I'm not a fan but within the rules, declares Amy Jones after mankading incident

Batting first, the Women in Blue lost wickets in a flurry in the early stages and were reduced to 29-4 with in-form skipper Harmanpreet Kaur back in the dugout as well. However, opener Smriti Mandhana anchored along the batting unit with a gritty half-century but ended up bizarrely playing a bouncer onto her stumps off Katie Cross' bowling. The 30-year-old eventually snared incredible figures of 10-2-26-4, having uprooted the stumps of all of the top three. With India staring at a lowly target, all-rounder Deepti Sharma came to the rescue with a valiant unbeaten 68 off 106 deliveries, helping set a target of 170.

In response, the hosts crumbled to an exhibition of swing bowling by Renuka Thakur who took her second consecutive four-wicket haul. The pacer got rid of the top-three in a marathon seven-over opening spell and had England reeling at 53-6. Skipper Amy Jones tried to take charge with a fighting 28 but once she left England hanging at 103-8, the encounter looked like a foregone conclusion. However, Charlie Dean had other ideas and stuck in with the tail to accumulate 47 runs taking the Three Lions ever so close to victory before a controversial incident spoiled her party. Backing up on the non-striker's end, Dean strayed too far from the crease before the ball left Deepti's hand who decided to take off the bails. The decision went in her favour, thus handing India a historic whitewash.     

England were missing key players in the series including regular skipper Heath Knight and Natalie Sciver. However, a young pace attack of Alice Capsey and Freya Kemp troubled a formidable Indian batting lineup on multiple occasions, serving as a silver lining for the hosts.