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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWICKET! Knight run-out (AB Kaur/Ghosh) 109 (England 249-4)Is that the game? Knight drags a pull shot into the deep and sets off. She turns to come back for a second but the throw from Kaur is perfect. She’s nowhere near safety and Knight has to go. What a disappointing end. There really was no need to take on the arm just yet. England must now navigate these final overs without their set batter.Share44th over: England 246-3 (Knight 107, Dunkley 13) Knight reached her century with a bit of luck, getting turned inside out and edging past the keeper. But her next stroke was imperious, nailing Charani through point. What’s a good score from here? 280? 300? All rests on Knight sticking around I reckon.ShareHundred up for Knight!What an innings! She’s been brilliant throughout. A bit of luck to get there, as she was beaten in the air by Charani and caught a thick edge that skipped fine for four, but she’s barely put a foot wrong. 101 off 86 balls with 14 fours and one six. Outstanding.Share43rd over: England 234-3 (Knight 97, Dunkley 11) Knight goes within one hit of a deserving ton as she stands tall, waits for the ball to come to her, and belts it in front of square for four. That was a fantastic cricket shot from a woman in peak form. Four singles before that off Renuka Singh adds up to eight. It’s a decent haul but England will want more. First, Knight needs a hundred.Share42nd over: England 226-3 (Knight 91, Dunkley 9) Knight moves into the 90s while Dunkley picks up a boundary with a chop through deep point. She didn’t quite get all of it, but she got enough of it. Eight off that over from Sharma. England needed something as things were stalling. 16 runs off the last three overs.Share41st over: England 219-3 (Knight 89, Dunkley 4) is Tidy from Charani. She’s really turned things around after a ropey start. Four singles off this one. Darters at the stumps need to be respected and the England batters have little choice but to milk ones.Share40th over: England 214-3 (Knight 87, Dunkley 1) Three singles off this Sharma over. She’s got three overs left so England can’t sit on her for too long. This feels like the deep breath before the plunge. A couple of quick wickets would have India in control. If Knight can explode from here it’ll be England sitting pretty. 10 mighty overs coming up.Share39th over: England 212-3 (Knight 85, Dunkley 1) The end of a 113-run partnership has given India a lift, but Knight is still there targeting a ton. She’ll need help from the rest of the side, starting with Dunkley who could do with a score of her own. Charani has rectified her figures with that wicket in an over worth just three runs.ShareWICKET! Sciver-Brunt c Kaur b Shree Charani 38 (England 211-3)Against the run of play! England’s skipper tries to beat the infield with a lofted cover drive but it’s slightly too full and she can’t quite get the elevation needed. Her opposite number times her jump to perfection and holds on to a sharp catch above her head. That’s a big scalp for the home team.Share38th over: England 208-2 (Knight 88, Sciver-Brunt 37) Sensational batting. Sciver-Brunt bags a couple and then mows a pull off Kranti for four. She hands the strike over to Knight and lifts a flick in front of square that carries the distance and goes for the first six of the match. So so good. 14 off that over and England are now looking at something hefty.Share37th over: England 194-2 (Knight 76, Sciver-Brunt 30) Knight is playing a blinder. She’s hitting a boundary every over. This one is a stiff sweep off the returning Sharma that flies through backward square. There’s a review for lbw but it’s missing by some distance. India have burned another one. That’s eight unsuccessful reviews this World Cup.Share36th over: England 187-2 (Knight 71, Sciver-Brunt 28) Knight closes this over with another boundary, top edging a sweep. She’s living dangerously. Charani is annoyed. She was squaky clean til then. The first ball of the over was a beauty, on a tricky length and seemed to have bowled Knight. But the bails were removed by Ghosh from behind so no dice for the Indians who are looking a little desperate now. Momentum is firmly with the batting side.Share35th over: England 180-2 (Knight 66, Sciver-Brunt 26) Two sweeps, two fours for Knight. The first is a top-edged conventional sweep that was streaky, but was fine and high enough to get to the rope. The second was a fine reverse sweep that trickled away and beat the chasing fielder. Two singles between those two strikes means it’s another double digit over for England.Share34th over: England 170-2 (Knight 57, Sciver-Brunt 25) They’re picking up a boundary an over now. Amonjot delivers som dross down the leg side and Knight just helps it on its way for four down to fine leg. The rest of the set is pretty tidy. Just one single off Knight’s pads. But things are starting to get ominous for the Indians. They’ll want a wicket sharpish. If these two are still batting by the 40th over they’ll go ballistic.Share33rd over: England 165-2 (Knight 52, Sciver-Brunt 25) Knight brings up her fifty with