DER­BY – Open­ers Amy Jones and Tam­my Beau­mont cracked cen­turies be­fore debu­tant Lin­sey Smith grabbed a five-wick­et haul as Eng­land Women con­tin­ued their dom­i­nance over West In­dies Women with a com­fort­able 108-run vic­to­ry in the open­ing Women’s One Day In­ter­na­tion­al in Eng­land on Fri­day.

Jones’ knock of 122 cou­pled with Beau­mont’s 107 en­abled the home side to post their eighth-high­est to­tal in WODIs, a for­mi­da­ble 345 for six from their 50 overs at the Der­byshire Coun­ty Ground.

West In­dies Women got off to a great start but lost their way amidst Smith’s de­struc­tive spell and were even­tu­al­ly bowled out for 237 in 48.2 overs.

Eng­land Women couldn’t have asked for a bet­ter start as Jones and Beau­mont reg­is­tered the third-high­est open­ing part­ner­ship in his­to­ry dur­ing a 222-run stand.

Jones should have been dis­missed be­fore she reached three fig­ures, though, with Jahzara Clax­ton and Kar­ish­ma Ramharack putting down caught and bowled chances in suc­ces­sive overs when she was in her 90s.

Beau­mont was the first to the mile­stone, bring­ing up her 11th ODI cen­tu­ry off 96 balls with a bound­ary through point off the bowl­ing of Ramharack.

Jones joined her soon af­ter, get­ting to her maid­en ODI cen­tu­ry by crunch­ing Cher­ry-Ann Fras­er for four through ex­tra cov­er.

Fras­er broke the part­ner­ship by bowl­ing Beau­mont for 107 af­ter she had faced 104 balls and hit eight fours and four six­es.

Em­ma Lamb on­ly scored two runs be­fore she was dis­missed by Hay­ley Matthews, who al­so ac­count­ed for the wick­et of Jones to leave Eng­land 246 for three in the 39th over.

In all Jones faced 121 balls and struck 15 fours and one six.

Cap­tain Nat Sciv­er-Brunt then scored 52 off just 36 balls to help Eng­land Women plun­der 92 runs off their last 10 overs.

Matthews was the best bowler for the West In­dies with 2-29 from her 10 overs, while Afy Fletch­er took 2-65.

Need­ing to pull off a record run chase in search of vic­to­ry, West In­dies Women got off to a blaz­ing start thanks to the ef­forts of Matthews and Qiana Joseph.

The pair put on 91 runs in­side 15 overs with few alarms un­til debu­tant Em Ar­lott’s outswinger found the edge of Matthews’ bat to have her caught be­hind for 48.

Joseph along with Zai­da James car­ried the vis­i­tors past the 100 mark and the for­mer reached her sec­ond ODI half-cen­tu­ry off 53 balls when she drove Al­ice Capsey down to long off for a sin­gle.

James, though, strug­gled to get go­ing and it came as no sur­prise when she was trapped lbw by left-arm spin­ner Smith for sev­en af­ter fac­ing 29 balls to make the score 124 for two in the 23rd over.

West In­dies found them­selves in trou­ble when Capsey bowled Joseph for 62 off 74 balls, in­clu­sive of nine fours, and Smith bowled She­maine Camp­belle and Mandy Man­gru for nine and one re­spec­tive­ly, to see the vis­i­tors slump to 147 for five.

Aaliyah Al­leyne coun­tered by hit­ting 44 off 46 balls, and Shabi­ka Gajn­abi and Clax­ton both got starts but failed to car­ry on as the West In­dies’ chase fal­tered.

Smith end­ed with 5-36 from her 10 overs and Ar­lott pro­vid­ed sup­port with 2-37.

CMC

Sum­marised scores

ENG­LAND WOMEN 345-6 in 20 overs (Amy Jones 122, Tam­my Beau­mont 107, Nat Sciv­er-Brunt 52, Al­ice Capsey 24; Hay­ley Matthews 2-49, Afy Fletch­er 2-65) vs WEST IN­DIES WOMEN 237 in 48.2 overs (Qiana Joseph 62, Hay­ley Matthews 48, Aaliyah Al­leyne 44, Jahzara Clax­ton 17, Shabi­ka Gajn­abi 16, Afy Fletch­er 11; Lin­sey Smith 5-36, Em Ar­lott 2-37).

Eng­land Women won by 108 runs