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The Guardian
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Guardian
Nat Sciver-Brunt helps England thrash West Indies to complete clean sweep
England completed a series clean sweep against West Indies after cruising to a nine-wicket winin a rain-reduced third one-day international at Taunton. Nat Sciver-Brunt scored an unbeaten half-century to continue a successful start as captain, smashing back-to-back boundaries to seal the win inside 11 overs. With West Indies' captain Hayley Matthews sidelined with a shoulder injury, England had earlier made short work of West Indies' top-order, reducing them to four for three in the opening four overs after opting to bowl in overcast conditions. West Indies recovered to 43 for three when rain forced the players from the field for what turned into a five-hour delay and saw the match reduced to 21 overs a side. When play resumed, West Indies rewarded the remnants of the Somerset crowd with some fireworks – hammering 39 runs from their final three overs – but Sarah Glenn bagged three wickets on her return to the one-day side, as England restricted their opponents to 106 for 8. England ejigged their batting lineup, enabling the middle-order a chance to join in the series run-fest. Opening alongside the captain, Sophia Dunkley contributed 26 runs before being trapped leg before wicket by Karishma Ramharack, while Alice Capsey struck a quickfire 20 from 11 balls at number three, as England stormed to victory. After opting to field, England's bowlers took advantage of overcast conditions to strike three times before the rain delay. Realeanna Grimmond nicked off against Kate Cross, while Em Arlott – who was tasked with opening the bowling alongside Cross after England rested Lauren Bell – took wickets in successive overs, dipping the ball into the stumps of Zaida James before swinging the ball past the bat of Stafanie Taylor and into her front pad. Short balls from Arlott and Lauren Filer felled the next two West Indian batters: Shemaine Campbelle was struck in the ribs by Arlott before Qiana Joseph swung so hard at a Filer bouncer that she propelled herself to the ground and was lucky not to be out hit wicket. Sign up to The Spin Subscribe to our cricket newsletter for our writers' thoughts on the biggest stories and a review of the week's action after newsletter promotion Charlie Dean let a caught and bowled chance off Campbelle slip through her fingers just before the rain came, but West Indies' stand-in captain was stumped off the first ball after the resumption trying to hurry things along, as three wickets fell in quick succession to leave the tourists in trouble. Aaliyah Alleyne smashed 20 runs off the penultimate over from Filer, twice top-edging over the head of wicketkeeper Amy Jones, while Jahzara Claxton sent the ball sailing over the midwicket boundary, adjacent to a jubilant West Indian dugout. It was, at least, something to cheer about in a tour which has offered little joy for the visitors. England's next assignment will be five T20s and three one-day internationals against India, starting at Nottingham on 28 June. West Indies fly straight to Barbados for a home series against South Africa in just four days' time.
Int'l Cricket Council
6 days ago
- Sport
- Int'l Cricket Council
West Indies likely without champion all-rounder for third ODI
The West Indies will likely be without the services of star all-rounder Hayley Matthews in the third ODI against England as she recovers from a left shoulder injury sustained on the tour. Matthews went down in the field in the first ODI of the series last Friday in Derby, with the injury keeping her out of the second match in Leicester, as the hosts cruised to victory to claim the series with a match in hand. Hayley Matthews leads from the front | WCWCQ 2025 Matthews has left the camp to see a specialist on Thursday. "She's going to London tomorrow morning, so we'll know more then," West Indies Women's head coach Shane Deitz said after his side's defeat on Wednesday night. "Hopefully we'll get some good news tomorrow." Hayley Matthews' inspiring journey | 100% Cricket Icons West Indies all-rounder Hayley Matthews highlights her inspiring journey to the top | 100% Cricket Icons Matthews absence was telling in the second ODI, as her side fell by 143 runs. The star all-rounder also claimed Player of the Series honours in the T20I leg of the tour in spite of a clean sweep defeat, and has been nominated for ICC Women's Player of the Month honours for May. Hayley Matthews' magic with the bat | WCWCQ 2025 The tourists are hoping to welcome back Qiana Joseph for the final match in Taunton, having missed the second ODI. "I was hoping she'd be okay today (for the second match), but she got on the team bus and looked terrible so we sent her back to bed," Deitz added. "Hopefully she'll come good in a couple of days. She played really good the other day. She's getting better as time goes on in the team so fingers crossed. "I'm pretty sure she'll be right for the next game."
