Postpublished at 07:32 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
Alex Hartley
England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
Sciver is playing a really good innings, and if England are to have any chance of winning she's got to stay there and get a hundred.
Summary
England fall short having needed 16 off final over
Sciver hits brilliant 79-ball century; is dropped in penultimate over
Beaumont, dropped at slip on 4, hits 74 before falling to King leg-break
An England victory would be a record run-chase in women's ODI cricket
England lose Winfield-Hill in first over of their reply
Haynes hits 130 off 131 balls to set up big total for Australia
Lanning & Haynes put on 196 for second wicket
Postpublished at 07:32 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
Eng 218-5published at 39 overs
Target: 311
Dunkley adds another boundary with a delicate shot, running the ball very fine but wide of Healy.
England need another 93 runs from 11 overs to win.
Postpublished at 07:28 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
Alex Hartley
England spinner on BBC Test Match SpecialThat was one of the shots of the day from Nat Sciver.
Eng 212-5published at 38.1 overs
Target: 311
Too much width from Sutherland and Sciver pounces on it. The ball is guided past backward point for four more.
Eng 207-5published at 37.5 overs
Dunkley 12, Sciver 61 (Target: 311)
Excellent timing again from Sciver, on the sweep this time and expertly finds the gap.
England are still marginal ahead of where Australia were at the same stage, albeit having lost more wickets.
200 uppublished at 07:24 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
Eng 202-5 (Target: 311)
Swing and a miss from Sophia Dunkley but the King delivery turns past the gloves of Healy as well and trickles all the way to the rope.
Eng 196-5published at 36.2 overs
Target: 311
Sciver moves across her stumps again and scoops the ball down to fine leg for two. She is such a clean striker of the ball but she has got those deft shots in her arsenal as well.
Eng 192-5published at 36 overs
Dunkley 9, Sciver 54 (Target: 311)
King rattles through another over and it is singles all the way for England.
That required rate is now creeping up towards 8.5 an over.
Postpublished at 07:18 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
Alex Hartley
England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
Image source, Getty ImagesEngland are not out of it yet, all it takes is two or three good overs and that run-rate comes down. I sense that if Australia get one more wicket, they will be comfortable.
50 for Sciverpublished at 07:16 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
Eng 183-5
Nat Sciver brings up her half-century from 43 balls with a single from the first ball of the McGrath over. She has batted superbly thus far and if she is still there at the end, then who knows?
Eng 182-5published at 34 overs
Target: 311
King is back into the attack now and her fourth over goes for five, Sciver moves to 49 with a single from the last.
Pakistan dominate against Australiapublished at 07:14 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
Image source, Getty ImagesPakistan are 302-1 against Australia in the first Test in Rawalpindi. It's looking like a huge total for the hosts, who have Imam-ul-Haq still there on 154 not out and Azhar Ali on 95 not out. Full scorecard here.
In Mohali, India are 491-8 against Sri Lanka. Full scorecard here.
Postpublished at 07:13 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
After ending Tammy Beaumont's fine innings with a ripping leg-break, Alana King paid tribute to Shane Warne...
Postpublished at 07:11 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
Alex Hartley
England spinner on BBC Test Match SpecialPerfect seam delivery, Danni Wyatt on the front foot and just missing it. Time and time again, Tahlia McGrath delivers.
WICKETpublished at 07:09 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
Wyatt b McGrath 7 (Eng 177-5)
Knocked her over! Having been pulled for four the previous ball, Tahlia McGrath - so often the scourge of England in the recent Ashes - finds the perfect response, drawing Wyatt forward and pegging back the off stump.
Postpublished at 07:06 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
Alex Hartley
England spinner on BBC Test Match SpecialThey talk about doubling your score at 32 overs. But net run rate will come into it, it always does at these tournaments. This early in a competition, you've got to win.
Eng 171-4published at 32 overs
Target: 311
Sciver gets a third boundary in the over, another one pulled in front of square. It splits the two fielders in the deep perfectly.
A good over for England going into drinks, 13 from it.
Eng 166-4published at 31.3 overs
Target: 311
Image source, Getty ImagesIf England are to get anywhere near the 311 they need to win then Sciver is likely to have to play a big part.
She is going about it the right way, clubbing Perry over mid-wicket before running the next ball past short third - back-to-back boundaries!
Eng 158-4published at 31 overs
Target: 311
Scutt ends a tidy over with a leg cutter than beats Wyatt on the outside edge.
The required rate has nudged above eight an over for England. It would take something special to win it from here.
Postpublished at 06:56 Greenwich Mean Time 5 March 2022
Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match SpecialThis is the moment Australia will try and squeeze the run-rate and put England under pressure.
