England have hope, just.
That sound? A huge sigh of relief being breathed in unison by England’s players, coaches and supporters. Aaaaah. They got over the line today thanks to a much tighter performance in all three disciplines. Heather Knight played a captain’s knock to see them home after a shaky start, she was there at the end to make sure the points went into the bag.
They still have plenty to do but it isn’t inconceivable England can go on a bit of a run to secure a slot in the semi-final. They’ll have to overcome New Zealand, Bangladesh and Pakistan to stay alive in the tournament. The fact they made quick work of that pesky run chase today will stand them in good stead with the number crunchers if it comes down to that at some point too.
India were below par today, England bowled well but you don’t win many games when skittled for 134. They never got going with the bat and Ecclestone and Dean were simply too good.
That’s me handing in my OBO badge and gun for the day, thanks on behalf of Tanya and myself for joining us for England’s first win for five long months. We’ll be back to bring you the next game in a couple of days time. We’ll see if England’s World Cup wagon can keep on rollin’.
Until then, goodbye!
No wonder Heather Knight was feeling relieved:
Englands first win in 5 months 😅 floodgates 👊👊
— Isa Guha (@isaguha) March 16, 2022
Charlie Dean is very impressive. Joint-leading wicket-taker in home ODI series against NZ, then 4-23 in her second World Cup match. Good, promising signs for England.
— Amy Lofthouse (@amy_cricket) March 16, 2022
The captains are next up:
Mithali Raj: “We definitely didn’t have partnership at the top of order... despite getting what we wanted after losing the toss. We’ll look to address that in the next match.
She goes on to congratulate Jhulan Ghoswami for taking 250 ODI wickets.
Heather Knight: “It’s a bit of relief, we needed that! Our bowlers were outstanding, it wasn’t an easy pitch to bat on but Ecclestone and Dean made it difficult. The pitch was slow and tricky and I really wanted to finish it off today. Congratulations to Goswami for her milestone. The cricket gods seemed to be on our side. Nat(Sciver) was outstanding, she took the pressure off me on a tricky wicket.”
Charlie Dean is Player of the Match
The greenhorn spinner took 4 for 23 and in a touching moment thanks her parents: “I can’t imagine you’d be up, but this is for you”
The future is now for Charlie Dean 🏃♀️
— Women’s CricZone @ #CWC22 (@WomensCricZone) March 16, 2022
Meghna Singh India's new weapon 😎
Lapses in concentration cost India 📉
England's first points on board ⏫
All the talking points from match 15 of #CWC22
A vital win!
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) March 16, 2022
Scorecard: https://t.co/KcIFo29kSN#CWC22 pic.twitter.com/4Npmuu85bE
England win by 4 wickets
There it is, Ecclestone crunches a pull shot away into the vacant square leg boundary. England are up and running!
30th over: England 131-6 (Knight 53 Ecclestone 1) England one hit away, four runs needed to chalk up their first win of the tournament.
Injury scare for India - Harmanpreet Kaur gets her knee caught in the turf and it looks as though she jars it slightly. Thankfully she stands up and walks off the field with the physio. Hopefully it is more precautionary and nothing more serious.
29th over: England 129-6 (Knight 52 Ecclestone) Just six more needed for England. Sophie Ecclestone joins Knight in the middle.
WICKET! Brunt c Ghosh b Meghna Singh 0
Another! England spluttering over the line here. Brunt hacks a short ball straight up in the air and is comfortably caught by the keeper Ghosh. A layer of gloss just coming off this England run chase.
WICKET! Dunkley ct Ghosh b Meghna Singh 17
Has to go now though! Dunkley steers one straight into the keeper’s gloves.
28th over: England 128-4 (Knight 51 Dunkley 17) Lovely little cameo from Dunkley this, she runs down and dismissively swats Rana away past mid off! England a couple of hits away now.
27th over: England 122-4 (Knight 50 Dunkley 12) Huge, decisive over for England! Surely they’ve done this now. 13 runs coming from it. First up Heather Knight goes to fifty! Another classy off drive through the covers. Well batter skipper! Dunkley then upper cuts a bouncer for four, both feet in the air as she goes aerial over point. A thin edge off a forward prod also brings a third boundary from the over! Just 13 needed now.