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jones and Beaumont rack up runs again as England Women dispatch West Indies
England took advantage of the absence of Hayley Matthews to thrash West Indies by 143 runs in the second ODI at Leicester on Wednesday. Having waited 12 years to score a maiden international hundred, Amy Jones resolved to achieve the feat twice in five days, and this time did so in just 76 balls; while Tammy Beaumont followed up with a second consecutive hundred of her own. The decision of the head coach, Charlotte Edwards, to reunite the pair after a five-year break now looks like a masterstroke after they became the first players in ODI history to share consecutive partnerships of more than 200. Advertisement Related: England beat West Indies by 143 runs in second women's cricket ODI – live reaction Matthews had been ruled out before play due to a shoulder injury, presumably sustained after carrying the entire weight of her team all tour. She spent the England innings stalking the boundary in a sling; it seems unlikely that she will be able to play any part in the final ODI at Taunton on Saturday. West Indies were also without their hard-hitting opener Qiana Joseph, who is suffering from flu, but the 20-year-old Realeanna Grimmond proved a ready replacement, striking a 64-ball half-century on ODI debut. Grimmond seemed surprisingly unfazed at being asked to open, even when she was struck on the forearm by a ferocious Lauren Filer, who clocked 75mph in her first international match since the Ashes. The young West Indian batter clobbered Lauren Bell for two sixes over the leg side, before finally holing out to long-on in the 23rd over. Advertisement Kate Cross then became just the eighth Englishwoman to reach the milestone of 100 wickets in ODIs, with a little bit of help from DRS – UltraEdge concluding definitively that she had caught the under-edge of Aaliyah Alleyne's bat on the way through to Jones behind the stumps. Cross sat out the entire winter's Ashes series with a back injury, and has admitted she felt her international career might be over, stuck forever on 98 ODI scalps; this felt like vindication for all those hours spent in agonising rehab. West Indies were always going far too slowly to ever be at risk of achieving their target, but they made the England bowlers sweat for their series win: two DRS reviews burned; two catches shelled; a wild onslaught of 44 from 24 balls by Jannillea Glasgow; and a defiant tail, which saw 69 runs added between the fall of the seventh and tenth wickets – 44 of them in boundaries. Finally, in the 46th over, Alice Capsey had Cherry-Ann Fraser caught at point and the celebrations could begin. If Amy Jones's first international hundred had been all stuttering relief, her second oozed grace and timing. She admitted on the eve of this match that she had been disappointed, five years ago, to be bumped down into the middle order by the then coach, Lisa Keightley, and that she felt the opening role suited her: 'Having the chance to set the tone is a really cool responsibility.' She certainly set the tone here, dominating a 202-run partnership with Beaumont, who was battling a bad cold and looked much the more restrained of the two, despite freebies aplenty from the West Indian bowlers. Jones reached 129 from 97 balls before sending up a return catch to Karishma Ramharack in the 30th over; it took Beaumont another eight overs to bring up her own ton. Advertisement Emma Lamb was presumably Edwards's other contender for the ODI opening spot, but – assuming things continue like this – now needs to get used to sitting around for extended periods before her services are required at No 3. Here, with Jones back in the dugout, she contributed a nifty knock of 55 from 45 balls, while aggressive cameos from Sophia Dunkley and Capsey helped England accelerate at the death – albeit not quite at the rocket speeds promised in the early overs. Grimmond had shelled a chance offered up by Jones on 43, diving forward at point, but redeemed herself somewhat in the death overs, safely snaffling two impressive catches in the deep as England were left 13 runs short of their record ODI total – although still with far more than they were ever likely to need.
The Guardian
6 days ago
- General
- The Guardian
England v West Indies: second women's cricket ODI
Update: Date: 2025-06-04T11:00:03.000Z Title: Preamble Content: Another day, another England v West Indies fixture. This is their eighth game in 15 days across formats and genders – pity the fool who signed up to cover the lot, eh – and so far England have won them all. If that run continues in Leicester today, Nat Sciver-Brunt and Charlotte Edwards clinch their second series win as England captain and coach. They won't be getting carried away – this is a weakened West Indies side, and England usually hammer them in bilateral series anyway. Nasser Hussain made an excellent point on the Sky Cricket podcast that, if England want to become the best in the world, they should assess their performance against the remarkable Hayley Matthews rather than the rest of the West Indies team. Matthews has scored 44 per cent of West Indies' runs across the two white-ball series, with innings of 100*, 6, 71 and 48. Two of her dismissals have been at the hands of Em Arlott, who has caught the eye in an impressive debut series. So has Linsey Smith, a semi-regular in the T20 side who took a five-for on her ODI debut on Sunday. And Amy Jones, pushed back up to open in the ODI team, started with a lovely century at Derby. It's those fresh details, rather than the fairly predictable results, that have made it all worthwhile. The match starts at 1pm.
BBC News
02-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
West Indies' Matthews resigns for Renegades
West Indies all-rounder Hayley Matthews has re-signed for the Melbourne Renegades for the 2025 edition of the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). It will be Matthews' fourth year with the franchise who won the tournament for the first time in scored 69 from 61 balls in last year's final against Brisbane Heat and also took 2-24 in their seven-run win. Across the 10th edition of the WBBL, she scored 324 runs at a strike rate of 130.6 and claimed 14 wickets. Matthews was also retained by Welsh Fire in The Hundred and is a two-time winner of the Women's Premier League in India with Mumbai draft for the BBL and WBBL takes place on 19 June.
