Issy Wong‘s maiden international five-wicket haul led England to a thumping victory over Ireland in Derby and a 2-0 lead in their three-match ODI series.

Wong’s 5 for 33 helped bowl Ireland out for a paltry 165 in 47 overs and an unbroken stand worth 47 off 38 balls between Dani Gibson and Freya Kemp guided England to a six-wicket win with 27 overs to spare. Were it not for Amy Hunter grinding out a second half-century in as many games, England’s target would have been even smaller.

Maia Bouchier, a centurion in the opening match of the series, top-scored with 45 off 31 balls, including nine fours, but ran out her partner, Sophia Dunkley, then fell to a soft dismissal, ultimately leaving it to Kemp and Gibson to see England over the line.

Wong’s haul included the wicket of Hunter amid a collapse in which Ireland lost their last six wickets for 25 runs after being sent in to bat. She was well supported by off-spinner Mady Villiers, who took the key wickets of Orla Prendergast and Rebecca Stokell, as well as the catch that gave Wong her fifth wicket.

Hunter, one of three players to score fifties as the visitors asked England to stage their highest successful ODI run chase in the opening match in Leicester, dug in with Leah Paul for a 57-run partnership off 83 balls after a steady stream of wickets had Ireland 83 for 4 just before the halfway stage of the innings in Derby.

Alice Tector was run out in the second over of the match by a fluid gather and throw from Dunkley at mid-off and Wong removed captain Gaby Lewis cheaply with an excellent ball which nipped back to beat the drive, sliding between bat and pad to rattle leg stump.

Villiers entered the attack in the 22nd over to immediate effect with a wicket maiden when Prendergast launched a slog-sweep to Kemp at deep midwicket. Villiers struck again in her next over with a flighted ball that drifted away late as Stokell’s drive found Gibson at extra cover.

Villiers could have had three in four overs when Hunter, on 27, drilled the ball back at the bowler but Villiers was wrong-footed after her follow-through, delaying her dive to the right by a split-second, long enough to reprieve Hunter.

Hunter struggled to get the ball away, compiling her innings almost exclusively in singles until, finally, after withstanding a hopeful review for lbw off Ryana MacDonald-Gay, she drove the next ball through cover for her second of four fours.

Hunter helped herself to another boundary, over midwicket in MacDonald-Gay’s next over to move to the cusp of a laboured half-century and she reached the mark with a single off the 79th ball she faced, the slowest of her 11 ODI fifties.

Wong returned to break up the Hunter-Paul stand, Paul bowled via an inside-edge onto her off stump, and her next over yielded the wicket of Louise Little, dropped by new keeper Alice Capsey two balls before spooning one to mid-off.

When Wong had Cara Murray caught at mid-off, she passed her international career-best and it was the prize wicket of Hunter that delivered her five-for, Villiers running round to deep midwicket to take a solid catch as Hunter tried to go big. Tilly Corteen-Coleman picked up two in her tenth over to mop up the tail.

England’s pursuit started brightly enough. Bouchier and Dunkley looked set to reprise their match-winning stand from the first-match as they raced to 54 off 43 balls, in a display of power-hitting which included a thumping six off Prendergast over wide long-off for Dunkley.

But then Bouchier cooked her opening partner in a shocking run-out, dabbing a Kia McCartney delivery straight to Prendergast at cover but running anyway and Dunkley was left with little hope of making her ground.

Bouchier then picked out short backward square leg off a poor delivery from McCartney, who then dispatched Capsey cheaply with one that turned sharply from outside off stump and pinned the pad as the batter leapt back.

Jodi Grewcock, playing her fourth match for England, made a start but couldn’t convert, leaving the more experienced duo of Kemp and Gibson to reel in the runs required. Both powerful players, they did the needful on this occasion, while still managing three sixes between them, including two in three balls down the ground for Gibson, which brought up the winning runs.