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England enactment a spanner successful the works of New Zealand’s plans to springiness skipper Sophie Devine a triumphant send-off, consigning it to an eight-wicket decision successful a Women’s ODI World Cup fixture astatine the ACA-VDCA Stadium present connected Sunday.
The White Ferns’ full of 168 successful 38.2 overs was ne'er going to beryllium capable — adjacent though the transportation was taking rotation with the unusual shot staying debased — arsenic England cantered to a triumph successful 29.2 overs. Opener Amy Jones (86 n.o., 92b, 11x4, 1x6) showed impeccable composure and anchored the near-perfect tally chase.
The communicative of the match, however, was not astir successful what mode Nat Sciver-Brunt & Co. reached 172 for two, but however their spinners dominated the Kiwis.
The tweakers accounted for 7 of the 10 New Zealand wickets, with Sciver-Brunt (two for 31) and a tally retired completing the haul.
Linsey Smith claimed 3 for 30. | Photo Credit: K.R. DEEPAK
Linsey Smith (three for 30), who was struggling to grip the caller ball, got her archetypal wicket with a harmless waist-high full-toss arsenic Suzie Bates failed to wide mid-off with her flat-batted slap.
Georgia Plimmer (43, 57b, 7x4) and Amelia Kerr (35, 43b, 5x4) enactment connected 68 successful 81 balls for the lone meaningful concern of the essay.
However, the New Zealand innings mislaid steam erstwhile Amelia and Plimmer got dismissed either broadside of Devine’s introduction into bat for the last clip successful ODIs.
The Kiwis past suffered a collapse, sliding from 155 for 5 to 168 each out. It was Devine’s dismissal by her other fig Sciver-Brunt for 23 which triggered the collapse.
The lone substance of interest for England, particularly up of the semifinals, was Sophie Ecclestone’s wounded scare. The 26-year-old had gone disconnected the tract aft hurting her near enarthrosis portion diving to halt a shot successful the archetypal over. The left-arm tweaker came backmost but could not implicit the 23rd implicit adjacent though she removed Brooke Halliday with her last shot of the lucifer (0.4-0-4-1).
England’s attraction volition present displacement to South Africa and the last-four clash successful Guwahati connected Wednesday, whereas the White Ferns’ apical precedence volition beryllium crafting a roadmap for the post-Devine epoch successful their ODI set-up.
The scores: New Zealand 168 successful 38.2 overs (Georgia Plimmer 43, Amelia Kerr 35, Linsey Smith 3/30) mislaid to England 172/2 successful 29.2 overs (Amy Jones 86 n.o., Tammy Beaumont 40, Heather Knight 33); Toss: NZ;PoM: Jones.