26th over: England 109-4 (Knight 45 Dunkley 4) Dunkley won’t be dictated too though, she runs down and clatters Gayakwad back over mid on for four! Nasser is saying how impressed he was with Amy Jones, putting the team before herself as she tried to get the job done quickly, perhaps with an eye on net run rate which could come in to play later in the competition.
25th over: England 104-4 (Knight 44 Dunkley 0) Sophia Dunkley is the new batter and she pats back a maiden. India on the squeeze, trying to make it as uncomfortable as possible for England to get over the line.
WICKET! Jones c Kaur b Gayakwad 10
Amy Jones plays the shot of the day to dispatch Gayakwad for SIX back over her head. But then she falls trying to do the same again! Doesn’t quite get it the second time around and the ball plinks up in the air where Kaur takes a fine catch pedalling backwards.
India need six wickets. England need 31 runs.
25th over: England 104-4 (Knight 44 Dunkley 0)
24th over: England 95-3 (Knight 41 Jones 4) Knight sweeps powerfully for four more! Conventional sweep this time but same result. Seven runs in total off Sharma’s over. England close in on a hundred and there’s a bit of chirrup starting outside my window. Staccato squawks. More dawn-beatbox than chorus.
23rd over: England 88-3 (Knight 35 Jones 3) Maiden from Goswami, keeping England, and Amy Jones honest.
First bowler to 250 wickets in men's ODIs:
— hypocaust (@_hypocaust) March 16, 2022
Kapil Dev (IND) v NZ
Auckland, 27 Mar 1994
First bowler to 250 wickets in women's ODIs:
Jhulan Goswami (IND) v ENG
Mount Maunganui, 16 Mar 2022#INDvENG #CWC22
22nd over: England 88-3 (Knight 35 Jones 3) Lovely shot! Knight gets her reverse sweep on and nails it. The ball pinging off the bat, wide of the sprawling fielder and away for four. Classy from the captain. A couple of nudged singles take England that bit closer too. 47 more runs needed.
21st over: England 82-3 (Knight 30 Jones 2) Just a couple off Goswami’s over. Deepti Sharma is coming into the attack.
Here’s a shot of that Sciver moment of fortune from earlier on. #HeavyBails
Watch the moment Nat Sciver survived after the bails didn't come off 👇#BBCCricket #CWC22 #ENGvIND
— Test Match Special (@bbctms) March 16, 2022
20th over: England 80-3 (Knight 29 Jones 1) Six runs off Gayakwad’s latest over. Knight again showing she is in good touch, steering a full ball down to the point boundary. Jones gets off the mark with a push too. Goswami is coming back into the attack. India sensing that they need to remove England’s captain to really ramp up the pressure here. 20 overs done.
19th over: England 74-3 (Knight 24 Jones 0) Knight leans on a full ball and gets it away for a well timed boundary.
@Jimbo_Cricket You jinx you! Barely had you typed that when Sciver was gone. For penance you must do two coffees and three stints (straight) of Bringing up Baby.
— Ravi Nair #FBPE #PerfectPorkPie #JohnsonOut#FBPPR (@palfreyman1414) March 16, 2022
(Sorry)
18th over: England 69-3 (Knight 19 Jones 0) A maiden from Gayakwad. Is there another twist here? It has nothing, repeat nothing to do with my coffee intake, OK?!
Nat Sciver c Goswami b Vastrakar 45
Whoops! Sciver goes! She mistimes one of those short arm jabs and it loops off a leading edge to mid on. She had just smeared another boundary too and was looking to get this done in quick time. Amy Jones is the new batter. England have seven wickets left and need 66 runs to stay alive.
17th over: England 69-3 (Knight 19 Jones 0)
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16th over: England 60-2 (Knight 14 Sciver 41) Gayakwad returns and starts tightly, just a single from it as the sun begins to set in in Tauranga. There’s an of hour or so before dawn might start to creak here in south London.
Just FYI... I decided against any more coffee at the drinks break, so confident am I that England are going to wrap this up in good time and I’ll be able to get a bit of shut eye before the baby awakes. Obviously me typing this will have no effect on the result. Obviously.
15th over: England 59-2 (Knight 13 Sciver 41) Fifty partnership up for this pair. Sciver the aggressor as again she plays a short arm jab off Rana that whistles away to the fence. She then does well to get some blade on a very wide ball outside off stump, but gets enough and the ball trickles into the sponge for another welcome boundary! 11 runs in total taken from the over. 15 gone and time for a drink.
