Tossed up low full-toss on the stumps, plays the paddle sweep and finds the deep backward square fielder
ENG Women vs WI Women, 3rd T20I at Chelmsford, ENG-W vs WI-W, May 26 2025 - Match Result
And the England captain joins her squad with the trophy to celebrate on stage. The T20I series has come to a conclusion. Thank you for tuning in. I, Rashad Mahbub, am signing off on behalf of Sudeep Poojar and the rest of the ESPNcricinfo staff. Goodbye.
England Captain, Natt Sciver-Brunt: "We played some brilliant cricket over the series. Probably didn't have our perfect game today, but we set the standard pretty high in the first two games. Well, I think the way that we started to get up to that score (144) was really competitive. The wicket seemed quite stuffy. And they made it very difficult for us. Heather batting through like that was, was a great innings really, to get us up to a competitive total. She's got a tight hamstring. She'll be assessed in the next few days. We want to be fielding perfectly every time. I guess, from the first two games, we fielded brilliantly, and to put in the same performance every time to be that perfect score on the fielding sheet can be difficult at times. Obviously, we had what was four in four balls with chances. But yeah, we can't really put that down to anything, and I guess we want to be better than that. At the end of the day, we got over the line. It'd be great to play some 50-over cricket. Again, it's been a while, obviously, since the Ashes. So yeah, be a little bit of a new squad. We're excited about it. (Hayley) She poses a lot of headaches. She's obviously in great form as well. So we'll have to look into those sorts of plans, maybe a little bit different around ODI cricket. But yeah, obviously, she's a huge wicket for them and the one we're obviously striving to get."
Player of the Match and the Series, Hayley Matthews: "Really good to be able to go there and score some runs and get some wickets as well. But definitely a closer game today, and one that we felt that we competed in really well. I think just having some really strong plans and playing to my strengths at all time, I feel like I've been fortunate enough to get to play a lot of T20 cricket around the world and gain a lot of experience and learn a lot more about my game, and just put my plans into practice. And thankfully, since I've been here, I've been able to execute pretty well. (Youngsters' performance) Yeah, really happy. I think, like Jahzara Claxton, she obviously came in that first innings and bowled beautifully on debut to get her first wicket, but also to showcase her talent with the amount of variations that she was able to use today, and then Realeanna Grimmond, getting her second match today, and definitely looked a lot better at the crease today, which I know she'll be happy about. So super proud that they were able to get an opportunity. I think Zaida James definitely set the tone twice now, getting that first wicket. But yeah, 100%, I think we definitely feel it a lot better, and executed our plans a lot nicer, too, when we were bowling. But yeah, unfortunately, just not able to chase it in the end. (Rain) I think, look, nothing you can really do about that, obviously stopped the flow just a bit. But nothing you can really do about nature. It's England at the end of the day. So I heard Cap say something about the English summer. So not expecting much different. The ODI series is also obviously going to be a very hard one for us, with this England squad. By the same time, I think it gives a lot of our batters the opportunity to just get to spend some time at the crease and hopefully come back for longer periods of time."
6:07 pm The Charlotte Edwards and Nat Sciver-Brunt era has begun with a bang, securing a 3-0 clean sweep on home soil! While England celebrated their series victory, the West Indies, despite making four changes, looked notably sharper across all three departments today. However, their innings mirrored England's earlier struggles with Qiana Joseph departing for a golden duck on the very first ball, clean bowled by Lauren Bell. Em Arlott continued her brilliant form with the ball, picking up the wicket of Zaida James inside the Powerplay. But it was skipper Hayley Matthews who launched a spirited counter-attack, reaching her 17th WT20I fifty and keeping her team's hopes alive almost single-handedly. The match was halted by several rain breaks, which unfortunately seemed to work against the West Indies. The rain interruption in the 16th over particularly broke the momentum, especially for Hayley Matthews. After the restart, the West Indies lost two quick wickets in the 17th over, and with the required run rate climbing, Matthews had to take risks. In the process, she got deceived by a slower ball from Lauren Bell, and got caught out at long on, departed after scoring 71 runs off 54 balls. The West Indies' collapse was quick after the rain break, losing their last five wickets for just 17 runs. England's bowlers shared the spoils, with Bell, Arlott, Dean, and Smith all picking up two wickets each. Despite their dominant bowling performance, England did have a moment of sloppiness in the field, dropping three catches in a row in the 11th over. We'll be back shortly for the presentation ceremony.
England Women win by 17 runs
Full, quicker and straight, rattles the stumps! Full and overpitched ball in the block-hole, Fletcher clears her front leg and goes for the big heave stroke, missed the line and length completely, breaks the stumps
Back of a length ball on the stumps, full swing of the bat and struck it hard to deep mid wicket, Smith comes around and slides on, goes through the fielder's hands and finds the ropes
Full and overpitched on the stumps, charges down the track and yanked it high over mid wicket, does not carry to the sweeper fielder
Tossed up fuller length around the off stump, bludgeons hard and straight back to the bowler
Length ball angling in on the leg stump, swings it away to deep mid wicket
25 required from 6 balls. It's Charlie Dean to bowl the last ball, shades on. It will be difficult for the spinner to grip the ball here. Around the wicket
Good length ball darted on the stumps, poked back to the bowler, Fletcher is half-way down for the single, Arlott collects the ball and has a go at the non-striker's end, failed to hit the stumps
Widish slower ball outside off, slammed hard through cover point for a couple of runs
Low full-toss ball on the stumps, forces it away to mid-on
Banged in short pitched ball on the stumps, plays the swivel pull shot and struck the leading edge, falls safely away from the sweeper fielder, Dean gets beaten by the spin of the ball as she tries to collect it on one bounce
Length ball outside the off stump, swats it in the air and over the covers
NSB takes a screamer! Slight fuller length ball around the off stump line, clears the front leg and moves wide of the crease, whacks it with the toe end of the bat to mid-off, Sciver-Brunt swiftly moves to her left side, tracks back and managed to hold on to it this time.
Starts the over with a wide ball down the leg-side
31 runs required from 12 balls, Arlott to bowl out
How did that miss the stumps! Slower delivery on middle-leg, wild swing and a miss from Alleynne, beaten by the lack of pace, the ball bounces a bit too much and goes over the top of the leg stump
Slower bouncer down the leg, plays the pull shot and gloved it down to the right of Jones behind the stumps, diving to her right side and getting a hand to it
Widish length ball pitching well outside off, clears the front leg and tries to reach for it, does not connect
Widish length ball darted outside off, play and a miss
Length ball from around the wicket, swing and a miss, pitching just outside the off stump
Hayley Matthews bites the dust! Hard line and length ball pitching outside off, clears the front leg and attempts to dispatch the slower delivery over long on, conencts the higher part of the bat and skies it high to long on region, Arlott settles underneath and completes the catch. A brilliant innings has finally come to an end.
Battered through the covers! Slower through the air delivery wide outside off, slammed hard through extra cover past the diving fielder for a boundary
Hat-trick ball, here's Alleyne
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County Ground, Chelmsford | |
Toss | West Indies Women, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2025 |
Player Of The Match | |
Player Of The Series | |
Series result | England Women won the 3-match series 3-0 |
Match number | WT20I no. 2312 |
Hours of play (local time) | 14.30 start, First Session 14.30-16.00, Interval 16.00-16.20, Second Session 16.20-17.50 |
Match days | 26 May 2025 - day (20-over match) |
WT20I debut | |
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Over 20 • WI-W 127/8