It started fast, with Lauren Winfield-Hill launching sixes over the leg side and Tammy Beaumont playing strokemaker as ever. Heather Knight nearly made a ton, Natalie Sciver was in a bombastic mood, but then the wickets started to fall. Sneh Rana and Deepti Sharma did most of the good work, while Sophia Dunkley had some work to do on a historic debut.

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