14th over: England 48-2 (Knight 12 Sciver 32) Sciver bunts a full bunger from Vastrakar straight to the fielder and is annoyed with herself for missing out. Next ball she makes sure, rocking back and powefully scything the ball through mid-wicket to leave the boundary rider with no chance. Four runs.
13th over: England 43-2 (Knight 10 Sciver 28) Two more off Sneh Rana’s spinners. Things have calmed down out there but the game is still on a knife edge. England’s skipper and vice skipper are showing all their experience, calmly accumulating, trying to break the back of this tricky little chase.
12th over: England 41-2 (Knight 9 Sciver 27) England manage just a couple off Vastrakar. Sneh Rana is coming on for a twirl at the other end.
11th over: England 39-2 (Knight 9 Sciver 26) A deft late cut from Sciver brings her two. She has great touch as well as power. A deft sweep gets her two more. These two sides sparring at the moment, who is going to land a decisive blow? Remember if England lose this game it is curtains for their World Cup campaign.
10th over: England 34-2 (Knight 9 Sciver 21) End of the first ten/powerplay. India were 37-3 at this stage. Vastrakar into the attack and starts tightly, just a single taken. A pulsating first ten overs.
Errr...
England are too good to let it slip, aren't they? #ENGvIND #CWC22
— S. Sudarshanan (@Sudarshanan7) March 16, 2022
Pressure does strange things...
9th over: England 33-2 (Knight 9 Sciver 20) Spin from Gayakwad and Sciver is sweeping effectively, picking up two fours from the over by paddling the ball into the vacant deep square leg. Excellent batting. Nine runs off the over.
8th over: England 24-2 (Knight 9 Sciver 11) England deal in singles as India show off some excellent fielding skills. Four from the over. Chipping away...
Jhulan Goswami now has 250 wickets in ODIs 🙌
— ICC (@ICC) March 16, 2022
What a player!#CWC22 pic.twitter.com/0bLllvlUbg
7th over: England 21-2 (Knight 8 Sciver 9) Knight pulls Goswami away for four! Sciver also drops and runs for a single.
Whisper it... but these two batters look in good knick.
6th over: England 16-2 (Knight 4 Sciver 8) A maiden from Singh. The TV replays are showing Sciver’s stroke of luck with the belligerent bails but also her freak dismissal from the other day against South Africa where she perished through a combo of hip and back of the bat. Funny how these things even themselves out.
5th over: England 16-2 (Knight 4 Sciver 8) Nat Sciver is underway with a cover drive for four too! The outfield looks to have got a tad quicker, she didn’t get all of it but it scorched away over the turf. Woweee! Sciver then squeezes a full ball from Goswami onto her back pad and the ball rolls into the stumps with a thunk! BUT THE BAILS DON’T FALL OFF! What a stroke of luck. Sciver has a wry smile, then cashes in by bunting the final ball of the over for four! OK, I’m awake now!
4th over: England 8-2 (Knight 4 Sciver 0) Knight is watchful, understandably, blocking resolutely. But then she unfurls a lovely cover drive to bring up England’s first boundary. A welcome breather.
Wicket! Beaumont lbw b Goswami 1
3rd over: England 4-2 (Knight 0 Sciver 0) Heather Knight is the new batter. Goswami starts with another wide down the leg side to Beaumont but is then on the money, joining five dots in a row. Appeal for lbw! And Beaumont has to go! The ball clipping the pad before bat and the dreaded three reds appear to show the ball would have hit the stumps. England lose another!
Wicket! Wyatt ct Rana b Meghna Singh 1
Wyatt fences at a lifter and is pouched by a leaping Rana at slip! England lose their first and India are in raptures. Rana starts with a wicket maiden. You didn’t think it would be straightforward did you?!
2nd over: England 3-1 (Beaumont 1 Knight 0)
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1st over: England 3-0 (Beaumont 1 Wyatt 1) England get their chase underway through a wide ball first up from Goswami. Beaumont and Wyatt then both scamper singles.
Thanks very much Tanya, Jim here picking up the reins for this chase, will it be a nerve-jangler or will England try and do it at a canter? Get in touch if you are out there and tuning in!
