Edwards impresses as England Women claim crushing 111-run victory over Pakistan Women

Kent's Charlotte Edwards and Lydia Greenway were in good form, and Jenny Gunn claimed her hundredth international wicket as England Women claimed a crushing 111-run victory over Pakistan Women.

Gunn’s international-best 5-22 condemned Pakistan Women to a111-run defeatat Louth in the first of two NatWest Women’s One-Day Internationals on Monday.

Gunn’s opening wicket was the tourists’ top-scorer Javeria Khan, for 39. The Nottinghamshire seamer then proceeded to demolish the rest of the order and bettered her previous best figures of 5-31, having now taken 102 ODI wickets for England.

Home captain, Kent's Charlotte Edwards, who chose to bat first, underpinned England’s innings with 83 from the top of the order. She put on 112 for the first wicket with Arran Brindle, who hit 55 before Lydia Greenway made 38 not out of 227 for seven.

After the match Jenny Gunn said: “I was really pleased today, I think we set the tone and personally it felt good to bowl. We were confident of defending our total but knew we had to bowl to our plans and we broke through at the right time to slow them down.

“I was pleased to be bowling again and to come on, take wickets and to contribute to the team; it’s always nice to take a fifer.”

The second NatWest Women’s One-Day International will be played on the Haslegrave ground at Loughborough University today.

Video highlights and a scorecard from Monday's match are available at www.ecb.co.uk/women along with all fixtures and results for England Women.

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