The Lord’s is gearing up for its first ever women’s Test — between India and England, and both sides come into the encounter, wanting to brush aside their disappointments from Women’s T20 World Cup 2026. England lost in the final, while India were knocked out in the league stages. Head coach Amol Muzumdar believes, the team is already over that campaign.
Team past Women’s T20 World Cup
The coach revealed that the Test match was on the players’ minds even before the World Cup began. “It’s a dream to play a Test match for any Indian cricketer, leave alone playing at Lord’s. I am sure everyone who would wear those whites would be proud of them being there at Lord’s to play the Test match.
“We have always maintained this in the dressing room that we have done traditionally, we have done really well in the Test matches. Everyone was talking about the Test match at Lord’s even before the World Cup started, the time is now, so I guess they will be excited about it.”
Prepared well for 5 days
Muzumdar also added that while it was not easy to get over the World Cup campaign. the team did manage to prepare well, after all. There were days of training in Wormsley as well, before coming down to Lord’s. “To be honest it has been a mixed bag. We had to recover from the loss. We were disappointed for sure, I mean we didn’t have the best of World Cups.
“But having said that, the character of the team had to come out and we need to get out of that phase and come into the Test match preparation sooner. And I guess we have managed to do that, we had five really good days of prep, few days at Wormsley Cricket Club. A beautiful ground, just a perfect setting for the preparations and then here at Lord’s. So I guess the preparation has been good and as I said excited to be here at Lord’s.”
It is to note that India last played a Test four months back against Australia — day-night Test, where they lost by 10 wickets. Prior to that, they had played a Test in 2024, against South Africa, where they had posted a win. Hosts England also don’t come up with a lot of Test experience behind their back.
India Women’s squad for Lord’s Test: Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Varma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (WK), Sree Charani, Yastika Bhatia (WK), Nandni Sharma, Harleen Deol, Renuka Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Sayali Satghare, Sneh Rana, Priya Punia.
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