Summary

  • AUSTRALIA WIN WORLD CUP

  • Sciver hits unbeaten 148 for England but runs out of partners

  • Australia pile up 356-5 - a World Cup final record score

  • Healy - dropped on 42 - hits brilliant 170 off 138 balls

  • Australia put on 160 for first wicket after England win toss

Live Reporting

Ffion Wynne and Tim Oscroft

  1. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Maybe if Nat Sciver and Charlie Dean are still there with 50 to win off 25 balls maybe?

    It will be an exceptional effort if it gets that close.

  2. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer

    At what point will Australia start to think this might be tiddly?

  3. Eng 256-8

    Need 101 runs from 66 balls

    Nat Sciver scoops again and scoops for four!

    She's been phenomenal today. Alyssa Healy is still full of smiles behind the stumps, though.

  4. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer

    Alana King's World Cup is over - she's put on a show of leg-spin bowling today.

  5. Eng 247-8

    Need 110 runs from 72 balls

    Oh how has that missed?! Sciver sweeps and edges the ball just - and I mean just - past leg stump and they run three.

    A brilliant spell from Alana King nonetheless - she finishes with 3-64. What a talent.

  6. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer

    Only Nat Sciver has passed 30 - what might have been if someone had been able to hang around with her?

  7. Eng 242-8

    Need 115 runs from 78 balls

    England are still comfortable with the run rate. The wickets are the issue, as has been said many a time.

    But when Sciver is there, they have a chance, and Charlie Dean has made a very promising start to this innings - she is more than capable of staying there with her.

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  9. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer

    The trick shots are coming out now from Nat Sciver.

  10. Eng 239-8

    Bad back? What bad back?

    Ellyse Perry pulls off a stunning full-length dive at fine leg to save another Nat Sciver boundary.

    No stopping the next one though, as Sciver ramps past wicketkeeper Healy for four. So good.

  11. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It is the wickets that England have lost that makes this difficult for them, but you'd much rather they lose going for it.

    The worm shows England Women are 25 runs ahead of Australia Women. England Women are 233 for 8 after 36 overs. At the same stage Australia Women were 208 for 1.

  12. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport's chief cricket writer

    That is an outrageous shot.

  13. Eng 233-8

    Sciver lofts Jess Jonassen gloriously over mid-wicket for a perfectly placed boundary, splitting the two fielders with pinpoint accuracy.

    Charlie Dean follows it with four of her own, thumped off the back foot past cover. Lovely!

  14. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    Since 2017 in 50-over cricket Australia have lost just twice. Assuming this way goes the game we're expecting it to they'll have won 38 of their last 39 games.

    Is there a better team in any sport in the whole world? The Arsenal Invincibles might be the only ones.

  15. Eng 223-8

    Need 134 runs from 90 balls

    Not many players score a century against this formidable Australia side.

    Not many players score two in the space of a few weeks. It's just such a shame they have both come in (probably) losing causes.

  16. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

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    Good on Nat Sciver for celebrating how she did - she has scored a century in a World Cup final.

    It has been a brilliant innings.

  17. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    It has been a brilliant innings from Nat Sciver. She looks around the ground and sees spectators on their feet around the ground.

    It won't be in a winning cause but it has been supreme.

  18. 100 runs

    100 for Nat Sciver

    And there it is! An absolute gem of an innings from Nat Sciver, her second century of the tournament against Australia, this one coming up off 90 balls.

    She has been a class apart from every other England batter today. She removes her helmet and raises her bat to her teammates with a big grin, and rightly so - she can be very proud of that.

  19. Eng 215-8

    Target 357

    The game may be slipping further and further from England's grasp but nobody can argue how much Nat Sciver deserves a hundred.

  20. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    That is a soft dismissal for Kate Cross.

    Run-rate has never been an issue for England, but they've lost too many wickets. They would much rather be bowled out chasing it than battling to 240 for example.