Women’s Cricket: India beat England by eight runs

In Women's Cricket, India beat hosts England by eight runs in a thrilling match, leveling the T20 series 1-1 at Hove on Sunday tongiht. Put into bat, India scored 148 for four in stipulated 20 overs. Shafali Verma made a superb 48 runs in 38 balls. While Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur was out for 31 runs, Smriti Mandhana contributed 20 runs.  Deepti Sharma remained not out on 24. Brunt, who had dismissed Shafali in the first T20, had no answer to the disdainful hitting from the Indian, whose five boundaries including a slap past the bowler and three in the cow corner.
In reply, England could only manage 140 for 8 in the 20 overs with the help of Tammy Beaumont 59 and Heather Knight 30. For India, Poonam Yadav bagged two wickets while Arundhati Reddy and Deepti Sharma took one each. England won the toss and elected to bowl.  In the first T20 of the three match series on Friday, the hosts beat India by 18 runs through Duckworth Lewis method in a rain-hit encounter at Northampton. The third and final T20 will be played at Chelmsford on 14th of this month.