a reverse pick up through deep third for four. Brilliant batting from the veteran. She’s looked in great touch since he took guard. That’s another productive over as five singles, plus the four, adds up to nine. The current rate has jumped up to five an over.Share32nd over: England 156-2 (Knight 45, Sciver-Brunt 23) Brilliant from Knight. First she drives a couple wide of long-off. Then she gets low to crunch a slog sweep for four. Charani adjusts her length, dragging it shorter. Knight rocks back to steer a delicious late cut for four. She’ll keep the strike with a single to long-off. 11 runs off that over. They’re climbing through the gears now.Share31st over: England 145-2 (Knight 34, Sciver-Brunt 23) Better from England. A generous full toss from Amanjot is biffed wide of long on by Sciver-Brunt who is too good to miss out on that. The England skipper then clips a couple behind square and collects a single past point. Knight will keep the strike with a late cut worth one. Eight runs off that one. England need more of the same.Share30th over: England 137-2 (Knight 33, Sciver-Brunt 16) Excellent from Shree Charani. Just one run off that over. England’s innings has hit a wall. The last five overs have seen just 17 runs scored. They don;’t want to let this solid platform count for nothing.Share29th over: England 136-2 (Knight 33, Sciver-Brunt 15) Tidy again from Kranti who has bowled much better than her figures of 0-32 from seven overs suggests. One wide down the leg, as well as two singles, adds up to just three runs off that probing set. She’s not hooping it like she was earlier in the piece, but she’s targeting the stumps and still searching for wickets.Share28th over: England 133-2 (Knight 32, Sciver-Brunt 14) Knight nails a slog sweep. More of that please. This screams off her bat and is hitting the fence with one bounce at serious velocity. But Rana then darts in her spinners, one clocks in at 87.8 km/h. She’s pinning the batters back and keeping them to just one single across the rest of the over. Good mini battles out there.Share27th over: England 128-2 (Knight 27, Sciver-Brunt 14) Kranti returns and sends down a tidy set worth just two singles. England are going at 4.74. The last five overs have gone at 4.8. You get the sense that one of these two will need to press the accelerator.Share26th over: 126-2 (Knight 26, Sciver-Brunt 13) Rana replaces Sharma. She starts with two dots before Knight heaves a sweep through square leg for four. She wasn’t quite at the pitch of it but got enough wood on it. A tapped single brings Sciver-Brunt on strike and England’s skipper will keep it as she drags a single to deep midwicket.Share25th over: England 120-2 (Knight 21, Sciver-Brunt 12) Another deft touch from Knight brings her four more down to deep third, beating the fielder to the boundary. Three singles elsewhere from this Amonjot over. England rebuilding well.Share24th over: England 113-2 (Knight 15, Sciver-Brunt 11) Good again from Sharma. She’s 2-20 from five. Three singles here. The England batters know that they need to be watchful against India’s ace spinner.Share23rd over: England 110-2 (Knight 13, Sciver-Brunt 10) NSB drills a full toss from Amnjot for four, smearing it wide of mid-on. She got all of that. Amanjot rectifies and finds her radar, keeping things tight and giving away only two singles from the rest of her over.Share22nd over: England England 104-2 (Knight 12, Sciver-Brunt 5) The England skipper walks to the crease and hits her third ball for four with a mighty sweep past fine leg. She’s there as Jones gave her wicket away but the foundation has been set. What can England’s two premier batters do from here?ShareWICKET! Jones c Mandhana b Sharma 56 (England 98-2)Oh Amy, what have you done?! That is so soft from a batter who looked so set. A little skip and a flick to Sharma is nudged to a diving Mandhana at a wide mid-on. Sure, it was a sharp take, as she moved quickly to her right, but that was such a soft way to go after playing so beautifully. Sharma deserved credit fir giving the ball some air, but Jones will be sick with herself.Share21st over: England 98-1 (Jones 56, Knight 12) Knight kicks off this over with a delicate steer that races along the ground and reaches the boundary down at deep third. She played that so late, almost out of the keeper’s gloves. England’s batters trade singles before Renuka tightens up and closes with three dot balls.Share20th over: England 92-1 (Jones 55, Knight 7) Just two singles off that Sharma over.Share19th over: England 90-1 (Jones 54, Knight 6) Jones reaches her half century with an excellent pick up, thwacking Renuka Singh’s over-pitched delivery for four towards cow corner. That’s her first World Cup fifty but the job’s not done. She’s well set and will want to double up at least.Share18th over: England 84-1 (Jones 49, Knight 5) A jaffa bamboozles Knight and draws a thick edge worth two. That one didn’t turn from Sharma. No slip in place and she must wonder why not. Tidy elsewhere, three singles from the over but it’s lovely bowling from Deepti Sharma, who now has 150 ODI wickets to her name.Share
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