A significant sporting event you might have missed today
There was a lot of focus on football today as Wales beat Turkey 2-0 in the Euros. I was cheering them on (quietly) in a beer and beard bar in central Cardiff.
You might have missed, and Sports Minister Oliver Dowden certainly did, that it was also the start of a too rare Test Match between England women and India women in Bristol.
The pre-match discussion was about playing on a pitch that had already been used (that should not have happened).
The play itself though was engrossing. England were in charge for the first two sessions up to tea with England captain Heather Knight (in her 100th Test as captain) getting 95. The final session though belonged to India with England ending on 269-6:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/scorecard/ECKO50984
In short it was a day when the game ebbed and flowed- a superb example of Test cricket.
Notable too was that the first ever black woman to play a Test for England Sophia Dunkley was given her cap. She was 12 not out at the close.
Its not too late to send a tweet of congratulation Mr Dowden.
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