England v India: third women’s T20 cricket international – live

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A truly crackers third day is coming to an end over in Edgbaston. I’ll forgive you for having one eye on that one until we get going here. Taha is on the tools:

England win the toss and choose to bat first

The coin falls England’s way and Tammy Beaumont doesn’t hesitate to have first use of the biscuit coloured wicket. The sun is beating down in South London but there is a nice breeze too, I’d expect it to be a very nice batting wicket and a quick scoring outfield.

India namer an unchanged side, and why wouldn’t they, they’ve been magnificent so far in this series.

Three ch ch changes for England – Paige Schofield, Charlie Dean and Issy Wong replace Nat Sciver-Brunt, Linsey Smith and Em Arlott.

Teams:

England: Dunkley, Wyatt-Hodge, Beaumont, Jones, Capsey, Schofield, Dean, Ecclestone, Wong, Filer, Bell

India: Mandhana, Shafali, Harmanpreet, Jemimah, Amanjot, Richa, Deepti, Radha, Reddy, Rana, Charani

Preamble

Hello and welcome to sunny South London and the third T20I between England and India at the Oval. The series is on the line already for Charlotte Edwards’ England side after two heavy defeats at Trent Bridge and Bristol see India 2-0 up and needing just one more victory to claim the five match series at the first opportunity.

England will be without their captain this evening and potentially for the rest of the series. Nat Sciver-Brunt suffered a groin strain during her side’s 24-run defeat in the West Country on Tuesday and remains a doubt for the remainder of the series.

Tammy Beaumont steps up to captain the side for the first time in her 247 match international career, the pint sized opener struck a pugilistic tone in her pre match media duties:

“The worst thing we could do right now is panic… obviously, it’s not the circumstances we wanted to be in. We didn’t want to be 2-0 down, and we didn’t want our captain and best batter to be out of the team. But we’re here where we are, and that’s what we’ve got to do.”

We’re here where we are? I think Oasis might be dusting that off in Cardiff later this evening.

Play gets underway at the slightly curious time of 6.35pm, I’ll be back shortly with news of the teams and toss.