WI-W vs IND-W

That wraps up the coverage of the first warm up match for the Indian Women who have been thorough and clinical in Cardiff getting past West Indies with ease after putting up 179 runs on the board being asked to bat first. Smriti Mandhana, the stand-in captain for today, got back amongst the runs with a quickfire 39 in the powerplay. Yastika continued her form with another 30 but Bharti Fulmali's half-century was the biggest positive for them. With the ball, Shreyanka Patil and Radha Yadav shared 7 wickets between the two of them and it never really looked like West Indies would chase this down. Dottin scored 49, but she looked a bit rusty and perhaps the biggest plus for West Indies from this game would be Afy Fletcher's spell of 4/23. India went in with only 11 players while West Indies tried and tested a few more, their skipper Matthews did not play as well. Both the teams have one more warm up game remaining, they will be back here again as India take on England before West Indies lock horns with Australia after a day's time. For now, this is Sourabh Agrawal taking your leave. Hope you enjoyed the coverage, buh-bye!

Smriti Mandhana (India Women captain): Pretty important, specially for the middle order to get some batting time. Bharti played really well and then the bowlers, brilliant to restrict them to 150. They have not got a lot of game time coming into England, Radha, Shrey and Bharti all of them. Good headache to have. (on the surface) With England, you can't predict a lot becuase the overhead conditions changes a lot and with that the pitch conditions change as well. Wherever we have played in England in the last 2-3 years, we have had good batting surfaces. Good for me and Shafali to get back to providing good starts, we would have liked to do that in the previous series as well but good to get that 50+ partnership again

Chinelle Henry (West Indies Women captain): Bowling first, the start that they got off to. This is a bowling unit we have to work on. The way we came back in the last, to restrict them under 200 was pretty good. (on Afy Fletcher's spell) Always good to have a leg spinner. (Deandra Dottin getting some time in the middle) That is the Deandra Dottin we know, good to see her out in the middle. These games are just for everyone to get time out in the middle, for the first game against NZ we will have a balanced eleven

19.5 Radha Yadav to Afy Fletcher, no run, misses one in the blockhole outside off and that is a comfortable and comprehensive win for India in their first warm up game as they get past West Indies with a margin of 26 runs. 

19.3 Radha Yadav to Afy Fletcher, short and outside off, Fletcher waits and then runs it down fine between short fine and backward point. Big chase for Fulmali, two taken

18.6 Shreyanka Patil to Afy Fletcher, skips down and takes it on the full, swung away to the left of deep square leg. Good diving stop from Gaud in the deep, the batters take two

18.4 Shreyanka Patil to Jannillea Glasgow, CAUGHT AT LONG-OFF! Shreyanka has 4 wickets to her name. West Indies' final hope perhaps. gone too. Was looking to make room and go big downtown, hit it high and straight down the throat of Fulmali at long-off