West Indies v England: ICC Women’s World Cup – live! | Sport

Anyhoo, that’s me done, all riled up by extras and with nowhere to go. Except maybe to bed. Geoff Lemon is waiting to pick up the reins, he’ll canter with you merrily through the next few hours.

Thanks for tuning in, goodbye.

Whatever happens in the next few hours, England will need to tighten up if they are to give themselves a fair crack at retaining this trophy.

England will fancy their chances of chasing this total down especially after their strong showing with the bat in the last game. Don’t count West Indies out just yet though, you only have to look at their last game to see that they aren’t going to give up without a tussle.

Fifty overs completed. West Indies take four runs off the last over delivered by Shrubsole. Poor old Chinelle Henry is run out for nowt After sitting through that slow boat of an innings by her teammates.

49th over: West Indies 221-4 (Henry 0 Nation 45) Nicht so good from England. Shrubsole drops a sitter off the first ball of the over, the ball going right through her at short third and the batters scampering through for a couple. Sciver then serves up a full toss above waist height and gives away a no ball, Campbelle then sweeps away a leg side delivery for four to fine leg. Sciver then serves up another full toss that looks like it should be hit to Kingdom come but Campbell almost swings too hard, misses and is bowled. Sciver barely celebrates. England have dropped catches, missed run outs and given away oodles of extras in this innings. If they go on to lose this game they will have to look at their fielding, and bowling, bar Ecclestone and Cross who have been excellent. In fact, even if they win, they can’t go on missing opportunities and gifting runs to the opposition in the form of wides. Anyway, one over to go.

48th over: West Indies 208-4 (Campbelle 55, Nation 45) West Indies plunder another 11 runs off the over as England are starting to look a bit sloppy, ending as they started. 200 up and the hundred partnership between Campbelle and Nation. What can they get up to here?

47th over: West Indies 197-4 (Campbelle 51, Nation 38) FIFTY UP for Campbelle! She swivels a pull away off Sciver for a boundary and then takes on a risky two to notch up her half ton. Batted. It’s been slow going but if West Indies can have a few big overs here then they are very much in this game.

46th over: West Indies 186-4 (Campbelle 41, Nation 37) Shrubsole goes for 8 runs as West Indies finally look to be upping the ante.

45th over: West Indies 178-4 (Campbelle 39, Nation 31) Amy Jones misses an easy run out! Jones has kept so smartly all day but just failed to scoop up Danni Wyatt’s underarm throw off the turf, missing the ball and breaking the stumps with her empty glove. It was out by a mile too! Nifty work by Wyatt who swooped in smartly. A couple of singles follow and then, WHAT IS THIS?! A lesser spotted boundary off the bat! Nation drives Sciver away behind point for four! That’s the first one of those since the 32nd over. It’s been attritional stuff. Sciver gives away a wide, England have been poor in that department today. West Indies steal a MASSIVE 11 runs off the over.

Some of these Caps Locks are not necessary.

44th over: West Indies 167-4 (Campbelle 37, Nation 24) Cross into her last and she should have a wicket for her efforts! Nation slashes her to short third where Anya Shrubsole is caught snoozing, is late to react and the ball winds up on the turf. That’s harsh luck for Cross who has bowled a gem of a spell there. 36 off her 1o overs.

43rd over: West Indies 162-4 (Campbelle 34, Nation 22) Nat Sciver comes back into the attack, a bit more intent shown from these two batters who manage to prise six runs from the over. They’ve six wickets in the hutch, must be time for a swing and a swish soon? Unless they know something I don’t. Which is more than likely.

42nd over: West Indies 156-4 (Campbelle 32, Nation 18) Kate Cross into her ninth, along with Ecclestone she has been fantastic at stifling this West Indies innings. She goes for just two runs off her penultimate over.

41st over: West Indies 154-4 (Campbelle 31, Nation 17) Ecclestone finishes her miserly spell and picks up figures of 3-20 off her ten. With four maidens. Great effort.

40th over: West Indies 152-4 (Campbelle 30, Nation 16) Cross is full and straight as per.A bit too straight, she zips one down the leg side and Amy Jones whips off the bails, they go upstairs to see if Nation tottered over and out of her ground but she’s safe. Ten to go. West Indies must be thinking about chancing their arm a bit soon? England have lots of overs from Nat Sciver up their sleeve.

