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8 hours ago
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Amy Jones and Tammy Beaumont hit centuries again as England seal ODI series
Opening pair Amy Jones and Tammy Beaumont both struck centuries for a second successive game as England secured a dominant 143-run victory over West Indies in Leicester to clinch the ODI series with a match to spare. Jones had to wait 12 years for her maiden ODI ton but her second came five days after her first and she did it in resounding fashion from just 76 balls – England's third fastest in women's ODIs – before Beaumont secured her 12th in the format shortly after. Advertisement West Indies already had a mountain to climb without star player Hayley Matthews, who was ruled out with a shoulder injury, and things were made tougher when a rampant England set them 367 for victory. Opener Realeanna Grimmond's half-century on her ODI debut was the only shining light in West Indies' batting reply. Alice Capsey starred with three wickets to continue coach Charlotte Edwards and captain Nat Sciver-Brunt's unbeaten start to their respective reigns. Jones and Beaumont started in the same ominous fashion as the first ODI, bringing up their 50 partnership in just the seventh over, but Jones was given a reprieve when she was dropped by Grimmond on 43. Advertisement West Indies thought they had their first back in the shed when Beaumont was given out for lbw on 44 but, after a review, the technology showed the ball was going on to miss the stumps and the opener capitalised. Brimming with confidence from her first century, Jones smashed 20 fours on her way to a career-best score of 129 before she drilled one back to bowler Karishma Ramharack as the visitors finally made their breakthrough in the 30th over. Beaumont followed suit in bringing up back-to-back centuries and went past the three-figure mark with a huge six over wide long-on but she was soon caught in the deep by Shabika Gajnabi on 106 as she tried to accelerate the scoring. Emma Lamb also brought up her first half-century since being reintroduced into the team as England passed 360. Advertisement Grimmond and Zaida James were looking to put their foot on the pedal from the off in an attempt to make inroads to their colossal target but the latter nicked Lauren Bell into the gloves of Jones for the first which immediately put the brakes on the scoring rate. Linsey Smith dismissed Shemaine Campbelle before getting Grimmond, who hit her maiden half-century from 64 balls. Jannillea Glasgow aimed to inject some energy into the visitors' batting performance with a quick-fire 44 from 24 balls but West Indies lost their final six wickets for just 69 runs, with Kate Cross picking up her 100th ODI wicket in the process.
France 24
a day ago
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Rutherford and Motie lead West Indies rally against England
In a match reduced by rain to 40 overs per side, the tourists finished on 251-9, having slumped to 121-6 after veteran leg-spinner Adil Rashid (3-40) took three wickets in quick succession. The lost overs led to a revised England target under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method for rain-affected matches, with the hosts now needing 246 to win. When all-rounder Rutherford, in his first match of this series, was out the West Indies were 154-7 in the 28th over. But Motie's 63 -- the left-arm spinner's highest ODI score -- and tailender Alzarri Joseph's 41 helped keep them in the game, with the pair sharing an eighth-wicket stand of 91 in 12 overs. Already 2-0 down in a three-match series, the West Indies day got off to a bad start when traffic problems meant they arrived at the ground late, with the start of the game delayed by 30 minutes. England avoided the traffic by arriving on bikes and made the most of winning the toss to leave their opponents 28-3 inside seven overs. Evin Lewis, playing his first match of the series following a groin injury, fell for eight when when a hard-hit pull off Brydon Carse was caught by a diving Jamie Smith at midwicket. And 20-1 became 27-2 when Brandon King (16) skewed a drive off Matthew Potts to Jacob Bethell at point. Two balls later West Indies' plight worsened when skipper Shai Hope exited for a golden duck as he holed out off a Saqib Mahmood bouncer. Rutherford, one of three changes to the West Indies side that suffered a three-wicket defeat in the second ODI in Cardiff, then showed how it should be done with a hooked six off paceman Carse. Keacy Carty, fresh from a hundred in Cardiff, was 24 not out, with Rutherford unbeaten on 33 when rain stopped play. Motie fireworks When the match resumed, England captain Harry Brook brought on Rashid and his fellow Yorkshireman struck when Carty inside-edged a booming drive onto his stumps on 29. Rutherford, however, completed his sixth fifty in just 11 ODI innings, reaching the landmark in 44 balls, including eight fours and a six. Rashid, however, struck twice in successive deliveries. He had Justin Greaves playing on to a well-flighted delivery before Roston Chase edged a leg-break to Joe Root at slip as the all-rounder fell for a second straight golden duck following his first-ball nought in Cardiff. Motie did rather more than survive the hat-trick, pulling a short ball from Rashid for six. Rutherford's near run-a-ball innings ended when his toe-ended pull off Carse was well caught by a diving Brook at mid-on. But tailender Joseph's fine straight six off Will Jacks took the tourists past 200 before he holed out, with Motie bowled by Potts off the last ball of the innings, having faced 54 balls including five fours and three sixes.
