India Women crush England Women by 270 runs in Test

India Women beat England Women by 270 runs in the one-off Test on Friday, with Player of the Match Kranti Gaud driving the victory and Yastika Bhatia’s century setting up the finish. The tourists completed a dominant result after controlling key passages with both bat and ball to cap the India Women tour of England 2026.

The result brought the multi-format tour to its conclusion after a tightly fought six-match T20 leg. India Women had won the opener by 7 wickets, added a 38-run victory in the second match, lost the third by 26 runs, saw England Women level with a 6-wicket win in the fourth, went back ahead with a 26-run success in the fifth, and then fell short by 5 runs in the sixth. This Test therefore closed the tour on a high for India Women, while the Test series standing after the match remained 0-0.

India Women laid the platform in the first innings with 285 in 74.5 overs. Smriti Mandhana led the way with 83, while Harmanpreet Kaur made 58 and Deepti Sharma added 57 in a measured effort that gave the visitors first-innings control without ever letting England Women settle. England Women still had their moments with the ball, especially through Sophie Ecclestone, who claimed 3 wickets, while Lauren Filer and Issy Wong picked up 2 wickets each.

England Women’s first reply never fully took shape. They were dismissed for 170 in 59.1 overs, leaving India Women with a lead of 115. Kranti Gaud struck the biggest blows with a five-wicket haul, the defining spell of the innings, while Sayali Satghare and Sneh Rana backed her with 2 wickets apiece. That first-innings advantage became the pivot of the match, turning scoreboard pressure into a position of command.

India Women then pressed home that advantage in their second innings, declaring on 341/7 in 86.3 overs. Yastika Bhatia produced the innings of the match with 113, Smriti Mandhana followed up her first-innings 83 with 70, and Richa Ghosh contributed a brisk 50 to keep the momentum with the tourists. Ecclestone again stood out for England Women, finishing with a five-wicket haul in the innings, while Lauren Bell took 2 wickets.

Set 457 to win, England Women needed something exceptional but were instead drawn into a long fourth-innings grind. Amy Jones fought hard for 54 and Sophie Ecclestone added 50, with Mady Villiers contributing 26, yet India Women kept chipping away. Sneh Rana was the chief destroyer with 4 wickets, while Sayali Satghare and Deepti Sharma took 2 wickets each as England Women were bowled out for 186 in 62.5 overs.

The match-turning moments came in layers rather than in a single collapse. Mandhana’s 83 ensured India Women had a competitive first-innings total, Kranti Gaud’s five-for created the decisive lead, and Bhatia’s 113 turned that advantage into an almost unreachable target. From there, every England Women recovery was checked before it could become a genuine fightback.

For England Women, Jones was the lone batter to pass fifty in both innings, making 52 in the third innings and 54 in the fourth, while Nat Sciver-Brunt’s 44 and Maia Bouchier’s 23 offered support in the first chase. Ecclestone’s match was notable too: she picked up 3 wickets in the first India innings, then 5 more in the second, before adding a fighting 50 with the bat in the last innings.

India Women, though, had more contributors across the four days’ worth of contest. Mandhana compiled scores of 83 and 70, Bhatia produced the only century of the match with 113, Richa Ghosh struck 50, and the bowling unit shared the final-innings load smartly around Rana’s four-wicket effort. Kranti Gaud’s first-innings burst remained the standout individual intervention, and it earned her the Player of the Match award.

NerdSports Stat: Smriti Mandhana and Amy Jones were the only players to cross 150 runs across the match’s four innings for their sides’ batting leaders, yet India Women still won by 270 runs because they also had the match’s only century and a first-innings five-wicket haul.

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