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Women's T20 World Cup warm-up, Dubai
New Zealand 127-4 (20 overs): A Kerr 64* (46); Bell 1-13
England 131-5 (17 overs): Wyatt-Hodge 35 (19), Sciver-Brunt 31 (32); Tahuhu 2-14
England won by 5 wickets
England comfortably bushed New Zealand by 5 wickets successful their last warm-up crippled up of the Women's T20 World Cup.
After losing the flip successful Dubai, they restricted New Zealand to 127-4 from their 20 overs.
Seamer Lauren Bell and spinners Linsey Smith, Sarah Glenn and Charlie Dean each took 1 wicket apiece.
England raced to 70-3 successful the eighth implicit earlier Danni Wyatt-Hodge was caught connected the mid-wicket bound for 35 disconnected 19 balls.
Captain Heather Knight made 7 and erstwhile Nat Sciver-Brunt (31) was dismissed England needed 31 to win.
But, Dani Gibson deed an unbeaten 22 disconnected 15 balls to spot England location with 18 balls to spare.
Left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone played nary portion successful the crippled arsenic the satellite fig one-ranked bowler was rested arsenic portion of a workload absorption plan.
England lost their opening warm-up crippled against Australia by 33 runs connected Sunday.
Their opening crippled is against Bangladesh successful Sharjah connected Saturday (15:00 BST), earlier matches against South Africa, Scotland and West Indies.
The tourney begins connected Thursday erstwhile Bangladesh big Scotland (11:00).
It was owed to instrumentality spot successful Bangladesh but was moved to the United Arab Emirates successful August aft civilian unrest.
Follow ball-by-ball sum of each crippled successful the Women's T20 World Cup connected BBC Sounds, with unrecorded substance commentaries and in-play clips connected the BBC Sport website and app.
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