England vs New Zealand: 5th Women’s ODI – LIVE!

Divine brings back his spear, Tahuhu, and it works! Heather Knight gets a touch of Nothing Ball down the leg side and goes from heroine to zero. game on.

17th over: England 95-1 (Beaumont 40, Knight 0) So no half-centuries for Winfield-Hill, no hundred partnerships, and a glimmer of hope for the White Ferns.

You’re not going to believe it, but Winfield-Hill has been relegated. Jensen Angle at one in and Winfield-Hill sticks it over midwicket, where Amy Satterthwaite sees it late, throws an arm up and can only tip over the bar. And then it happens all over again, with a pull shot – except this time Satterthwaite holds up! So Winfield-Hill, who seemed like the cat with nine lives, only has four, and doesn’t really capitalize on all that generosity.

16th over: England 91-0 (Winfield-Hill 40, Beaumont 39) Rowe continues, even though she was putting some strapping on her right knee a moment ago. Katie Martin comes up to the stumps to stop the batsmen standing outside the crease, but that doesn’t spoil her style – Winfield-Hill for a straight-drive four, Beaumont for a four and a whip, and it’s all too easy.

15th over: England 80-0 (Winfield-Hill 33, Beaumont 35) Penfold was relieved as Devine brought on his fifth seamer Hayley Jensen. Bowling changes but diet remains the same – medium right arm pace. Jensen’s second ball is bowled for four at mid-off by Winfield-Hill, who are in a mood to pay New Zealand for all those fouls.

14th over: England 75-0 (Winfield-Hill 28, Beaumont 35) Another respectable over, four extras in total. Heather Knight’s hunch that it was a pitch to bat first looks surprising – although the ball has done enough to justify passing Sophie Devine to the other side. It’s all about those dropped catches.

13th over: England 71-0 (Winfield-Hill 27, Beaumont 32) Penfold is good enough not to go for a four, but the runs are still flowing – a few singles, a leg-by and a wide. It looks ominous for New Zealand.

12th over: England 67-0 (Winfield-Hill 27, Beaumont 31) New Zealand are desperate for a breakthrough, so they Review A LBW that is strongly rejected by Sue Ryan. It was a fine ball from Rowe, leaning backward, perhaps clipping Beaumont’s bail, but the impact was outside the line, so the review is lost. Beaumont, rubbing it again, whips the next ball for four.

Here’s Austin Baird, answering my question about the moment of summer. “Well, for what it’s worth,” he begins politely, “on Sunday 12 September I was watching Newcastle CC legend Keith Brown at South Northumberland CC, walked off the pitch for the last time. 56 years old I thought Keith thought the time was right to hang up his boots.” 56! Don’t tell Jimmy Anderson. “I first saw young Tyro in 1982 and he may have lost some momentum with his fast ball and he Maybe not working as hard as he used to, but his fire and desire for Newcastle CC never faded. Apart from this, James Carr was playing his last game on the previous day in Bolden CC. Truly the end of an era for me. Hat tip to both. Fiction.

“P.S. Thank you and all your colleagues for the excellent work you have done for us.” Ah thanks Austin, it’s always a pleasure.

11th over: England 60-0 (Winfield-Hill 24, Beaumont 27) More point as Penfold, with his long lever, ties Beaumont down – but then there’s enough width for a cover drive, and another muddy piece of fielding lets it slip through four. The bowlers have been really let down by their fielders here.

10th over: England 55-0 (Winfield-Hill 24, Beaumont 22) Hannah Rowe arrives as the fourth seamer and restores order with a young woman. New Zealand needed it, but England are dominating it even after the powerplay is over.

9th over: England 55-0 (Winfield-Hill 24, Beaumont 22) Dropping a catch can be considered bad luck. Dropping two sounds like carelessness. To drop three Is an absolute shocker, especially when it is the same batsman every time. Winfield-Hill delivers a big rough snitch from Penfold, and it’s a mystery why Katie Martin can’t catch up behind the stumps. To bring England up, Beaumont rubs it off, clipping for four fifty, and then stretching for four more.

8th over: England 46-0 (Winfield-Hill 24, Beaumont 14) Devine keeps himself running, but goes down the leg side, conceding four leg-byes and a wide, so an over with only one run off the bat ends at a cost of six. Adam Collins of this parish is commenting and he says that this is England’s last ODI till February. The openers are playing as if they are well aware of it.

7th over: England 40-0 (Winfield-Hill 23, Beaumont 14) Devine made a change in her first bowling, replacing off-colour Tahuhu with Molly Penfold. She starts off briskly but then blows her copybook away with a waist-high full-toss called a no-ball. Winfield-Hill tucks into the free hit, launches it for four at mid-on, and England are already on top.

