England Women vs India Women, Only Test Day 1: Spinners Script India's Fightback, England End On 269/6

England Women vs India Women, Only Test Day 1: Heather Knight's 95 and Tammy Beaumont's 66 took England to 269 for 6 even as India made a comeback with wickets late on the first day.

Spinners Sneh Rana and Deepti Sharma fashioned India's comeback by triggering a batting collapse in the final session but England Women still managed a decent 269 for 6 on the opening day of the one-off Test in Bristol on Wednesday. Playing a Test match after nearly seven years, India Women were struggling badly but Rana (3/77) and Sharma (2/50) brought the side back by accounting for two batters each in the final session. From a comfortable 230 for 2, England were reeling at 251 for 6 as an old pitch being used for the match assisted the Indian spinners. The Indian bowlers looked rusty and toiled hard for most part of the day before the spinners came to the party. For England, Tammy Beaumont (66) looked solid at the top apart from skipper Heather Knight (95), who missed out on a hundred. At Stumps, Sophie Dunkley was batting on 12 while Katherine Brunt was on 7. Knight paced her innings to perfection and notched up her third Test fifty just after Tea. The Indians were sloppy on the field initially as Deepti dropped a straight-forward catch off Natalie Sciver (42) at midwicket off Harmanpreet Kaur's bowling. But she made up for the mistake soon, dismissing Sciver leg before with the batter adding just eight more runs to her score. The Indians struck again three overs later, this time off-spinner Rana sending back Amy Jones, who was adjudged leg before wicket as the batter went for an unsuccessful review. But it was Deepti who got the big breakthrough in the form of Knight, who was also trapped leg before.