England v Sri Lanka: first women’s one-day international – live

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The heatwave continues. The sun is blazing down, even in Durham.

If it’s a new day, it must be a new series. No sooner have the men switched over from T20s to ODIs than the women have to do so too. The difference is that history was made in the women’s T20s. Sri Lanka beat England for the first time ever in a women’s bilateral white-ball series and they did it in style, with their captain and star player, Chamari Atapaththu, leading from the front.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/xY9Jr2U

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