The India women's cricket team toured England to play the England women's cricket team in June and July 2021. On International Women's Day 2021, Jay Shah, the secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), stated that the India team would play a one-off Women's Test match against the England team. India women last played a Test match in November 2014, against South Africa. In April 2021, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed the fixtures for the tour, including the one-off Test match, three Women's One Day International (WODI) and three Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches.
A points-based system was used across all three formats of the tour, with four points for winning the Test match, two points if the Test was drawn, and two points for each win in the limited overs matches.
The one-off Test match ended in a draw, despite England making a big first-innings lead and enforcing the follow-on. England won the first WODI by eight wickets to record their 100th win at home in the format. England then won the second WODI match by five wickets, to win the series with a game to spare. India won the final WODI by four wickets, with England taking the series 2–1. England won the first WT20I, with India winning the second match. Therefore, England took an 8–6 lead in the points-based system into the final match of the tour. England won the third WT20I by eight wickets, to win the WT20I series 2–1 and to win 10–6 in the points-based system.
During the third WODI match, India's Mithali Raj became the leading run-scorer in women's international cricket. She went past Charlotte Edwards' previous record of 10,273 runs.
Background Originally, the tour was scheduled to take place in June and July 2020. The tour was to consist of four WODIs and two WT20Is. However, on 24 April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ECB confirmed that no professional cricket would be played in England before 1 July 2020, with the tour being postponed. In May 2020, Clare Connor, the Director of Cricket for the ECB, suggested that India could take part in a tri-series with the touring South African team during September 2020. However, on 20 July 2020, reports stated that India would not tour, due to the impact of the pandemic in India.
The Test match was played on a used pitch from a men's game in the 2021 t20 Blast from the previous week. The ECB later apologised for the situation.
Squads WTestWODIsWT20Is Heather Knight (c) Nat Sciver (vc) Emily Arlott Tammy Beaumont Katherine Brunt Kate Cross Sophia Dunkley Sophie Ecclestone Georgia Elwiss Tash Farrant Amy Jones (wk) Anya Shrubsole Mady Villiers Fran Wilson Lauren Winfield-Hill Mithali Raj (c) Harmanpreet Kaur (vc) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Ekta Bisht Jhulan Goswami Smriti Mandhana Shikha Pandey Priya Punia Sneh Rana Punam Raut Jemimah Rodrigues Arundhati Reddy Indrani Roy (wk) Deepti Sharma Pooja Vastrakar Shafali Verma Poonam Yadav Radha Yadav Heather Knight (c) Nat Sciver (vc) Emily Arlott Tammy Beaumont Katherine Brunt Kate Cross Freya Davies Sophia Dunkley Sophie Ecclestone Tash Farrant Sarah Glenn Amy Jones (wk) Anya Shrubsole Mady Villiers Fran Wilson Lauren Winfield-Hill Mithali Raj (c) Harmanpreet Kaur (vc) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Ekta Bisht Jhulan Goswami Smriti Mandhana Shikha Pandey Priya Punia Sneh Rana Punam Raut Jemimah Rodrigues Arundhati Reddy Indrani Roy (wk) Deepti Sharma Pooja Vastrakar Shafali Verma Poonam Yadav Radha Yadav Heather Knight (c) Nat Sciver (vc) Tammy Beaumont Katherine Brunt Freya Davies Sophia Dunkley Sophie Ecclestone Tash Farrant Sarah Glenn Amy Jones (wk) Anya Shrubsole Mady Villiers Fran Wilson Danni Wyatt Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Smriti Mandhana (vc) Simran Bahadur Taniya Bhatia (wk) Ekta Bisht Harleen Deol Richa Ghosh Shikha Pandey Sneh Rana Arundhati Reddy Jemimah Rodrigues Indrani Roy (wk) Deepti Sharma Pooja Vastrakar Shafali Verma Poonam Yadav Radha Yadav
On 9 June 2021, England named a squad of 17 players for the one-off Test match. Two days later, Freya Davies and Sarah Glenn were released from the squad allowing them to play in the 2021 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy ahead of England's one-day matches.
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WODI series 1st WODI
2nd WODI
3rd WODI
WT20I series 1st WT20I
2nd WT20I
3rd WT20I
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo