A ruthless England thrashed Scotland by 10 wickets on the Girls’s T20 World Cup to all however safe a semi-final place.
Maia Bouchier (62no off 34) and Danni Wyatt-Hodge (51no off 26) powered England to an ask of 110 in simply 10 overs, sharing the aspect’s first hundred opening stand in T20 World Cups since 2012.
The dimensions of the victory in Sharjah lifts Heather Knight’s group prime of Group B, above South Africa on net-run fee, and they’ll safe a semi-final place by beating West Indies in Dubai on Tuesday.
Nevertheless, England will qualify with something aside from a heavy defeat as their NRR is presently +1.716 in comparison with South Africa’s +1.382, giving them some margin for error.
England’s third win in a row was arrange by the bowlers as they restricted Scotland to 109-6, with spinner Sophie Ecclestone snaffling 2-13 and recalled seamer Lauren Bell 1-16.
Scotland, who’ve misplaced all 4 of their matches of their debut T20 World Cup, noticed skipper Kathryn Bryce (33 off 28) and sister Sarah (27 off 31) top-score with the bat.
However their wayward bowling was brutally punished by England with Bouchier – dropped on 12 by Scotland spinner Olivia Bell – crunching 12 boundaries in an announcement triumph for her aspect.
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