London, Sept. 24 -- : Smriti Mandhana's half-century followed by Deepti Sharma's crucial knock of unbeaten 68 helped India post 169 runs against England in the third and final match of the three-match ODI series on Saturday at Lord's cricket ground here.

For India, Mandhana scored 50 runs while Deepti played an unbeaten knock of 68 runs which helped India to post a respectable total.

Put to bat first, India got off to a bad start as they suffered huge blows under 10 overs. England pacer Kate Cross gave a brilliant breakthrough to her team as she dismissed Shafali Verma, Yastika Bhatia and Harmanpreet Kaur in quick succession.

After skipper Harmanpreet's dismissal Mandhana held the fort for India and tried to anchor the innings while ge...