ENG-W vs IND-W

Charlie Dean (England Women Captain) - Kemp was brilliant. Ecclestone and Lauren Bell were also really good. Freya was exceptional and took the momentum into our bowling innings. I know how good she can be. Kemp is dynamic. We want to give her a bit more time. She was brilliant today. We know how powerful India can be. They're brilliant so we had to execute. We backed ourselves and managed to bounce back well. Yeah it will be a great thing to defeat India and clinch the series. 

Harmanpreet Kaur (India Women Captain) - Freya Kemp took the game away from us. We should give credit to her. They got 10-15 runs extra in the last over. We started well but played too many dot balls which cost us. We put uneccessary pressure on ourselves by playing dot balls. Unfortunately, Yastika wasn't connecting and we brought in Jemimah. She couldn't get the job done today. Yastika batted well in the first game. Sometimes you click, sometimes you dont. 

Freya Kemp is the deserving Player of the Match for her all-round performance (39 off 13* & 2/15 in 3 overs), here is what she had to say: Obviously the game at Chelmsford did not go the way we wanted to, great team performance and a critical win. We set up the innings nicely and we, Charlie, spoke about firing at the death and great to play that role for the team. Nice for the girls to face as many as possible at the top of the order, any batter would like to face as many balls as possible but Dan (Wyatt-Hodge) and Dunks (Dunkley) did a really great job. Always trying to improve, just seeing what the teams are coming up with and coming up with the answers. (on her bowling) Nice to bowl some overs for the team, happy to get those couple of wickets

India Women 142/9 in 20 overs
Yastika Bhatia 33(36) | Charlotte Dean 2/20 
Smriti Mandhana 32(25) | Lauren Bell 2/33 

England have been outstanding today and they've clinched this second T20 international by 26 runs. They put an absolute stranglehold on the Indian batting lineup from the 12th over and India never really got going from there onwards. Yastika Bhatia had to retire hurt for 33 and Harmanpreet Kaur also struggled for her 28. Towards the end, there was just too much to do as Rodrigues, Richa and Deepti fell in quick succession. 

Earlier the powerplay belonged to India Women as Shafali Verma got off to a good start early on in the innings. She was dismissed by Bell but Mandhana continued with the momentum. India went past the 50 run mark in the 7th over and looked well placed in the run chase. Mandhana continued to dominate in the middle overs but her wicket in the 9th over turned the tide as England began to consolidate with Bhatia and Kaur struggling to get going. 

For England, Freya Kemp was outstanding with the ball in hand as she picked up a couple of wickets. Charlotte Dean picked up a couple of wickets too as did Lauren Bell. The spinners were terriffic for England Women as they managed to check the flow of runs in the middle overs as well as in the slog overs. Skipper Charlie Dean led from the front with two wickets and Sophie Ecclestone did well in her spell as she gave away only 24 runs and got a wicket. 

19.6 Sophie Ecclestone to Arundhati Reddy, ENGLAND WIN BY 26 RUNS! The series is level at 1-1 and the two teams will now go to Taunton for the decider. Quite a comprehensive defense from the hosts this, the Indian batting capitulated and how and in the end it is a big win as England defend what looked like an under-par score at the halfway time. The last delivery was a full one at the stumps, Reddy drove it down to long-on for one and got a single only as the Indian innings finishes on 142/9

19.5 Sophie Ecclestone to Arundhati Reddy, RUN OUT, India are 9 down now and this has gone horribly wrong for the visitors in the last half and hour so. Charani was not even in the frame, typical tail-ender type running between the wickets. Reddy heaved it to long-on, there was never two there but Reddy wanted to get back on strike and that is a wicket gifted away

19.3 Sophie Ecclestone to Shreyanka Patil, BOWLED! Ecclestone gets into the wickets as well as the end comes fast approaching for India. Fired in at the leg stump, Shreyanka looks to get inside the line and paddle it fine, misses it completely and the ball hits the leg stump

19.1 Sophie Ecclestone to Shreyanka Patil, heaves it to deep mid-wicket, on the bounce and there is some confusion between the batters. Only a run

Sophie Ecclestone [3.0-0-19-0] comes back into the attack. 

32 runs needed from the last over and England are on the verge of a brilliant comeback in the series. They've been outstanding in this game in the second half of the both the innings. India have only themselves to blame as they've lost the advantage.