Key events
Team news
England are unchanged. West Indies bring in Stafanie Taylor and Shemaine Campbelle for Realeanna Grimmond and Janillea Glasgow.
England Wyatt-Hodge, Dunkley, Sciver-Brunt (c), Knight, Jones (wk), Capsey, Arlott, Wong, Dean, Smith, Bell.
West Indies Joseph, Matthews (c), James, Campbelle, Taylor, Gajnabi, Alleyne, Mangru (wk), Fraser, Fletcher, Ramharack.
England win the toss and bowl
Nat Sciver-Brunt wins another toss and sticks with the tactic that worked so well in Canterbury on Wednesday.
Preamble
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss Lotte’s first series win as England coach. Two days on from her first game in charge, Charlotte Edwards’ team will clinch the T20 series if they beat West Indies on a beautiful summer’s evening in Hove.
England were comfortable winners in Wednesday’s opening game despite the latest demonstration of Hayley Matthews’ genius. Her unbeaten 100 took West Indies to an adequate score of 146 for 7, but Sophia Dunkley (81*) and Heather Knight (43*) got the job done for England with eight wickets and 21 balls to spare.
Even a rare failure from the captain Nat Sciver-Brunt worked in England’s favour. She was out for a second-ball duck and didn’t bowl, yet they still had more than enough to beat a decent if understrength West Indies. They’ll hope to do the same tonight; if not, the first series decider of the Edwards era will take place at Chelmsford on Monday.
The match starts at 6.35pm.
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