35th over: Ireland 181-3 (Hunter 60, Stokell 7) They’re still going after Corteen-Coleman! Stokell hammers her over mid off, flat and risky but just over the fielder.

34th over: Ireland 174-3 (Hunter 59, Stokell 1) Right then. Hunter has had a chance for a breather, hadn’t faced much during Prendergast’s stay, so it’s time for her to take the reins. Rebecca Stokell doesn’t have much of a record to speak of. A couple of singles to end the Villiers over.

33rd over: Ireland 172-2 (Hunter 58, Prendergast 19) More spin, Corteen-Coleman on, and she’s off again! Off over the field, over long on. Prendergast with a good clean swing, it lands marginally short of being six. A drag-down to follow, cut through cover, four more. And an overstep!

Free hit from a spinner… Prendergast hits it for six! Same shot as her earlier four, but a fair bit more venom, and a sweet schhponk sound off the bat. No-ball four plus six equals 11 runs from one legal ball.

32nd over: Ireland 156-2 (Hunter 58, Prendergast 4) So, flex point. Ireland have to not give away the good start. Hunter can kick on with speed, and Prendergast may be their classiest operator with the bat, but if they falter here then the degree of difficulty will curve upwards sharply. Wong full on leg stump, Hunter only scores a run to fine leg. Prendergast back-cuts with skill, half saved at backward point for two runs. Single to cover.

31st over: Ireland 152-2 (Hunter 57, Prendergast 1) Three from Dean’s over, continuing the parsimony.

30th over: Ireland 149-2 (Hunter 55, Prendergast 0) Vindication for Issy Wong, she has 2 for 32.

29th over: Ireland 146-1 (Lewis 67, Hunter 54) Dean has been tidy, if not threatening, only a couple from this over.

28th over: Ireland 144-1 (Lewis 66, Hunter 53) Villiers continues, Ireland still collecting, Lewis still using the sweep well. Five from the over.

27th over: Ireland 139-1 (Lewis 62, Hunter 52) Only three runs from Dean this time. No hint of a chance. England getting frustrated!

26th over: Ireland 136-1 (Lewis 60, Hunter 51) Lewis is accelerating! She cuffs Villiers over cover, then sweeps to deep midwicket, and Jodie Grewcock running around from backward square leg ends up almost turning her back on the ball as it goes past her. She’s side on to the boundary, and is in a position where she’ll have to reach for the ball backhanded if she uses her right hand, so she has to use her left, which is closer to the rope. So has to turn her shoulders away from the ball, and attempt to get a palm on the ball as it goes by. Not a good shape for fielding! The ball goes for four.

23rd over: Ireland 115-1 (Lewis 46, Hunter 45) Filer back, pace in the equation, and Hunter scoops her for four! First ball! Fearless. Filer pulls back control with a yorker, then a few dots on a good length. Too short, to finish, and cut to deep cover for one, Hunter up on her toes to reach that.

22nd over: Ireland 110-1 (Lewis 46, Hunter 40) Lewis abruptly gets more aggressive against Villiers, though not to any great effect. Attempts to go inside out over cover, but just wedges it over the infield and it drops for two runs. Then plays a violent pull, flat but airborne, that drops short of the fielder at midwicket and scores one. Hunter’s shot to point is met with a dire misfield that gives up a run.

21st over: Ireland 104-1 (Lewis 43, Hunter 38) The perfect middle-overs set for Ireland, five singles and a two from Dean, the latter coming last ball of the over as Lewis pulls a shorter ball and hares back to the danger end.

20th over: Ireland 97-1 (Lewis 39, Hunter 35) More spin for England, with Mady Villiers and her off breaks. Nice bit of turn when she gets the length right, but when she’s too full she’s swept, and when shorter she’s cut.

19th over: Ireland 93-1 (Lewis 38, Hunter 32) Hunter has basically caught up to Lewis on balls faced, despite coming in five overs later. She’s restricted by Dean here, bowling tight on the pads with a midwicket in place to stop the nudge to leg for a single. But after three good balls, Dean and England it. First a wide down leg from the bowler, Capsey the keeper lets it through, and Filer chasing back can’t pick it up cleanly at fine leg, allowing a third run. Four, with the extra. Then the next ball is too much outside the off stump, edged past the keeper, Dean as the bowling captain doesn’t have a slip for her own work, and Corteen-Coleman has her arm on the rope as she taps the ball back, so it’s four runs.

18th over: Ireland 84-1 (Lewis 33, Hunter 32) Good play through the off side today from Hunter, who goes there again off Corteen-Coleman for a couple.

17th over: Ireland 80-1 (Lewis 32, Hunter 29) Less comfortable against Charlie Dean’s off spin, the bowler mixing up a straighter line with a wide one, getting some turn as well, and holding Lewis quiet until a single from the last ball. Drinks.

