Summary

  • England beat New Zealand by 59 runs to win first of five T20s in Southampton

  • White Ferns restricted to 138-9 with Sarah Glenn taking 3-16

  • Impressive England post 197-3 with Danni Wyatt making 76 off 51 balls & Nat Sciver-Brunt smashing 47 off 23 - watch some of the best shots

  • England played four frontline spinners as they build towards T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in October

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Live Reporting

Timothy Abraham & Ffion Wynne

  1. Eng 197-3

    Devine gets away with it, just one leg bye from it.

    But it's another dominant performance from Heather Knight's side.

    New Zealand need 198 to win.

  2. Eng 195-3

    That feels a little harsh.

    Freya Kemp steps way outside off stump, so Devine fires it wide. But it's adjudged to be too wide, so it's a no-ball and a free hit to end the innings.

  3. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Sounds

    England have got a mammoth total and this should be way too much for New Zealand.

  4. How's stat?!

    Melissa Story
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    This is now England's highest total against New Zealand in T20s.

  5. Eng 193-3

    Sophie Devine to bowl the last.

    She starts well, just conceding two singles, before Kemp slices one through point for four.

    200 is still on.

  6. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Sounds

    What a way to finish the over. Freya Kemp just waited for that delivery and that is why she's been promoted up the order.

  7. 6 runs

    Eng 186-3

    And now she's found her timing!

    Kemp launches Amelia Kerr down the ground for six. That spoils what was previously a very good over from the leg-spinner.

  8. Melissa Story
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Freya Kemp is certainly swinging hard.

  9. Eng 178-3

    An unconvincing innings from Freya Kemp so far.

    She is trying to smash everything out of the ground and is lucky enough to get away with it, including an edge past the keeper for four. It went too quickly to be considered a chance.

  10. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Sounds

    I would have liked to have seen Alice Capsey coming in here to be honest.

  11. Eng 174-3

    England skipper Heather Knight joins Freya Kemp in the middle.

    Two overs left for England to keep pushing towards 200.

  12. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Sounds

    Danni WyattGetty Images

    It was into the wind from Danni Wyatt. It wasn't a good ball from Lea Tahuhu, but Maddy Green has some of the safest hands in the New Zealand team.

    It was a brilliant knock from Danni Wyatt.

  13. wicket

    WICKET

    Wyatt c Green b Tahuhu 76 (Eng 169-3)

    Ah! Danni Wyatt's fun comes to an end.

    There will be no century today as she picks out Maddy Green on the square leg boundary, who takes a well-judged catch with her feet just off the rope.

    A fabulously entertaining knock of 76 from just 51 balls, including 11 fours and a six.

  14. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Sounds

    We're getting to the stage where we're starting to think about Danni Wyatt and another T20 hundred.

  15. Eng 169-2

    Exquisite.

    Danni Wyatt shuffles across to leg stump, and Lea Tahuhu follows her, spearing it in at her toes.

    Somehow, she still finds a way to help it down to fine leg for four.

  16. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Sounds

    You just can't bowl there, and if you are going to then you need a fielder at backward point. You can't just keep feeding Danni Wyatt's cut shot because it is one of her super-strengths.

  17. Eng 165-2

    Dealing in boundaries!

    Danni Wyatt slashes one past point for her 10th four. She moves to 72 from 49 balls.

  18. New Zealand haven't been able to gain any control so far.

  19. Eng 153-2

    Danni Wyatt makes the lofted drive over cover look so easy, it's remarkable.

    Four more to the opener.

  20. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Sounds

    England could quite easy get 10 runs an over from here.