India concede advantage despite reducing hosts to 270 for 7 early on day two
Innings break England 396 for 9 (Knight 95, Dunkley 74*, Beaumont 66, Shrubsole 47) vs India
Shrubsole took just 14 balls to move from her lunchtime score of 16 to 47 before she was bowled by Sneh Rana, prompting the declaration within half an hour of the resumption.
Shrubsole had scored 17 of the 18 runs to come off one Rana over – the second after lunch – with back-to-back fours hammered through the covers, and a six over deep midwicket.
This after she had skied one to deep square leg where Pooja Vastrakar put down India’s fourth catch of the innings. She scored two more fours, one of Shikha Pandey and the other off Rana before her 33-ball knock ended.
Play resumed on the second day under overcast skies with the floodlights on and England on 269 for 6. Jhulan Goswami struck with the 12th ball of the morning when she trapped Katherine Brunt lbw for 7. India reviewed after the appeal was initially turned down, and were vindicated, replays showing the ball hitting middle stump.
Dunkley, who resumed on 12, settled into a good rhythm by sending Goswami to the fence twice in the space of three balls with a wristy club through midwicket and a deft placement between third slip and gully.
Dropped on 27 when she sent a simple return catch to Deepti Sharma, Dunkley pressed on with boundaries through the covers off Sharma and then Rana, the last of those bringing up her fifty partnership with Sophie Ecclestone and taking her to within sight of her half-century.
Two balls later, however, Dunkley had to overturn umpire Sue Redfern’s lbw decision off Rana to avoid departing on 46, with replays showed the ball missing leg stump. Dunkley went on to bring up the milestone soon after by running two after turning Rana through fine-leg to warm applause from the stands.
Ecclestone had an almost identical lbw decision by umpire Chris Watts overturned, with Sharma’s delivery shown to be missing leg stump, but there was no doubt two balls later when she spooned Sharma straight to Shikha Pandey at mid-on for 17. It was Sharma’s third wicket and she ended the innings with 3 for 65, Rana taking 4 for 131.
Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo