India defeated England 3–2 in the T20 series. The final match of the series was played in Birmingham on Saturday, in which the England team won by 5 wickets on the final ball. In this match, the Indian women’s team scored 167 runs while playing first, in response, England ensured their victory by 5 wickets on the last ball of the match. Shefali Verma played a stormy innings of 75 runs for India in the match, but it could not work for India.

For the Indian team, Shefali Verma completed the fifty in just 23 balls. He hit 75 runs in 41 balls in his innings. No other batsman could play a big innings for the Indian team. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur only 15 runs while Richa Ghosh contributed 24 runs. In this way, Team India reached 167 runs in a struggle.

England won on the last ball

Chasing the target, England had added 101 runs in just 10.4 overs by Sophie Dunkli and Daniel Wayt Hodge. Dankli scored 46 runs and Hodge scored 56 runs. After that, the English team continued to lose wickets at intervals, meanwhile captain Tammy Buomont scored 30 runs in 20 balls. Alam was that England had to score 14 runs to win in the last 2 overs.

8 runs came in the 19th over, which led to the English team scoring only 6 runs in the last 6 balls. The thrill of the match increased when Arundhati Reddy dismissed 2 England batsmen off the first 3 balls. On the fourth ball, the England batsmen ran 3 runs, while the score level was scored on the fifth ball. The result of the match rested on the last ball, on which Sophie Eklestone ran a run and ensured his team’s victory.

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England Team Captain: The England Women’s T20 team captain Natalie Sciver-Brunt has been ruled out of the remaining two matches of the ongoing T20 series against the Indian women’s team. In his place, the team will command the Tamsin Beaumont. NAT has to be eliminated from the series due to Grin injury. NAT did not play the third T20 match on Friday due to injury. After this, on Saturday, the England and Wales Cricket Board informed that she will not be able to play even the remaining two matches due to injury.

NAT was injured in second match, Beomont took command

Given the workload of NAT, the team management refused to bowl. NAT did not bowl in both the initial matches. NAT batted brilliantly for the team in the first match. NAT scored 66 runs. However, his team lost this match. After this, NAT was injured during the second match. He scored 13 runs in this match.

NAT was ruled out of the third T20 match against India on Friday after being injured in the second match. He was captaining the Beom team in his place. England won the first win of the series under the captaincy of Buomont. In the third match, England defeated India by 5 runs. After NAT is out of the remaining two matches, now Buomont will be the captain of the team. In place of NAT, Miya Boucher has been included in the team as a replacement in the team.

Big blow for england as their captain is set to miss the reminder of the t20i series against India #ENGVINDhttps://t.co/vefrsbso68

– ICC (@ICC) July 5, 2025

India is ahead 2-1 in the series

The Indian women’s team had to face defeat by 5 runs in the third T20 match on Friday. Despite this, the Indian team is still ahead 2–1 in the five-match T20 series. The Indian team won the first match by 97 runs. At the same time, India won by 24 runs in the second match. The fourth match of the T20 series will now be played on 9 July.

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