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

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2nd over: India 2-0 (Pratika 0, Smriti 0) Jess Kerr astatine nan different end, neat lengths, Smriti, watchful, taps nan shot back. An fantabulous maiden.

Play!

1st over: India 2-0 (Pratika 0, Smriti 0) Rosemary Mair, hairsbreadth scraped back, earrings dancing, starts pinch an outswinger that Pratika lets spell safely by. And truthful it continues for overmuch of nan over, pinch 2 limb byes from nan past ball.

India person limped to this stage, connected nan backmost of 3 losses. But present they are, and they must move things astir today. After nan anthems, New Zealand huddle for a elephantine precocious five, Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal trot to nan middle.

Hot, hot, hot

It’s 35 degrees astatine nan DY Patil stadium, and a humidity level successful nan 50s intends that sweat won’t evaporate very effectively. It’s going to beryllium reliable retired there.

I deliberation Sophie Devine summed up nan business beautiful good pre-match:

“I can’t ideate nan a type pf unit that India feel, a cardinal group tuned into nan TV screens. I’ve sewage existent empathy for them, for america it’s a really breathtaking challenge, playing India, successful India, successful a World Cup, these are nan moments that you want to beryllium playing cricket.”

India bring successful Rodrigues

India XI: Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Renuka Singh, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani.

Mumbai’s Rodrigues replaces Amanjot Kaur, but still nary other bowler.

New Zealand unchanged

New Zealand XI: Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Devine (capt), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Isabella Gaze (wk), Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Eden Carson, Lea Tahuhu.

Harmanpreet looks calm successful nan storm. “The transportation is looking bully and we person a bully opportunity pinch nan other batter to group a large total.We want to bask nan infinitesimal and play bully cricket.”

New Zealand triumph nan flip and bowl

Sophie Devine: “We don’t deliberation nan aboveground will alteration overmuch and we conscionable want a first ace pinch nan ball. We haven’t played arsenic overmuch arsenic we’d for illustration but…we locomotion towards nan pressure, playing India successful India successful a World Cup, it doesn’t get overmuch bigger than that.”

Preamble

Crunch. Match number 24 is nan large one. India tin suffice for their ain tournament’s sound retired stages if they triumph today. Rain-haunted New Zealand must triumph for a chance to make it to nan semi-finals. Join america successful Navi Mumbai – it should beryllium a thriller, play starts astatine 10.30amBST.