Amy Jones’s impressive half-century helped England take another step towards a series clean sweep
Taylor says she’ll need more reflection sitting down in her room, the batting not coming to the party, and the bowling failing in the last five. Knight is delighted, says she thinks England still have a little bit more to give, but is very pleased how they punched back after a slow first ten overs. She praises Jones, who is named player of the match.
That is it from Derby, England go into the final game 4-0 up, West Indies left rueing that drop of Jones before she’d got started. Have a lovely evening, good night!
Another comprehensive win by England, led by an innings of great fluency by Amy Jones (let’s brush over those bellyflops with the gloves). Disappointment for West Indies, who still haven’t quite managed to string a performance together with enough longevity to threaten this England side. There were moments though - Alleyne with the ball and Nation with the bat.
20th over: West Indies 122-9 Target 167. ( Ramharack 0) It all ends in a dribble for West Indies, but at least Brunt is pleased with her second wicket, muttering something at somebody, and they all rub elbows in the middle.
A nightmarish, slow-motion comedy of errors to the final ball of the match.
Brunt sends both bails flying!
19th over: West Indies 116-7 Target 167. (Gajnabi 2, Grimmond 2) Ecclestone through that over before you can pick up your mug of water and mop it up with your sock.
18th over: West Indies 113-7 Target 167. (Gajnabi 0, Grimmond 1) Grimmond survives an lbw appeal off Brunt, before also surviving a stumping, her toenails beating Amy Jones to the crease. That was a promising innings by Nation, even if it didn’t go the distance.
Yes, no, arghgh! A desperate dive by Nation, who is well beaten by throw from a flying Sciver. The end of a neat little cameo.
17th over: West Indies 109-6 Target 167. (Nation 30, Grimmond 1) The umpires miscount the over and nearly shortchange West Indies. Jones will wish they had as Nation helicopters Sciver into the darkness and Jones drops it again! Misjudges and ends up splatted on the ground. She removes the inners ruefully from her gloves.
A fine throw from Dunkley in the outfield, smartly picked up by Sciver by the stumps and Alleyne is out by a deckchair stripe.
16th over: West Indies 103-5 Target 167. (Nation 26, Alleyne 15) Someone put Anya Shrubsole on the stage, a picture of pure disgruntlement as first Nat Sciver trips over her feet while motoring backwards in an attempt to snaffle a skier, then a cutter somehow misses both the stumps and Jones behind them. Worst of all, she is slammed for a boundary each by the batsmen.
15th over: West Indies 90-5 Target 167. (Nation 20, Alleyne 9) That’s the ticket! A one-kneed frying-pan wallop over mid-on by Alleyne. The Sky commentators tell us it is her first international six - nice one!
14th over: West Indies 81-5 Target 167. (Nation 17, Alleyne 3) Alleyne gets a bit of treatment from the physio and hobbles on. Time for Shrubsole to return, Nation takes a chance and pulls her over Villiers to the rope.
13th over: West Indies 75-5 Target 167. (Nation 12, Alleyne 1) Lovely shot through the covers by Nation off Villiers, but alongside a couple of singles it’s not enough. The run rate rises to over 13 an over. The floodlights are ablaze over the empty ground, a surreal scene really, if only we weren’t so used to it.
12th over: West Indies 69-5 Target 167. (Nation 10, Alleyne 1) This is slipping away from West Indies now after a promising start with the ball. England, zipping through the overs, almost removing the time for West Indies to stop and think.
An awkward looking swipe, Matthews takes a huge stride outside off stump, twists to slam Glenn behind square, and is struck on the back pad. A very optimistic review.
11th over: West Indies 67-4 Target 167. (Nation 6, Matthews 11)
10th over: West Indies 63-4 Target 167. (Nation 4, Matthews 10) At the half way point, West Indies are nowhere near, still another 103 needed. That piece of misjudgement by Taylor was probably West Indies’ last chance gone. Having said that, Nation slashes a wider one from Glenn for four, a tasty shot.
