England v Scotland: Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup – live

Key events

12m ago

WICKET! Knight c Gordon b Chatterji 25, England 139-5

27m ago

WICKET! Capsey b Rainey 40, England 110-4

36m ago

WICKET! Dunkley c Rainey b K Bryce 57, England 92-3

42m ago

Half century! Dunkley 50 from 33 balls

55m ago

WICKET! Wyatt-Hodge c Bryce b Gordon 7

1h ago

Teams

1h ago

WICKET! Jones c McColl b Gordon 0

1h ago

Preamble

19th over: England 182-5 (Kemp 34, Gibson 17) They’ve saved Gordon for late, but that might be a waste. Gibson threads the gap at point with a cut for four. Down the ground, and Darcey Carter dives and gets hands to it but parries it onto the rope. Third ball, skips down and plonks it into the stands. Gibson being as damaging as Kemp.

Gordon finally creates a single, bowling in at the hip. But the reprieve lasts for one ball, because the left-hander Kemp smears the fifth through midwicket, flat and fast like a stone skimming across a lake. And two more to deep mid to close.

That over costs 21. Scotland had hopes here and there, England are trampling them.

18th over: England 161-5 (Kemp 20, Gibson 2) Thumped back down the ground by Kemp for six! Sheesh, she is a hitter. Stands still and tall and just belts Kathryn Bryce straight, once, and twice, for six, either side of howitzering one along the ground through midwicket. She’s 28 off 12! The over costs 20.

17th over: England 141-5 (Kemp 9, Gibson 1) Yet another misfield to let Dani Gibson off the mark with a single, but it’s still a good over from Chatterji, four runs from it and the wicket. Accurate medium pace at the stumps and doesn’t get clobbered.

WICKET! Knight c Gordon b Chatterji 25, England 139-5

Commissioner Gordon snuffs out the batter signal! Not the best ball ever from Chatterji, leg stump line, but Knight sweeps and picks out short fine.

16th over: England 137-4 (Knight 23, Kemp 8) Rainey compensating with the ball for where she’s erred in the field. Good pace, in at the stumps, denying the line to hit… until Heather Knight gets down on one knee and manufactures a pull shot, almost a kneeling hook shot, making sure she can get cross-bat power and fine-leg placement into a ball that wasn’t short enough to do either while standing. That’s impressive. And I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that played before?

15th over: England 130-4 (Knight 18, Kemp 7) Hot shot. Freya Kemp on the back foot, pulls Fraser’s off break through wide long on. Such good placement, splits the boundary riders. Turns over strike, and Knight sweeps four through fine leg. Fraser around the wicket to the right-hander, trying to deny her room. But boundaries have come so easily for England. I don’t think they will do so for Scotland. Oh, there’s a third for the over, and another misfield! That’s five boundaries, is it, from fumbles? Rainey again, moving laterally, overruns it as Knight’s sweep shot spins away from her after a few skimming bounces.

14th over: England 115-4 (Knight 9, Kemp 1) Out comes Freya Kemp, a left-hander for the Scots to adjust to. Ropey pull shot for one. Knight skews a defensive shot close to cover point. Rainey has some pace. But what should be a great over, with two runs and a wicket from the first five balls, become less good with a drag-down on the leg stump, easy for Heather Knight to put away. And again, a top fielder would have slid across to save that, but Scotland’s effort does not.

WICKET! Capsey b Rainey 40, England 110-4

Great ball from Rainey! Angles in, a bit of seam away. Just a whisper, just a taste. But leather tastes timber. Knocks back the top of off stump, Capsey groping down the line of the ball, confused to see such a good ‘un in T20 cricket. The late call-up to Scotland’s campaign makes a difference. Capsey’s 40 off 25 means that much of the damage is done, but every wicket helps.

13th over: England 110-3 (Capsey 40, Knight 5) Kirstie Gordon comes back, a bit late to make much difference now though. England knock her about for four singles and take out one more of her valuable overs.

12th over: England 106-3 (Capsey 38, Knight 3) Yet another misfield. Rainey bowling, Capsey belts it with a pull, and Fontenla is right there on the rope but lets it through. Scotland have coughed up at least a dozen runs already, plus the unaccountable difference that taking their catches might have made.

11th over: England 96-3 (Capsey 29, Knight 2) England’s former captain Heather Knight to the middle. No comeback for her to the job, a la Joe Root – it’s Charlie Dean leading the side tonight with Nat Sciver-Brunt out.

WICKET! Dunkley c Rainey b K Bryce 57, England 92-3

Fourth time unlucky for Dunkley. Takes on Bryce with the slog sweep, gets a great piece of it, but the ropes are well back in this tournament, and after taking a few steps in, Rainey has time to get back and hold the catch just inside. That was a finger-stinger.

