Summary

  • England beat New Zealand by eight wickets to finish second in group stage

  • They play South Africa in semi-finals on Wednesday - if game, and reserve day, are washed out then England will progress

  • Ecclestone jars left shoulder in first over, returns to field to take wicket but then goes back off

  • Jones makes unbeaten 86 as England chase 169 with 124 balls to spare

  • Smith takes 3-30 and Sciver-Brunt and Capsey take two wickets each as NZ all out for 168

  • Listen to BBC Radio 5 Live Sport reaction at top of page

Media caption,

Ecclestone takes wicket and then leaves the field injured

  1. Postpublished at 06:47 GMT

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Georgia Plimmer walks offImage source, Getty Images

    She's done right to not review that, it's absolute salmon.

    Charlie Dean deserves that breakthrough for bowling straight and being consistent.

  2. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 19.1 overs

    Plimmer lbw b Dean 43 (NZ 89-3)

    Media caption,

    'England have the breakthrough' - Plimmer and Kerr wickets fall in back-to-back balls

    Two in two balls for England - that's plumb!

    Superb from Charlie Dean to start the next over. Good length and it skids on to hit Georgia Plimmer bang in front as she plays back.

    She talks to Sophie Devine about a review but then turns and walks off. The skipper knows that could hardly have been more out.

    Both set batters gone. England are up and about again.

  3. Postpublished at 06:45 GMT

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Alice Capsey and England celebrate a wicketImage source, Reuters

    Melie Kerr just got that a little bit straighter than she hoped to. She was aiming for the mid-wicket boundary.

    That has come from England not giving up any boundary balls.

  4. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 19 overs

    M Kerr c Dean b Capsey 35 (NZ 89-2)

    Holes out to long-on! Alice Capsey makes an important breakthrough.

    It was tossed up wide of off by Capsey and Melie Kerr wanted a piece of it.

    She tries to drag it leg side but doesn't get enough of it and the ball carries nicely into the hands of Charlie Dean a couple of yards off the rope.

  5. Postpublished at 06:42 GMT

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    You want her in the busy areas now, don't you? She's got such good hands. She can turn things into half-chances.

  6. Postpublished at 06:42 GMT

    Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Would it be fair to say that Alice Capsey is England's most-improved fielder in the past year?

  7. NZ 85-1published at 18 overs

    M Kerr 33, Plimmer 42

    Four singles from the over as Charlie Dean continues after drinks.

    Melie Kerr briefly gives the long-on fielder hope of a catch with a meaty shot but the ball bounces well short in the end.

  8. Postpublished at 06:37 GMT

    Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Sophie Ecclestone is returning to the field. It's been deemed as an external blow so she's able to bowl immediately.

  9. Postpublished at 06:37 GMT

    Wait a minute, potentially good news for England...

  10. Postpublished at 06:36 GMT

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    The consistency that England have had in this tournament so far has been their strength, but they've been inconsistent today.

    I want to say liquorice allsorts but at least with those you know what you're going to get. It hasn't been England's best performance with the ball but Charlie Dean has brought some consistency.

  11. drinks break

    NZ 81-1published at 17 overs

    Only one more from Alice Capsey's over and it's time for drinks.

    With it looking increasingly unlikely that Sophie Ecclestone will be able to bowl in this innings, Nat Sciver-Brunt might have to get creative with her bowling options.

  12. NZ 80-1published at 16.1 overs

    Edged... and four.

    Alice Capsey into the attack, as we see pictures of Sophie Ecclestone grimacing off the field, and he first ball goes to the boundary.

    A touch short, Georgia Plimmer is back to cut, the edge is found but no chance for Amy Jones stood up to the stumps and it races away.

  13. NZ 76-1published at 16 overs

    Very good from Charlie Dean.

    She keeps New Zealand to just a single as she plugs away on a nagging line around the right-handers' off stump.

  14. Postpublished at 06:26 GMT

    Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport cricket writer on BBC Radio Sports Extra

    Georgia PlimmerImage source, Getty Images

    Georgia Plimmer has had her struggles at the top of the order in this tournament, but she's being gifted some form by England here really.

  15. NZ 75-1published at 15 overs

    Top shot!

    In the slot from Nat Sciver-Brunt and Georgia Plimmer effortlessly hits up and over mid-on.

    Not quite out of the middle but the ball reaches the boundary to bring up the fifty partnership.

  16. How's stat?!published at 06:23 GMT

    Rufus Bullough
    CricViz analyst

    Bowling short to Georgia Plimmer has been a definite ploy for England. The New Zealand opener has previously struck at just 45 against balls short of a good length in her ODI career.

    She has been more than equal to it today, however, striking at just below a run-a-ball against anything short of a good length.

  17. NZ 70-1published at 14 overs

    Three singles from Charlie Dean's latest.

    Since being smashed for four first ball, the off-spinner has settled in and bowled steadily.

    With New Zealand scoring at fives, England need more of that.

  18. Postpublished at 06:20 GMT

    Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport cricket writer on BBC Radio Sports Extra

    Anything short is sitting up really nicely to be whacked across the line.

  19. NZ 67-1published at 13 overs

    Maybe not.

    With the pressure building gradually, Nat Sciver-Brunt's long hop releases it with Georgia Plimmer crunching a pull shot through mid-wicket for four.

    Still no sign of Sophie Ecclestone, the one England bowler you'd really back to provide some control, as she gets her shoulder assessed.

  20. NZ 61-1published at 12 overs

    Georgia PlimmerImage source, Getty Images

    Three from Charlie Dean's second over but better control from the off-spinner.

    Having largely got away with some poor bowling in the powerplay - a couple of overs aside - England will hope to get back to the standard we've seen from them for much of this World Cup.