3rd T20I, West Indies Women tour of England at Chelmsford, May 26 2025 – England Women vs West Indies Women 3rd T20I Match Live Score, Summary
And the England captain joins her squad with the trophy to celebrate on stage. The T20I series has come to a conclusion. Thank you for tuning in. I, Rashad Mahbub, am signing off on behalf of Sudeep Poojar and the rest of the ESPNcricinfo staff. Goodbye.
England Captain, Natt Sciver-Brunt: “We played some brilliant cricket over the series. Probably didn’t have our perfect game today, but we set the standard pretty high in the first two games. Well, I think the way that we started to get up to that score (144) was really competitive. The wicket seemed quite stuffy. And they made it very difficult for us. Heather batting through like that was, was a great innings really, to get us up to a competitive total. She’s got a tight hamstring. She’ll be assessed in the next few days. We want to be fielding perfectly every time. I guess, from the first two games, we fielded brilliantly, and to put in the same performance every time to be that perfect score on the fielding sheet can be difficult at times. Obviously, we had what was four in four balls with chances. But yeah, we can’t really put that down to anything, and I guess we want to be better than that. At the end of the day, we got over the line. It’d be great to play some 50-over cricket. Again, it’s been a while, obviously, since the Ashes. So yeah, be a little bit of a new squad. We’re excited about it. (Hayley) She poses a lot of headaches. She’s obviously in great form as well. So we’ll have to look into those sorts of plans, maybe a little bit different around ODI cricket. But yeah, obviously, she’s a huge wicket for them and the one we’re obviously striving to get.”
Player of the Match and the Series, Hayley Matthews: “Really good to be able to go there and score some runs and get some wickets as well. But definitely a closer game today, and one that we felt that we competed in really well. I think just having some really strong plans and playing to my strengths at all time, I feel like I’ve been fortunate enough to get to play a lot of T20 cricket around the world and gain a lot of experience and learn a lot more about my game, and just put my plans into practice. And thankfully, since I’ve been here, I’ve been able to execute pretty well. (Youngsters’ performance) Yeah, really happy. I think, like Jahzara Claxton, she obviously came in that first innings and bowled beautifully on debut to get her first wicket, but also to showcase her talent with the amount of variations that she was able to use today, and then Realeanna Grimmond, getting her second match today, and definitely looked a lot better at the crease today, which I know she’ll be happy about. So super proud that they were able to get an opportunity. I think Zaida James definitely set the tone twice now, getting that first wicket. But yeah, 100%, I think we definitely feel it a lot better, and executed our plans a lot nicer, too, when we were bowling. But yeah, unfortunately, just not able to chase it in the end. (Rain) I think, look, nothing you can really do about that, obviously stopped the flow just a bit. But nothing you can really do about nature. It’s England at the end of the day. So I heard Cap say something about the English summer. So not expecting much different. The ODI series is also obviously going to be a very hard one for us, with this England squad. By the same time, I think it gives a lot of our batters the opportunity to just get to spend some time at the crease and hopefully come back for longer periods of time.”
6:07 pm The Charlotte Edwards and Nat Sciver-Brunt era has begun with a bang, securing a 3-0 clean sweep on home soil! While England celebrated their series victory, the West Indies, despite making four changes, looked notably sharper across all three departments today. However, their innings mirrored England’s earlier struggles with Qiana Joseph departing for a golden duck on the very first ball, clean bowled by Lauren Bell. Em Arlott continued her brilliant form with the ball, picking up the wicket of Zaida James inside the Powerplay. But it was skipper Hayley Matthews who launched a spirited counter-attack, reaching her 17th WT20I fifty and keeping her team’s hopes alive almost single-handedly. The match was halted by several rain breaks, which unfortunately seemed to work against the West Indies. The rain interruption in the 16th over particularly broke the momentum, especially for Hayley Matthews. After the restart, the West Indies lost two quick wickets in the 17th over, and with the required run rate climbing, Matthews had to take risks. In the process, she got deceived by a slower ball from Lauren Bell, and got caught out at long on, departed after scoring 71 runs off 54 balls. The West Indies’ collapse was quick after the rain break, losing their last five wickets for just 17 runs. England’s bowlers shared the spoils, with Bell, Arlott, Dean, and Smith all picking up two wickets each. Despite their dominant bowling performance, England did have a moment of sloppiness in the field, dropping three catches in a row in the 11th over. We’ll be back shortly for the presentation ceremony.
England Women win by 17 runs