Taylor is tempted to cut but it isn’t the ball to go to, and her off stump waddles back down the ground.
9th over: West Indies 58-3 Target 167. (Taylor 14, Matthews 89 With Ecclestone and Glenn operating together, there is a battle of the ponytails going on here at Derby. Gorgeous bowling by Ecclestone, but West Indies probably need to get a motor on here.
8th over: West Indies 56-3 Target 167. (Taylor 13, Matthews 8) Take that! Stafanie Taylor slams Sarah Glenn through backward point for a boundary. Matthews gets an edge which seems to bounce off Jones’s gloves, she batted beautifully but is having a bit o a scrambled egg behind the stumps.
7th over: West Indies 48-3 Target 167. (Taylor 7, Matthews 6) A quiet over by England captain Heather Knight, and England will be content with that. Matthew leans into the final ball elegantly but just picks up the one.
6th over: West Indies 44-3 Target 167. (Taylor 4, Matthews 4) With a flick of the bat, Taylor cuts Brunt in front of square. Quite the buccaneer. That’s the end of the power play, with the run-rate required nearing nine an over.
5th over: West Indies 38-3 (Taylor 0, Matthews 3) Ecclestone, blond ponytail, the sides plaited, bubbling with confidence. Matthews and Campbelle pick her off for a few singles before Campbelle unwisely gets stuck in front of her stumps. One blot on England’s copybook - as they point out on commentary, England’s 16 extras make the West Indies highest score.
A wise review by England as umpire Burns initially turns it down. But it looks worth a shout and sure enough Campbelle is caught with her front leg slam in front.
4th over: West Indies 32-2 (Campbelle 10, Matthews 1) Poor Amy Jones fluffs a skier that reels into the night sky, before she misjudges it on its way down. Campbelle was on 9. It’s the second steepler she’s missed in a few days. I don’t think you would describe Shrubsole as delighted.
3rd over: West Indies 26-2 (Campbelle 9, Matthews 0) An eventful over, as Sciver is first knocked for four by Campbelle, then goes for five wides as a bouncer sails over Kirby and past the diving gloves of Jones. Finally, the wicket, swift and sharp.
A simple inside edge onto the stumps
2nd over: West Indies 16-1 (Campbelle 4, Kirby 4) Kirby, who Ebony R-B rightly identifies as one who has work to do, both in the field and with the bat, then slams Shrubsole over cover for four. The umpires tick England off after young Maddie Villiers inadvertently polishes the ball with some spit, and they re-sanitise it with a cloth. Sharp eyes whoever spotted that.
1st over: West Indies 8-1 (Campbelle 3, Kirby 0) Brunt, left arm in a blue sleeve, long run up. Dottin pulls her first ball staight wham, bham, past backward square. Two balls later, she shapes to do the same, but picked the wrong ball. Just the start West Indies didn’t want.
Super ball from Brunt, as Dottin’s stumps splay and she has to trudge off.
The players come back out for the West Indies innings.
That’s England’s highest scores of the series after their most unproductive power play. They’ve got to be favourites, but let’s see what West Indies can do in the Derby night. They’ll rue that missed catch off Jones when she’d barely scored. An elegant charm of a fifty, best I’ve seen in this series.
20th over: England 166-6 (Glenn 4, Brunt 25) Oooof! Jones escapes a very tight lbw appeal from Dottin who calls for a review. She escapes by the whisker of an umpire’s call. Brunt reaches the boundary with the fourth ball, Jones is run out on the fifth and Glenn slams a boundary to final delivery.
Much confusion! Jones is first caught off a no ball (called for height) but the batsmen decide to scamper through for a single and Ramharack’s throw beats Jones to the stumps.
