England Women vs Thailand Women, 7th Match, Group B - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

A clinical win for England. As clinical as it gets. It's certainly served its purpose, this win, and has given them the confidence to make a comeback from the heartbreaking loss against South Africa. As for Thailand, they have a long way to go, but they've certainly shown great enthusiasm, generosity of spirit, and several other peripheral virtues. It's time they develop the main one now, and this tournament will be a stepping stone in their progress graph over the years. Mark my words. On that note, we sign off from this game, but not this venue - another one coming up soon - Pakistan taking on the West Indies in less than an hour at Canberra. Switch tabs now!

Heather Knight | England captain: I don't often score quicker than Natt, she usually takes on the game. The partnership was the key I think. I caught up and hogged the strike a little bit, and I think that helped us come back into the game and put a decent total on the board. It's hard to keep your standards when you know you've won the game, so quite happy with our fielding and bowling standards. Thailand batters posed slightly different challenges and hit the ball in different areas but it was a clinical performance. We have a game against Pakistan the day after. Every game is a must-win for us now, so we're looking forward to it. It was great to finally get on the board today.

Sornnarin Tippoch | Thailand captain: It's a challenging game for us, wasn't under real pressure but we tried to do our best on the field. We are always trying to improve, and trying to work harder on our batting game, particularly the aggressive brand of cricket required in the T20 format.

Heather Knight, Player of the Match - It was very important for us to give a performance like this, I thought we batted brilliantly. We needed to stay calm, keep building the score, not panic and put on a partnership to get a score. It was a good pitch, slightly patchy, but was a good batting strip.

17:54 Local Time, 12:24 IST: Is it coming home for the second time in less than a year? A premature rhetoric, if ever there was one, but the women have certainly made a statement today. Yes, against minnows, but after early setbacks, the comeback was clinical and almost devil-may-care, the captain hammering a nonchalant ton with Natt Sciver to support her. Thailand's chase was never on track, and collapsed from 48/1 to 74/7 - 6 wickets for just 26 runs, after the dismissal of Chantam. Sciver and Ecclestone picked up three between them, but Shrubsole was the pick of them, picking up three wickets and a direct-hit - but the Player of the Match is Heather Knight. Presentations coming up soon.

Shrubsole to Chaiwai, FOUR, clubs this short of length ball between deep square leg and cow corner for four, but it doesn't matter - after the loss against RSA, England pick up their first win of the T20 World Cup!

Ratanaporn Padunglerd, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Shrubsole to Kamchomphu, out Caught by Winfield! Picks this up from a length, trying to go through the line and clear long-on, more height than distance and that's a simple offering to Winfield, who settles under it without much trouble. Another brief innings comes to an end, and Thailand have a long way to go in their batting. Kamchomphu c Winfield b Shrubsole 2(5)

Shrubsole to Kamchomphu, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Shrubsole to Kamchomphu, no run, opens the face and steers this towards point from a good length

Shrubsole to Chaiwai, 1 run, mows another one with a slug down to cow corner for a single

Shrubsole to Chaiwai, 2 runs, in the slot again, and the front-leg is out of the way to cart it away towards cow corner for a couple

Shrubsole to Kamchomphu, 1 run, drills a full one to mid-on for a single

Anya Shrubsole [3.0-0-13-2] is back into the attack

Ecclestone to Chaiwai, FOUR, angling down leg, Chaiwai steps across and paddles this with a tiny deflection away towards fine leg for four

Ecclestone to Chaiwai, no run, full and in the slot, slog-swept straight to short midwicket

Ecclestone to Chaiwai, no run, spinning away outside off, Chaiwai tries dragging this with a pull into the on-side, nearly throws herself off her feet, but misses

Ecclestone to Chaiwai, no run, full and wide, Chaiwai misses out on the cut

Ecclestone to Kamchomphu, 1 run, full and flighted, whip-driven right back down the wicket towards straight long-on for one

Ecclestone to Kamchomphu, no run, dropped short and wide, cut away straight to point