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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

England Women pummel Matthews-less Windies to claim ODI series

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Tammy Beaumont, left, and Amy Jones both scored centuries for the second consecutive match against the West Indies.

Tammy Beaumont, left, and Amy Jones both scored centuries for the second consecutive match against the West Indies.

LEICES­TER – For the sec­ond straight match open­ers Amy Jones and Tam­my Beau­mont both scored cen­turies and Eng­land Women pre­dictably de­feat­ed a West In­dies Women’s side miss­ing their in­spi­ra­tional cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews by 143 runs in the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al at Grace Road in Eng­land on Wednes­day.

Play­er-of-the-Match Jones slammed 129 from just 98 balls, while Beau­mont made 106, which helped pro­pel Eng­land Women to their sixth high­est ODI to­tal of 366 for six from their 50 overs, af­ter they won the toss and chose to bat.

They put on 202 runs for the first wick­et to be­come on­ly the sec­ond pair with two 200-plus part­ner­ships in Women’s ODIs, join­ing Aus­tralians Meg Lan­ning and Ell­yse Per­ry.

Chas­ing 367 was al­ways go­ing to be a tough ask for a West In­dies side miss­ing Matthews, who was out with a shoul­der in­jury sus­tained in the open­ing ODI and hard-hit­ting open­er Qiana Joseph due to ill­ness.

Debu­tant Realean­na Grim­mond, open­ing in place of Matthews, scored an im­pres­sive half cen­tu­ry and Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow hit a coun­ter­at­tack­ing 44, but it was nev­er go­ing to be enough and the vis­i­tors were dis­missed for 223 in 45.4 overs.

The re­sult gave the home side an unas­sail­able 2-0 lead in the best-of-three se­ries, with the fi­nal match set to be played on Sat­ur­day.

Eng­land Women start­ed pos­i­tive­ly, rac­ing to 70 with­out loss af­ter just five overs, with Jones and Beau­mont hit­ting 13 bound­aries be­tween them.

Jahzara Clax­ton should have had Jones’ wick­et when she was 43, but Grim­mond spilled the catch at point.

It was a miss the West In­dies would re­gret.

Jones went on bring up her half cen­tu­ry off 41 balls and a bound­ary off spin­ner Afy Fletch­er car­ried Eng­land past 100 in the sev­enth over.

She then moved in­to her 80s by thump­ing Glas­gow for three suc­ces­sive bound­aries to start the 20th over.

Beau­mont even­tu­al­ly got to her half cen­tu­ry off 64 balls, and in the next over Jones drove Kar­ish­ma Ramharack through ex­tra cov­er for four to reach her cen­tu­ry off 76 balls.

The West In­dies fi­nal­ly broke the part­ner­ship when Ramharack had Jones caught and bowled in the 30th over, af­ter she had struck 20 fours.

Beau­mont made it to three fig­ures by hit­ting Ramharack for three bound­aries off con­sec­u­tive balls in the 38th over as Eng­land mo­tored along to 261 for one.

Em­ma Lamb sus­tained Eng­land’s mo­men­tum by scor­ing 55 off 45 balls dur­ing a 71-run part­ner­ship with Beau­mont that fur­ther frus­trat­ed the vis­i­tors.

But Ramharack dis­missed Beau­mont, Aliyah Al­leyne ac­count­ed for cap­tain Nat Sciv­er-Brunt and Glas­gow snared Lamb’s wick­et to slow the run rate and re­duce Eng­land to 318 for four.

Sophia Dunk­ley smashed 31 from 19 balls to en­sure Eng­land fin­ished with a flour­ish on their way to post­ing a for­mi­da­ble to­tal.

Al­leyne, with 2-52 and Ramharack (2-57), were the West In­dies’ best bowlers.

Need­ing to score at over sev­en and a half runs an over, the vis­i­tors start­ed their run chase pos­i­tive­ly with Grim­mond and Zai­da James adding 37 runs in quick time.

How­ev­er, Lau­ren Bell had the lat­ter caught be­hind for 19 and Lin­sey Smith end­ed stand-in cap­tain She­maine Camp­belle’s tor­tur­ous stay at the crease by hav­ing her caught for six off 23 balls, to make it 61 for two in the 15th over.

Grim­mond kept her side in the game and brought up her maid­en ODI half cen­tu­ry off 64 balls when she pulled Lau­ren Fil­er to square leg for a sin­gle.

But two overs lat­er she was caught at long on for 53 try­ing to hit Smith out of the ground, to leave the Windies 90 for three in the 23rd over.

Stafanie Tay­lor made 20 be­fore she was dis­missed by Al­ice Capsey, and the West In­dies’ chances of vic­to­ry es­sen­tial­ly end­ed when they lost the wick­ets of Glas­gow, Shabi­ka Gajn­abi and Aliyah Al­leyne in the space of sev­en balls to slump to 154 for sev­en.

Cher­ry-Ann Fras­er (24), Clax­ton (18) and Ramharack, who scored an un­beat­en 15, all made cameos but by then the re­sult was de­cid­ed.

For Eng­land, Capsey took 3-41, Smith 2-27, and Fil­er 2-44.

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Brief Scores

ENG­LAND WOMEN 366-6 in 50 overs (Amy Jones 129, Tam­my Beau­mont 106, Em­ma Lamb 55, Sophia Dunk­ley 31, Al­ice Capsey 16, Nat Sciv­er-Brunt 12; Aaliyah Al­leyne 2-52, Kar­ish­ma Ramharack 2-57).

WEST IN­DIES WOMEN 223 in 45.4 overs (Realean­na Grim­mond 53, Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow 44, Cher­ry-Ann Fras­er 24, Stafanie Tay­lor 20, Zai­da James 19, Jahzara Clax­ton 18, Kar­ish­ma Ramharack 15 not out; Al­ice Capsey 3-41, Lin­sey Smith 2-27, Lau­ren Fil­er 2-44).


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