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. 50 runs

    50

    Eng 137-4

    Nat Sciver goes to 50 off 53 deliveries.

  2. ouch!

    Beth Mooney looks to be in pain after rolling around the boundary to stop a Sciver pull shot. She may have jarred a finger.

  3. The England skipper knew she was a goner.

  4. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    You can't blame England for going for it. There is no point them being 260-7 after 50 overs but they've lost too many wickets.

  5. England 131-4

    Spot on from Henry, England keep shooting themselves in the foot.

    Sophia Dunkley is at the crease, but it feels like it's all on Nat Sciver now.

  6. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    Alana KingGetty Images

    England are losing wickets too frequently. Even though the run-rate is good the task ahead of them is monstrous.

  7. Snehal Pradhan
    Ex-India seamer on BBC Test Match Special

    It was the right idea from Amy Jones - that was the place she could target a boundary - but she couldn't middle it with the spin.

  8. wicket

    WICKET

    Jones c King b Jonassen 20 (Eng 129-4)

    Just as they were doing well...

    Jones skies one to mid-off, where King judges it well to take a fine catch running backwards.

  9. The latest from the wormiverse...

    The worm shows England Women are 35 runs ahead of Australia Women. England Women are 127 for 3 after 20 overs. At the same stage Australia Women were 92 for 0.

  10. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    I can't help think, watching this, what might have been if England had batted first and made the most of conditions and put the pressure on Australia with a big total.

    England are still in this game at the moment, though.

  11. England 127-3

    England took 13 from that over but they need plenty more like that.

  12. Snehal Pradhan
    Ex-India seamer on BBC Test Match Special

    The short ball is definitely the plan to Nat Sciver. Both balls to her have been short balls.

    She middled one and she's top edged that one.

  13. England 124-3

    Darcie Brown is back on, but she's dropping short and Nat Sciver top edges one over the keeper and down to the rope/spongey thing.

    Next up, she hoicks the ball over midwicket for another four. This is good stuff from England.

  14. Snehal Pradhan
    Ex-India seamer on BBC Test Match Special

    Even though England just had a good over the required run-rate is still 7.84 and that is the problem with chasing such a big total.

    The worm shows England Women are 28 runs ahead of Australia Women. England Women are 114 for 3 after 19 overs. At the same stage Australia Women were 86 for 0.

  15. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    Amy Jones went a little bit deeper in the crease there and the extra bounce allowed her to work it to the boundary.

  16. England 114-3

    Target 357

    Jess Jonassen is on with her left-arm spin, but she goes for nine off the over after Jones pulls a short one to the midwicket boundary.

  17. Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    Alana KingGetty Images

    Australia have been supreme so far.

  18. England 103-3

    Nat Sciver is into the 30s with a neat ramp shot that goes fine to the boundary almost behind the keeper.

  19. Snehal Pradhan
    Ex-India seamer on BBC Test Match Special

    That was effortless from Amy Jones. She is a joy to watch when she is on song.

  20. England 94-3

    Jones is under way, driving off her legs and past Beth Mooney to the mid-wicket boundary.