England v India: first women’s cricket ODI – live

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Sophie Ecclestone returns to the England side after missing the ODI series against West Indies earlier in the summer. That means there’s no place for Linsey Smith, who took seven very cheap wickets in that series.

India stick with the XI that beat Sri Lanka in their Tri-Series final in May.

England Beaumont, Jones (wk), Lamb, Sciver-Brunt (c), Dunkley, Davidson-Richards, Dean, Ecclestone, Cross, Filer, Bell.

India Rawal, Mandhana, Deol, H Kaur (c), Rodrigues, Ghosh (wk), Sharma, A Kaur, Rana, Charani, Goud.

England win the toss and bat

Nat Sciver-Brunt, back from injury, says it’s a good surface and “we know there are usually a lot of runs scored on this pitch”. Harmanpreet Kaur says India would have batted as well.

Preamble

The road to the World Cup starts here*. In 76 days’ time, India will begin the competition – their competition – against the co-hosts Sri Lanka in Bengaluru. England meet South Africa on the same ground three days later.

Both teams should enter the World Cup in a battle-hardened state. England have this three-match series against India, then warm-ups against India and Australia just before the competition starts. India’s preparation is even tougher: ODI series against England and Australia, who between them have won 11 of the 12 World Cups, followed by warm-ups against England and the reigning T20 champions, New Zealand.

These warm-up series are usually about performances, workloads, T-crossing and I-dotting as much as results. But on this occasion England could do with a series in to boost their fragile confidence going into the World Cup. They were beaten 3-2 by India in the T20 series, a scoreline that probably flattered them. And while England’s overall record since the last 50-over World Cup is terrific, it looks different when you put on the reading glasses and start squinting.

• v Australia and India W2 L7 (win percentage: 22)

• v the rest W22 L3 (win percentage: 88)

This is a quickfire series, with three games in seven days at Southampton, Lord’s and Chester-le-Street. By next Wednesday, we should have a better idea of both teams’ chances of winning the games that really matter.

• Toss 12.30pm

• First ball 1pm

* Okay, okay, strictly speaking it continues here, having started as soon as the last one ended, but what kind of sales pitch is that?