England vs India Women 1st T20 Match Prediction & Betting Tips

ENG-W vs IND-W 1st T20 Match Prediction & Betting Tips

England Women will take on India Women in the first WIT20 at The Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street. The first game of the series begins at 19:00 local time on Saturday 10th September

England Women

Overall, the home side have enjoyed a strong 2022 and many of their top players performed well in the Women’s Hundred. 30 year old all-rounder, Nat Sciver, will miss the series after it was announced that she has pulled out to focus on her mental health and wellbeing. Skipper Heather Knight is out through injury.

ENG-W Batting

Danni Wyatt and Sophia Dunkley opened the batting for England during the 2022 Commonwealth Games and we expect the pair to be at the top of the order again in this game. 18 year old Alice Capsey made her international debut earlier this year and already has an international half-century to her name.

ENG-W Bowling

Left arm spin bowler Sophie Ecclestone continues to perform well across all formats. She has 78 wickets from 58 WT20Is and took eight wickets across the 2022 Women’s Hundred. Issy Wong and Kate Cross will be the main pace bowling threats to the Indian batters.

ENG-W Form

England Women are looking to avoid their third successive defeat in this format after losing the semi-final and third-place playoff in the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

India Women 

After a disappointing 2022 World Cup in New Zealand, where India Women finished in fifth place and did not qualify for the semi-finals, India’s players impressed during the Commonwealth Games and had two bowlers and two batters in the top five tournament performers.

IND-W Batting

Smriti Mandhana has had a successful time in the UK with the bat over the course of this summer. Only Australia’s Beth Mooney and New Zealand’s Sophie Devine scored more runs than her in the Commonwealth Games. She then hit 211 runs across the 2022 Women’s Hundred.

IND-W Bowling

We expect swing bowler Renuka Singh and off-spinner Sneh Rana to be the leading bowlers for India in this opening game of the series. Singh was the standout bowler in the Commonwealth Games taking 11 wickets at an average of only 9.45.

IND-W Form

India Women lost their last WIT20, the final of the Commonwealth Games against Australia Women by nine runs. However, they had won their previous three games in this format.

ENG-W vs IND-W 1st T20 Pitch Report

The match will be played at The Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street. The wicket has been slow all season with not a huge amount of bounce on offer. We expect a par score to be no higher than 125.

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