India v England: Women’s Cricket World Cup – live
36th over: England 187-2 (Knight 71, Sciver-Brunt 28) Knight closes this over with another boundary, top edging a sweep.She’s living dangerously.Charani is annoyed.She was squaky clean til then.The first ball of the over was a beauty, on a tricky length and seemed to have bowled Knight.
But the bails were removed by Ghosh from behind so no dice for the Indians who are looking a little desperate now.Momentum is firmly with the batting side.35th over: England 180-2 (Knight 66, Sciver-Brunt 26) Two sweeps, two fours for Knight.The first is a top-edged conventional sweep that was streaky, but was fine and high enough to get to the rope.The second was a fine reverse sweep that trickled away and beat the chasing fielder.
Two singles between those two strikes means it’s another double digit over for England,34th over: England 170-2 (Knight 57, Sciver-Brunt 25) They’re picking up a boundary an over now,Amonjot delivers som dross down the leg side and Knight just helps it on its way for four down to fine leg,The rest of the set is pretty tidy,Just one single off Knight’s pads.
But things are starting to get ominous for the Indians.They’ll want a wicket sharpish.If these two are still batting by the 40th over they’ll go ballistic.33rd over: England 165-2 (Knight 52, Sciver-Brunt 25) Knight brings up her fifty with a reverse pick up through deep third for four.Brilliant batting from the veteran.
She’s looked in great touch since he took guard.That’s another productive over as five singles, plus the four, adds up to nine.The current rate has jumped up to five an over.32nd over: England 156-2 (Knight 45, Sciver-Brunt 23) Brilliant from Knight.First she drives a couple wide of long-off.
Then she gets low to crunch a slog sweep for four.Charani adjusts her length, dragging it shorter.Knight rocks back to steer a delicious late cut for four.She’ll keep the strike with a single to long-off.11 runs off that over.
They’re climbing through the gears now.31st over: England 145-2 (Knight 34, Sciver-Brunt 23) Better from England.A generous full toss from Amanjot is biffed wide of long on by Sciver-Brunt who is too good to miss out on that.The England skipper then clips a couple behind square and collects a single past point.Knight will keep the strike with a late cut worth one.
Eight runs off that one.England need more of the same.30th over: England 137-2 (Knight 33, Sciver-Brunt 16) Excellent from Shree Charani.Just one run off that over.England’s innings has hit a wall.
The last five overs have seen just 17 runs scored.They don;’t want to let this solid platform count for nothing.29th over: England 136-2 (Knight 33, Sciver-Brunt 15) Tidy again from Kranti who has bowled much better than her figures of 0-32 from seven overs suggests.One wide down the leg, as well as two singles, adds up to just three runs off that probing set.She’s not hooping it like she was earlier in the piece, but she’s targeting the stumps and still searching for wickets.
28th over: England 133-2 (Knight 32, Sciver-Brunt 14) Knight nails a slog sweep.More of that please.This screams off her bat and is hitting the fence with one bounce at serious velocity.But Rana then darts in her spinners, one clocks in at 87.8 km/h.
She’s pinning the batters back and keeping them to just one single across the rest of the over,Good mini battles out there,27th over: England 128-2 (Knight 27, Sciver-Brunt 14) Kranti returns and sends down a tidy set worth just two singles,England are going at 4,74.
The last five overs have gone at 4.8.You get the sense that one of these two will need to press the accelerator.26th over: 126-2 (Knight 26, Sciver-Brunt 13) Rana replaces Sharma.She starts with two dots before Knight heaves a sweep through square leg for four.
She wasn’t quite at the pitch of it but got enough wood on it.A tapped single brings Sciver-Brunt on strike and England’s skipper will keep it as she drags a single to deep midwicket.25th over: England 120-2 (Knight 21, Sciver-Brunt 12) Another deft touch from Knight brings her four more down to deep third, beating the fielder to the boundary.Three singles elsewhere from this Amonjot over.England rebuilding well.
24th over: England 113-2 (Knight 15, Sciver-Brunt 11) Good again from Sharma,She’s 2-20 from five,Three singles here,The England batters know that they need to be watchful against India’s ace spinner,23rd over: England 110-2 (Knight 13, Sciver-Brunt 10) NSB drills a full toss from Amnjot for four, smearing it wide of mid-on.
