scamper

From the resulting penalty, the French would make the extra player count when Escudero had the space to scamper over for her side's first try of the game.

The United States shot back as second row Erica Jarrell-Searcy shrugged off Breach in midfield and showed superb pace to scamper in.

Katie George dropped a difficult chance from the penultimate ball that would have dismissed Georgia Adams, but the batters scampered back for a second to seal a tense three-wicket win.

Twenty-five days of gripping Test cricket came down to a one-armed man painfully scampering 22 yards of south London turf.

The next one was much wider, as the impressive Jamie Dobie looped a long miss pass out to the scampering Reed to dot down in the corner.