England V New Zealand: Women’s Cricket World Cup – Live

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WICKET! Bates c Lamb (sub) b Smith 10 (New Zealand 21-1)

A waist precocious afloat flip does for Bates who muscles it to mid on. The umpires cheque for a nary shot – nan players person their waist measurements checked earlier nan tourney started – who knew? – but nan shot is good. A pie, but good.

5th over: New Zealand 21-0 (Bates 10, Plimmer 11) Bell gets clonked for 2 fours by Plimmer.

New Zealand triumph nan flip and bat - Wyatt-Hodge in

Argghgh I sewage my times wholly incorrect there, done by nan clocks going back. Apologies. Danni Wyatt-Hodge plays for Emma Lamb. New Zealand unchanged.

Preamble

Good early greeting and hullo GMT for different year. It’s still achromatic here, but not successful broiling Visakhapatnam wherever England will beryllium successful apical spirits – South Africa, their opponents successful Wednesday’s semi-final, bundled retired for 97 by Australia.

This is simply a dormant crippled for some England and New Zealand – though England tin leapfrog South Africa to decorativeness 2nd down Australia successful nan group shape – an ego-boost, but nary more. New Zealand, who person had a disappointing tournament, stalked by rainfall and conscionable 1 win, against Bangladesh, opportunity farewell to religious skipper Sophie Devine who plays her last ODI of a stonking profession of 158 matches, 4,256 runs and 110 wickets.

On paper, this besides seems a bully chance for England to springiness a crippled to immoderate of nan drinks carriers – to Danni Wyatt Hodges, mysterious chair warmer arsenic nan mediate bid implodes, aliases Lauren Filer. But Charlotte Edwards has not been moved truthful far.

Play starts astatine 5.30am GMT, drawback an early greeting brew and subordinate us.