United News of India
3 days ago
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Root's sparkling 166 steers England to series win
Cardiff, Jun 2 (UNI) Joe Root became England's leading run-scorer in one-day internationals as his sparkling unbeaten 166 secured a three-wicket win over West Indies here. Root, who is also his country's highest run-scorer in Tests, finished with 166 from 139 balls as England reached their target of 309 with seven balls remaining to take the three-match series with a game to spare on Sunday. He surpassed World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan's tally of 6,957 runs on the way to his highest ODI score, leading England's recovery from 93-4 which included ducks for Jamie Smith, Ben Duckett and Jos Buttler. Root combined with Harry Brook for a third-wicket stand of 85, before a masterful partnership of 143 with Will Jacks put England within touching distance of victory. A fierce spell from Alzarri Joseph, who finished with 4-31, accounted for Jacks for 49 and Brydon Carse for two to keep West Indies interested, but Root and Adil Rashid calmly ticked off the remaining 21 runs, sealed in style by a classical Root drive down the ground. Earlier, West Indies' 308 was set up by Keacy Carty's 103, bookended by half-centuries from Brandon King and Shai Hope - and with plenty of assistance from England's sloppy fielding. Carty and King added 141 for the second wicket but the former was put down by Duckett on one and Saqib Mahmood on 41, while Duckett also dropped King on 11 and somehow squandered a run-out opportunity when both batters were stranded in the middle of the pitch in the 21st over, the BBC reported. The innings fell away from 205-2 when Carty fell three balls after reaching his century, with Rashid taking 4-63 and Mahmood's three late wickets mopping up the tail. The visitors were left to rue wasting 14 balls of their innings as the last five wickets fell for 50 runs, the lower order offering Hope little support as he was last to depart for 78 from 66 balls. The third and final ODI takes place at The Oval on Tuesday. UNI BM
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3 days ago
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Joe Root's magical 166 guides England to ODI series win over West Indies
England spent much of this game digging themselves into not so much a hole as a full-blown trench, a toxic combination of regular errors and occasional misfortune leaving them in a truly desperate situation, apparently destined for convincing and deserved defeat. Enter Joe Root, and an innings for the ages. Root produced a display of simply ethereal stroke-making on his way to a stunning, unbeaten 166, a batting performance of such beauty that the ugliness of much that came before will almost be forgotten. It was his highest score in ODIs, propelling him past Eoin Morgan to become England's leading run-scorer in this format, and the first Englishman to score more than 7,000 runs. Advertisement Related: England v West Indies, second men's cricket one-day international – live It was the second time Root had played an ODI on 1 June; in the other, seven years earlier, he scored an unbeaten 133, now his second highest score. It ended with a straight drive, a 23rd boundary, victory by three wickets, and a series secured with a game to spare. As Root guided England home the bowlers searched and strained for a solution, and eventually they cracked: the moment Alzarri Joseph's wild bouncer cleared a flailing wicketkeeper and ran away to the rope, leaving England within touching distance of victory, felt like a loss of control in more ways than one. A couple of overs later Joseph, those moments apart the finest bowler on either side, did it again. After Keacy Carty's hugely impressive century, Shai Hope's 66-ball 78 and a brilliant start to their efforts in the field West Indies will be asking themselves where, across a blustery day at Sophia Gardens, they were blown off course. Their minds will snag on the final delivery of the sixth over of England's innings, when Matthew Forde wheeled away in celebration, with arms outstretched and nary a backward glance, after thudding the ball into Root's back pad. Advertisement He had reached the slip cordon by the time he turned back to see an immobile umpire, and the inevitable review showed the ball would have clipped the bails but not with sufficient force for the on-field decision to be reversed. The next delivery, the first of a fresh over, kissed Harry Brook's bat and was put down by Hope behind the stumps. In those few moments England's chances might have been definitively ruined – they would, had they fallen the other way, been 41 for four – instead from there they flourished. Even in victory England will know that, after a whipcrack-smart performance in Thursday's opener, this time they were haphazard. In the field they cobbled together a rogues' gallery of misfields, fluffed run-outs and dropped catches, and for a while they carried that form into their batting. West Indies' total of 308 might have looked eminently achievable as Ben Duckett and Jamie Smith strode out but it had taken on a quite different appearance by the time both openers strode in again, having between them scored precisely nothing. Duckett's dismissal, flaying a wide delivery from Forde to Jayden Seales at wide third man in the second over, completed what was for him a particularly miserable outing, given that he was also responsible for two of those drops and the worst of the missed run-outs. After each enjoying a generous helping of good fortune Root and Harry Brook added 85 for the third wicket before the England captain, having motored to 47 off 36, misjudged a hook off Joseph and set up another Seales catch. Jos Buttler also fell without scoring – there were almost as many ducks in the cricket ground at this stage as in the River Taff that runs behind it, and thanks to Hope's earlier efforts with the bat almost as many cricket balls in the Taff as in the ground – England were, like those balls, in deep water. From there Jacob Bethell, with 17, and Will Jacks, whose 49 was largely composed of singles as he tried to manoeuvre the match-winner back on strike, did most to assist Root with his salvage operation. Advertisement West Indies will regret their failure to bat out their 50 overs after a strong start. That despite the early loss of Jewel Andrew, the 18-year-old who having batted at five in Thursday's opener was bumped up to open for the first time in his senior career, becoming in the process the youngest player ever to do so for West Indies in this format, an experiment that lasted five balls and brought no runs. The game would have been much more straightforward for the hosts, if less memorable, had Duckett taken his two early catches at slip: he dropped Brandon King when he was on 11 and Carty on one, the pair scoring 150 more runs between them after their let-offs. In the end, though, it was England who had the great escape.
