India Women vs England Head-to-Head: ODI, T20I & Test

England have played India's women more often than any other side has, and the record between them is closer than any other India face. Eighty one-day internationals, India 36 and England 42; thirty-eight Twenty20 internationals, India 12 and England 26; and sixteen Tests, of which India have won four, England one and eleven have been drawn.

The Test column is the outlier, and it is India's. This is the only opponent against whom India's women hold a winning record in the longest format, and two of those four wins have come in the past three years — by 347 runs at Navi Mumbai in December 2023, and by 270 runs at Lord's in July 2026, in the first women's Test ever staged at the ground.

The fifty-over ledger is the one to watch. A six-match England lead across a fixture that began in 1978 is close to parity, and the recent traffic has run India's way: India won the three-match series in England in July 2025 by two matches to one, taking the last of them at Chester-le-Street by thirteen runs after making 318 for 5.

The record across formats

Format	Matches	India won	England won	Drawn	First played
Test	16	4	1	11	1986
ODI	80	36	42	—	1978
T20I	38	12	26	—	2006

Eleven draws in sixteen Tests reflects how the format was played for most of the period: three-day and four-day matches, low over rates and few declarations bold enough to force a result. Both of India's recent wins came in four-day Tests with a declaration in them.

Lord's, 10-13 July 2026

The first women's Test at Lord's produced India's largest win at the ground in any format and one of the largest margins in the history of women's Test cricket.

India made 285, bowled England out for 170, and declared their second innings at 341 for 7, setting 457. England were dismissed for 186 shortly before lunch on the fourth day. The margin of 270 runs is among the largest recorded in women's Tests.

Two individual firsts came out of it. Kranti Gaud took 5 for 37 in the first innings and 2 for 54 in the second, and was named player of the match — the first woman to take five wickets in an innings in a Test at Lord's. Yastika Bhatia made the first women's Test century at the ground. Sophie Ecclestone made a maiden international fifty in the last innings and was bowled by Sneh Rana to end it.

The result also meant India had beaten England in consecutive Tests, having won the previous meeting between them at Navi Mumbai by 347 runs in December 2023 — a match in which India made 428, dismissed England for 136, and enforced nothing, batting again and setting a target England were bowled out well short of. Deepti Sharma took the award there.

The fifty-over record

Twenty-six of the eighty one-day internationals fall inside the period covered by complete ball-by-ball records, and those show India winning twelve and England fourteen — close to the all-time proportion, which is a rare thing in a fixture this long.

The July 2025 series in England is the most recent bilateral meeting. India won at Southampton by four wickets, England won at Lord's by eight after India were bowled out for 143 in a rain-shortened innings, and India took the decider at Chester-le-Street, making 318 for 5 and holding England to 305. Harmanpreet Kaur took the award in the last of them.

The two sides then met at Indore in October 2025 in the group stage of the World Cup India won. England made 288 for 8 and India fell four runs short on 284 for 6, Heather Knight taking the award. It is the narrowest result the fixture has produced in the format in recent years, and it did not stop India winning the tournament — the campaign is covered on the India women's cricket history guide.

Player	Side	ODI runs since 2005	Matches	Highest
Smriti Mandhana	India	944	20	91
Harmanpreet Kaur	India	824	23	143
Mithali Raj	India	795	19	94
Heather Knight	England	530	19	109
Tammy Beaumont	England	442	23	87

India hold the top three places on the fifty-over run list for the fixture in this period, which is not true of any other opponent. Harmanpreet's 143 is the highest individual score either side has made in it. The career figures behind these names are on the India women's most runs leaderboard.

Bowler	Side	ODI wickets since 2005	Best
Jhulan Goswami	India	32	4
Sophie Ecclestone	England	24	4
Anya Shrubsole	England	21	6
Deepti Sharma	India	20	4
Katherine Brunt	England	18	5

Jhulan Goswami's thirty-two wickets is the highest total in the fixture. Anya Shrubsole's 6 for 46 in the 2017 World Cup final at Lord's is the best innings return either side has produced against the other, and it is also the reason the 2017 tournament ended the way it did: England were 219 for 7 chasing 229 and Shrubsole then took five wickets in nineteen balls.

Twenty20 internationals

England lead the shortest format 26-12, the widest gap of the three. Thirty-three of the thirty-eight matches have complete records, and India have won ten of those.

The pattern has become more competitive in the last two years without the ledger moving much. India won at Manchester in July 2025 by six wickets, chasing 127 with three overs unused; England took the next at Birmingham by five wickets. In the five-match series in England in May and June 2026 India won the opener at Chelmsford by 38 runs, making 188 for 7, and then lost at Bristol and Taunton.

Player	Side	T20I runs	Matches	Highest
Smriti Mandhana	India	985	29	112
Danni Wyatt	England	779	29	124
Harmanpreet Kaur	India	539	28	56
Amy Jones	England	448	23	67
Jemimah Rodrigues	India	424	20	69

Mandhana and Wyatt are the only players to have made a Twenty20 international hundred in the fixture, and both are on this list at the top. Sophie Ecclestone and Deepti Sharma lead the bowling with twenty-six wickets each — an exact tie across the whole recorded history of the fixture in the format, which is a coincidence but a neat one.

Why the Test column looks different

Sixteen Tests over forty years is a thin programme, and until recently it produced draws almost by default. What changed was the move to four-day women's Tests with genuine declarations, and India have adapted to that faster than most.

Both of their recent wins followed the same shape: a first-innings total above 280, a bowling performance that took twenty wickets on a surface offering spin, and a declaration that left enough time. Deepti Sharma and Sneh Rana took wickets in both matches; Kranti Gaud's emergence gave the attack a seam option capable of a five-for at Lord's, which India had not reliably had.

England, over the same period, have been the stronger side in the shorter formats and the weaker one in this. That is an unusual distribution and it is worth not over-reading from four matches — but the Navi Mumbai and Lord's results were not close, and neither can be explained by conditions alone, since one was played in India and one at Lord's in July.

The domestic structure behind the current India side, and the money that has reshaped it, is covered on the women's Premier League guide. The comparable fixture against the side that has beaten India most often is on the India women versus Australia page, and the India women's most wickets and India women's best bowling figures leaderboards carry the bowling careers named here. The wider game is on the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

The all-format record table is taken from the published record-by-opponent tables for the India women's side and is current to the end of August 2026.

Match-level detail and both sets of aggregate tables are computed from the complete ball-by-ball record where it exists — twenty-six of the eighty one-day internationals and thirty-three of the thirty-eight Twenty20 internationals. The aggregate tables are labelled with those windows rather than presented as all-time fixture careers: England and India played each other in one-day internationals for nearly thirty years before the recorded period begins, and players from that era are absent or under-counted here.

The Lord's Test of July 2026 and the Navi Mumbai Test of December 2023 are verified against the scorecards and match reports for those games, as are the individual firsts claimed for Kranti Gaud and Yastika Bhatia and the margin of 270 runs. Anya Shrubsole's figures in the 2017 final are from that match's scorecard.

Bowling figures exclude run-outs. Wides and no-balls are charged to the bowler in these figures; byes and leg byes are not.