“Deep-rooted spin problems come back to haunt England”

It's 'one of the toughest challenges in sport and in women's football, with the scarcity of tests played, arguably even tougher.

But for England, their latest collapse to 136 in Mumbai - after being 79-2 - and with seven wickets falling on spin, is not an anomaly.

It's worrying, but it's becoming the norm.

Since the end of the T20 World Cup in South Africa in February, England have lost 87 wickets to spin and only 45 at pace, in all formats.

Their latest collapse was triggered by Deepti Sharma's off-spin, who won 5-7 in of England's first match. innings, ensuring that they finish the second day 478 runs behind.

During the Ashes of the Summer, it was off-spinner Ash Gardner who exploited her weaknesses, but her performance as player of the series with 23 wickets was somewhat overshadowed by England's overall success in their fightback to win the series. /p>

But in September's T20 series against Sri Lanka, it was evident that the teams had started to understand England.

They packed their XI with spinners and dismantled Heather Knight's team for 104 and 116 in the final two games to record a shock 2-1 series victory.

This trend did not go unnoticed by head coach Jon Lewis, who said after Sri Lanka's defeat that they were "aware" of the problem and would address it with a training camp in Oman ahead of this winter's India series as well as a specialist batting camp in Mumbai.

Naturally, change will not happen overnight.

Two camps will not resolve a deep-rooted struggle, especially when England's players are trying to turn things around. the most delicate conditions possible. And especially when only one player from the England team - Sophia Dunkley - attended the spin camp (Emma Lamb was there but was ruled out injured and Alice Capsey didn't make the XI).

The frustration will be the way the same patterns repeat themselves, the same half-hearted dismissals and the same feeling of panic when the ball starts to spin.

On the second day in Mumbai, Danni Wyatt was the first English batter to get out on a spinner and his shot - caught in two minds between going backwards or forwards, resulting in a simple catch at short leg - seemed to send shockwaves through the rest of the lineout.

Sophie Ecclestone at seven and Charlie Dean at eight - both competent hitters but probably in too high a position here - returned to their bullpen defensively and ended up being played and in weight after instigation attempts. Nat Sciver-Brunt, the only English batter to find any rhythm, was undone by a sharp turn, but it is safe to say she played the wrong shot, coming back and trying...