The two teams are out on the field as I handover to James Wallace who is primed with caffeine to take England over the line. Thanks for tuning in, bye!
I must tell you the teams, following that slight technical hitch early this morning:
England: Danni Wyatt, Tammy Beaumont, Heather Knight, Nat Sciver, Amy Jones (wk), Charlie Dean, Sophia Dunkley, Katherine Brunt, Sophie Ecclestone, Kate Cross, Anya Shrubsole.
India: Smriti Mandhana, Yastika Bhatia, Mithali Raj, Deepti Sharma, Harmanpreet Kaur, Richa Ghosh(wk), Sneh Rana, Pooja Vastrakar, Jhulan Goswami, Meghna Singh, Rajeshwari Gayakwad.
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“Hi Tanya.” Hello Phil Cavanagh!
“THIS is the England everyone has been expecting (I’m just thankful that Australia has already played them!).
If they keep this up, they can really ‘put the cat among the pigeons’ for the rest of the tournament.”
Well exactly! I’d almost written them off, thought they were too downhearted to find a performance like this.
England need 135 to win!
A transformation by England! What did they do with that butter-fingered, head-dropping, length-miscalculating crew? Great catching, sprightly fielding, even better bowling and galactic drift by 21 year old Charlie Dean.
India seemed to get stuck after those two early wickets and when Mandhana fell under the pressure of dot balls, the end was nigh.
A short break now while the players dine.
WICKET! Meghna b Dean 3 India all out 134!
Meghna sweeps, desperately, misses, inelegantly, and is bowled! That’s 4-23 for Charlie Dean, career best figures and the second best bowling of the tournament behind Marizanne Kapp’s five-fer.
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36th over :India 133-9 ( Gayakwad 0, Meghna 3) Ecclestone is back for her ninth. A super take from Jones behind the stumps to prevent a wide drifting down leg for four.
I’ve just realised that the link on my email isn’t working - do get in touch on tanya.aldred.freelance@theguardian.com if you have things to say.
35th over :India 130-9 ( Gayakwad 0, Meghna 1) Nasser chastises Knight for not giving herself a slip, as she rattles through her over. On comms they point out that England need to finish this off asap - all grist to the mill of the net-run rate.
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34th over :India 129-9 ( Gayakwad 0, Meghna 0) Cross picks up her first wicket as India crumble into the Mount Maunganui dust.
WICKET! Goswami c Wyatt b Cross 20 (India 129-9)
Nicely taken at neck height by Wyatt at backward point as Goswami has another swing for runs. Just the ink to dry now.
WICKET! Richa run-out (Sciver) 33 (India 123-8)
Richa turns and reverses at the non-striker’s end like a woman in lead boots after Goswami changes her mind about a run, and fabulous fielding by Sciver at midwicket throws down the stumps.
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33rd over :India 123-7 ( Richa 33, Goswami 16) Knight tries some her own homespun efforts and India turn down the heat with just three singles.
@tjaldred Stating the obvious here, but...
— Ravi Nair #FBPE #PerfectPorkPie #JohnsonOut#FBPPR (@palfreyman1414) March 16, 2022
Any more runs from this partnership and it could be yet another banana skin for England.
And they've demonstrated so far they can slip on sandpaper.
32nd over :India 120-7 ( Richa 32, Goswami 14) Have India decided that Cross is going to be their best source of runs? Goswami powers all her strength into those long limbs and batters the ball high and straight and for six. Richa’s thick edge for four adds to India’s relief as they take DRINKS with the partnership 34 in 45 balls. Do send your thoughts in, if there is anyone else out there in these early hours.
31st over :India 108-7 ( Richa 27, Goswami 7) Goswani plonks down her leg and shovels Dean, in her eighth over, over mid-on and away to the rope.
30th over :India 103-7( Richa 26, Goswami 3) Time for Kate Cross in all her head-girl perkiness. And what’s this? Heave-ho, over the covers we go, as Richa charges and has a swing.
29th over :India 98-7( Richa 21, Goswami 3) Dean now has figures of 7-1-17-3 as India attempt to... bat out the overs. Can they scrape another hundred from 20 overs, with Dean nearly bowled through?
Double-wicket maiden ✅
— Test Match Special (@bbctms) March 16, 2022
Charlie Dean with a huge impact for England!
India 66-5 off 20 overs.
