England’s new regime seal perfect start with women’s T20 clean sweep of West Indies
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3rd T20: England 144-5, bt West Indies, 127-8, by 17 runs
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Heather Knight bails out team with first T20 fifty at home
England’s 17-run win at Chelmsford on Monday wrapped up a T20 series clean sweep against West Indies. While that is a welcome result after a 16-0 Ashes drubbing, it would be premature to read too much into three one-sided matches against a team who in April failed to qualify for this year’s 50-over World Cup.
If England’s real problem under Jon Lewis was their failure to perform in pressure situations, this series offered little opportunity to show that they will fare better with their new head coach, Charlotte Edwards, at the helm. West Indies appear to be a one-woman team at the moment – the player of the series, Hayley Matthews, scored 177 runs, more than all her teammates put together – and the tourists slumped to eight- and nine-wicket losses against England in the first two T20 internationals.