England v Pakistan: Women’s Cricket World Cup - live

Preamble

Hello from Colombo, via a dank, grey Manchester morning. Game four for England of what has been a rather excellent campaign – three games, three wins and nestled just below Australia in second place, but with a superior run rate. A win today will take them top, springboarding artistically into the serious end of the round-robin when they play India and Australia, and New Zealand.

Their opponents, bottom of the table Pakistan, have had a less productive time, with three losses and zero points. Just about the only thing in their favour is that Colombo is a home from home - they’ve played all their games there. Not that it has been a huge help to their batting, with totals of 129, 159, and 114 splashed across the scorebook.

Play starts at 10.30am, do join us to chew the cud.

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