England Beat India by Six Wickets in Taunton Decider — England Vs India
England beat India by six wickets in england vs india at Taunton, sealing the deciding women’s T20 international with 18.3 overs gone and 184-4 on the board. Alice Capsey and Heather Knight drove the chase as England topped off their World Cup preparations with a home win.
Capsey and Knight at Taunton
England reached 184-4 after 18.3 overs, and Knight was unbeaten on 70 when she finished the match with another boundary. Capsey, who helped carry the chase with her, said: "I was using my feet, aiming straight, not trying to overhit it."
She added: "I just thought that the pitch was coming on really nicely and I didn’t have to manufacture too many things, I watched how India did it, got a lot of value from hitting in the V." Those choices gave England the control they needed in a game that had been decided only after the third women’s T20 international.
Charlie Dean on the chase
Charlie Dean said: "The girls took on the power play really well, that’s what we’ve asked them to do and what a great partnership between Caps and Heather. Girls were phenomenal in the field". That pairing settled the match after England had been pushed into a chase that still needed clean batting deep into the innings.
Knight said: "The more you guys are writing Heather Knight off, the better for me. The more people were saying she wasn’t in the team, the more I knew an innings like this would be round the corner." Her 70 was the clearest answer on the day, and it arrived in a series decider where England needed the finish more than the style points.
England’s World Cup run-in
The result closed out England’s latest block of World Cup preparation with India still on the schedule again in a warm-up game the following Wednesday. England were then due to play Australia on Monday before the World Cup starts at Edgbaston against Sri Lanka on Friday week at 6.30pm.
For England, the Taunton win leaves the batting order with a live case for the final World Cup stretch, and it puts Capsey and Knight in the frame after a chase that ended the series. That is the part of the day that travels best into the week ahead.
