England completed a 2-1 T20I series-win over India in blistering fashion in Taunton. Here are player ratings for the home side ahead of the T20 World Cup.
Sophia Dunkley – 5
3 innings, 42 runs at 14.00, HS: 16
Some promising starts for Dunkley, although her lack of an innings of substance could see her make way in the XI when Nat Sciver-Brunt returns. Dunkley's innings are better than they appear on paper, getting England off to fast starts, but she was caught out going for a big shot twice.
Danni Wyatt-Hodge – 4
2 innings, 34 runs at 17.00, HS: 29
Coming back into the side for the second match of the series after taking parental leave, Wyatt-Hodge initially looked poised to capitalise on surviving the powerplay in Bristol before she was undone by Shree Charani.
Alice Capsey – 9
3 innings, 116 runs at 38.66, HS: 82
After not taking her opportunity at the top of the order in Wyatt-Hodge's absence, Capsey made herself impossible to leave out of England's World Cup XI with her best international innings to date at Taunton. She walloped 82 after England were three-down in the powerplay, clearing the boundary around the ground, with three sixes and nine fours in her innings. The question now is how England shuffle their pack to fit her and Sciver-Brunt in.
Amy Jones – 6
3 innings, 97 runs at 32.33, HS: 67
Jones scored her first T20I half-century for six years in the opening match of the series in Chelmsford. It was a welcome innings for Jones, albeit in a losing cause, having been moved up to No.3. While she will move again when Sciver-Brunt returns, she gave herself some breathing space from increased scrutiny over her place in the side.
Heather Knight – 7.5
3 innings, 109 runs at 54.50, HS: 70*
England's former captain came under pressure after a low key start to the summer, and also a tricky innings at Chelmsford. She was unable to rotate the strike or hit boundaries in a big chase, and was out for 21 off 24 balls. However, she made up for that in style at Taunton, hitting her fastest-ever T20I half-century and putting on a mammoth stand with Capsey. If her place was under pressure before, that innings sealed her spot in England's best XI.
Freya Kemp – 8
3 innings, 49 runs at 49.00, HS: 39*
2 wickets at 7.50, ER: 7.50, BBI: 2-15
Kemp showed exactly what she's been selected for with a match-defining innings in Bristol. With England facing setting a below-par total, she came out at No.6 with 21 balls left in the innings and whacked 39 off 13, striking at 300. She also delivered with the ball in the chase, taking 2-15, which takes increased importance if Sciver-Brunt can't bowl during the T20 World Cup.
Dani Gibson – 3
2 innings, 11 runs at 11.00, HS: 11*
0 wickets, ER: 9.77
Having starred with the ball in the New Zealand series, Gibson took some punishment against a stronger India batting unit. She was a victim of Jemimah Rodrigues at both Chelmsford and Taunton, exposing the lack of a second specialist seamer in England's XI as an area to be exploited.
Charlie Dean – 8
3 matches, 4 wickets at 19.75, ER: 6.58, BBI: 2-20
Dean's leadership has been a key positive for England in the build-up to the T20 World Cup. With a question-mark over Sciver-Brunt's fitness, she showed herself as more than capable of stepping up should she be needed at any point over the rest of the summer. With the ball, she was equally impressive, the pick of England's many spinners during the series.
Sophie Ecclestone – 3
3 matches, 1 wicket at 90.00, ER: 8.18, BBI: 1-24
Uncharacteristically, Ecclestone hasn't been as lethal a prospect for oppositions so far this summer. Her series economy rate of 8.18 was the worst of her career in bilateral T20I series, and her bowling average in the New Zealand series and the India series are her second to worst, and worst of her career respectively. While England selected her in all three matches, they won't have planned for their most prized spinner to fall off the boil at a crucial point.
Issy Wong – 3
1 match, 1 wicket at 41.00, ER: 13.66, BBI: 1-41
Wong only played one match, the opening game at Chelmsford, and initially struggled opening the bowling. Her first two deliveries were called wides, with another later in the over, and she conceded 27 runs off her first over of the match. She did pull it back however, bowling excellently at the back-end of the innings, with 14 coming off her other two overs combined.
Linsey Smith – 3
2 matches, 1 wicket at 73.00, ER: 9.12, BBI: 1-40
Smith wasn't as lethal as she was against New Zealand. She was left-out of the opening game for Tilly Corteen-Coleman, before she was targeted by India's openers in the second. How teams look to combat the movement Smith gets with the new ball will be a key part of England's success at the T20 World Cup, insomuch as whether batters look to play her as more of an inswing bowler than a left-arm spinner.
Lauren Bell – 8.5
3 matches, 7 wickets at 14.71, ER: 8.58, BBI: 3-34
Bell was as deadly as ever with the new ball. She was by far the leading wicket-taker of the series from either side, and her early inroads continue to put England on the front foot.
Tilly Corteen-Coleman – 5
1 match, 1 wicket at 19.00, ER: 6.33, BBI: 1-19
Just one appearance for Corteen-Coleman. She bowled well on T20I debut, coming back from dropping a catch earlier in the innings.
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