Sciver-Brunt will have scans on Wednesday after she experienced tightness in the same left calf muscle that she strained playing domestic cricket in late April. That injury kept her out of action for all of England’s international matches until last week’s World Cup warm-up games.

Having scored a half-century in the second of those, against India, she made 46 not out in the tournament opener against Sri Lanka on Friday and 48 in Southampton before leaving the field with nine runs needed off 25 balls. According to the ECB, she retired hurt as a precaution, but match officials recorded her exit retired out.

“I think it just happened in the moment, felt a bit of tightness in the same calf as before, but that’s all we know,” Knight said. “Just a bit of caution from her to get herself off the field and it’ll get assessed, I’m sure, over the next few days and fingers crossed she’ll be okay.”

Sciver-Brunt said during the post-match presentation that the move was “just precautionary”, adding, “I thought I’d better not push it”.

Knight described Sciver-Brunt as “very chilled” after the game and said that while it “wouldn’t be ideal” if she was injured, they were prepared for that eventuality, having been through it earlier this summer.

With England having won both their opening matches to top Group 2 they could well take a precautionary approach to that match and rest her for their meeting with Scotland at Headingley in four days’ time.

“She’s huge on our side,” Knight said, having faced her own race to be fit for last year’s 50-over World Cup after tearing her hamstring. “Having her calmness and composure and experience to go and play like she did and, coming back from injury, I know it myself, you can be a little bit clunky and it takes a bit of time to find your rhythm.

“I thought she did that brilliantly in the last innings at Birmingham… she’s got herself back into a brilliant old form and she’s hitting them really nicely. She brings so much in terms of her role in the batting order and her reliability and stability and things like that.

“We’re really hopeful that she’ll be fine, but I think one thing we have shown over the last couple of series, we’ve been able to do things really well without Nat. I think Deano did a brilliant job stepping into Nat’s shoes. Fingers crossed she’s all fine, but we’ll obviously cross that bridge and hope, if we have to.”

Dean took 2 for 11 from four overs and sent down 20 dot-balls against Ireland, then ended up seeing England over the line with the bat after Sciver-Brunt’s retirement and Freya Kemp’s run-out.