England’s girls cricket crew’s gamers have fun after defeating West Indies’ girls cricket crew within the second Girls’s ODI at Grace Highway in Leicester, England on June 4, 2025. — X/@englandcricket
LEICESTER: England’s newly fashioned white-ball opening duo of Amy Jones and Tammy Beaumont continued their sensational kind, scoring back-to-back centuries at hand the West Indies one other crushing defeat within the second Girls’s ODI at Grace Highway.
The commanding efficiency sealed an unassailable 2-0 lead for the hosts within the three-match sequence.
Having already shared a 222-run opening stand within the sequence opener at Derby final Friday, each Jones and Beaumont as soon as once more dismantled the West Indies bowling assault, including 202 runs for the primary wicket.
The guests, already battling kind, have been additional weakened by the absence of their skipper and star all-rounder Hayley Matthews and fellow opener Qiana Joseph, leaving them with out their common top-order.
A view of the gamers from the England girls cricket crew and the West Indies girls cricket crew throughout the second Girls’s ODI at Grace Highway in Leicester, England on June 4, 2025. — Reporter
Wicketkeeper-batter Amy Jones, who has spent most of her profession within the center and decrease order, has flourished in her new position on the high.
She smashed 129 off simply 98 balls, together with 20 boundaries. Simply days earlier, she had scored her maiden ODI century—122 at Derby—marking a exceptional transition in her profession.
Her accomplice Tammy Beaumont, the extra skilled of the 2, additionally notched up her second consecutive hundred, ending with a six over midwicket. This was her twelfth ODI century, extending her file because the main century-maker in girls’s ODIs for England.
The pair’s two consecutive double-century stands now place them alongside Australia’s Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry as the one partnerships in girls’s cricket historical past to realize such a feat.
England’s dominance continued down the order, with Emma Lamb contributing a brisk 55, and Sophia Dunkley blasting 31 off 19 balls, powering the hosts to a formidable complete of 366/6 in 50 overs.
Chasing a frightening 367, the depleted West Indies aspect faltered, and bowled out effectively wanting the goal. The lone shiny spot for the guests was debutant opener Realeanna Grimmond, who scored a composed 53 off 72 balls.
Center-order batter Jannillea Glasgow added a fiery 44 off 24 balls, however the efforts weren’t sufficient to threaten England’s complete.
With the ball, Alice Capsey led the assault for England, claiming 3/42 in 8.3 overs, whereas Lauren Filer and Linsey Smith chipped in with two wickets apiece. Bell, Cross, and Davidson-Richards took a wicket every.
The third and ultimate ODI will probably be performed at Taunton on Saturday, June 7, the place England will intention for one more sequence whitewash, having already swept the T20I sequence 3-0 towards the identical opposition.
