England v West Indies: fifth and final women's T20 international – as it happened

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Bit of breaking news!

Player of the match goes to Shamilia Connell, who took three wickets, while Sarah Glenn is named player of the series. Stafanie Taylor enjoyed herself out there, calling it a “brilliant game”, while Heather Knight thinks her team are getting better and planning to peak at the right time.

There we go then; it is with a heavy heart that I declare the English international summer closed. So, just the IPL, Blast and Australia Women v New Zealand women to be getting on with then; whatever shall we do? What a world.

A slightly upsetting ending, but that was a lot of fun. West Indies always looked a bit short, but got close because England threw bats and legs when they had no need to. But they’ve sealed the shut-out and look a very useful outfit; the difference isn’t so much that England have the better individuals, more that they have fewer weaknesses and enough batting so that someone will almost always come off.

4.4 overs Ecclestone digs one out to cover, they run one, and oh not! That’s a no ball! England are nearly there and Selman is devod! England need one from three balls.

4.1 overs Glenn forces down the ground to mid on and they boust through for two; why don’t West Indies have a midwicket? England need five from five balls.

Selman will bowl the final over. Good luck old mate.

4th over: England 35-5 (Glenn 5, Dunkley 3) Target 42 So Glenn gets her go, and if she and her mate stay sensible, their team will win – but that’s easy to say from a box room in north London. Anyhow, a leg bye opens Dottin’s over, then then Glenn guides to midwicket and they sprint through for two. Another leg bye follows, then Dunkley trots down and swipes - why? - getting just enough on it to elude the pair of fielders desperately diving as the ball drops over the shoulders. Two singles follow; England need seven from six balls.

“Never mind the Hundred,” says Damian Clarke, “we need more of the Thirty. This is great.”

It is isn’t it. I’d happily watch another of these.

3rd over: England 27-5 (Glenn 2, Dunkley 0) Target 42 Glenn guides two down to third man. England need 15 runs from 12 balls.

3rd over: England 25-3 (Sciver 7, Brunt 2) Target 42 Connell continues and slings one down outside off, but Sciver gets into position really well, hauling it around and through backward square for four! Boundary secured, a single and a two follow, Sciver to point and Brunt smacking to deep point. It’s hard to see how West Indies can win from here, but...

2nd over: England 17-3 (Sciver 1, Brunt 0) Target 42 Sciver has only faced three balls, but when she gwts on strike she may as well knock it about because England don’t need much more than that. England need 24 runs from 18 balls.

2nd over: England 17-2 (Sciver 1, Beaumont 9) Target 42 Are West Indies now favourites? A single comes from each of Selman’s first two balls, then an extremely welcome no ball; can Beaumont do something with the free hit? Yes she can! Selman goes full outside off and Beaumont comes down so that it’s in the slot, carting it down the ground for four. And have a look! The next ball keeps low so she keeps lower, powering it brilliantly from middle through midwicket for four! A wide follows.

1st over: England 5-2 (Sciver 0, Beaumont 0) Target 42 Why are England batting like this? They got their boundary early, so could just have knocked it about for the rest when the balls didn’t allow for arm-chucking. Two dots finish an eventful over. England need 37 from 24 balls.

1st over: England 5-1 (Sciver 0, Jones 0) Target 42 Jones looks to cut but again the batter is cramped, unable to get the bat sufficiently horizontal.

1st over: England 5-1 (Knight 4, Sciver 0) Target 42 Oh dear; Connell begins with one that starts wide and swings away – two bats aren’t getting that - and the second ball offers width too, so Knight slashes it over point for four.

Knight is out there with Sciver, while Connell has the ball. She’ll tear in, so don’t be surprised to see some expensive edges.

I wonder if the low total will persuade England to go with their usual batting order, given no pyrotechnics are required. But that looks like Nat Sciver coming out, so I guess not.

England will be happy with that - extremely happy. And this is why you bat second if you can – let the opposition go mad trying to set the highest possible total, then chase the moderate one they end up with by simply batting normally.