16th over: Ireland 79-1 (Lewis 31, Hunter 29) Six off this over from Corteen-Coleman, the Irish pair collecting comfortably.

15th over: Ireland 73-1 (Lewis 29, Hunter 25) An advance down the pitch from Hunter, so Gibson bumps her. That’s one limitation with a part-time keeper like Capsey, you’re unlikely to chance having her keep up to the stumps to your seamers in the mode du jour.

14th over: Ireland 69-1 (Lewis 27, Hunter 23) Some sharp stuff from this pair, first to take the two as Hunter shovels to midwicket – “Two!” is the immediate shout, and honoured – and then a single that just gets back past Corteen-Coleman, by a few yards, but enough to get the batters through.

13th over: Ireland 65-1 (Lewis 26, Hunter 20) Gibson a tidy over with her meds, three from it. The partnership is 52 from 53 balls, good going.

12th over: Ireland 62-1 (Lewis 24, Hunter 19) Nice bit of bowling! Corteen-Coleman with some dip and grip, turning the ball past the edge. Undeterred, Lewis pulls out the reverse next ball and sends it fine for four! That takes her career ODI run tally to 2002: a space odyssey.

11th over: Ireland 55-1 (Lewis 19, Hunter 17) Dani Gibson on with her medium pace, and Lewis warms into her work, playing a powerful pull shot for four. The only score from the over.

10th over: Ireland 51-1 (Lewis 15, Hunter 17) Finally a bowling change, and Tilly Corteen-Coleman is on, the left-arm spinner. Tough ask to bowl with the field up, and Ireland take advantage. Lewis first, bold to play the reverse sweep first ball of the over, but she’s reasoned that the spinner will aim at off stump to start. Then after Lewis rotates strike, Hunter gets across her stumps to shovel the ball over short fine leg for four more.

9th over: Ireland 42-1 (Lewis 10, Hunter 13) That’s a bit more like it from Hunter, drills Wong back past mid off for four, then out through cover for two, the shot demanding a sprinting and cartwheeling save from the sweeper.

8th over: Ireland 34-1 (Lewis 7, Hunter 8) The quicks continue, Filer with a wide and a few singles. Ireland playing it very quietly so far today.

7th over: Ireland 30-1 (Lewis 6, Hunter 6) Now, Issy Wong is a model of accuracy. Really drills onto a line on off stump and stays there, ironclad. Hunter isn’t game to knock Wong off that line, and sees out five dots before nudging a single to off.

6th over: Ireland 29-1 (Lewis 6, Hunter 5) Something goes Lewis’ way, thanks to a big tangle on the boundary from Sophia Dunkley. Square drive, Dunkley comes sliding across the line of the ball from backward point, but fumbles it as she slides and somehow lets the ball roll up and over her, and into the boundary sponge. Filer the unlucky bowler.

5th over: Ireland 23-1 (Lewis 1, Hunter 5) Oh dear. Wong takes the wicket first ball of the over, gets crunches square by Amy Hunter for four, then loses her line wide of the off stump with the ball swinging away. Wide, then wide again, and a third, and a fourth time! Then bowls a peach that comes back through the gate and over the bails. Ten-ball over, ten runs and a wicket from it. Oh, and Gaby Lewis finally gets off the mark! A single nudged to cover, in the fifth over.

4th over: Ireland 13-0 (Tector 11, Lewis 0) Almost through! Filer gets the ball swinging into Lewis, so far in that it smacks the pads outside the line of leg stump, then deflects back past the off stump! Lewis still hasn’t scored, and somehow survives. Leg bye.

3rd over: Ireland 11-0 (Tector 10, Lewis 0) Wong looks much better with her bowling action than she has in a while, nice smooth release. A bit too wide, and after a few on that line she’s driven behind square for two, then Tector gets her timing right and spanks a cover drive for four! Wong responds with a yorker that is heading towards the stumps before swinging away late, sparing the batter. Good contest.

2nd over: Ireland 5-0 (Tector 4, Lewis 0) Lauren Filer has ended up on the deck already, which is her signature move at this stage of her career. Bowls, follows through, falls over. Got some nice inswing going from wide of the stumps. One ball starts too wide of off, and is called, but that’s the only score from the over.

1st over: Ireland 4-0 (Tector 4, Lewis 0) Issy Wong to start us off, and she’s zinging the first few in at the pads of Alice Tector, there’s an lbw appeal to start, but everything is sliding leg side from over the wicket. Fourth ball though belongs to Ireland, wide and fast, square driven stylishly for four. The last one is similar in length, but swings away from the edge and is almost nicked through.

It’ll be pace pace pace up top for England, with Wong and Filer in the side.

We’re up in Leicester for today’s game, where so many England women’s ODIs have been hosted over the years. Mild day, 20 degrees, says the weather readout.