Summary

  • ICC Women's World Cup, Colombo - SL win toss & bowl

  • England bowl out Sri Lanka for 164 to win by 89 runs

  • England 253-9 (50 overs): Sciver-Brunt 117 (117); Ranaweera 3-33

  • Sri Lanka 164 (45.4 overs): Harshitha 33 (37); Ecclestone 4-17

  • England top table by one point over Australia after third straight win

  • Sri Lanka are seventh on one point

Sciver-Brunt hits 117 to reach fifth world cup century 'in grand style'

Live Reporting

by Matthew Henry & Elizabeth Botcherby

  1. Eng 248-8

    This will be four too!

    Nat Sciver-Brunt is taking this away from Sri Lanka at the finish.

  2. Eng 244-8

    And Nat Sciver-Brunt takes full advantage by opening the wrists on a glorious drive through point. Four more.

  3. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Sciver-Brunt is a freak of nature, she's one of the best all-rounders in the world, she is calm and collected and looks like she doesn't feel the pressure and always looks like she is in control of what she's doing.

  4. Eng 240-8

    More poor captaincy allows Linsey Smith to give NSB the strike back in the final over.

  5. Eng 239-8

    The 14 runs from that over have just pushed England into the ascendancy. Where would they be without Nat Sciver-Brunt?

  6. Rufus Bullough
    CricViz analyst

    That is Nat Sciver-Brunt’s fifth Women's World Cup hundred. No player has ever scored more.

  7. Eng 237-8

    Smashed down the ground for four more.

  8. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    What a way to bring up your century. She goes top of the list of most centuries in the women's World Cup.

  9. 6 runs

    100 for Nat Sciver-Brunt

    Sciver-Brunt reaches century 'in grand style' with lofted six over extra cover

    A sensational way to get there! Lofted over extra cover to get to a century.

    Nat Sciver-Brunt celebrates her fifth World Cup ton by mimicking cradling in a baby. Her own young son, Theo, looks completely nonplussed in her wife Katherine's arms.

  10. Eng 227-8

    Sciver-Brunt skews an edge high but perfectly into a gap for two. That was fortunate.

  11. Eng 225-8

    Sciver-Brunt will be on strike at start of the penultimate over. She needs seven more for a century but needs a flurry of boundaries to put her side in a more comfortable position.

  12. Eng 222-8

    I'm not sure why Sri Lanka aren't bringing the field in a bit to Linsey Smith. She's just calmly giving the strike back to Nat Sciver-Brunt whenever needed because there are gaps everywhere.

  13. Not out

    As expected.

  14. Umpire review

    The TV umpire is checking one of those run-outs at the non-striker's end where the ball hits the bowler and deflects onto the stumps.

    The only issue is the bowler didn't even appeal so surely they know it hasn't hit her.

  15. Eng 218-8

    Nat Sciver-Brunt retains the strike for the 48th over. England aren't out of reach of Sri Lanka yet.

  16. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It's a brilliant take, but she had all the time in the world because Eccelstone was so far down the wicket, but a brilliant stumping nonetheless, as she didn't have much time to see.

  17. Two balls remain in the over as Linsey Smith joins NSB.

  18. wicket

    WICKET

    Ecclestone st Sanjeewani b Dasanayaka 3 (Eng 216-8)

    Ecclestone stumped for three after going for wide Dasanayaka delivery

    Another crucial wicket for the Sri Lankans! This one is a superb stumping as Anushka Sanjeewani mops up down the leg side and corrects her balance to whip off the bails as Sophie Ecclestone loses her balance.

    Nat Sciver-Brunt is at risk of being left out there on her own here.

  19. Eng 214-7

    Nat Sciver-Brunt drills the first boundary for 34 balls down the ground.

    It's time to go.

  20. Eng 209-7

    Sciver-Brunt 82, Ecclestone 2

    Three more singles to end the over. Sri Lanka won't mind that.

    Four overs to go.