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28th over :India 96-7( Richa 20, Goswami 2) There is life on Mars...
Hi @tjaldred . Good morning, and thanks for holding the fort this late (despite the alarm clock's obvious reluctance to wake you).
— Ravi Nair #FBPE #PerfectPorkPie #JohnsonOut#FBPPR (@palfreyman1414) March 16, 2022
I obviously missed the news when it happened, but why is Bhatia dubbing for Shefali Verma?
Morning Ravi! Yes, Verma was dropped after struggling for runs in the five-match ODI series against New Zealand and then getting a duck in India’s opening game against Pakistan.
27th over :India 94-7( Richa 19, Goswami 1)
26th over :India 86-7 ( Richa 18, Goswami 1) Richa fires a consolation boundary off Ecclestone, charging over cover with aplomb.
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25th over :India 88-7 ( Richa 13, Goswami 1) The old campaigner trudges in looking resigned. Dean takes her cap and stands with her hands on her hips with a bewildered grin.
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WICKET! Vastrakar lbw Dean 6 (India 86-7)
Not this time though! Attempts another sweep - why not - and this time is absolutely plumb. Super bowling by Dean.
NOT OUT!
Saved by the impact, which was outside off . A very relieved Vastrakar is saved.
REVIEW: Vastrakar lbw Dean 6...
Given out on the field, huge shout by England..
24th over :India 86-6 ( Richa 12, Vastrakar 6) Feisty back foot cut by Richa off Ecclestone which flies into the empty outfield for four.
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23rd over :India 81-6 ( Richa 8, Vastrakar 5) Amazing what desperation can do, with a bit of hustle, Richa and Vastrakar take nine off Dean’s over.
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22nd over :India 72-6 ( Richa 3, Vastrakar 1) The static scoreboard did its worst, as Smriti felt the pressure. She’d already lifted Ecclestone’s first ball over mid-off for four and was going for broke again.
WICKET! Mandhana lbw Ecclestone 3 (India 71-6)
It is out! The big one as Smriti has to go and India are left with the dregs of the batting and three figures still a long way away.
REVIEW! Smriti lbw Ecclestone...
Given out on the field as Smriti goes for broke dropping down on one knee to sweep but missing the ball... looked out...
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21st over :India 67-5 (Smriti 31; Richa 3) Terrific bowling by Dean, who has Richa all at sea, prodding and poking like a suspicious child at the dinner table.
20th over :India 66-5 (Smriti 30; Richa 3) Ecclestone: maiden.
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19th over :India 66-5 (Smriti 30; Richa 3) England turn the screw with spinners from both ends and India manage just a couple of singles, the last boundary a scratch and a sniff away.
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18th over :India 64-5 (Smriti 29; Richa 2) Eccleston is through her over before the woman twirling hula hoops on the boundary can sink into the splits. While wearing pads.
17th over :India 61-5 (Smriti 29; Richa 0) What an over for Charlie Dean in only her second World Cup match! It leaves Smriti to guide the tail, with 33 overs left in the game.
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WICKET! Rana c Jones b Dean 0 (India 61-5)
Two in three balls as Rana sups the elixir of temptation and throws the bat at a ball outside off stump and is well snaffled by Jones.
WICKET! Kaur c Jones b Dean 14 (India 61-4)
Kaur prods forward to Dean’s second ball, but she’s heavy-footed and the ball fizzes straight and into Jones’ gloves.
16th over :India 61-3 (Smriti 28; Harmanpreet Kaur 14) Ecclestone, in pink-rimmed sunglasses, long sleeves buttoned to the wrist, hair dutch braided again. Singles, dib, dab. Beaumont is brilliantly frisky in the field
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15th over:India 55-3 (Smriti 27; Harmanpreet Kaur 12) Did I mention how glorious it is out there in New Zealand this morning? The warmth is baking off the pitch, the outfield chive green, the Indian players sitting under sun umbrellas, a gentle breeze ruffling their flag. Sciver sends down a wide and a leg bye but neither Smriti nor Kaur get get their teeth into her.
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14th over:India 55-3 (Smriti 26; Harmanpreet Kaur 12) Ecclestone, says Lydia Greenway on comms, prefers bowling against right-handers. And here she is, wheeling and darting through her first over, with just a watchful single to show for it. And thats DRINKS and time for me to run and put the kettle on.