19th over: England 153-5 (Jones 51, Brunt 20) It’s almost completely dark now at Derby. Super over from Alleyne, Brunt gets a free hit but can only squeeze it away for a single. Ah, until the fifth ball which Brunt swings over Matthews at long-on for six. Neat final figures for Alleyne: 4-0-25-2. One over to go.
18th over: England 143-5 (Jones 50, Brunt 13) Brunt steps legside then thuds off-side, like a ruthlessly effective, if functional, national dance. Jones, then ramps Connell before reaching her fifty with a single off a sprightly 30 balls. Brunt then joins in with a one-kneed flash though the covers.
An email brightens up my inbox. “For all the positivity around women’s cricket these past few weeks I am slightly disappointed that England have only made the one change this evening,” writes Will Padmore.“I understand that all of the players are currently short of cricket however if the fringe players cannot get a game now when can they? It must be dispiriting for the unused squad members.”
17th over: England 129-5 (Jones 45, Brunt 4) Amy Jones is in the runs. First she shovel slogs Matthews over long off, then reverse sweeps, late and with such style, like an umbrella tap at a golf ball in a top hat. Four.
16th over: England 117-5 (Jones 35, Brunt 2) A tight over by Dottin, and Brunt unable to do much with it. Her shots look super stylish as she replays them after the ball has passed by though.
15th over: England 114-5 (Jones 31, Brunt 1) England suddenly fall over a couple of clown shoes left in their way. What can they do with the last five overs?
Poor Dunkley, first game for 18 months, walks off holding the blade of her bat. Faced one wide, and then plonked the ball straight back into the hands of Matthews. Smart take.
14th over: England 106-3 (Jones 31, Dunkley 0) Matthews gets some magic spray, but West Indies have more to worry about. Jones charges at Connell for six and four, Knight follows up with another boundary before trying to be too clever. Some breathing space for West Indies as Dunkley gets her chance.
Connell makes the breakthrough as Knight follows a wide one and is snaffled neatly once more behind the stumps. She’s cross with herself, nicely in, with six overs to go.
13th over: England 95-3 (Jones 20, Knight 38) A nifty reverse sweep by Amy Jones off Ramharack for four. Next ball she takes a huge stride down the ground and lifts the ball over long off’s head for six, as smooth as a conductor’s baton. Then, calamity on calamity, Knight tips the ball through long on and first the ball goes through the hands of Nation, then Matthews, backing her up, falls on her bum. Four.
12th over: England 78-3 (Jones 8, Knight 33) Another change, this time Gajnabi, who starts her run-up with a little skip. Knight seems to have decided that she’s the one for a spanking. She slog-sweeps a wide one high and into the clear autumn sky for six. Dismissive in its persecution. Then a four, beautifully timed, through midwicket, then a third, smoothed through midwicket again.
11th over: England 61-3 (Jones 7, Knight 17) Jones and Knight don’t find Ramharack easy to send to the boundary, but they squeeze her for seven runs by hook or by crook.
10th over: England 54-3 (Jones 4, Knight 13) From silver salver to wooden spoon in one over, Kirby drops Jones, an easy, pancake of a catch at midwicket, before Dottin reprises the flying Nicholas Pooran in the IPL, leaping up and parrying the ball in the air and preventing a six.
9th over: England 48-3 (Jones 2, Knight 10) Ramharack, long black hair poking out of the back of her cap, gold hoop earrings, takes a crucial wicket. Beaumont was too eager to hit her out of the attack.
With her very first ball of the series Ramharack deceives Beaumont, who starts sweeping before the ball has left her hand and is stranded with her leg slam in front of the stumps.
8th over: England 45-2 (Beaumont 27, Knight 9) Taylor brings herself on, and Knight is hungry for first strike against her offspin. She reverse-sweeps her for four, then Beaumont and Knight knock her for a of handful of singles.
7th over: England 37-2 (Beaumont 25, Knight 3) Beaumont, leaning backwards, body bending like a banana, clips an outside edge for four past third man. Dottin is in her grove as the sun starts to set behind the pavilion at Derby.
