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

Updates from the opening match of the series in DurhamGet in touch: you can email Tim or tweet him

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.

The moment when they won the third game and sealed the series was so good that I found myself filming it off the telly. The whole team ran out to the middle to join the two batters who had got them over the line. You could have turned the Derby floodlights off and lit the ground with their smiles.

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