England v India: fourth women’s T20 cricket international – live

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1st over: England 6-0 (Dunkley 3, Wyatt-Hodge 3) No boundaries off the first over as Kaur targets both batters back of a length. Dunkley opens England’s account with a chip in the air for a couple through midwicket and Wyatt-Hodge drives smoothly past cover point. The outfield looks quite green and lush despite this MEGA heatwave we’ve been having. No hosepipe ban in Old Trafford…

Amanjot Kaur has the ball in hand, Sophia Dunkley and Danni Wyatt-Hodge will open up for England. They both got half centuries at the Oval in the last match and put on a hefty opening stand. Righto, let’s play!

The players head out onto a sun soaked Old Trafford pitch, it is actually the first time a women’s T20I has been played at the ground. These two sides last played against each other here in 1999! India squeaked home by one wicket on that occasion.

100 T20I Caps for Sophie Ecclestone tonight, she achieves the milestone on her home ground too. She’s a special player but going through a bit of a rough spot at the moment. The stage is set for a big performance.

Oh and Phil ‘Jags’ Jagielka has just presented her with her cap. She’s a big Toffees fan so will be chuffed with that.

The Lionesses are in action against the Dutch as we speak and they are showing it on the big screen at Old Trafford ahead of the match getting underway in about twenty minutes. England are 2-0 up!

Emillia Hawkins is on the tools for us, promise you’ll come back though yeh?

England win the toss and will bat first

Looks a decent Old Trafford wicket and Tammy Beaumont elects to have first use, following the blueprint that saw them succeed in South London last week.

Teams: (both sides unchanged)

India: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Richa Ghosh (wk), Amanjot Kaur, Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Arundhati Reddy, Sneh Rana, Shree Charani

England: Sophia Dunkley, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Alice Capsey, Tammy Beaumont (capt), Amy Jones (wk), Paige Scholfield, Sophie Ecclestone, Issy Wong, Charlie Dean, Lauren Filer, Lauren Bell

Preamble

Hello and welcome to the fourth T20 between England and India from Old Trafford, Manchester. The place is bathed in sunshiiiiiine ahead of tonight’s encounter, it’s a must win game (again) for the home side as they find themselves 2-1 down with two games to play.

England won an arse-nipper down at The Oval on Sunday, a victory by just five runs secured off the final ball kept their series hopes alive but there was also a calamitous batting collapse and some questionable catching on show once again.

Head Coach Charlotte Edwards will be desperate to see her side up their standards and take the series to a decider at Edgbaston on Saturday before the ODI series gets underway the following week. They’ll be without Nat Sciver-Brunt once more as the England captain recovers from a groin injury, Tammy Beaumont will take the reins for the second match in a row.

We await news of the teams and toss but will have them imminently. Play gets underway in half an hour. Join us and get in touch. D’ya know what I mean?