New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- LONDON - The ball was there to be hit and Richa Ghosh hit it. Sixty-eight runs off thirty-six deliveries, the kind of innings that leaves a fielding side visibly rattled and forces commentators to run out of superlatives early. When she was finally dismissed, India needed something no batter in the dugout was capable of providing. England won the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2026 warm-up by five runs.

fifty-run contributions from both Nat Sciver-Brunt and Amy Jones in the same innings, a total built on the kind of partnership cricket that does not yield to an individual counter-attack, regardless of how spectacular that counter-attack might be. India, for their part, had confirmation that Ghosh - wicket-keeper, tail-en...