13th over:India 54-3 (Smriti 25; Harmanpreet Kaur 12) I find my glasses, just in time to see Kaur off drive four with smoking jacket elegance. Some great fielding down at fine leg two balls in a row by Tammy Beaumont, preventing fours.
12th over:India 44-3 (Smriti 24; Harmanpreet Kaur 6) This is Shrubsole’s sixth and I’d have thought Knight would want to hold her back for the last flurry. Kaur is watchful, picking off four just wide of the diving captain at slip.
11th over:India 39-3 (Smriti 24; Harmanpreet Kaur 2) Some hula-hooping little girls are in their element on the grass as Sciver hurries through another over.
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10th over:India 37-3 (Smriti 23; Harmanpreet Kaur 1) These two put on 184 glorious runs against West Indies, and Smriti gives a pinch of what that must have been like to watch with a checked drive off Shrubsole to the rope, and a cheeky flick behind . That’s the end of the power play - just two short of the average for the tournament, but three important wickets down.
9th over:India 30-3 (Smriti 17; Harmanpreet Kaur 1) Knight throws the ball to Sciver, who keeps on the pressure, with India eeking just a couple of singles from the over.
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8th over:India 28-3 (Smriti 16) Another wicket of sorts for Shrubsole - there had been just a wide off the over, with Deepti have a wild swing at the ball before. Scoreboard pressure makes a loud mental noise.
WICKET! Deepti run out Cross 0 (India 28-3)
Oh India! Deepti drives to short mid-off, where Kate Cross has time to line up the ball, smoke a pipe, make an origami elephant and then aim and fire to throw the stumps down.
7th over:India 27-2 (Smriti 16, Sharma 0) Just a couple through the covers to Mandhana, as Brunt too looks altogether in better zizz than she did on Monday. What can India do from here with two early wickets down.
6th over:India 25-2 (Smriti 14, Sharma 0) A wicket maiden for Shrubsole who is bowling fuller than she did against South Africa, to great effect! She roars with delight.
WICKET! Mithali c Dunkley b Shrubsole (India 25-2)
Mithali drives elegantly but uppishly and Dunkley swoops at cover-point and grabs the bal,l just a layer of icing from the ground. The soft signal is out and third umpires confirms it. That’s more like it! A confidence injecting take.
5th over: India 25-1 (Smriti 14, Mithali 1) Huge apologies for the tardy OBO start to this match , I somehow managed to sleep through my alarm. Brunt, who bowled too short against South Africa, drops her length again and Mandhana tucks in, sending her spinning for four..
4th over: India 18-1 (Smriti 9,, Mithali 0) The breakthrough! A hundredth ODI wicket for Shrubsole as Yastika Bhatia edges behind.
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India, who thrashed West Indies and Pakistan but lost to New Zealand, currently lie in third. Centuries from Smriti Mandhana (123 off 119) and Harmanpreet Kaur (109 off 107) against West Indies will put the wind up England, as will India’s wily spinners: Rajeshwari Gayakwad and Sneh Rana .
Meanwhile England’s Amy Jones was in bullish mood: ““Our backs are up against the wall and we have all the motivation we need,” Jones told BBC Sport.
“We all know we can perform at this level. It’s more about mindset and still believing.
“We have an opportunity to do something incredible.”
Time for me to have a very quick forty winks, back in twenty minutes.
Raf’s reading of England’s possible path to redemption:
Here's the #CWC22 qualification situation, after Australia thrashed West Indies overnight. pic.twitter.com/sHbyRD2JUz
— CRICKETher 🏏 (@crickether) March 15, 2022
Preamble
Good morning from a cold and lonely Manchester living room. The action is far away, in gorgeous Mount Maunganui, where England’s task is a tricky one. On their arses after three games without a win (v Australia, West Indies and, more recently, South Africa - as well as a disastrous Ashes campaign) they need to win this game - and the rest of the qualifiers. Then, if the results go their way, they’re in with a chance of making the semi-finals. High risk stakes, especially with their fielding having gone to pot and a couple of the seamers not quite in top form
There is some good news for England.
The new number 1 ranked bowler in Women's ODI cricket 👏
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) March 15, 2022
Congratulations @Sophecc19 ❤️ pic.twitter.com/rGIyUTdzqY
But Sophie Ecclestone can’t do it on her own.