6th over: England 33-0 (Winfield-Hill 18, Beaumont 13) Devine again, Winfield-Hill again, Down again – fell again! A tough chance this time, a drive that went a yard or two to his right at the backward point. He hit the dive right and the grab wrong. Even the best fielders can have a bad day.

5th over: England 25-0 (Winfield-Hill 12, Beaumont 11) Tahuhu does not look like the bowler who took five wickets on the second day. She drops short twice in this over and both openers cash-in-Beaumont with a cut for four, with a swivel-pull to Winfield-Hill Six.

Skye shows a hat ceremony from before, honoring some of Kent’s women, past and present. “The cool thing about these new caps,” says Lydia Greenaway, “is that they have holes for the ponytail.”

4th over: England 13-0 (Winfield-Hill 5, Beaumont 6) A maiden for Divine, but a missed opportunity. She lures Winfield-Hill again into a thick edge, and this time it’s a dolly to backward point, waist high, not too sharp — but it is dropped Usually Trusted by Lauren Down. A case for Lauren’s humanity for Lauren.

3rd over: England 13-0 (Winfield-Hill 5, Beaumont 6) Tammy Beaumont takes two tows off Tahuhu, going back to rest through cover, then proceeds to clip midwicket. Tahuhu receives a warning to run down the line of the stumps.

2nd over: England 9-0 (Winfield-Hill 5, Beaumont 2) At the other end is Sophie Devine, who is swinging the ball brilliantly. She’s more expensive than the Tahuhu, but also more dangerous – the first four of the day, from Lauren Winfield-Hill, scuttled through a thick ledge that runs down the back alley.

1st over: England 2-0 (Winfield-Hill 1, Beaumont 1) The new ball is in the hands of Lee Tahuhu and he is still on the spot, conceded only two singles. It is a sleepy September morning in Canterbury, with a slight crowd. Katherine Brunt just made another interesting point, saying that the series felt like a bit of a comeback after The Hundred. It may be a blemish on the men’s schedule, but it’s been a huge hit in its own right—and for the women’s sport, it’s been transformative.

The butcher also asks good questions, not a talent given to many people joking in the dressing room. She now has England all-rounder Katherine Brunt, and after teasing her a bit about the fact that she is taking another rest, he gives her a summary of the journey of women’s cricket in her time.

“Always on the rise, to be honest,” she says. “You go from buying your own kit to suddenly getting some kit, thinking it’s the best thing in the world, then getting a sponsor, playing in front of a hundred people, playing in front of a thousand, 20,000- in some lords. A hundred was a great height and the girls were going [she mimes wide-eyed and open-mouthed]. We have people coming to our rocket game saying they will travel five hours to get there.

you know we’ve arrived end of summer When TV coverage is being fronted by a person in a raincoat. It turns out on closer inspection the OBO’s new favorite commentator is Mark Butcher. He’s fluent and witty and irreverent, and he’s got to top the table at just the right time, as the great Michael Holding bows out.

England 1 Tammy Beaumont, 2 Lauren Winfield-Hill, 3 Heather Knight (c), 4 Nat Sciver, 5 Amy Jones (wk), 6 Sophia Dunkley, 7 Danny Wyatt, 8 Charlie Dean, 9 Sophie Ecclestone, 10 Anya Shrubsole, 11 Kate To get across.

New Zealand 1 Lauren Downs, 2 Suzy Bates, 3 Maddie Green, 4 Amy Satterthwaite, 5 Sophie Devine (c), 6 Brooke Holiday, 7 Katie Martin (wk), 8 Hayley Jensen, 9 Hannah Rowe, 10 Lee Tahuhu, 11 Molly Penfold.

Sophie Devine made the right call and realized it was gray enough to hold a bowl. Heather Knight says she would have batted first anyway.

Morning everyone and welcome to the final reel. It is the end of a one-day series that is too full of life to succumb to the dreaded phrase “dead rubber”. New Zealand may not win it, but they can make it 3-2, which would be a fair reflection of their efforts. And England can enjoy knowing not only that the series is in the bag, but that women’s cricket is now more popular than ever in this country.

Today also marks the end of England’s international summer. Do you even remember when it started? I have a faint impression that it was early June. Then, like now, England were playing New Zealand, but it was men, and it was a Test. It was long before Stuart Broad was fit, Dom Sibley was opening the batting, and there was a cap ceremony for a promising young debutante named James Bracey. And then England refused to chase down a run to their supporters. Had they known they would only win one Test for the rest of the season, they would have decided to play it.

So here we are, almost four months later. If you’re sending an email, tell us about your summer moments, big or small – something you’ll remember with a smile when it’s dark at 4 p.m. and you’re still on your way to the petrol station. Stuck in the queue.

The game starts at 11am local time, so I’ll be back soon with the toss and the teams.