England women were leading by 88 runs with four wickets in hand at stumps on Day 2 against India women in the ongoing Test match at Wormsley. At the end of day’s play Sarah Taylor (30*) and Jenny Gunn (2*) had taken the hosts to 110/6 in an unbroken 26-run stand. After bowling India out for 114 earlier in the day, the home team lost opener Heather Knight for a duck without a run on the board. Jhulan Goswami had the opener nick to the wicketkeeper off the second ball of the innings to give India an early breakthrough. Tammy Beaumont then joined Lauren Winfield in the middle and the pair added 35 runs for the second wicket until Ekta Bisht trapped Beaumont lbw for 12. 38 runs later Shikha Pandey claimed the opener to end the third wicket stand before taking shape. With England captain Charlotte Edwards on 20 and Sarah Taylor yet to open the account, rain interrupted play with England on 73/3 in the 29th over of the match. Bisht later claimed the England skipper for 20 soon after play resumed. The next to be sent back was Lydia Greenway in the next over. Goswami accounted for the fifth England wicket as India strangled the flow of runs. With runs hard to come by Natalie Sciver and Jenny Gunn trudged on for eight more overs before Sciver was dismissed by Shubhlakshmi Sharma. Sarah Taylor then farmed the strike and shouldered the responsibility of building on the lead. While Taylor did the bulk of the scoring, Gunn provided support by stoically holding her ground. Playing with determination, the pair saw the team through to the end of day’s play without further lapses. Earlier resuming on 87/6, India overcame the five-run deficit in the morning and finished the innings with a 22-run lead. Gunn who had rattled the visitors line-up on the first day struck first to castle Goswami with India on 95. Kate Cross and Sonia Odedra then claimed the remaining three wickets to bowl India out. N Niranjana who had claimed four wickets earlier on the previous day finished as the top-scorer for her team scoring 27 until being lbw by Cross. Brief scores: Day 1: England 1st inn 92 all out in 41.2 overs (S Taylor 30, N Niranjana 4/19, S Sharma 2/12); India 1st inn 87/6 in 47 overs (J Goswami 13*, N Niranjana 13*, J Gunn 4/13) Day 2: India 1st inn 114 all out in 64.2 overs (N Niranjana 27, J Gunn 5/19, K Cross 3/29); England 2nd inn 110/6 in 55 overs (L Winfield 35, S Taylor 30*, E Bisht 2/15, J Goswami 2/22 )