West Indies v England: Lauren Bell takes 4-33 as visitors secure comfortable ODI series win

Lauren Bell took 4-33 for England, her champion ODI figures

England thrashed West Indies by 142 runs to unafraid a ascendant one-day planetary bid triumph successful Antigua.

Bell and Kate Cross, who took 2-35, tore done a fragile West Indies batting line-up arsenic the hosts slipped to 49-5 wrong the archetypal 10 overs of their chase.

It was different highly one-sided encounter, with England taking an unassailable 2-0 pb successful the three-match series.

England's 260 each retired looked beneath par astatine the halfway stage, aft they chose to bat archetypal connected a level transportation connected which they scored 307 2 days ago.

Sophia Dunkley made 55 and Amy Jones was near stranded connected 70 not retired arsenic West Indies enactment successful a much-improved show with the shot and successful the tract - skipper Hayley Matthews starring the mode with 3-50.

Opener Emma Lamb was tally retired for 25 connected her instrumentality to the broadside arsenic she replaced Alice Capsey, who has returned to the UK aft breaking her collarbone successful the archetypal ODI.

But the hosts' batting crumbled erstwhile again, with Rashada Williams' unbeaten half-century the lone publication of much than 20.

Bell took 2 wickets successful the archetypal over, including the prized wicket of Matthews, to spark a melodramatic West Indies collapse, and spinners Sophie Ecclestone and Charlie Dean took 2 wickets apiece to implicit the win.

The 3rd and last ODI takes spot astatine the aforesaid venue connected Friday astatine 18:00 GMT.

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Bell makes her mark

The show of an England opening bowler causing havoc with extravagant inswing is not an unfamiliar 1 successful caller years.

Anya Shrubsole retired successful April aft much than a decennary of planetary cricket, and erstwhile a subordinate of specified calibre steps aside, determination is ever a lingering question of who tin regenerate them.

Enter Lauren Bell.

The gangly 21-year-old made her planetary debuts successful each 3 formats successful the summer, and was awesome without truly taking centre stage.

But defending what initially looked similar a below-par full successful Antigua, Bell ripped done the West Indies' apical bid with a brutal spell of bowling; bamboozling the batters with a lethal operation of pace, bounce and swing.

Matthews was caught astatine slip, earlier elder batter Kycia Knight was caught down 2 balls later. Shemaine Campbell was pinned lbw soon after, and Chedean Nation edged a abbreviated shot down successful a chaotic, breathless commencement to the chase.

The ever-consistent Cross whitethorn consciousness hard done by aft bowling a superb spell from the different end, combining with Bell to efficaciously extremity the crippled wrong the archetypal powerplay.

Williams, 25, was the lone agleam spark successful a bleak West Indies performance, taking the onslaught to England arsenic she remained not retired connected 54, but the gulf betwixt the 2 sides was erstwhile again harshly exposed arsenic the remainder of the innings felt similar nary much than a formality.

Jones and Dunkley measurement up for England

At the halfway signifier of the game, it felt similar a immense missed accidental for the West Indies to combat their mode backmost into the series.

They had England teetering astatine 133-4, with some Knight and Sciver dismissed, arsenic England's apical bid made promising starts but could not accelerate.

But the accidental went begging arsenic they failed to capitalise connected specified a promising position.

Dunkley kept her cool, playing with attacking intent contempt the regular wickets, sweeping the spinners and punishing the abbreviated balls that the seamers offered.

But the crippled was determination for the taking for the hosts erstwhile Dunkley was bowled aft attempting a expanse from extracurricular disconnected stump, and Danni Wyatt fell soon aft for 13 arsenic England were 175-6 with 17 overs inactive to bat.

They succeeded successful slowing the pace, arsenic England struggled to people fluently against the rotation of Matthews and Afy Fletcher, and they gradually chipped distant astatine the little order.

But conscionable arsenic Dunkley had done, Jones stood successful their mode and, aft a pugnacious twelvemonth with the bat truthful far, looked adjacent to her destructive champion with an array of reverse sweeps combined with powerfulness down the ground.

In the end, 260 was much than capable for England - but aft 2 highly one-sided games to commencement the series, it is hard to spot West Indies having galore amended opportunities than this to triumph a crippled during this tour.

'We are playing without fear'

England seamer Lauren Bell: "It was a large squad show today, we're truly arrogant of the mode we played. Lewy [new Head Coach Jon Lewis] has talked a batch astir playing without fearfulness and determination being nary bounds connected what we tin achieve, I consciousness similar we saw that today.

"Personally, I conscionable stuck to my program and to get a vocation champion successful a crippled that sealed the ODI bid is truly cool.

"We're not peculiarly looking astatine changing our crippled program arsenic we proceed the remainder of the tour, our minds are connected each crippled arsenic they travel and playing with the aforesaid aggression and positivity we did today, it's precise freeing."