Summary

  • Match rained off with Pakistan closing on win - full report

  • Pakistan set DLS-adjusted 113 to win

  • Match reduced to 31 overs per side after rain

  • Dean hits 33 as England reach 133-9 after resumption

  • England reduced to 79-7 when rain arrives

  • England lose five wickets in first 10 overs

  • Fatima removes Jones, Knight & Sciver-Brunt cheaply

  • Arlott & Glenn replace ill Bell & Ecclestone

Live Reporting

by Matthew Henry, Sam Drury & Maisie Gallen

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    Cometh the hour, cometh the Lamb. Come on Emma!

    Owen in Kingswood

    England's top order in disarray? This is like watching the men's Test side of five years ago.

    Katherine in Kenilworth

    It's not just the opening partnership that has been the problem, our middle order has produced nothing so far. Now I'm worried as we need them to perform for the first time in the tournament!

    Mike

  2. Eng 54-4

    Swing and a miss from Sophia Dunkley on the drive and wicketkeeper Sidra Nawaz, stood up to the stumps, takes a nasty blow on the end of the finger.

    To make matters worse, the ball runs away for four byes.

    Fatima Sana is through five overs now but with figures of 3-19 and the ball still nipping around, she will be very tempted to keep herself going for another over or two.

    Well, maybe not. The Pakistan skipper is heading off the fielder. She crouches down just off the playing area and seems to be struggling with something.

  3. How's stat?!

    Rufus Bullough
    CricViz analyst

    Fatimia Sana is finding, on average, 1.2° of seam movement off the pitch in the first 10 overs of the innings.

    This is the most of any seam bowler in the tournament to play more than two games. As a consequence, she is the leading seam-bowling wicket-taker in the Powerplay so far.

  4. Eng 50-4

    Top shot.

    Slightly overpitched from Fatima Sana and Sophia Dunkley drives superbly between extra cover and mid-off.

    The fielder gets a fingertip to it but that's not enough to stop it reaching the fence.

  5. Estelle Vasudevan
    Sri Lankan cricket commentator

    Pakistan have for a real opportunity here. How many times have we seen this happen with teams like Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka?

    This is not what anyone would have predicted.

  6. Eng 46-4

    The seamers have torn through England's top-order but with Diana Baig struggling for consistency, she is taken out of the attack and on comes left-arm spinner Sadia Iqbal.

    Sophia Dunkley cuts nicely behind square for two and Emma Lamb ends the over with two clipped to deep backward square.

    Good running and it's six from the over.

  7. Estelle Vasudevan
    Sri Lankan cricket commentator

    It is a huge advantage to the bowlers that England only really have right-hand batters. It means you don't really need to change your line.

    I wonder if England will be hoping for the rain to come in now.

  8. Eng 40-4

    You're not the first to suggest Emma Lamb moving up to open, Caz, and she's at the crease in the seventh over so it's not that different from opening...

    Well, other than the numbers of batters left to come in after her.

    Lamb gets off the mark with a crisp drive, it's well stopped in the covers so it's just a single.

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    Surely it's time to look again at this opening partnership. Perhaps we should move Lamb up to open with Jones, drop Beaumont and bring Wyatt-Hodge in down the order.

    Caz, Portsmouth

  10. Estelle Vasudevan
    Sri Lankan cricket commentator

    We thought the spinners were going to make an impact but instead it's the seamers causing all the issues.

  11. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Fatima Sana of Pakistan celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of Heather Knight of EnglandGetty Images

    A staggering start from Pakistan! Their bowlers are continuing where they left off against Australia.

    England are in trouble.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Knight lbw b Fatima 18 (Eng 39-4)

    Three reds and Heather Knight is gone.

    Movement back in off the seam once again from Fatima Sana, who has got this ball on a string, and it beats Knight's inside edge for the umpteenth time.

    Height was never an issue, impact was in line and it was going on to thud into leg stump.

    Knight bowled by Fatima

  13. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    This could be a massive moment here. If we thought the wicket of Nat Sciver-Brunt was huge - this could be even bigger.

  14. England review

    This could be four...

    Heather Knight is rapped on the pad, is given out and, for the third time, there is going to be a review.

    I think she might be struggling this time.

  15. How's stat?!

    Rufus Bullough
    CricViz analyst

    England batters v pace in the Powerplay this WC:

    • v Outswing: 0 wickets, 100 SR
    • v Inswing: 4 wickets, 70 SR

  16. Estelle Vasudevan
    Sri Lankan cricket commentator on Radio 5Live

    Pakistan will be thrilled. That delivery was coming in and smacks into the middle stump.

    This is as good a start as Pakistan could have hoped for.

  17. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Fatima Sana of PakistanGetty Images

    That was a very 'un-Nat Sciver-Brunt' shot.

  18. wicket

    WICKET

    Sciver-Brunt b Fatima 4 (Eng 38-3)

    Dragged on! England are in bother now...

    Captain versus captain and Fatima Sana gets Nat Sciver-Brunt - and, of course, it's another ball that nips back off the seam.

    This one is slightly shorter, the England skipper goes back to try and thump it through the off side.

    It probably wasn't quite wide or short enough for that shot and the error of judgement costs Sciver-Brunt. Pakistan are jubilant.

    Sciver-Brunt bowled by Fatima in seventh over

  19. Eng 38-2

    Better end to the over from Diana Baig, still not exactly consistent but five dot balls are five dot balls.

  20. Eng 38-2

    Four more.

    Lovely late cut from Heather Knight and the ball races down to the deep third boundary.

    It is all happening so far. Runs, wickets, reviews, you name it...

    Ah, add a horrible full toss down leg to the list. Diana Baig is not showing the same control as her captain.