England vs India: Hosts complete eight-wicket win at Lord's to set up series decider on Tuesday

Second one-day international, Lord's

India 143-8 (29 overs): Mandhana 42 (51); Ecclestone 3-27

England 116-2 (21 overs): Jones 46* (57), Beaumont 34 (35)

England won by 8 wickets (DLS method); bid level 1-1

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England levelled the one-day planetary bid by thrashing India successful a rain-affected brushwood astatine Lord's.

The lucifer was initially reduced to 29 overs a side, with India trudging to a below-par 144-8 aft being enactment into bat.

England were 102-1 successful reply earlier different rainfall hold revised their people to 115 from 24 overs, which the hosts reached with 18 balls to spare, winning by 8 wickets connected the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method.

Amy Jones finished 46 not out, having added 54 for the archetypal wicket with Tammy Beaumont and 48 for the 2nd with skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt.

After dense rainfall successful the greeting delayed the commencement until 15:00 BST, India's batters struggled for fluency connected a dilatory aboveground arsenic they slipped to 72-5 wrong 16 overs.

They failed to punish different inconsistent effort successful the tract from England, who dropped 4 catches and misjudged a mates much imaginable chances.

A important accidental came successful the 5th implicit erstwhile Lauren Bell dropped Smriti Mandhana successful her follow-through connected two, and the opener looked to beryllium anchoring the innings contempt wickets tumbling astir her.

But the unit told connected Mandhana successful the 21st implicit arsenic she holed retired to Charlie Dean disconnected Linsey Smith for 42 from 51 balls, arsenic lone Deepti Sharma's unbeaten 30 helped springiness the innings a glimmer of credibility.

England's spinners bowled brilliantly successful tandem passim the innings, giving small distant successful miserly spells of 3-27 from Sophie Ecclestone, 2-28 for Smith and 1-31 for Dean.

The bid decider - which volition beryllium England's last competitory ODI earlier the autumn's World Cup - takes spot astatine Chester-le-Street connected Tuesday.

Though the simplification successful overs is not peculiarly adjuvant successful presumption of England's World Cup preparation, a broad triumph implicit India is simply a large boost for Sciver-Brunt's broadside aft they looked debased connected assurance during the archetypal ODI astatine Southampton.

England's skipper did not hesitate successful bowling archetypal aft 4 hours of waiting for the rainfall to ease, and India's almighty batting line-up were incapable to physique immoderate momentum successful the look of the bowlers' much-improved discipline.

Em Arlott bowled Pratika Rawal with a crisp yorker successful the 2nd over, and Mandhana consolidated cautiously with Harleen Deol successful a basal of 40 earlier the second was brilliantly caught and bowled by a diving Ecclestone for 16.

The mediate bid past crumbled - Ecclestone had skipper Harmanpreet Kaur bowled for seven, Dean held connected to a tricky drawback successful her follow-through to region Jemimah Rodrigues for 3 and Richa Ghosh was lbw to Ecclestone for two.

India lone managed 12 fours passim their innings, 5 of them from the bat of Mandhana, who looked perpetually indecisive astir whether to onslaught oregon absorption connected batting done the innings.

Sharma was India's past anticipation aft Mandhana's departure but immoderate bizarre moving betwixt the wickets with fig 10 Kranti Goud saw her starved of the onslaught successful the last overs and they limped to an unthreatening total.

There are inactive concerns surrounding England's fielding, adjacent though nary of the drops proved peculiarly costly. Dunkley missed chances with Deol connected 11 and Harmanpreet connected five, and Dean enactment down a straightforward accidental erstwhile Ghosh chipped 1 backmost to her connected nought.

After a one-sided bid triumph implicit West Indies to commencement the summer, England manager Charlotte Edwards was honorable astir the information her broadside needed a bigger situation against India to get a clearer appraisal of however they would header nether pressure.

That has been delivered, with India dominating the preceding T20 bid and a decider is conscionable what England request with the World Cup connected the horizon.

Both openers fell cheaply successful the archetypal ODI but Jones and Beaumont responded positively erstwhile faced with a debased target, racing to 27 wrong 3 overs.

There was contention the past clip these 2 broadside played connected this crushed erstwhile Sharma ran retired Dean astatine the non-striker's extremity to triumph the game. There was imaginable for different antithetic dismissal erstwhile India appealed for Beaumont to beryllium retired obstructing the tract arsenic she hurried backmost to her crease and moved her close limb retired conscionable arsenic Rodrigues' propulsion passed by.

It was fixed not retired and England's openers continued to accelerate earlier Beaumont missed a reverse expanse disconnected Sneh Rana and was lbw for 34.

India were passive successful the tract and could not make immoderate wicket-taking opportunities arsenic Jones and Sciver-Brunt rotated the onslaught astatine will.

England's skipper was bowled for 21 2 balls aft play resumed pursuing the rainfall hold but the hosts calmly completed the chase, Dunkley confidently whacking a 4 down the crushed to seal victory.

Player of the match, England spinner Sophie Ecclestone: "It's large to get the triumph connected the committee successful the end.

"My bowling is dilatory coming on well. I felt truly good."

England skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt: "On the full we bowled a amended magnitude and made it truly hard for their batters."

"The openers did a large occupation astatine the apical truthful determination wasn't excessively overmuch unit connected me."

India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur: "We didn't bat well. They didn't springiness america immoderate chances to execute.

"Apart from today's lucifer we person played truly bully cricket and we indispensable retrieve that successful our adjacent game. We volition spell to Durham with a affirmative mindset."