Toss India Women chose to bowl vs England Women
India captain Mithali Raj won the first toss in four matches on the tour and opted to bowl in the rain-affected third ODI against England in Worcester with both teams going in unchanged. The match will be a 47-overs-a-side contest after the toss delayed by over an hour and a half
Conditions remain damp and windy at the County Ground at New Road, with the pitch remaining under covers for the greater part of the morning.
Raj, who didn't field in the second ODI after suffering from neck pain following her second successive fifty in the series, said potential rain breaks through the day drove her decision to put England in. Her opposite number, Heather Knight, too, said she would have liked to bowl first.
England are eyeing a sweep of the 50-over leg of the multi-format series. They lead the seven-match assignment 6-2 on points, the teams having split the points 2-2 from the drawn one-off Test in Bristol.
A win on Saturday would make Raj the most successful captain in women's ODIs. Twelve runs with the bat will take her to the top of the run-scorers chart in women's international cricket, surpassing former England captain Charlotte Edwards' tally of 10,273.
Knight, meanwhile, requires 37 to become the fourth England player to 3000 ODI runs
England: Lauren Winfield-Hill, Tammy Beaumont, Heather Knight (capt), Nat Sciver, Amy Jones (wk), Sophia Dunkley, Katherine Brunt, Sophie Ecclestone, Sarah Glenn, Anya Shrubsole, Kate Cross
India: Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Mithali Raj (capt), Harmanpreet Kaur, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Shikha Pandey, Jhulan Goswami, Poonam Yadav
Annesha Ghosh is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @ghosh_annesha
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