England Women register a five-wicket win over India Women and grab an unassailable 2-0 lead
India had already sealed the series by winning the first two ODIs but in the 3rd ODI, failed to defend the total of 253 for five, built around Raj's unbeaten 125 and opener Smriti Mandhana's 51.
The one-off Test against India, scheduled to be held from 16-19 June, starts an important summer for Knight's team that has an Ashes series followed by a World Cup title defense in New Zealand.
Harleen Deol's (52) confident maiden international fifty was the only silver lining for an otherwise lacklustre display by the Indians, who posted a modest 130 for 6 after being invited to bat.
Shafali Verma (744 points) had grabbed the top spot at the end of the league stage of the just-concluded women's T20 World Cup in Australia which the hosts won for an unprecedented fifth time.
Earlier, Mithali Raj scored 62 off 50 balls while teenager Jemimah Rodrigues smashed 44 off 34 balls as Indian women scored a competitive 166 for 4 in 20 overs against South Africa in the fifth and final T20 International, in Cape Town on Saturday.
The 23-year-old suffered a fracture in her right toe after being struck by a ball during a net session on Sunday forcing her out of the series. Seam bowling all-rounder Pooja Vastrakar has been drafted in as her replacement.
Brett Lee offered his perspective on what the tournament means for women's cricket.
India crushed minnows Thailand by 74 runs to storm into the final of Women's Asia Cup
Regular captain Harmanpreet Kaur was ruled out of the three-match T20I series against England due to an an ankle injury.
A summary of Indian athletes' performance on Wednesday, Day 6 of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
South Africa women registered a series-clinching six-wicket win in a last ball thriller in the second T20 International
It was all Jemimah Rodrigues' and Veda Krishnamurthy's show
IMAGES from the first ODI played between New Zealand and India at Napier
According to current regulations, the ball used in women's cricket is fractionally smaller and lighter than that used in the men's game.
The Indian women's cricket team produced another listless batting performance to suffer a second successive loss in the T20 triangular series, going down to England by four wickets, in Melbourne, on Friday. Sent in to bat, Indian batters failed to capitalise on their starts as they struggled to 123 for six in 20 overs with opener Smriti Mandhana emerging as the top-scorer with a 40-ball 45.
Raj anchored the Indian run chase with a 47-ball 56 which she made with the help of seven fours in the Group B match which was marred by unprecedented docking of 10 penalty runs on Pakistan.
Captain Harmanpreet Kaur struck a sensational half century as Supernovas clinched the Women's T20 Challenge with a four-wicket victory over Velocity in a dramatic final, in Jaipur, on Saturday.
Indian women's cricket team would look to continue its supremacy over South Africa when the two sides clash in the second Twenty20 International, in East London, on Friday.
The Indian women's cricket team would now go through a trial by fire when it make its day-night Test debut against Australia in the one-off game, starting in Gold Coast on Thursday.
Teen sensation Shafali Verma is set to make her eagerly-anticipated ODI debut as the Indian women's team seeks white-ball course correction against a strong world champion English side in the first game of the three-match series, in Bristol, on Sunday.
The White Ferns chased down the target in 29.2 overs to register a morale-boosting win.
Shafali Verma smashed a 17-ball 39, including four sixes, to steer India to 142 to six
Supernovas, champions in 2018 and 2019, just about managed to ward off their rivals in a last-over thriller.
For India, veteran Jhulan Goswami picked up two wickets giving away just 20 runs in her 9 overs.
Sushma Verma (34) and Sune Luus (37 not out) were main contributors in Velocity's successful chase.
Veteran Jhulan Goswami's four-wicket haul was beautifully complemented by Smriti Mandhana's sparkling half-century as Indian women outplayed South Africa by nine wickets in the second ODI to level the five-match series 1-1, in Lucknow, on Tuesday.
Smriti Mandhana struck a sublime half-century as India finally produced a good batting display to record a seven-wicket win over Australia in Melbourne on Saturday, keeping their hopes alive for a place in the final of the women's T20 tri-series. Australia posted 173 for 5 courtesy of a quickfire 57-ball 93 from Ashleigh Gardner and Meg Lanning's 22-ball 37 after India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur elected to field at the Junction Oval.
For the Indian women's team captain, hitting eight sixes in order to avoid running is best way to ignore stomach cramps.
PV Sindhu, who also won a silver medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics, admitted that she felt bad when people said she has a 'final phobia'. She was desperate to win the World Championships title last year after a string of runner-up finishes
The Indian team's new 2019 World Cup jersey was launched by sporting apparel giants Nike in the presence of former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, current skipper Virat Kohli, his Test deputy Ajinkya Rahane and young turk Prithvi Shaw.
Pakistan's Sohail to return home after injury ends England tour
India have dominated New Zealand so far in the series and won the second game by eight runs. The third and final ODI will be played on Friday.
India in their allotted 50-overs posted a target of 192 for the hosts. West Indies got off to a bad start
Mithali Raj played a captain's knock to guide India Women to a consolation four-wicket win over England
Taylor's all-round show helps West Indies claim one-run win over India
What India pacer Shikha Pandey finds objectionable is trying to achieve growth through tinkering of rules rather than robust marketing.
The summit clash turned out to be a low-scoring affair and it was not the best advert for women's cricket with strokeplay proving to be extremely difficult on a slow surface.
Even though the score is below-par against Southern Stars, Vastrakar's clean hits at least gave them something to fight for.
Former India women's coach W V Raman says the 25-year-old is a good reader of the game and has already played few years of cricket.
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