India women's team captain Smriti Mandhana acknowledged her team's shortcomings that led to a bitter defeat at Lord's in the second One-day against England. India suffered an eight-wicket hammering on Saturday as the batters faced a tough test to adapt to the conditions and were poor with their shot selection. Apart from Mandhana (42) and Deepti Sharma (30 not out), no Indian player could offer a solid resistance to England bowlers.

"I think as a batting unit, we couldn't adapt to the conditions quickly. We tried to play some shots which were maybe not, like, it was not easy on these sorts of wickets, especially Lord's," Mandhana told reporters at the post-match press conference.

?"Rain curtailed matches are always very hard in terms of getting your focus right because, of course, it was a long wait period. And losing the toss in these sorts of matches doesn't help a lot. But, yeah, it's a good test for all of us. There are a few things which we could have gotten better."

"A lot of girls played here for the first time. The excitement was quite high. So, I'm sure many people took away a lot of memories and, of course, a lot of learning as well.

Mandhana also said the last eight years have been phenomenal for women cricketers in India.

"It's been a journey since 2017 for women's cricket, especially back in India. We were all really disappointed that we couldn't win that day, but when we went back home and saw the kind of reception we got, everyone started learning a lot about women's cricket.

"In the last eight years, I mean, wherever we play, we feel like it's home. People come out and watch us, criticise us, appreciate us, which is all good because, I mean, it's just on a rise in terms of people knowing and wanting to watch women's cricket, which is a great thing.".