James had not played since England's victory over Belgium in early April but the talented forward banked half an hour from the bench at Leicester City's King Power Stadium and made an immediate impact by creating an assist for Alessia Russo.

Two blues also got their names on the scoresheet as Lucy Bronze bagged England's second goal and Beever-Jones continued her fine form for club and country.

This was England's final warm-up match before getting their Women's Euro title defence underway on Saturday against France, where the Lionesses' Chelsea contingent could come up against team-mates Sandy Baltimore and Oriane Jean-Francois.

Jamaica are ranked 40th in the world, 35 places below today's hosts, and this was the first time the two countries had faced each other in women's football.

Hannah Hampton, Lucy Bronze and Keira Walsh all started the contest, while Niamh Charles and Aggie Beever-Jones joined James among the replacements.

It was the returning Ella Toone who gave England the lead ten minutes in with a fine curled effort before Jamaica thought they had equalised, only to see Kayla McKenna's goal from a low corner ruled out by VAR after Hannah Hampton's vision was impeded by Kiki Van Zanten.

Chelsea full-backs past and present linked up for the second, as Jess Carter's cross was met by the head of Bronze, and Toone added another impressive strike for the Lionesses' third in first-half injury-time.

Georgia Stanway scored an emphatic fourth just before the hour mark, minutes before James was introduced for her first outing since picking up an injury on international duty against Belgium in April.

James almost set up Beth Mead with a fine cross minutes after her arrival but it wasn't long before she did record her latest assist, picking out Russo expertly to make it 5-0.

Charles and Beever-Jones came on for the final quarter of an hour, with Bronze and Walsh among those to depart as part of the triple change, and the Chelsea link-ups almost paid off soon after, when James crossed for the Chelsea forward and Beever-Jones' header was saved superbly by Liya Brooks.

Beever-Jones' goal did arrive, though, and again it was made in Chelsea, as the striker got on the end of a good cross from Charles, before the scoring was rounded off in injury-time by Beth Mead.

England's Women's Euro 2025 campaign gets underway against France at 8pm on Saturday at Stadion Letzigrund in Zurich.

The Lionesses are in a tough group as they also face the Netherlands on Wednesday 9 July before taking on neighbours Wales on Sunday 13 July, with only the top two progressing.