10th over: England 91-2 (Dunkley 57, Capsey 26) Now Alice Capsey gets into the act, sweeping four and then cutting four from Fraser’s spin, one side of the wicket and then the other. Dunkley adds another of her own, cut shot, whack! Scotland bleeding runs, up past nine an over.

Half century! Dunkley 50 from 33 balls

9th over: England 76-2 (Dunkley 52, Capsey 16) A celebration for Dunkley, after her successful counterattack, and more sloppy fielding from Scotland as they let through another Capsey boundary, her second of the Chatterji over. They’ve been far too generous and blown their good start.

8th over: England 63-2 (Dunkley 49, Capsey 6) Scotland are singlehandedly resuscitating England’s innings here. Chatterji at fine leg slides across and fumbles an easy stop over the rope for four, to Capsey’s benefit. Hannah Rainey the unlucky bowler there.

7th over: England 55-2 (Dunkley 46, Capsey 1) Dropped! And dropped again! Dunkley twice in two balls, facing Gordon. Hits her out to deep midwicket, where Katherine Fraser grasses a tough one running around to her right, has to lunge for it, but definitely doable. And then no excuses for McColl, who took the opening catch but snatches at this one at point, as Dunkley cuts. Three chances for Dunkley, who is damaging Scotland badly. Gordon’s over takes 1 for 4, but should have been two wickets or more.

WICKET! Wyatt-Hodge c Bryce b Gordon 7

Gone! Gordon comes back, wicket off the first ball of her over once again. England’s remaining opener tries to join in the fun, slogs across the line at a short ball, and skews it to mid on.

6th over: England 51-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 7, Dunkley 43) Day Out Dunkley! She’s been out of favour and out of form for a while, but Nat Sciver-Brunt’s absence has given her a chance, and she is seizing it. Fraser comes on, the offie, and Dunkley racks up three boundaries in the over again. Bang, over backward point, bang, down the ground, and bang, sliced through deep third. Wyatt-Hodge has 7 runs of a 50 partnership! Scotland started with a wicket but England have seized the Powerplay.

5th over: England 37-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 6, Dunkley 30) Dunkley again goes after Bryce, this time moving across to paddle four through fine leg. Wyatt-Hodge finally tries to go for a big shot, it plus as she clears cover but she has time to run three.

Teams

Didn’t get time for these earlier, here you go.

England

Amy Jones +

Danni Wyatt-Hodge

Sophia Dunkley

Alice Capsey

Heather Knight

Freya Kemp

Danielle Gibson

Charlotte Dean *

Sophie Ecclestone

Linsey Smith

Lauren Bell

Scotland

Darcey Carter

Katherine Fraser

Kathryn Bryce *

Sarah Bryce +

Megan McColl

Pippa Sproul

Priyanaz Chatterji

Kirstie Gordon

Chloe Abel

Hannah Rainey

Gabriella Fontela

4th over: England 28-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 3, Dunkley 24) They’ve endured some punches, now England are punching back. Dunkley senses this might be her night, and her job to take the game on, so she snatches three boundaries from Fontenla’s over. Goes inside out over cover, then uses the change in line to go over the leg side twice. Since when was Danni Wyatt-Hodge so quiet while someone else scores the runs!

3rd over: England 14-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 2, Dunkley 11) And that is dropped! Bryce, Kathryn, brings herself on to bowl, booming inswingers at medium pace, and Dunkley sweeps her to Chatterji at backward square leg, who has to throw herself to her left to get one hand on the ball, but could have held onto it. Dunkley gets a run, then regains strike, and celebrates her reprieve by heaving with the swing over long on, onto the cushion on the full for six.

2nd over: England 5-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 1, Dunkley 4) Backed up well by Gabriela Fontenla, the Scottish seamer is on the money early, and England’s batters aren’t game to take her one. Just four runs from the over, prodding about.

WICKET! Jones c McColl b Gordon 0

1st over: England 1-1 (Wyatt-Hodge 0, Dunkley 1) Dream start for Scotland! A wicket first ball for Kirstie Gordon would have been a good thing for England once, but she’s changed countries since then. The left-arm spinner loops up the first ball of the innings, and Amy Jones, the England keeper, gets forward and simply chips it to mid off. The kind of dismissal we’ve seen so often from her, but usually while facing Ellyse Perry. She’s gone, and so is the first over for a single.

Sorry we didn’t give you more preamble, we have two consecutive World Cups going on and it’s rather a stretch here at the Guardian sport desk. But we’re good to go as the game begins.

Preamble

Hello! It’s time for a British Isles derby in the women’s T20 World Cup. Is that appropriate nomenclature? I don’t know, I’m from Australia, someone will tell me off if necessary. But England are playing Scotland, who were so good against West Indies the other night before falling short. We’ll see how we go.