England vs Pakistan: Sophie Ecclestone closes in on 100 ODI wickets in report time as hosts win sequence opener | Cricket Information

England overcame a sloppy show to safe a 37-run win over Pakistan within the first one-day worldwide of their three-match sequence in Derby.

No England batter scored greater than 44 as they posted 243-9 from their 50 overs, whereas they conceded 40 extras – a staff report in ladies’s ODI cricket – in Pakistan’s reply.

Amy Jones additionally dropped two possibilities from behind the stumps however, regardless of the errors, England in the end emerged victorious, sustaining their unbeaten report towards Pakistan in ODI cricket

Sophie Ecclestone claimed 3-26, taking her tally to 98 wickets in ODIs and two wanting being the quickest to a century within the format – two wanted in her subsequent match to interrupt the report of 64 video games set by Australia’s Cathryn Fitzpatrick.

The 2 groups head to Taunton on Sunday for the second ODI, the place England will look to wrap up a second sequence win following their 3-0 whitewash within the previous T20s.

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Put into bat on the toss, England’s prime order struggled for fluency towards Pakistan’s array of pace-off bowlers, with the introduction of left-arm spinner Nashra Sandhu (2-41) within the ninth over securing the opening breakthrough of Maia Bouchier (17) lbw.

Tammy Beaumont (33) was one other to be pinned in entrance, by Umm-e-Hani (2-43), whereas Heather Knight finally perished for 29 in a streaky innings that noticed the England skipper twice dropped, on 0 and 18.

Nat Sciver-Brunt (31) was one other to get a begin however fail to kick on, falling to Aliya Riaz (2-24) to depart England 118-4, earlier than Alice Capsey (44) and Amy Jones (37) rebuilt with a 67-run partnership for the fifth wicket.

Capsey’s effort was a career-best mark in ODI cricket however the 19-year-old would fall six shy of a maiden half-century, popping a easy return catch again to Nashra.

Nida Dar (3-56) then ran by the decrease order as England flirted with failing to bat out their full 50 overs.

Unbeaten of their 12 earlier ODI encounters towards Pakistan, England would nonetheless have been assured of defending their relatively modest rating however they had been wayward with the ball, notably early on within the chase the place 17 wides got here within the opening 15 overs.

In that interval, Lauren Bell (2-42) at the very least picked up Sidra Amin (2) caught behind quickly after Jones dropped her on the identical rating, but it surely was the introduction of Ecclestone within the sixteenth over that appeared to interrupt England out of their slumber.

The left-arm spinner bowled each Sadaf Shamas (24) and Ayesha Zafar (8) within the house of three overs to cut back Pakistan to 79-3 however their batting order did not subside thereafter.

Muneeba Ali (34) – dropped by Jones on 14 – was nicely supported by skipper Nida Dar (26), with a helpful contribution too from Aliya Riaz (21) and the hosts could have been just a little involved when, with 16 overs to go, Pakistan required 95 at lower than a run a ball and with six wickets nonetheless remaining.

However Charlie Dean (2-39) picked up Nida within the subsequent as three wickets instantly fell in as many overs to all however extinguish the guests’ hopes of an upset.

Kate Cross (2-46) returned to seize two late on as Pakistan limped to 206-9 on the conclusion of their 50 overs, 34 runs quick.

Knight: A scrappy efficiency from England

England captain Heather Knight:

“It was a scrappy performance, we can do a lot better, there were too many extras but at the end of the day, we got the job done.

“It is difficult to power it on that wicket. I believed Tammy [Beaumont] set the tempo actually properly in addition to [Alice] Capsey however there have been numerous issues we are able to tidy up.

“I’ve talked a lot about finding the tempo in ODI cricket and the more we do things for longer, the better we get at it.

“There have been numerous stop-starts and also you need one batter to dominate and we wanted to be much more tidy within the discipline.”

Ecclestone: Great to get three wickets

Player of the Match, England’s Sophie Ecclestone (3-26):

“It was chilly on the market but it surely’s nice to get three wickets and get the win. I simply tried to maintain bowling my greatest ball for longer.

“I think we didn’t get enough runs, we should’ve got more, we wanted to take wickets and we did.”

Nida: We have to enhance our batting

Pakistan’s captain Nida Dar:

“I think our bowlers bowled really well and we expected England to make 270 and we restricted them on 250, so that is really good.

“At half time it wasn’t over and I instructed the staff we have to have extra partnerships as a result of that is the place we’re nonetheless missing. We’ll speak and plan once more, we simply want to complete the sport.”

Watch the second ODI between England and Pakistan from Taunton, live on Sky Sports Cricket on Sunday from 10.30am (first ball 11am). Also stream with NOW.

England vs Pakistan ODI series fixtures – live on Sky Sports

May 23: First Women’s One-Day International – England win by 37 runs
May 26: Second Women’s One-Day International – Taunton, 11am
May 29: Third Women’s One-Day International – Chelmsford, 1pm

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