India 285 (Mandhana 83, Harmanpreet 58, Deepti 57) and 341 for 7 dec. (Bhatia 113, Mandhana 70, Richa 50*, Ecclestone 5-118) beat England 170 (Jones 52, Gaud 5-37) and 186 (Jones 54, Ecclestone 50, Rana 4-42) by 270 runs
Amy Jones added just two more runs to her over night score of 52 before she picked out Shafali Verma at midwicket on the 18th ball of the fourth day, giving Rana her third wicket for the innings and exposing the England tail.
Ecclestone, whose five-wicket haul in India’s second innings had put her name next to Gaud’s on the famed honours board, resumed the day on 1 with her side 130 for 6 and still needing 327.
She reached her fifty off 61 balls but saw off only four more deliveries before she fell, failing to keep out one that dropped and turned between bat and pad to rattle the stumps. Lauren Filer, who picked up the fist wicket of this match, remained unbeaten, having faced 22 balls for a solitary boundary.
Lauren Bell defied the abdominal soreness which kept her off the field for a good part of India’s innings on day three to join Ecclestone at the crease. But her stay was brief as Deepti claimed a second wicket in the space of seven balls, spinning one back sharply through the gate to ping the top of off stump.
Gaud and fellow seamer Sayali Satghare made early inroads, splitting four wickets between them on the third evening and Rana also picked up two on the third day.