6th over: England 31-2 (Beaumont 21, Knight 2) A more positive over for England but not without its moments of nervousness. A direct hit from Dottin, throwing at an angle from the covers, gets Heather Knight’s heart racing, she’s in, but only by an acorn . Then Beaumont cuts past the flying left hand of Dottin at backward point.
5th over: England 24-2 (Beaumont 15, Knight 0) Time for a bowling change and Taylor throws the ball to Dottin. She’s as on point as you’d imagine and all Beaumont can do is push a single.
4th over: England 22-2 (Beaumont 14, Knight 0) Beaumont wants to cut Alleyne but she’s finding it tricky to get her away. Sciver shovel-pulls her through the legside, not entirely confidently and then chases a wide one with unhappy results two balls later. The West Indies are very happy.
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A short wide one and Sciver’s eyes light up, she stretches, unbalances and unhinges, another edge behind. She rolls her eyes in frustration.
3rd over: England 16-1 (Beaumont 13 , Sciver 2) A careful over from Connell this time, who pitches up and Sciver is unable to get her away. Connell is keen on a caught behind, but ultra edge doesn’t back her up and neither do her teammates.
2nd over: England 12-1 (Beaumont 11 , Sciver 0 ) From the City End Alleyne, hair divided in two, a bun on the top of her head, a pony tail behind, struggles with her run up a couple of times. She stutters, re-steps it out, then finds her rhythm. Wyatt is watchful, but she strikes Wyatt on the thigh before tempting her into a cut that wasn’t there. Smashing bowling.
Wyatt tries to cut, bat horizontal, tissues a catch behind.
1st over: England 11-0 (Beaumont 11 , Wyatt 0 ) A tasty start for England. Beaumont cuts Connell through gully very first ball and then repeats the shot ,but with even more style. I can’t be sure, but she might be wearing two shirts.
Derby in late September - nobody could accuse Mark Butcher of only doing the glamorous gigs. He’s made a major error by not zipping up his jacket, unlike Ebony Rainford-Brent and Lydia Greenway. Stafanie Taylor leads out the West Indies... and the players take the knee.
Asked about the cancellation of the World Cup, she doesn’t mince her words: “I was really frustrated, when you see what New Zealand is like you realised that if it’s not going to happen there, it’s not going to happen anywhere, because of Covid until we get a vaccine. It’s very disappointing, though obviously we’ve got a lot of time to prepare now.”
Heather Knight doing a long interview on Sky - she’s got great tenacity when it comes to answering questions. Interesting to hear how much she’s enjoyed batting at the top of the order.
A first game at home for @dunkleysophia!
Good luck Dunks #WomensCricketMonth | #ENGvWIpic.twitter.com/bRkSp5ZwfN
England: Danielle Wyatt, Tammy Beaumont, Nat Sciver, Heather Knight, Amy Jones, Sophia Dunkley, Katherine Brunt, Mady Villiers, Sarah Glenn, Sophie Ecclestone, Anya Shrubsole.
Sophia Dunkley replaces Fran Wilson - her first England game for 18 months.
For the fourth game in a row!
Alison Mitchell’s winter boot n coat combo gives you a hint to the kind of chill the two teams can expect this evening.
September chill? What September chill?! #EngvWi 4th iT20 from Derby. Live on @bbctms 5.45pm and @BBCTwo@bbcsport highlights 11.30pm pic.twitter.com/UaK02BoeBk
Good evening! Tonight we return to Derby, where the fourth iT20 game between England and West Indies bursts into life at 6pm.
England have already sealed the five-match series after their 20-run victory at the same ground on Saturday - disappointingly for those of a statistical bent who were hoping for clean-sweep of 47 run wins, just for the heck of it. Women’s cricket in England is on a bit of a high at the moment, what with victory in this series and the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy on Sunday, won by Souther Vipers and live on the BBC for the first time since players wore skirts.