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Mooney eases Australia past West Indies

Ashleigh Gardner, Georgia Wareham and Sophie Molineux all take three wickets before Deandra Dottin recovers from earlier medical incident to lift the West Indies to 125 Beth Mooney fires 29-ball half-century as her side ease to eight-wicket victory Australia now await winners of Thursday’s semi-final between England and South Africa in the final on Sunday

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Australia wary of Matthews threat

World’s number one side qualified top of Group A with win over India at Lord’s They now face a West Indies side who won the tournament in 2016 Hayley Matthews was player of the match that day and Windies skipper has regularly shone against Australia Hayley Matthews is the first to admit that she has

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Wyatt-Hodge half-century helps England into semi-final

Danni Wyatt-Hodge hits 65 and Heather Knight adds 43 as England post highest WT20I total at Lord’s Chinelle Henry’s quickfire half-century in vain as the West Indies fall short in their chase England become the first side to confirm their qualification, while the West Indies have to beat Ireland to secure semi-final spot Danni Wyatt-Hodge’s

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Stafanie Taylor turns back clock to deny spirited Scotland

Former skipper provides crucial late runs in seven-run victory for the Windies Caribbean side now two from two but only after Scotland threatened to chase down target of 154 Darcey Carter scores brilliant 59 in losing cause for the Scots Stafanie Taylor’s heroics with the bat and Aaliyah Alleyne’s death bowling saw the West Indies

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England v West Indies – Second ODI

A sideways look Derby First, records Tammy Beaumont and Amy Jones take pride of place. After their remarkable opening stand of 222 at Derby, with both scoring tons (Jones’ her very first after a dozen years of trying), they repeated the dose at Leicester, falling 20 runs short of their previous effort. Both scored another

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England v West Indies – First ODI

Derby This is England, so a black cloud hovered over the ground and the umbrellas went up, but not for long. Nat Sciver-Brunt won the toss and decided to bat. The game worked out just as we should have expected. Off the first two overs Tammy Beaumont and Amy Jones each hit a four, to

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England v West Indies – T20s 2 & 3

All change for the better? – No! England, already one-up after the match at Canterbury, made the short-form series safe with a second win at Hove by 9 wickets. Scores: West Indies 81-9 England 82-1 The ECB website claims England won by 8 wickets. Ah! 9-1 = 8. The game served to underline the sad

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Hayley Matthews a lone hand again

England v West Indies – First T20 Canterbury The first England game of the summer and a new regime in charge. We waited to see how big an effect this would have on players who had massively underachieved in Australia. Against a West Indian side still far too dependent on one player, it proved an

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