India Women vs England Women: India scripts landmark victory, registers maiden T20 sequence win towards England

India scripted a landmark victory, clinching their first-ever Women’s T20I sequence win towards England with a dominant six-wicket triumph within the fourth match, led by a stellar efficiency from their spinners.

With this win, India took an unassailable 3-1 lead within the five-match sequence, with the ultimate sport scheduled to be performed in Birmingham on Saturday (July 12, 2025).

India had overwhelmed England in a lone T20I match performed in Derby in 2006. Since then, the ‘Women in Blue’ have fallen quick in each girls’s T20I sequence towards England, each at dwelling and away.

Spin performed a starring function in India’s dominant win on Wednesday (July 9, 2025) as Radha Yadav (2/15), 20-year-old Shree Charani (2/30), and Deepti Sharma (1/29) mixed to assert 5 wickets, limiting the hosts to a modest 126 for 7.

Openers Shafali Verma (32) and Smriti Mandhana (31) then chased with aptitude, placing on a 56-run stand that laid the muse for the win. The guests overhauled the goal with 18 balls to spare, capping off a memorable night.

The victory comes as a well timed increase for India, serving to them acclimatise to English situations forward of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup scheduled to be held right here subsequent 12 months.

“We are really grateful that we were able to do this (series win). I’m really proud of my team the way we played this series. It was really important to get that momentum and I’m really happy the way we all contributed,” India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur stated on the post-match presentation.

“We had very good camps back home before coming here. We worked on all our plans, accordingly we have executed everything here. Everybody knew their role and accordingly we all played,” she added.

Kaur and Co. have been in red-hot type, having handed England a record-shattering 97-run defeat within the series-opener earlier than sealing a 24-run win in Bristol, England girls’s first-ever T20I loss on the venue. They misplaced the third T20I by 5 runs.

Electing to bat first, England discovered themselves underneath early strain as Indian spinners Radha and Deepti struck inside the powerplay, eradicating each the openers.

Stand-in captain Tammy Beaumont, main within the absence of the injured Nat Sciver-Brunt, briefly counterattacked with a 16-ball 20 that included three boundaries. But her keep was minimize quick by Radha, and 5 balls later, Charani trapped Alice Capsey leg-before, leaving England wobbling at 93 for five.

India’s bowlers had been backed by a pointy fielding effort that squeezed England in the course of the center overs, conserving the hosts to a sub-par complete.

With the bat, Shafali got here out swinging, taking over the short-ball ploy with confidence and cracking six boundaries. Mandhana too joined the cost, putting 5 fours of her personal.

Though each openers fell in fast succession, the platform was effectively set. Jemimah Rodrigues (24 not out) and Harmanpreet Kaur (26) steered India dwelling by a boundary-less part between overs 8 to 14 to ultimately take India to the win.

All information damaged and milestones achieved

For the primary time ever, India gained a bilateral T20I sequence towards England, both at dwelling or away.

Harmanpreet Kaur equalled Mithali Raj’s document for many worldwide caps for India (333).

Deepti Sharma and Sophie Ecclestone equal Katherine Sciver-Brunt’s document for highest wicket-taker in India vs England girls’s T20Is. Both Deepti and Ecclestone have 23 wickets.