Key events
11th over: England 55-0 (Jones 21, Beaumont 29) Devine scuds one onto Beaumont’s boot and gives it the full Richard Hadlee star pose in her appeal but it was slipping down leg and she wisely chooses not to burn her last review. Five pocketed off the over.
10th over: England 50-0 (Jones 20, Beaumont 26) The fifty opening stand comes up for Jones and Beaumont as the former clonks Kerr over mid on (just) for four more. This is a good confidence boosting partnership ahead of the semi final next week. England are cantering after the first ten overs.
9th over: England 46-0 (Jones 16, Beaumont 26) Sophie Devine is playing her final ODI of a wonderful career but Amy Jones isn’t feeling sentimental as she lofts the Kiwi legend over long on for four.
8th over: England 41-0 (Jones 11, Beaumont 26) It’s a double change as Amelia Kerr enters the fray. She tweaks one onto Tammy’s front pad and New Zealand send it upstairs but there’s nothing going for this one, it pitched and hit outside the line. Review lost for the White Ferns but a decent over from Kerr, just one run from it.
7th over: England 40-0 (Jones 10, Beaumont 26) Sophie Devine comes on and is resolutely stump to stump. Just a single off the over after the Beaumont pyro off the over before.
6th over: England 39-0 (Jones 9, Beaumont 26) Kerr floats one wide and Beaumont climbs into it with abandon, scorching the turf through the covers for four! Kerr then commits the cardinal sin of overstepping. Free Hit incoming… FOUR! Beaumont heaves the length ball over midwicket for four. Tammy Time! Four more laced through point. And again! Kerr has been marmalised for 17 runs and four fours off the over.
5th over: England 22-0 (Jones 9, Beaumont 10) Beaumont rocks back and thrashes Mair through backward point for four! That’ll settle the nerves a little. Mair sprays wide of the tramlines but then adjusts well to get three dots. Beaumont nudges a single to pinch strike from Jones for the next over.
4th over: England 16-0 (Jones 9, Beaumont 5) Just a couple of singles off Kerr. England unable to break the shackles thus far. A couple of early wickets and this has got squeaky run chase written all over it.
3rd over: England 13-0 (Jones 8, Beaumont 3) Mair is accurate and probing, she’s denied a maiden to Beaumont because of a misfield at backward point off the final ball of the over. Amy Jones scampered a leg bye off it too to keep England ticking.
2nd over: England 11-0 (Jones 8, Beaumont 2) I think England’s best bet is to try and haul this target down quickly and not let dear old pressure come into it. Easier said than done, Jess Kerr is on the mark and the keeper is up to the stumps. Nevertheless England rotate strike well to pick up five runs off the over.
Hello all and thanks Tanya. An eventful first over from Rosemary Mair as she pins Amy Jones on the pad and there’s a big appeal! The umpire says no but we go upstairs… NOT OUT! Clipping the bails so remains umpire’s call. Lucky Jonesy. She clips for two to get off the mark and then crashes a full ball through the covers for four!
1st over: England 6-0 (Jones 6, Beaumont 0)
Here come the players, time for me to hand over to Jim Wallace – thanks for your company – bye!
A cracking little interview with New Zealand queens Suzie Bates and Sophie Devine, recorded with Ian Ward pre-game.
“It’s been the highest of highs to the lowest of lows,” says Devine, “but that’s cricket. When we won the World Cup we got momentum and every little thing went our way. We got on the roller coaster and it felt like it was meant to be. I think in this tournament it has felt like it hasn’t meant to be! “
“Winning the World Cup is something that you always dream of when you play for nearly 20 years, it’s the moment that you play for, and great to experience that at least once, the actual game was fearless. Suz and Georgia out there, a feeling of calmness. In the final over, me and Suz caught each other’s eye a few times, great to be able to share that.”
How do you feel about no Test caps in two decades of playing. Devine: “Depends on the day, probably would have been over in a day and a half but we’d have had a bloody good time. Unfortunate that it hasn’t happened in our careers but maybe one day for the other girls in the team. So cool to see females playing in that format.”
