1 year ago
58
Spinner Sophie Ecclestone bowled 4 overs aft being protected connected Monday due to the fact that of a flimsy injury| ICC Women's World Cup warm-up, Cape Town |
| New Zealand 114-9 (20 overs): Bates 36 (35); Ecclestone 3-19, Cross 2-10 |
| England 118-5 (13.5 overs): Dunkley 60* (38); Jensen 2-20, A Kerr 2-24 |
| England won by 5 wickets |
| Scorecard |
England comfortably bushed New Zealand by 5 wickets successful their last warm-up to guarantee they volition spell into the Women's T20 World Cup connected a affirmative note.
After opting to vessel first, England restricted the Kiwis to 114-9 from their 20 overs, with Sophie Ecclestone claiming 3-19 and Kate Cross 2-10.
England past chased the people successful 13.5 overs, with opener Sophia Dunkley making an unbeaten 60 from 38 balls.
Their opening crippled is against West Indies connected Saturday (13:00 GMT).
- Vote for your 2023 victor and effort our England players quiz
- Women's T20 World Cup schedule
- England volition absorption connected assertive mindset - Glenn
England utilized 11 players, having utilized 12 successful their opening warm-up triumph implicit South Africa connected Monday, with skipper Heather Knight, all-rounder Nat Scriver-Brunt, opener Danni Wyatt and bowler Lauren Bell rested.
New Zealand started well, sharing 33 for the archetypal wicket, earlier Kate Cross, who went wicketless connected Monday, removed Sophie Devine and Bernadine Bezuidenhout successful successive balls to extremity the 5th over.
Suzie Bates, who top-scored with 36, shared 26 with Georgia Plimmer earlier some fell successful the abstraction of 11 balls and from determination England squeezed and restricted.
Spinners Sarah Glenn and Charlie some took a wicket each, arsenic did Katherine Sciver-Brunt, but England volition beryllium astir pleased astir Ecclestone's instrumentality aft she played arsenic a specializer batter connected Monday.
Lauren Winfield-Hill failed to capitalise connected her accidental astatine the apical of the innings, making conscionable seven, but England broke the backmost of the pursuit erstwhile Dunkley shared 47 with Alice Capsey, who made 28 disconnected 13 balls.
They were 94-2 but mislaid stand-in skipper Amy Jones (12), Maia Bouchier (one) and Katherine Sciver-Brunt (one) successful speedy succession, earlier Dunkley and Ecclestone saw them implicit the line.
English (US)