🏏England Women vs India Women, One-off Test @ Lord's, London🏏 - Page 2

Women's Test matches are not a regular feature on the international calendar. You have to jump back a few months, and sometimes even years to zoom in on when a particular team played its previous Test.

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Head coach Amol Muzumdar said that Rawal suffered a cut on her knee during an India A game in Taunton earlier this month. Priya Punia has been added to the squad as her replacement.

“Pratika has been ruled out of the Test match due to her injury in the India A match. She has got a cut on her knee which required some stitches. She is out for the Test match and Priya Punia has been added into the squad,” said Mujumdar.

Oh,how many times she gets injured

Thanks M

142 years after Lord's hosted its first Men's Test, it's finally the women's turn to don their whites at this iconic ground. Hello and welcome to our live coverage of this historic Test between England and India.

Inevitably, combinations and leadership changes during the intervening period, and you can see that in the England squad as they've named five uncapped players. Nat-Sciver Brunt is also set to lead the Test side for the first time, having already replaced Heather Knight as the all-format captain since last year's Ashes.

This is Smirti Mandhana’s 300th international game. She’s the 12th Women’s cricketer to achieve the milestone, third for India after Mithali Raj (333) and Harmanpreet Kaur (374).

Congratulations to Smriti.

The players emerge from the pavilion, as do a lot of the former England players

The pitch at Lord's came under a lot of scrutiny during the recent men's series between England and New Zealand. All eyes on how it'll play today. Keep your eye on the speeds that Lauren Filer clocks as well. She's one of the fastest at this level.

India vs England in Women's Tests

Matches: 15

Won by India: 3

Won by England: 1 (Jamshedpur 1995)

Drawn: 11

Teams:

India Women (Playing XI): Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh(w), Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Sayali Satghare, Shree Charani, Kranti Gaud

England Women (Playing XI): Tammy Beaumont, Maia Bouchier, Heather Knight, Nat Sciver-Brunt(c), Alice Capsey, Amy Jones(w), Mady Villiers, Sophie Ecclestone, Issy Wong, Lauren Bell, Lauren Filer

All set for the toss.... Heads is the call from Harman, it's tails

England Women have won the toss and have opted to field

Nat-Sciver Brunt and Tammy Beaumont lead England out onto the field.

A group of former England players - Isa Guha and Charlotte Edwards among them - emerge from the pavilion. They gather on the field to ring the five-minute bell. The two teams now line up for the anthems.