4th over: West Indies 31-3 ( Taylor 13, McLean 6) Brunt to continue – of course – and her first delivery hits McLean on the pad. There’s a strong appeal from the bowler, but no review form Knight, who must be very sure given how few deliveries remain. McLean gets down to the next ball and doesn’t get hold of it; there’s another appeal for a catch – did it go bottom edge, boot, hand? The umpires go upstairs for a keek, but nothing doing; it hit the ground. McLean then has an almighty heave, late on the ball and connecting with something other than the middle; they run two, as we see that that lbw appeal was out. Why on earth did England not review, given they’ve got two available and only had nine ball left? Anyway, Taylor then makes room by stepping away, helping the ball over the slip area for four before edging four more via hook. That’s more like it – 11 off the over, and the same again might give us a game.

3rd over: West Indies 20-3 ( Taylor 5, McLean 3) This is the first-ever women’s five-over match – I did not know that. Three from the final three balls of the over, and West Indies would be all over 50 from here.

3rd over: West Indies 17-2 ( Taylor 5, Nation 0) Ecclestone into the attack and Taylor takes her first two deliveries for two and one, the second a swat that’s brilliantly saved on the boundary.

2nd over: West Indies 14-2 ( Taylor 2, Nation 0) West Indies are already in trouble.

2nd over: West Indies 13-1 (Dottin 11, Taylor 1) What’s a good score here? I’d say 50 is competitive and 60+ is commanding. Anyhow, they attempted a run off the final ball of the first over so Taylor is on strike – England will be happy about that - and a single is all that Brunt’s first two ball yield before a slower one fools Dottin, who’s through a monstrous hoik quite some decades before it arrives.

1st over: West Indies 11-0 (Dottin 11, Matthews 0) Dottin chucks everything at Davies’ loosener, misses it, and somehow the ball bounces over the top. It’s still raining pretty hard, but now we’re out we’ll probably stay out, and after a second dot, one skids on and Dottin rams it over long on for four. And again, this time for six! That was right in the slot and Dottin didn’t need asking twice! That’s her 100th six in T20, not bad, and a scurried single gets her down the other end.

And off we go!

The players take a knee. All black lives matter.

Two of the five overs are powerplay overs, and bowlers can bowl a maximum of two. West Indies send out Dottin and Matthews, while Freya Davies has the ball in her hand.

It’s still raining, but we’re good to go.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but the players are pretty much ready!

West Indies make four changes: McLean, Henry, Matthews and Fraser come in, with Ramharack, Grimmond, Alleyne and Fletcher dropping out.

Then England team we see has Beaumont and Glenn opening the batting, which is interesting. I wonder how you go about this: do you just hurl the bat at everything?

England haven’t decided on their batting order yet, while Stafanie Taylor says she wanted to win the toss, intimating that she’d have fielded too.

The covers are all off now and West Indies have finally emerged. I wonder what they – and England – do with their batting order.

Our photo bank has nothing of West Indies today. I’ll bet the bubble has never looked more inviting or felt more cosy.

The players are out warming up. Does the County Ground have outdoor central heating?

Just when you think this game has nothing left with which to surprise you.

I bet West Indies are desperate to get out there. If I was them I’d be standing above the umpire’s dressing room with a watering can.

The umpires are in the middle, umbrellas up. It’s still raining hard, so I’d not be surprising if they called this pretty soon, because cleaning up will take us to beyond the latest-possible starting time.

Also this weekend we’ve got the Blast finals day. I shudder to consider how miserable that might be.

I’m surprised the weather’s got minging so early – with Sukkot beginning on Friday, I was expecting a glorious Indian summer until precisely then.

Meg Lanning is the player Joe Root wishes he was. Or something like that.

Edwards goes: Healy, Mandhana, Devine, Lanning, Mooney, Sciver, Jonassen, Kapp, Sharma, Ecclestone, Schutt.

Breaking: Charlotte Edwards is wearing red trouser.

Back to rinsing it down. I can’t see any way we get any play and I should know, I’m sat in a box room in north London.

Ebony Rainford-Brent goes: Healy, Verma, Lanning, Sciver, Kaur, Dottin, Taylor, Kapp, Ecclestone, Yadav, Schutt, Vlaemick.

I’d definitely have gone for one of Dottin and Harmnapreet, given the ballast elsewhere, but yeah, what’s the point of all this if you can’t have baith?

