England v India: Women’s T20 World Cup – live

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The teams head out for the anthems, the weather looks greyer than a plate of tripe - fingers crossed we get through unscathed by the wet stuff.

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Nowt makes my eyelids droop like a non-striker run out debate so I’m not quite sure why I’ve posted that? Especially after being kept up half the night by a two year old who wants to “party daddy” at 3am. Forget I did, yes? You ain’t seen naffink.

It looks a bit gloomy in Gqeberha…

The TV has cutaway to a montage of Alice Capsey batting set to classical music. Capsey is only 18 years old but exudes confidence and with good reason – she’s got a strike rate of over 218 so far in the tournament.

TEAMS:

England: Sophia Dunkley, Danni Wyatt, Alice Capsey, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Heather Knight (c), Amy Jones (wk), Katherine Sciver-Brunt, Sophie Ecclestone, Charlie Dean, Sarah Glenn, Lauren Bell

India: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Richa Ghosh (wk), Pooja Vastrakar, Deepti Sharma, Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandey Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Renuka Singh

England are unchanged from their win over Ireland. India bring in Shikha Pandey for Devika Vaidya.

Harmanpreet Kaur calls the coin toss correctly and India will BOWL first

Teams incoming…

Preamble

Hello and welcome to the OBO of this T20 Women’s World Cup showdown between India and England from Gqeberha.

These two sides have (recent) history. India dumped England out of their home Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last summer and the T20 series that followed was tightly contested and just went England’s way thanks to a swashbuckling Alice Capsey. When it comes to the last time they *should* have met in a T20 World Cup… well it’s best not to mention it – grim weather and poor ICC tournament planning put paid to England’s hopes in Sydney way back in March 2020.

Both sides will be looking to raise their games against each other today after two relatively straightforward wins each so far in the tournament. Whoever prospers in today’s match all but guarantees themselves a place in the semi-final and a potential avoidance of the Australian juggernaut.

Jim here with the call - play is due to begin in *Copy+Paste* Gqeberha (try saying it never mind typing it) at 1pm GMT, 3pm local time.

I’ll be back with news of the teams and the toss pronto!