da cassino online： England women have beaten India women in the Women’s Cricket World Series atLincoln, New Zealand today by 90 runs in the play off for third and fourthplace
ECB Media Release25-Dec-2009England women have beaten India women in the Women’s Cricket World Series atLincoln, New Zealand today by 90 runs in the play off for third and fourthplace.The win means England move up the world rankings, from their position offifth at the last world cup in 2000, to third.England Captain, Clare Connor speaking after the match said “it wasfantastic to beat India by such a convincing margin today after yesterday’svictory off the last ball. Our overall game was excellent today withKathryn Leng batting superbly for 80. We have discussed the need to post190 plus as a winning total.The bowlers then bowled aggressively, and straight, as we have talked aboutand the whole team effort in the field was first class. As it turned out,today’s game was the most important match of the tournament for us becausewe had a chance to move up the rankings to third in the world; and we tookthat opportunity”.England won the toss and elected to bat, having defended a winning score of208 against India team. Today, England were all out for 191; Kathryn Lengmaking 80 from 109 balls, her highest one-day score for England. Indiamissed two chances to run her out, when she was on 25 and again on 38, butLeng remained composed and drove the Indian attack with power, particularlywhen her half century was secure.England reached their 150 in the thirty-fifth over with 3 wickets down,having seen off a feisty opening spell of pace bowling from Goswami, theplayer who had missed the chance to score the winning run in yesterday’sgame which England won by one run.The experienced spinner Neetu David, who together with Al-Khadir rippedthrough the England middle order once Arran Thompson had been run out threeovers later, eventually bowled Leng. David bowled England Captain, ClareConnor for 2; Al-Khadir had Laura Newton stumped by Naik for 4 and bowledDawn Holden for 6.With England on 164-8, a recovery was led by England’s leading wicket takerClare Taylor and Laura Harper, who put on 24 before Taylor was run out for14. Taylor’s batting has improved considerably in recent years, and she haspassed her previous highest one-day score twice in this Series following asuccessful spell of top order batting with NZ state side Otago this winter.Following her elegant innings of 98 yesterday, England knew they needed toremove Mithali Raj, and with opener Paranjpe trapped lbw by Pearson in thefirst over, Raj and Sharma set about building a platform. Pearson wasunlucky to take just one wicket in a blisteringly quick opening seven-overspell which yielded just 18 runs and saw two catches dropped.But it was a day for the spinners, as Laura Harper and Clare Connor bowledin tandem to inflict irrevocable damage on India’s batters. Connor hadSharma caught and fellow Captain, Chopra, lbw. Harper gained the prizedwicket of Raj as the batsman attempted to sweep her, having found runs thesame way from the previous delivery but deceived by extra flight.At 55-4 and with Raj gone, England knew they couldn’t be caught and setabout achieving a comprehensive victory. With miserly bowling from Collyerin particular, India didn’t ever trouble the run rate. Only the ‘keeper,Naik, showed any resistance, reaching 23 before the ever reliable Taylortook a sharp catch from Harper’s bowling. India were 90-9 and added justeleven more runs before Collyer bowled Goswami for the second time in twodays to end India’s innings and ensure England the victory.