It was challenging to bowl against 17-year-old Shafali, says England spinner Sophie

Sophie Ecclestone said that bowling to India's young prolific run-scorer Shafali Verma is an interesting challenge as no one knows what's going to happen".

England batted in the first innings and scored 396 runs but when India came to bat Mithali and the girls were dominating with 167/0 and then they collapsed to 231.

The young batter could decide whether India save the match or go on to lose the one-off Test here.

"It's always interesting when me and Shafali match up in whatever format of the game it is. When it comes to T20, I think she's really highly rated so it's really interesting to bowl at her," said Sophie, who took four first-innings wickets, after the third day's play.

"You just never know what's going to happen with her (Shafali), you never know if you're going to get whacked over the top or she's going to miss one, so it's really interesting to bowl to her and it's quite a good competition for me," the 22-year-old spinner, who is the No. 1-ranked T20I bowler in the world, told cricinfo.com.

"I think just bowl my best ball and vary my pace so when I come into a Test match it's like trying to bowl my best ball for longer but when Shafali's batting I think it's try and use my arm ball a few times and vary my pace, so just change it up a little bit.

India will look to draw the Test match with batting all day on Day 4. So, lot depends on Shafali Verma and the senior players like Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur.