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by Mike Peter

  1. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    It is well bowled by Kranti Gaud. Danni Wyatt-Hodge was looking for the shot opening the face of the bat. It's a shot she loves but just wasn't there.

  2. wicket

    WICKET

    Wyatt-Hodge b Gaud 5 (Eng 14-1)

    Immediate revenge for the boundary!

    Kranti Gaud cramps Danni Wyatt-Hodge for room and the ball breaks through the openers defences to break the stumps.

    The India seamer affects a nonchalant look with a shrugging celebration.

  3. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    Bread and butter for Danni Wyatt-Hodge. She doesn't hit the ball, she carves it.

  4. Eng 14-1

    Biffed!

    Sophia Dunkley may not have magnificent staying power, but she can haul a ball down the ground.

    She gets four runs off Kranti Gaud's third ball, before opening partner Danni Wyatt-Hodge cuts confidently to pick up a boundary of her own.

  5. How's stat?!

    Here's how England's openers stacked up against India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand before this match.

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  6. Eng 3-0

    Arundhati Reddy gets us going, and her first over goes for just three singles.

    England's starting required run-rate is 9.05 runs an over, they need a strong powerplay if they don't want to leave their middle-order with too much to do.

  7. How's stat?!

    Kieran Parmley
    CricViz analyst

    England will need their highest successful chase at home if they are to win the series - their current record is the 168 they chased down against India off the last ball of the final T20I against India last summer.

  8. No rest for the wicked, or indeed in the cricket.

    Both teams are back out there, Taunton is bathed in a golden late-evening light.

  9. Thank you Matthew.

    Be sure to read all of the excellent features he's got lined up for this World Cup, he's been as busy as bee.

    Albeit a bee dressed in muted pastel colours.

  10. India are favourites but what a confidence booster it would be if England could pull this off.

    Mike Peter will take you through the chase.

  11. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    There's always a point in the game where you think India can motor and get 200. But my T20 brain has been mushed by the IPL, thinking 180 is not that many - it is.

    India have got the upper hand going into the second innings.

  12. It feels like India could have got more but this still requires England's second highest T20 chase and their highest on these shores. The pitch is good and the boundaries short so they have a chance but scoring quickly has not been their strength this summer.

  13. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    EcclestonePA Media

    After all that good work from Sophie Ecclestone that is one for the bloopers tape. With Richa Ghosh just strolling waiting to be run out.

  14. dropped catch

    Interval - Ind 180-5

    Oh no no no!

    A comedy miss from Sophie Ecclestone. Richa Ghosh is mid-pitch and Sophie Ecclestone could walk the ball in. She opts to throw from all of two yards and misses the stumps. To make matters worse they run an overthrow too.

  15. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    Charlie Dean setting the standards in the field, even with a few balls to go. I love that from her.

  16. Ind 178-5

    Brilliant from Charlie Dean on the boundary. If England win by two runs...

  17. Ind 176-5

    Full and quick from Ecclestone. Only a single.

  18. Ind 175-5

    A fumble from Dani Gibson means Harmanpreet gets back for two.

  19. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    Charlie Dean and Sophie Ecclestone are having a real conversation here about whether they need to change the field. Instead they're going to change the angle of attack and Ecclestone is going to come round the wicket.

  20. 50 runs

    50 for Harmanpreet Kaur

    Harmanpreet Kaur picks the gap to squeeze four through the covers. It takes her to fifty from 38 balls and she waves her bat towards a section of India supporters in the crowd.

    Indian captain Harmanpreet reaches her 50