In the meantime, here is a snippet from Vishal, who is our eyes and ears in Guwahati: “Greetings from Guwahati where there is hardly any crowd, no fans queueing up outside, but a lot of security, roads barricaded around the ground, and some Air Force jets hovering around (although that looks like a drill). Keeping with the theme of the World Cup, it’s muggy and slightly warm, but nothing like Vizag and Indore. It’s overcast for now, no sun peeping through but the good thing is hardly any rain forecast for today. The big thing for England: Sophie Ecclestone is warming up and jogging around but her left shoulder is hardly moving while the right arm is going back and forth nicely. Now she’s moved to doing fielding drills and taking some high catches. And now Ecclestone goes across to measure and mark her run up.