39th over: West Indies 147-4 (Campbelle 29, Nation 14) A rare bad ball from Ecclestone as she spears a quick one down the leg side and again Jones has no chance of stopping it from making its merry way to the boundary. Right now it looks like the only way West Indies are going to pick up boundaries…

Eleven overs to go, can West Indies struggle up to posting something challenging here?

38th over: West Indies 138-4 (Campbelle 27, Nation 12) Kate Cross is back on and again it is just three from her over. Tidy.

37th over: West Indies 135-4 (Campbelle 24, Nation 12) Brilliant bowling from Ecclestone, she racks up another maiden over. Check out her figures: 8-4-9-3. Sensational.

36th over: West Indies 135-4 (Campbelle 24, Nation 12) West Indies still going nowhere, maybe they are stockpiling wickets for a bombardment in the final ten? Or maybe they are just struggling to rotate the strike in the face of some tidy bowling.

35th over: West Indies 132-4 (Campbelle 23, Nation 10) Brunt to continue and she serves up another wide. This is poor from Brunt who hasn’t looked in rythym all innings. It looks a bit blustery and that could be affecting her accuracy. Five off the over.

34th over: West Indies 127-4 (Campbelle 20, Nation 10) Five singles off Knight’s over.

Honest, guv.

33rd over: West Indies 122-4 (Campbelle 17, Nation 8) The pressure valve gives a little hiss as Brunt gets taken for 9 from her over. Brunt has not been at her best today, a wide down the leg side is followed by an even wilder wide that Jones has no chance of stopping. The skipper might be thinking of letting her take her sweater after that one.

32nd over: West Indies 113-4 (Campbelle 15, Nation 7) Campbelle takes Knight for a welcome boundary, lofting a full one confidently over the in field. Six from it in total.

31st over: West Indies 107-4 (Campbelle 10, Nation 6) The telly still keeps dropping in and out but never fear, I’ve got options coming out of my ears. Namely a radio and some other websites on a separate laptop tab that are helping hugely. We’ll muddle through. Brunt comes on to replace Ecclestone and there just a couple off it. West Indies digging in but going nowhere fast.

30th over: West Indies 105-4 (Campbelle 9, Nation 5) Just two runs off Knight from what I can gather. 30 overs done. We’ll have one more and then drinks. Hopefully the pictures sort themselves out soon otherwise I’ll be forced to get on the blower, “Rupes – sort it out son, it’s 18 quid a month for this.” This being sub poor lounge music and no moving pictures of cricket.

29th over: West Indies 103-4 (Campbelle 8, Nation 4) Ecclestone wiles her way through another. Just three off her seventh. The TV picture keeps dropping out forcing Sky to put up a holding screen and play some lounge music. Sorry stuff. Forgive me if things get a bit scrappy whilst I find and fire up a wireless.

28th over: West Indies 100-4 (Campbelle 8, Nation 1) Knight continues despite looking like she has a bit of a dodgy knee. She looks slightly laboured through her action and definitely a bit ginger between balls. Only two off it though as West Indies remain bogged down by that flurry of wickets.

Knight smokes one to cover off Ecclestone and Wyatt holds on to the tracer bullet! A wicket maiden for England’s premier spinner who has 3-8 off her six overs so far. Chapeau Sophie.

27th over: West Indies 98-4 (Campbelle 7, Nation 0)

26th over: West Indies 98-3 (Campbelle 7, Knight 6) News incoming…

Heather Knight traps Campbelle on the crease and the umpire raises the finger! It is sent upstairs and ball tracking shows the ball hit her outside the line and so the decision is overturned. If England can get another couple here they could really start to get a strangle on this match.

25th over: West Indies 95-3 (Campbelle 7, Knight 3) Ecclestone whirls away and West Indies are really spluttering here, just three runs coming from the over.

23rd over: West Indies 91-3 (Campbelle 5, Knight 2) Ecclestone gets some bounce and has a spring in her step. Just two from it. Heather Knight is coming on for a twirl to replace Cross.