England Women seal 5-0 series win over Windies

Heather Knight's team, set 42 for victory in the rain-reduced encounter, were 39-7 with three balls remaining after run outs off successive deliveries in the final over.

However, Windies seamer Shakera Selman then bowled successive no-balls - first overstepping and then sending a ball high down the leg-side - as England snuck home by three wickets at the Incora County Ground.

Deandra Dottin (11) had tonked Freya Davies - in for rested fellow England seamer Anya Shrubsole - for six in the first over after West Indies lost the toss, while Natasha McLean (14no) mowed the final delivery, bowled by Sophie Ecclestone, into the stands as the tourists carded 41-3, Stafanie Taylor top-scoring with 15 not out.

England - missing opener Danni Wyatt for personal reasons - made a meal of the chase, losing Knight (4) and Amy Jones (0) in Shamilia Connell's first over, seeing Katherine Brunt (2) out to a superb catch by Taylor at cover and having Nat Sciver (7), Sarah Glenn (8) and Fran Wilson (1) run out.

But Selman's errors ensured the home side, for whom Tammy Beaumont top-scored with nine after striking back-to-back fours, sealed a clean sweep in their only series of a coronavirus-affected summer.

Rain had prevented a 20-over-a-side game starting as planned at 6pm while hopes of a 15-over-a-side clash from 6.45pm were thwarted by a second batch of rain, with play finally beginning at 8.27pm.

Leg-spinner Glenn picked up seven wickets across the series, with left-arm spinner Ecclestone (6) and seamers Brunt (6) and Sciver (4) also among the wickets.

Sciver, Beaumont and Jones struck a half-century apiece - Sciver topping out with 82 from 61 balls in game three. Agencies

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