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Nat Sciver finished arsenic the starring tally scorer successful the ODI bid with 180 successful 3 innings| England 256 (44.3 overs): Sciver 85 (69); Selman 3-29, Matthews 3-56 |
| West Indies 105-9 (37.3 overs): Matthews 28 (39); Ecclestone 3-9 |
| England won by 151 runs |
| Scorecard |
England thrashed West Indies by 151 runs successful the 3rd and last one-day planetary successful Antigua to implicit a ascendant 3-0 bid win.
Nat Sciver struck 85 from 69 balls arsenic England were bowled retired for 256.
It was an improved bowling show from the hosts - Hayley Matthews and Shakera Selman taking 3 wickets each.
But their batting fto them down erstwhile again arsenic the were dismissed for conscionable 105 successful 37.3 overs, with England spinner Sophie Ecclestone claiming 3-9.
West Indies ended 9 down arsenic fig 11 Selman did not bat due to the fact that of an injury.
For the 2nd lucifer successful succession England were bowled retired wrong their 50 overs contempt winning the toss.
However, the crippled followed the aforesaid inclination of the archetypal 2 arsenic what looked a below-par full proved to beryllium plentifulness with different beardown bowling performance.
The 2 sides determination connected to the archetypal of 5 Twenty20s connected Sunday astatine 22:00 GMT.
Superb Sciver shines again
All-rounder Sciver said she had reached "boiling point" aft the Commonwealth Games successful August, starring to a interruption from cricket until she returned with a sublime 90 successful the archetypal ODI successful Antigua.
She is reaping the rewards of that interruption now. In scoring her 2nd half-century of the series, she took her tally of ODI runs for the twelvemonth to 833 - surpassing Claire Taylor's grounds for an English pistillate of 807 successful 2005.
It has been a turbulent twelvemonth for England's apical order. Tammy Beaumont has had 4 antithetic opening partners passim the year, Sophia Dunkley is inactive learning her trade astatine fig 3 and skipper Heather Knight was retired for respective months done injury.
Here, Beaumont and Emma Lamb enactment connected 63 for the archetypal wicket earlier England slipped to 84-4, with spinner Kaysia Schultz taking 2 wickets connected her planetary debut.
Once again, Sciver was England's rock, scoring heavy with the expanse changeable arsenic she deed 10 fours and enactment connected a fifth-wicket basal of 90 with Danni Wyatt (35 disconnected 41), earlier Amy Jones, captaining successful spot of the rested Knight, added 32 not out.
Sciver's vexation was evident arsenic she fell abbreviated of a period by dragging onto her stumps but she made an interaction with the shot arsenic well, taking 2-16 disconnected 4 overs.
Her good instrumentality to planetary cricket is simply a invited boost for England earlier the T20 World Cup and Ashes adjacent year.
A atrocious bid for Windies batters
West Indies tin beryllium pleased with their improvements successful the tract this series. After conceding 307 successful the archetypal ODI with a sloppy performance, they bowled England retired successful the adjacent two, with promising signs from Matthews, Selman and spinners Schultz and Afy Fletcher.
Yet the batting was a conflict - Rashada Williams' half-century successful the 2nd ODI was their lone idiosyncratic people of much than 40 successful the series.
They are over-reliant connected opener Matthews making runs. She showed glimpses successful each of her innings but could not spell connected to marque a large people and present fell for 28 acknowledgment to a magnificent one-handed drawback astatine gaffe by Ecclestone disconnected Kate Cross.
The hosts slipped 65-5, losing 3 wickets for nary tally astatine 1 constituent arsenic Sciver removed Kycia Knight and Williams, portion Charlie Dean had Aaliyah Alleyne stumped.
Ecclestone past ran done the mediate and little order, her singular spell including six maidens successful 9 overs.
Against a West Indies broadside who bash not person the spot successful batting extent to rival England, it is pugnacious to measure wherever England's onslaught stands earlier a cardinal twelvemonth successful 2023 but determination are wide positives.
Cross continues to thrive successful her relation starring the attack, young spinner Dean finished arsenic the series' starring wicket-taker with seven, and Lauren Bell's four-wicket haul successful the 2nd ODI demonstrated her potential.
The T20 bid whitethorn payment West Indies much - they were T20 satellite champions successful 2016 - but, unless their batters measurement up, determination are going to beryllium 5 much pugnacious matches ahead.
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