England’s cricket team experienced a disastrous day two in Mumbai as India continued to dominate the one-off Test.
After the hosts’ impressive total of 428 all out, England’s response was feeble, as they were bowled out for just 136, including losing their last seven wickets for just 28 runs.
Off-spinner Deepti Sharma was the hero for India, claiming remarkable figures of 5-7 in 5.3 overs.
Nat Sciver-Brunt was the only England player to perform, scoring 59, while no other player scored more than 12 runs in an innings that lasted less than 36 overs.
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India carved out a colossal lead of 292, which they stretched to a mammoth 478 by stumps.
The hosts closed on 186-6 after deciding not to enforce the follow-on.
Shafali Verma, dropped twice by Heather Knight and Sophia Dunkley, shared an opening stand of 61 with Smriti Mandhana (26).
England’s Charlie Dean claimed four wickets for 68 runs, including two in two balls, while left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone took two wickets.
However, India’s Sharma was the chief tormentor, triggering a stunning collapse when she had Danni Wyatt caught at short leg off an inside edge onto the pad with the score on 108-3.
Sharma then removed Amy Jones in peculiar circumstances, with the England batter’s pull deflecting off Mandhana’s helmet at short leg before the ball looped up to Verma at leg slip.
Ecclestone was bowled two balls later, and after Rana removed Sciver-Brunt and Dean, Sharma mopped up the wickets of Kate Cross and Lauren Filer.
India has been in charge of the game since plundering over 410-7 on day one, although they added only 18 runs to their overnight total as Ecclestone (3-91) struck twice and seamer Bell (3-67) once.
England lost two top-order wickets within the first eight overs, with Dunkley bowled by Renuka Singh and captain Knight pinned lbw by Pooja Vastrakar.
Sciver-Brunt and Tammy Beaumont (10) bossed a 51-run partnership, adding 43 of the runs in their third-wicket stand before Beaumont was run out via a direct hit from Vastrakar at midwicket.
Sciver-Brunt and Wyatt then put on 29 before carnage ensued, and although England spinners Dean and Ecclestone impressed late in the day, India is firmly on top, with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur (44no) adding an unbroken 53 with Vastrakar (17no).
