England 291 (Dunkley 119, Gibson 42, Murray 4-56) beat Eire 177 (Hunter 39, Filer 3-27, Villiers 3-33) by 114 runs
Filer, again within the facet with Issy Wong rested following her five-wicket haul within the earlier match, made early inroads with a budget wicket of Eire captain Gaby Lewis and completed with 3 for 27. Villiers eliminated Amy Hunter, Eire’s greatest batter on this sequence, and the harmful allrounder Orla Prendergast on her solution to 3 for 33.
Dunkley and Maia Bouchier, who had mixed for a 143-run stand within the opening match, made a sedate begin as Arlene Kelly – taking part in her last skilled match earlier than retiring – and Prendergast restricted them to simply 14 runs from the primary 4 overs. However then Bouchier unleashed three fours in 5 balls from Prendergast, and Dunkley struck two in three deliveries off Prendergast’s subsequent over.
After 10 overs, England have been 61 with out loss and looking out very snug. Bouchier fell for 39 off 35 balls on the finish of the twelfth by way of a forefront off Kia McCartney straight to cowl, ending a 73-run union however Dunkley remained in management.
She dominated a 110-run stand off 111 balls with No. 3 Jodi Grewcock, transferring to 99 by punishing a Louise Little brief ball behind sq. leg and elevating her hundred subsequent ball with a single down the bottom.
Alice Capsey was run out when Dunkley struck a McCartney supply firmly again in the direction of the bowler, who bought a fingertip to the ball earlier than it clattered into the stumps on the non-striker’s finish with Capsey in need of her floor.
Dunkley picked out Prendergast simply contained in the boundary at deep midwicket off Lara McBride to finish her innings earlier than she would have appreciated, however after setting a wonderful platform for her group.
Dani Gibson and Freya Kemp added 46 runs for the fifth wicket however from there, issues fell away for the house facet. Kemp despatched a Murray again down the bottom, the place Eire skipper Lewis did effectively to take it and maintain her footing simply contained in the rope. No sooner had Charlie Dean dispatched a Murray full toss for 4 than she despatched the faintest of edges behind and Villiers fell in Murray’s subsequent over, holing out to deep midwicket.
Murray took an easy catch within the deep to take away Ryana MacDonald-Homosexual and provides Kelly a wicket in her swansong. When Gibson was run out for 42, Filer and Tilly Corteen-Coleman had two overs left to barter, however Filer top-edged Prendergast to the keeper.
On the finish of the powerplay, Eire have been 34 for 1 after Lewis had despatched a Filer brief ball to wonderful leg for simply 16. Hunter and Alice Tector dug in for a second-wicket partnership value 56 off 89 balls however when Tector was bowled by Corteen-Coleman with a fantastic thing about an arm ball that ripped out off stump, Eire crawled in the direction of the midway level and have been 101 for two within the twenty fifth over.
Villiers claimed her first when she drew Hunter into an tried muscle shot which didn’t join and Capsey whipped off the bails with the batter effectively out of her crease.
Capsey was concerned in one other stumping when Rebecca Stokell superior at a brief ball from Ryana MacDonald-Homosexual and was wrong-footed because the keeper pulled the ball down from overhead and broke the stumps.
Villiers had her second when Prendergast top-edged to Bouchier at deep midwicket and from there, a gradual stream of wickets drew England in the direction of victory, Filer bowling McCartney with a pinpoint yorker a ball after rearranging her stumps on a free hit to wrap it up.
Valkerie Baynes is a normal editor, ladies’s cricket, at Cricinfo