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5 days ago
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Beaumont and Jones tons set up crushing England win
First ODI, Derby England 345-6 (50 overs): Jones 122 (121); Beaumont 107 (104); Matthews 2-49 West Indies 237 (48.2 overs): Joseph 62 (74); Smith 5-36 England won by 108 runs Scorecard Centuries from Tammy Beaumont and Amy Jones set up a crushing 108-run win for England over West Indies in the first one-day international at Derby. Jones was promoted to open for the first time since 2019 and made 122, her first international hundred, and Beaumont added 107 in an opening stand of 222. Advertisement In her first ODI since being appointed permanent captain, Nat Sciver-Brunt added a rapid 52 from 35 balls to propel England to 345-6. In reply, West Indies openers Hayley Matthews and Qiana Joseph started positively with a stand of 91 in 14 overs, before debutante Em Arlott claimed the prized wicket of Matthews for 48. Joseph top-scored with 62 but left-arm spinner Linsey Smith ripped through the middle order on ODI debut, finishing with 5-36 as the tourists were bowled out for 237 in the penultimate over. New coach Charlotte Edwards had called for England to be smarter in 50-over cricket since their Ashes drubbing at the beginning of the year, and they started watchfully in overcast conditions, reaching 45-0 from the first 10 overs. Advertisement Beaumont's fifty came from 74 balls, before a sudden shift in acceleration saw her take just 22 balls to bring up her hundred as she beat Jones to the milestone and was eventually bowled by Cherry-Ann Fraser in the 36th over. Emma Lamb, recalled to the side after impressive domestic form as a Lancashire opener, was put in at number three and was caught behind for two. Jones stuttered as she approached three figures - she was dropped on 91 and 92 by Jahzara Claxton and Karishma Ramharack respectively, both put down in their follow-through, before bringing up a 108-ball ton in her 226th international outing. England comfortably won the preceding T20 series 3-0, and the second ODI takes place at Leicester on 4 June. Batters dominate to begin Edwards era When asked about her coaching style and ambitions after being appointed in April, Edwards often made references to England's approach to 50-over cricket, calling for a clearer gameplan and moving away from her predecessor Jon Lewis' mantra of inspiring and entertaining. Advertisement With the World Cup in this format approaching in the autumn, England do not have long to put this into practice but at the first time of asking, their batters delivered. West Indies' attack was unthreatening and their fielding average, so it could be argued that Jones and Beaumont could have been a little more aggressive in the first half of the innings as they reached 121-0 after 25 overs. But the plan was clear, as the pair adjusted to the slow bowling attack and made sure they had wickets in hand before accelerating in the final 20 overs. England played 55% attacking shots inside the first 10 overs, which dropped to 45% in the next 10 and once both openers had passed 50, that increased to 77% between overs 21-30. Advertisement Their opening stand was England's fifth-highest partnership in women's ODI history and their highest for any wicket against West Indies in the format, which set the perfect platform for Sciver-Brunt. Lamb was playing an unfamiliar role, coming to the crease in the 36th over, but captain Sciver-Brunt whacked six fours and a six from the wilting Windies bowlers as England passed 300 with ease. Alice Capsey, brought in to replace the injured Heather Knight, added a quickfire 24 from 19 balls and despite a fast outfield and good batting surface, the total felt far beyond the tourists, whose batting line-up relies so heavily on their captain and all-rounder Matthews.
