England Women vs India Women first T20I Tips, Predictions and Bet Builder

The Women's T20 World Cup takes place in England next summer and India Women will expect to be one of the main contenders for the trophy.

Harmanpreet Kaur's side face England at Trent Bridge in the first of five T20Is this weekend and the hosts are full of confidence after their white-ball clean sweep of West Indies in May and June. 

England Women vs India Women First T20I Tips Summary

Market	Tip	Odds
Match Result	England Women	2/5
Best Bet	Nat Sciver-Brunt to be Player of the Match	17/2
Bet Builder	Smriti Mandhana 20+ runs, Amy Jones 10+ runs, Nat Sciver-Brunt top England Women batter	13/2

Key Match Stats

• England Women beat the West Indies 3-0 in both the ODI and T20 series this summer

• England have won four of their last five T20Is against India

• Opener Danni Wyatt-Hodge scored five half-centuries in her last eight T20 innings for Surrey

• India's Smriti Mandhana averages 43.22 in her 11 T20I appearances in England

• Nat Sciver-Brunt was Player of the Tournament in the 2025 Women's Premier League in India

England Women vs India Women First T20I Prediction

Best Bet: Nat Sciver-Brunt to be Player of the Match @ 17/2

Nat Sciver-Brunt enjoyed a fine start to her career as England captain, sealing 3-0 ODI and T20 series wins over the West Indies and she can star against India at Trent Bridge.

She knows the venue well as skipper of Trent Rockets in The Hundred and she had a sensational 2025 WPL campaign for Mumbai Indians, scoring 523 runs and taking 12 wickets in 10 matches.

Sciver-Brunt is unlikely to bowl this summer due to an Achilles injury but her batting prowess means she still merits a bet to be named player of the match.  

James Milton explains:

Nat Sciver-Brunt is one of the world's best T20 batters, as she showed for Mumbai in this year's WPL and the England skipper should shine in the series opener against India.

England Women vs India Women First T20I Bet Builder Tip

• Smriti Mandhana 20+ runs

• Amy Jones 10+ runs

• Nat Sciver-Brunt top England Women batter

  Pays 13/2

Trent Bridge tends to produce good batting pitches and India opener Smriti Mandhana should cash in. She averages 43 in T20Is in England and hit 10 fours in Wednesday's warm-up innings of 47 against an ECB XI.  

England wicketkeeper Amy Jones scored 122 and 129 in two ODI innings against the West Indies and she has been striking the ball beautifully this summer. 

Boost the Bet Builder price by backing Sciver-Brunt to top-score for England at a ground where she has smashed 434 runs off 319 balls during her career with Trent Rockets.

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James Milton adds:

Runs should flow at Trent Bridge and Jones and Sciver-Brunt form a powerful middle-order for England. India opener Mandhana has shown her liking for English conditions in The Hundred.

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Tactics, Form and Team News

Former England captain Heather Knight has been ruled out for the summer due to a hamstring injury, so Tammy Beaumont and Paige Scholfield are vying for a spot in the batting unit.

Beaumont has been out of favour in T20 cricket, but she scored back-to-back ODI centuries against the Windies earlier this summer.

Ace spinner Sophie Ecclestone is back in the squad after taking a break from the game, but Sarah Glenn has been left out so Charlie Dean and Linsey Smith are the other frontline spinners available for the hosts.

Expected England Women line-up: 1 Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 2 Tammy Beaumont, 3 Sophia Dunkley, 4 Nat Sciver-Brunt (c), 5 Amy Jones (wk), 6 Alice Capsey, 7 Sophie Ecclestone, 8 Em Arlott, 9 Charlie Dean, 10 Issy Wong, 11 Lauren Bell.

Shafali Verma has forced her way back into India's T20 squad after scoring 304 WPL runs for Delhi Capitals this season.

Verma was the leading Indian runscorer in the competition, behind overseas stars Sciver-Brunt, Ellyse Perry and Hayley Matthews, and she joins the vastly experienced Mandhana, Jemima Rodrigues and captain Harmanpreet in the top four.

India's bowlers are far less established on the international stage. Left-arm spinner Radha Yadav has replaced the injured Shuchi Upadhyay and senior fast bowlers Renuka Singh and Pooja Vastrakar are not on this tour.

Expected India Women line-up: 1 Shafali Verma, 2 Smriti Mandhana, 3 Jemima Rodrigues, 4 Harmanpreet Kaur (c), 5 Richa Ghosh (wk), 6 Amanjot Kaur, 7 Deepti Sharma, 8 Sneh Rana, 9 Sayali Satghare, 10 Radha Yadav, 11 Arundhati Reddy.

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