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Key events
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.
