Eng vs Ind 3rd WT20I: India look for better effort from middle-order batters in series decider

Indian squad volition expect much from the dependable duo of Deepti Sharma and Richa Ghosh arsenic it aims to benignant retired its mediate bid woes going into the 3rd and last women's T20 International against hosts England present connected Tuesday.

With the bid locked astatine 1-1, a triumph successful the decider volition not conscionable beryllium different overseas bilateral triumph but a changeable successful the limb for either squad earlier the commencement of the Women's T20 World Cup aboriginal this month.

For India, this bid is besides the formal rehearsal to cheque retired the perfect combinations based connected English conditions going into the marquee event.

In the archetypal mates of games, Yastika Bhatia with a half-century and a 30 unusual has by acold looked the champion batter. Jemimah Rodrigues besides got a 50 portion the elegant Smriti Mandhana and destructive Shafali Verma got starts successful the 2nd match.

However, successful some games India mislaid momentum towards the past 5 overs and the big-hitter Richa hasn't precisely fired successful some games.

In the archetypal game, fabulous batting by Bhatia and Rodrigues had ensured that India ended up with a steadfast 188/7 contempt lone 40 runs being scored betwixt overs 16 and 20.

In the 2nd game, India were sitting beauteous astatine 70 for 1 successful a pursuit of 169 but it was an unmitigated catastrophe betwixt overs 16 and 20 erstwhile they were reduced to 28 for five.

Save Richa, determination aren't galore six-hitters and skipper Harmanpreet, who is possibly the cleanest aerial hitter successful the team, volition person to instrumentality the onus of batting till the extremity of 20 overs and instrumentality the full person to 190-200, which is 8 retired of 10 times a winning people successful women's cricket.

For England also, batting has been a concern, arsenic Amy Jones' 67 is the lone half-century crossed 2 games portion astir of the different seasoned batters got starts but couldn't transportation connected with the momentum for sustained periods of time.

Teams (from): India: Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Bharti Fulmali, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (WK), Sree Charani, Yastika Bhatia (WK), Nandni Sharma, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Shreyanka Patil, Radha Yadav.

England: Em Arlott, Tammy Beaumont, Lauren Bell, Alice Capsey, Charlie Dean, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Lauren Filer, Amy Jones, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Paige Scholfield, Linsey Smith, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Issy Wong.

Match starts astatine 11.00pm IST.