What dramas could we have seen in the final 20 minutes?

We'll never know.

But any game that features a try as brilliant as Abby Dow's second is not a total write-off.

A surreal note to finish off a winning spring campaign for England.

Before the lights went out around the 62nd minute, England wing Abby Dow had dazzled with two superb long-range scores.

France, aiming to end a run of eight successive defeats by England, were still very much in the fight however with scores from Jessy Tremouliere and Maëlle Filopon keeping them within a score.

Both teams and us at home were robbed of a grandstand finish by some shonky grandstand lighting.

The two sets of players are wandering around in the gloom on the pitch, swapping sheepish handshakes and bewildered Fran-glais.

A really bizarre scene.

The word we are hearing from the stadium is that the match has been ended by the referee.

It will go down as an England win.

Natasha Hunt
World Cup-winning England scrum-half on BBC iPlayer

The most bizarre ending to a match I think I have ever seen.

Both teams looked utterly dumbfounded. Once the shock wears off they might be angry as well. You would be.

It is a poor look all round after a Test match of really high quality is ended only 60 minutes young.

There is no sign of any of the players returning to the pitch. It is 18 minutes since the lights went out...

Natasha Hunt
World Cup-winning England scrum-half on BBC iPlayer

It's really tricky for all these players. You don't want to finish a game like this.

There is a discussion going on the tunnel. The England team manager is suggesting that there is a heightened risk of injury because of the players getting cold.

Her French counterpart seems more relaxed about the break. He would be with his team behind on the scoreboard perhaps.

The referee looks like she is ready to call the whole thing off...

There are a lot of Gallic shrugs going on pitchside. France number eight Romane Ménager is wandering up the corridor,

Is she going to speak to the England dressing room?

In theory, you can call a result with 60 minutes or more played. If they can't get the lights on, England will be given the victory.

Both teams are waiting in the dressing room waiting to see if they can decide it out on the pitch.

There were still 18 minutes left on the clock when we were plunged into darkness.

If there is a quick fix for this floodlight problem, they haven't found it.

Some of the players are running through some drills to stay warm...

No, they are heading back to the dressing rooms to keep the hamstrings warm.

Well, well, well. The pitch is plunged into darkness in Lille.

The floodlights have gone off.

Bernard Laporte is rummaging around for a euro to lob in the meter.

Poppy Cleall off and Sarah Beckett on.

And at scrum-half, Leanne Riley is swapped out for Claudia MacDonald.

France are back up to a full complement, Julie Annery is back from her yellow card,,,

Natasha Hunt
World Cup-winning England scrum-half on BBC iPlayer

England were just centimetres away from the score. The ball was just slightly too high for Dow and there was really good defence from the French.

England racking up the phases. Now they spin wide. Abby Dow forced into touch, just before she feeds Sarah McKenna to piroutte over.

France are still within two points. And the clock is running down on Julie Annery's sin-bin period.

England, a player up, are knocking on the door. Five out. Where is the hole? France infringe again as the visitors pick and go.

Zoe Harrison kicks to the corner. Catch-and-drive time?

Camille Imart comes on for injured fly-half Morgane Peyronnet for France.

Hannah Botterman and Bryony Cleall into the fray for England.

A big midfield tussle, the two sides fighting it out over the inches around the halfway line.

Zoe Harrison feels that England are running low on momentum and puts up a towering up and under.

And France pass forward as they try and counter.

White scrum on the blue 22m.