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

Live Reporting

Sam Drury and Tim Oscroft

  1. Eng 154-4

    Target: 311

    Danni Wyatt is the new batter, joining Sciver in the middle, and gets off the mark with a single to short fine leg.

  2. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    That's another soft dismissal from Amy Jones. Are we going to see another batting collapse from England after they put themselves into such a good position?

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Jones c Haynes b King 4 (Eng 153-4)

    King has another one. This is rather more fortuitous than the last but they all count. A drag-down from the leggie but Jones pulls it straight to mid-wicket off the toe of the bat.

  4. dropped catch

    Dropped catch

    Eng 152-3 (Target: 311)

    Is that a drop? I think it is. Megan Schutt is back into the attack and finds a feather of an inside edge from Amy Jones. Alyssa Healy is stood up to the stumps so it is a very tough chance and the ball flicks off her gloves and is pulled up just short of the rope.

  5. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer in Hamilton

    Straight away, Alana King pointed to the black armband and paid her own little tribute to Shane Warne.

  6. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer in Hamilton

    That's wonderful bowling by Alana King, who has lured Tammy Beaumont out of her crease and ripped one past the batter's edge.

  7. wicket

    WICKET

    Beaumont st Healy b King 74 (Eng 149-3)

    Superb from King! A proper leg-spinner's dismissal. Drift and dip before the ball rips past Beaumont's outside edge as the England opener advanced. Healy completes the stumping. A delivery Shane Warne would have been proud of.

  8. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer in Hamilton

    Stick with us - England have got a chance to do something really special here.

  9. 50 runs

    50 partnership

    England 144-2 (Target: 311)

    A well-placed late cut from Sciver earns her two and brings up the fifty partnership, 25 runs apiece for Sciver and Beaumont in this third-wicket stand.

  10. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer in Hamilton

    There's applause for Sciver for the audacity and skill of that shot from the England team and coaches in the dugout area.

  11. Eng 141-2

    Target: 311

    Lovely shot from Nat Sciver! The all-rounder is across her stumps and ramps the ball fine, four runs.

  12. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer in Hamilton

    Alana King made her Test, one-day and T20 debuts for Australia in the space of a couple of weeks in the Ashes.

  13. Eng 133-2

    Target: 311

    Thanks, Tim. England are still right in this one but they are going to have to go some in the second half of the innings.

    Meanwhile, Alana King is into the attack. It would be rather fitting for an Australian leggie to be the match-winner today.

  14. Eng 128-2

    Target: 311

    Annabel Sutherland is back on for Perry, and Nat Sciver is straight into her, slapping away a cut that bounces up off the hard square and over a fielder.

    Three balls later and she lofts it from outside off stump and over to the mid-wicket boundary.

    That's the halfway mark, and now here to bring it home is Sam Drury.

    The worm shows England Women are 26 runs ahead of Australia Women. England Women are 128 for 2 after 25 overs. At the same stage Australia Women were 102 for 1.

  16. Eng 121-2

    Target: 311

    Tammy Beaumont is motoring now, Darcie Brown drops short and with a flick of the wrists the opener moves it away behind square leg for four.

    The worm shows England Women are 26 runs ahead of Australia Women. England Women are 121 for 2 after 24 overs. At the same stage Australia Women were 95 for 1.

  17. Mel Jones
    Ex-Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

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    You do get that sense - we've had three hundreds already.

  18. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer in Hamilton

    If the first couple of days are to go by, it's going to be a tournament full of runs.

  19. Eng 114-2

    Great work from Ellyse Perry in the deep, she races around to her left to dive and get a hand to Beaumont's pull around the corner.

    England are starting to tick over again, it seems.

  20. Mel Jones
    Ex-Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    Darcie Brown hasn't got her length right today.