Sky are picking T20 World XIs, which tells you all you need to know about where we are. Lydia Greenway has gone: Healy, Mooney, Lanning, Bates, Sharam, Sciver, Jonassen, Kapp, Ecclestone, Ismail, Schutt.

Heather Knight was warming up on the boundary and a rope was being taken around the outfield. You’ve got to laugh.

We’ve only just left the IPL game, which finished time ago - not a good sign. But we’re at Derby now, and it looks like it’s only the square which is covered.

I wonder about how they made this, because it’s got the feel of someone chucking absolutely everything they’ve got at something, and all those things magically being the right things. I dunno, I also saw it right after I got back from my gap yah, so perhaps I was just eager for some England.

I’ve seen lots of better films, but I’m not sure I’ve seen as enjoyable a film.

I’m not sure at what time we pack up and get drunk, but I doubt we’re far away.

“I was going to start my proposed drink-free October early,” says Damian Clarke, “so I could concentrate on the cricket on OBO and TMS. But if they delay and even abandon, so can I. Which is nice. Slainte.”

L’chaim.

I’ve said this before, but I’m going to say it again. The effort made by all the players, umpires, groundstaff, catering staff, hotel staff and telly production staff has been absolutely colossal, and the entire planet is in their debt.

T-Cuzz has just walloped consecutive sixes to get to 50 off 35. What a nifty cricketer he’s become – though if he could add a yard of pace and get wickets in the middle overs, that’d be handy.

However the toss is meant to be in a minute and on telly they’re still showing IPL.

I’m searching for a weather update but getting naewhere. I’m unsure whether that’s good news or bad news.

Check this.

Tammy Beaumont is prepared for every eventuality.

“What a picture of the ground,” says Bill Hargreaves. “Very romantic, if one is able to use such adjectives for a cricket match! Thanks for the commentary.”

It’s great isn’t it. And what could possibly be more romantic than cricket?

That toss, then. It was scheduled for 6.45 on the proviso there was no more rain, and guess what? It’s raining. Of course it is.

Archer is now out there with Curran and just clumped his second ball for six. Rajasthan need 87 off 34, and now Archer’s holed out. Of course he has.

Any excuse.

I once went to a crappy festival that set up its own weather site, so people checking whether to buy tickets would see that there’d be no rain, even though everyone knew there was going to be. But everywhere I look right now is telling me that we’re in all sorts.

Imagine getting caught on the thigh or shin in this weather. One of those where you’d be insisting everyone took a whack on the basis that they’d hate it more than you would.

Cuzza T is now batting for Rajasthan; he’s 7 off 7, with the required rate at 11.44. At what point is someone at the ECB going to admit that KP was right all along?

This should be hanging on the wall in the Tate Modern.

Sake and double sake. Sky spend all of three minutes in Derby before heading straight back to Dubai, where Buttler has 21 off 15 now, with the Royals 39-2 needing 175 against KKR. Oh, and there it is: Buttler slashes at a wide one and picks out short third-man.

Not gonna lie, sportsfolk having to play in inclement conditions makes me kind of happy, and these are most definitely those. Should we get any action, I predict much hand-wringing. The woke epidemic spreads ever further.

“Grim-looking,” says Mark Butcher of the County Ground. He’s not lying.

In Dubai, Joseph Buttler is at the wicket, with 15 off nine, including two sixes.

Here’s one of mine. When I had exams, I’d never listen to this during the revision period, then get back home or to my room and stick this on as loudly as possible.

I’m sat here forlornly looking at radars and such. What songs remind you of sunshy-iiine?

That YouTube autoplay function is extremely dangerous. I was lucky enough to spend a bit of time in Jamaica a few years ago, and this was my driver’s favourite.

Meanwhile, Phill Simmons has noted that England need to give something back to West Indies in the way of matches in the Caribbean. Quite right and yes please.

Good news for Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope and Sibley Dom Dom, less good news for Jonny Bairstow and Mark Wood.

I appear to have been unduly optimistic. My sources at the Met Office inform me that it’s raining at the County Ground, and that it’ll be raining for the next three hours. Should that eventuate, we’re not getting a game.