She got all of that.Amanjot rectifies and finds her radar, keeping things tight and giving away only two singles from the rest of her over.22nd over: England England 104-2 (Knight 12, Sciver-Brunt 5) The England skipper walks to the crease and hits her third ball for four with a mighty sweep past fine leg.She’s there as Jones gave her wicket away but the foundation has been set.What can England’s two premier batters do from here?Oh Amy, what have you done?! That is so soft from a batter who looked so set.
A little skip and a flick to Sharma is nudged to a diving Mandhana at a wide mid-on.Sure, it was a sharp take, as she moved quickly to her right, but that was such a soft way to go after playing so beautifully.Sharma deserved credit fir giving the ball some air, but Jones will be sick with herself.21st over: England 98-1 (Jones 56, Knight 12) Knight kicks off this over with a delicate steer that races along the ground and reaches the boundary down at deep third.She played that so late, almost out of the keeper’s gloves.
England’s batters trade singles before Renuka tightens up and closes with three dot balls.20th over: England 92-1 (Jones 55, Knight 7) Just two singles off that Sharma over.19th over: England 90-1 (Jones 54, Knight 6) Jones reaches her half century with an excellent pick up, thwacking Renuka Singh’s over-pitched delivery for four towards cow corner.That’s her first World Cup fifty but the job’s not done.She’s well set and will want to double up at least.
18th over: England 84-1 (Jones 49, Knight 5) A jaffa bamboozles Knight and draws a thick edge worth two.That one didn’t turn from Sharma.No slip in place and she must wonder why not.Tidy elsewhere, three singles from the over but it’s lovely bowling from Deepti Sharma, who now has 150 ODI wickets to her name.17th over: England 79-1 (Jones 48, Knight 1) Jones rocks back and nails a pull shot off a lifter from Kranti in front of square for four.
That was a cracking shot.Knight gets off the mark with a little dab into the covers for one.Finally India have the breakthrough! After a drinks break it’s Deepti Sharma who has it, full and straight at the leg stump.Beaumont tried to sweep it but it was too full to do so and her leg peg is knocked back.She was looking so comfortable, having taken two singles off the over before then.
Jones had two singles of her own and it was shaping up to be another secure set for England but it ends with India’s fans chanting in the stands.16th over: England 73-1 (Jones 43, Knight 0)15th over: England 69-0 (Beaumont 20, Jones 41) Kranti is back in the attack and should have a wicket! Her first ball hits Beaumont on the pad as she shuffled across her stumps.The bowler appeals but no on joins her.They don’t review but if they did they’d have the breakthrough as three reds would have overturned the not-out decision.How costly will that be? It’s a tidy set from from the returning seamer.
Just three runs – two of them leg-byes – from it.14th over: England 66-0 (Beaumont 19, Jones 41) Beaumont thought het firm sweep would find the rope but excellent recovering fielding by Renuka kept her to one.Three more singles in the over has the scoreboard ticking along.India need to make a play.It’s all a little tame out there.
13th over: England 62-0 (Beaumont 17, Jones 39) The spinners had not conceded a boundary before Jones opened the face on a very full ball from Shree Charani and found the fence at deep third,The bowler then over compensates and drags down a touch and Jones climbs into a stiff bunt through the covers for another four,Jones then milks a single to long-on,12th over: England 52-0 (Beaumont 16, Jones 30) The overs are coming thick and fast now,Rana continues, giving it a little air.
Beaumont gets low and sweeps well but finds the fielder at fine leg.Jones is looking to be more upright as she muscles a single to midwicket.Just two runs off that over.Rana doesn’t look particularly threatening but she’s coughed up a miserly seven runs from her three overs.Is it time for one batter to hit the launch button? Maybe not just yet.
11th over: England 50-0 (Beumont 15, Jones 29) Shree Charani into the attack.Her slow left armers are a little darty and targeting the sticks.Six balls, six singles.The England batters are in the groove now.One punch back from Jones is almost hit straight to the bowler, but she had enough oomph on it to see it breeze down to long-on
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