Women’s World Cup: Rain saves England’s blushes against Pakistan

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, Sports News, News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Norcross is joined by World Cup winner Alex Hartley and Sri Lanka cricket journalist Estelle Vasudevan. England avoided a shock defeat by Pakistan at the Women's World Cup, being saved by heavy rain in Colombo. We also hear from England allrounder Charlie Dean.

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0:46.6	Let's take a look back on a day when England got away with a very poor performance and were very, very close to having an historic defeat
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0:58.7	The first, it would have been by Pakistan here in Colombo in the World Cup, but they were
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