Summary

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  • England win opening T20 by 53 runs

  • Sarah Glenn takes four wickets, while seamer Lauren Bell claims three

  • England recover from 11-4 to make 163-6

  • Captain Heather Knight top-scores with 49, while Dani Gibson adds 41 and Amy Jones 37

  • All-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt absent after "minor medical procedure"

  • Opening T20 in three-match series, with ODIs to follow

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Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Mike Peter

  1. Pak 94-9

    Target 164

    Danielle Gibson cannot wrap it up despite her usually hustle.

    Amy Jones fumbles one behind the stumps. It might be the first thing she has done wrong all day.

  2. Aatif Nawaz
    Commentator on BBC Two

    It's really just the pressure of the situation, unfamiliar with this kind of adversary.

  3. Seamer Danielle Gibson returns to try to wrap this one up...

  4. Katherine Sciver-Brunt
    Ex-England bowler on BBC Two

    Glenn absolutely deserves it. She works hard. I'm so happy she's been awarded with those wickets today after the months that she's had.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Waheeda b Glenn 0 (Pak 89-9)

    Four for Sarah Glenn.

    This has turned into a miserable collapse from Pakistan.

    Waheeda Akhtar is bowled by England's leg-spinner on the cut.

  6. wicket

    WICKET

    Hassan c Jones b Glenn (Pak 89-8)

    There's a spike!

    Amy Jones has her fourth catch. Sarah Glenn has a third wicket.

    England are on the brink.

  7. Pakistan review

    Tuba Hassan is involved in another review.

    Has she nicked this one?

    Amy Jones is convinced again.

  8. Isa Guha
    Former England bowler on BBC Two

    Pakistan had bright start batting but it's being able to have that consistency.

  9. Pak 88-7

    Need 76 from 36 balls

    Tuba Hassan is Pakistan's number eight.

    Such a comfortable victory did not look likely earlier...

  10. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England batter on BBC Two

    That shows the mark of difference between the two sides, the speed of the outfield being able to come over and catch that. We didn't see that kind of athleticism from Pakistan.

    Danni Wyatt takes a catch to dismiss a Pakistan batterGetty Images
  11. wicket

    WICKET

    Shamim c Wyatt b Bell 2 (Pak 88-7)

    A Danni Wyatt special! This is another superb catch. England's fielding has been superb.

    Rameen Shamim skies a slower ball from Lauren Bell but it looks for all of the world like it will fall safe.

    Wyatt, though, flies in from the boundary before diving full-length to take the catch.

  12. Maia 'Safe Hands' Bouchier...

  13. Lauren Bell returns...

  14. Pak 86-6

    Need 78 from 42 balls

    This game is only going one way now.

    Just the one run comes from Sophie Ecclestone's over as well as the wicket.

  15. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England batter on BBC Two

    This is where England can be good.

    This time it's an absolute beauty. Amy Jones living her best life in her 100th game.

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Pervaiz c Jones b Ecclestone 4 (Pak 85-6)

    This one is out!

    Natalia Pervaiz tickles one off the glove as she tries to guide the ball for one.

    Amy Jones is too good to drop that. Sophie Ecclestone has her first wicket of the day.

  17. Sophie Ecclestone is back with Pakistan needed 79 runs from 48 balls.

    Tough.

  18. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England batter on BBC Two

    The issue for Pakistan is that they've got to hit deep but they don't have that depth and experience.

  19. Not out

    Close but not to be for England.

    There was a tiny squiggle as ball past bat but not enough to overturn the decision.

    The third ump then checks the lbw but that wasn't out either.

  20. I reckon this has hit the pad rather than bat so is it lbw?