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Best performances - Batsmen

HC Knight
79(111) 8x4 - 1x6
Control %84%
  • Productive Shot
  • sweep shot
  • 14 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
4 11 13 4 12 14 12 9
S Mostary
S Mostary
60(108) 8x4 - 0x6
Control %78%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 10 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
8 6 9 10 18 4 0 5

Best performances - Bowlers

Fahima Khatun
Fahima Khatun
O10
M2
R16
W3
Eco1.6
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
2W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
S Ecclestone
S Ecclestone
O10
M3
R24
W3
Eco2.4
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Match Details

Toss

England Women , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

15.00 start, First Session 15.00-18.10, Interval 18.10-18.40, Second Session 18.40-22.10

Match days

7 October 2025 - day/night match (50-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

England Women 2, Bangladesh Women 0

Scorer: K Vairavan | Commentator: Vithushan Ehantharajah

10:08pm Right, that's all from us here. Join us tomorrow as Australia take on Pakistan in Colombo!

10:02pm "We lost early wickets but Sobhana Mostary (60) did well but no one was able to support her," surmises Bangladesh captain Nigar Sultana. "This sort of wicket, we were short 20 or 30 runs."

Finally, Nat Sciver-Brunt has her say as England move top: "Before the tournament we spoke as a group that not everything is going to be easy all of the time. It's going to look gritty so we need a bit of resilience in what we do. It could have looked a bit better, but we got the win."

9:49pm For those joining late, Heather Knight, player of the match with her 79*, was caught on 13 only for television umpire to Gayathri Venugopalan to overturn the decision, despite stating her replays were "inconclusive".

"Can't say I've been out three times (the other two were over-turned LBWs) and been reprieved in an innings, that's a new one for me," said Knight on the reprieve. "I thought it carried and thought it was a fair catch, which is why I walked off. The third umpire decided otherwise."

[ON THE CHASE ITSELF] "We made it a little bit hard for ourselves, but the main thing in World Cups is to get those wins."

"It didn't feel very easy at the start to be honest. My first proper game in the middle since May. They were very threatening and I just tried to find a method. It was a lot easier as it went on."

[ON MARUFA AKTER]: "She's a very good bowler. She gets that late insuring and she really challenged us up front. Luckily, I got a couple of reprieves."

46.1
4
Mostary to Dean, FOUR, Full toss, drilled through cover and England triumph by four wickets! It certainly wasn't pretty, but Dean gets the honour of the winning strike, finishing on 27 not out in a crucial unbeaten stand of 79. Heather Knight's 79* off 113 was ultimately the difference, class with plenty of, well, 'luck'...

END OF OVER:
46 | 5 Runs | ENG-W: 178/6 (1 run required from 24 balls, RR: 3.86, RRR: 0.25)

  • Heather Knight79 (111b)
  • Charlie Dean23 (55b)
  • Shorna Akter7-0-33-0
  • Rabeya Khan7-1-39-0
45.6
0
Shorna Akter to Knight, no run, Doesn't get the winning shot in the end... in fact, almost squared up for an LBW! Gets away with it in the end, saved by her leading edge

Knight back on strike with one run to win..

45.5
1
Shorna Akter to Dean, 1 run, Turn off a length, to the top of off stump, Dean steps across and works off the hip in front of mid on
45.4
1
Shorna Akter to Knight, 1 run, Full, outside off, swept out to deep square... but just for a single
45.3
2
Shorna Akter to Knight, 2 runs, Knight uses her feet again, misjudges again, but goes through with the shot despite not being to the pitch of it, chipping aerially over mid off for a couple
45.2
0
Shorna Akter to Knight, no run, Slowed right down, bit of spin from a good length, Knight watches it onto her bat, stops it dead

ENG Women 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st6TT BeaumontAE Jones
2nd23TT BeaumontHC Knight
3rd40HC KnightNat Sciver-Brunt
4th0HC KnightSIR Dunkley
5th9HC KnightEL Lamb
6th25HC KnightA Capsey
7th79HC KnightCE Dean