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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature3rd over: England 16-0 (Jones 11, Beaumont 5) A miserly over from Pradodani, neat and tidy medium pace.Share2nd over: England 14-0 (Jones 9, Beaumont 5) Spin at the other end from Dasanayaka, and ooof, Beaumont is hit on the front pad. She’s stretched her leg hugely, pretty far forward, but it looks out and umpire raises her finger. She reviews, correctly as it turns out as the ball is missing leg, and she then clops the next ball serenely through the covers for four.Share1st over: England 9-0 (Jones 8, Beaumont 1) A half-hearted dive from Vihanga, like a sleepy stretch from a deck-chair to catch some wayward suncream, lets Jones pick four from and edge to Prabodani’s first ball. Another bit of careless fielding brings a single, not the on point start Sri Lanka would have wanted.ShareSri Lanka sprint onto the field led by Athapaththu; Beaumont and Jones stride behind. The ground does not look hugely full to be honest, but I know in India more spectators have come in for the second innings.Game time in Colombo. Photograph: Lahiru Harshana/ReutersShareUpdated at 10.53 BSTHere come the teams, hand in hand with their mascots. Sri Lanka’s anthem first, a long, lyrical number, before an upbeat verse of God Save the King, with a handful of the English women struggling to contain a fit of giggles.ShareSky show a really lovely little interview with Heather Knight and some of her teammates about how she feels she can connect with her teammates in a different way now she no longer has the pressures of captaincy.ShareOne change for Sri Lanka:Allrounder Dewmi Vihanga replaces Achini Kulasuriya.Sri Lanka: Chamari Athapaththu (c), Hasini Perera, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Vishmi Gunaratne, Kavisha Dilhari, Nilakshi de Silva, Anushka Sanjeewani (wk), Sugandika Dasanayaka, Dewmi Vihanga, Inoka Ranaweera, Udeshika PrabodhaniShareEngland XI are unchangedEngland: Tammy Beamont, Amy Jones (wk), Heather Knight, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Sophia Dunkley, Emma Lamb, Alice Capsey, Charlie Dean, Sophie Ecclestone, Linsey Smith, Lauren Bell.ShareSri Lanka win the toss and will bowl… “Because I’m very confident with my bowling unit.” NSB looks happy, says she would have batted, that the surface looks pretty good.Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu and Nat Sciver-Brunt during the coin toss. Photograph: Lahiru Harshana/ReutersShareUpdated at 10.49 BSTArnold says he would bowl first, on what looks like a dry pitch. NSB and Athapaththu are walking to the middle with what looks very much like team sheets, so the toss must be imminent.ShareUpdated at 10.12 BSTA 15 minute delay due to rainThough it all seeems gorgeously sunny now in Colombo. Russel Arnold is looking dapper in regulation CWC maroon trousers and very open necked shirt and is joined by Tash Farrant, who says she was asked by Charlotte Edwards to go into the nets as a left-hander, like Chamari Athapaththu.ShareSri Lanka have won only once in an ODI against England, but they do have trump cards. Chamari Athapaththu is a veteran of franchise cricket and a real threat, while left-arm spinner Inoka Ranaweera had India worried with three wickets in an over in the opening game.SharePreambleGood morning! Today, we are in Colombo, where England start their two match adventure in Sri Lanka by playing the joint hosts.It’s been a pretty shiny start for England. Two wins from two games left them top of the table after the first couple of rounds – even if the victory against Bangladesh wasn’t the most convincing performance – dragged over the line by Heather Knight and some catches that might have been.Sri Lanka are yet to get going, losing to India in the opening game of the tournament while their game against Australia was washed out. But the ball spins a lot at Colombo, and England can come unstuck.Play is due to start at 10.30am BST, though the grungy skies may push things back. Do join us.Share
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