Summary

  • ICC Women's World Cup, Colombo - SL win toss & bowl

  • England bowl out Sri Lanka for 164 to win by 89 runs

  • England 253-9 (50 overs): Sciver-Brunt 117 (117); Ranaweera 3-33

  • Sri Lanka 164 (45.4 overs): Harshitha 33 (37); Ecclestone 4-17

  • England top table by one point over Australia after third straight win

  • Sri Lanka are seventh on one point

Live Reporting

by Matthew Henry & Elizabeth Botcherby

  1. SL 159-9

    Target 254

    Please send your suggestions for what system to introduce to prevent this net run-rate protection to the ICC. Sri Lanka block out a maiden to only send the required run-rate shooting higher.

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    England are very reliant on two or three players; the rest seem to be passengers. This team has not improved from the ashes debacle, but not unexpected, seeing as it is mostly the same players. If the Ashes were played tomorrow, I would bet on the exact same result.

    Alistair

  3. Nat Sciver-Brunt is having a fine day out...

  4. SL 159-9

    Target 254

    It appears these final two batters are going to try and drag it out as long as they can rather than slogging. Udeshika Prabodhani leaves her second delivery outside off stump.

  5. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Charlie Dean, especially after conceding over six runs an over, must be thinking that she can relax now after that wicket. I don't think she's bowled badly, but I don't think she's bowled that well.

  6. wicket

    WICKET

    Dasanayaka b Dean 4 (SL 157-9)

    Two in two. Charlie Dean gets her second wicket on an expensive day as Sugandika Dasanayaka is bowled.

    England need one more for victory.

  7. wicket

    WICKET

    Nilakshi c Knight b Capsey 23 (SL 157-8)

    Sri Lanka's last batter goes.

    Alice Capsey has been bowling slow, really slow, and Nilakshi de Silva chips a catch off a leading edge. Heather Knight snaffles the easiest of catches.

    England are closing in.

  8. Rufus Bullough
    CricViz analyst

    England’s catching has been superb in this tournament so far, taking 14 catches with just one chance spilled.

  9. SL 152-7

    Need 102 runs from 66 balls

    Nilakshi de Silva continues to play, albeit below the rate required for victory.

    How do World Cups solve negative batting in these situations when teams protect their net run-rate?

  10. Lisa Sthalekar
    Ex-Australia all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Vihanga was itching. She dropped her back leg the previous ball and showed us a more expansive drive. Then, off the front foot, she tugged it to the on side. It probably went a metre high but Charlie Dean tracked it nicely.

  11. SL 146-7

    Target 254

    There's still plenty of room for improvement with the bat but this is turning into a pretty good day for England. Upset avoided.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Vihanga c Dean b Sciver-Brunt 3 (SL 145-7)

    Good catch. Charlie Dean, lurking at short-ish mid-wicket dives to her right to take an aerial clip on the dive. It gives Nat Sciver-Brunt a second wicket as she takes a stronger hold of the player of the match award ahead of Sophie Ecclestone.

  13. SL 143-6

    Target 254

    Sophie Ecclestone's supreme spell is done.

    Sri Lanka were 91-1 when she came on. She took a wicket with her first ball and finishes with 4-17 from 10 overs.

  14. SL 142-6

    Need 112 more runs to win

    Nilakshika Silva's batting average is a respectable 28.29. In contrast, Dewmi Vihanga averages eight. It's an almighty ask from here. Nat Sciver-Brunt gives very little away.

  15. SL 139-6

    Target 254

    Bowling her eighth over on the spin, Sophie Ecclestone fails to nab her fifth wicket. There's turn and bounce, almost too much for the left-arm spinner.

  16. SL 136-6

    Need 118 runs from 96 balls

    England will be top of the standings if/when they win this match with all of the teams having played three of seven matches.

  17. Lisa Sthalekar
    Ex-Australia all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    One thing Nat Sciver-Brunt does really well is that she cuts the ball really well, and it seemed like it moved in very sharply to Sanjeewani.

  18. wicket

    WICKET

    Sanjeewani lbw b Sciver-Brunt 10 (SL 134-6)

    Sciver-Brunt can do no wrong. It was hitting the top of leg stump - three reds, in fact, with Sanjeewani batting so deep in her crease.

    Sri Lanka lose their sixth.

  19. Sri Lanka review

    Given lbw! Nat Sciver-Brunt has a wicket to follow her century.

    It's an lbw shout. That looked a little high. Sri Lanka review.

  20. SL 132-5

    Target 254

    What have you done...

    Sophie Ecclestone, for the first time today, has conceded a boundary and it followed two singles too. Perhaps a little short and Anushka Sanjeewani rocks back to cut.

    The over costs seven runs - more than her previous six combined.