spinner, makes her debut England: Dunkley, Wyatt-Hodge, Sciver-Brunt (c), Beaumont, Jones (wk), Capsey, Arlott, Ecclestone, Flier, Smith, Bell. India: Mandhana (c), Verma, Deol, Rodrigues, Kaur, Ghosh (wk), Sharma, Yadav, Reddy, Rana, Shree Charani View image in fullscreen England's Nat Sciver-Brunt and Danni Wyatt-Hodge confer. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/Reuters Share Updated at 09.27 EDT

2h ago 09.05 EDT England win the toss and bowl A shouting Ravi Shastri gets us underway as Nat Sciver-Brunt opts for a chase. She’s going with a ‘fairly heavy pace attack’. Juicy. She says that selecting the side was “very difficult”. Smriti Mandhana would have bowled first as well. Time for India to get things in order with a home World Cup around the corner. Share

2h ago 08.56 EDT Toss in a few minutes. Big question if Sophie Ecclestone will slot straight back into the side after a break. For my money she’s the best white ball bowler in the world. And is one of those rare power hitters who can tonk sixes from the word go. She simply has to play if she’s fit and in the right head space. Share

2h ago 08.42 EDT We’ve already been treated to an England v India epic this summer. I love it men’s and women’s tours coincide with one another. It adds to the intrigue, narrative and bragging rights. Not that this match serves as a side quest but worth a refresh on that cracking Test at Headinlgey: England ease off Bazball big talk but continue to embrace thrill of the chase Read more Share

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