Bates: There are more and more opportunities, the best thing we’ve had is the A team. We talk about more cricket all the time and the difference in NZ is that a 15 year old boy and a 15 year old girl, the volume of cricket they’ve played – you can’t even compare.”
Such wise women – would love to see them on the ICC board – though they probably have better things to do with their lives post cricket.
An interesting nugget from Hussain, who says that England have been practising for bowling with the dew by dipping their hands in buckets of water and bowling with a wet slippy ball. They need to practise that for sweaty conditions like today too.
Well that was…not the most enthralling cricket of the tournament.
Nasser sums it up: “England got better as they went through that innings. An error strew innings by both sides. Wickets from full tosses, a catch put down, New Zealand gave their wickets away, didn’t bat their overs. If they do that against Australia or England they won’t bowl them out. Luckily for England, New Zealand were even more under par.”
Alice Capsey: “Nice to get a ball in hand, we’ve done well to restrict them to a lowish total. My second wicket was from a full toss. Looks like there was a little bit of turn when I was bowling a lot slower, felt like a bit harder to hit straight. Anything that was targeting the stumps looked hard to hit. No chase is easy but fingers crossed.”
WICKET! Tahuhu c Dean b SMith 2 (New Zealand 168 all out)
A hopeful chip caught by Capsey running backwards over her shoulder from mid off. Cracking catch, end to a sorry innings.
38th over: New Zealand 168-9 (Tahuhu 2, Carson 1) Can New Zealand limp to 200?
WICKET! Kerr run out (Dean) 10 (New Zealand 166-9)
New Zealand’s innings whimpers towards a close after Kerr is run-out, late out of the blocks and short of the crease at the striker’s end. Given out on review.
37th over: New Zealand 165-8 (Kerr 9, Tahuhu 1) Three singles from Smith’s ninth.
36th over: New Zealand 162-8 (Kerr 7, Tahuhu 0) NSB picks away at the tail – her eighth World Cup wicket.
WICKET! Mair lbw Sciver-Brunt 0 (New Zealand 162-8)
Not the best decision the umpire will ever make. Mair looks very out as NSB thumps into her pads and ball-tracking agrees. Decision overturned with a flourish.
35th over: New Zealand 157-7 (Mair 0, Kerr 2) This innings slipping through New Zealand’s grasp now.
WICKET! Gaze b Smith 14 (New Zealand 157-5)
And another one! Done by the drift and loses her off stump.
34th over: New Zealand 156-6 (Gaze 14, Kerr 1) NSB replaces Bell. Scrapes her hair back in the heat and makes the break through. Farewell Sophie Devine, all time great. And thank you.
Devine c Jones b Sciver-Brunt 23 (NEw Zealand 155-6)
A top-notch off cutter. Jones whips the bails off but NSB fancies a catch and calls for a review. Good ears! A kiss off an inside edge and Devine walks off for one last time, a quick march, without ceremony.
33rd over: New Zealand 154-5 (Devine 23, Gaze 13) Smith. Another England full toss goes unpunished and New Zealand milk just one from the over. Hopefully this is England’s off game, and they’ll be all button back up for the semi-final against South Africa on Wednesday.
32nd over: New Zealand 153-5 (Devine 23, Gaze 12) Bell struggling a little with her radar – a wide, then a slower ball wafting down leg side which Devine shovels behind for four. Gaze then wildly top edges a short ball for four more. The players take drinks.
31st over: New Zealand 142-5 (Devine 18, Gaze 7) Smith, more bounce in her boots now. Dries her hands on the soil of Visakhapatnam. Just three singles.
A stat from the Guardian’s women’s cricket queen Raf Nicholson: “Dunkley has only bowled two overs across the three domestic comps last season. So not exactly bowling fit!”
Ecclestone won’t bowl again today
30th over: New Zealand 139-5 (Devine 16, Gaze 6) Bell gets a change of ends too, three from the over.
News on Ecclestone – she is having more treatment on her shoulder after feeling discomfort when bowling, and won’t bowl again today.
29th over: New Zealand 136-5 (Devine 14, Gaze 6) Smith returns after her uneasy first spell. A different end, an older ball, and altogether a neater over. Just one from it.
