‘Life isn’t perfect’: Knight happy to bow out with Lord’s Test despite loss to India

• Only Test: India, 285 & 341-7dec, bt England, 170 & 186, by 270 runs

• Ecclestone hits milestone half-century on final morning

India defeated England by 270 runs in the one-off Test here, a famous victory that will go some way to making up for their failure to reach the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup this month. The first women’s Test to take place at the ground broke the world record attendance figure, attracting a crowd of 37,846 across three-and-a-bit days.

England batted for long enough on the fourth morning to allow Sophie Ecclestone to reach her first half-century in an England shirt.