Summary

  • India fall well short as NZ complete impressive win - report

  • Kiwis win first T20 in 11 matches

  • No India player passes 15

  • Devine's 57 off 36 helps NZ post 160-4

  • White Ferns hit tournament's highest score so far

  • Bates & Plimmer put on quickfire 67 for first wicket

  • Watch: NZ's Kerr avoids embarrassing run out

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter, Adwaidh Rajan & Timothy Abraham

  1. wicket

    WICKET

    Deepti c Devine b Tahuhu 13 (Ind 88-7)

    More chips than my takeaway the other night.

    Deepti Sharma lobs another simple catch to Sophie Devine at cover.

    A second wicket for Lea Tahuhu, with New Zealand's bowlers setting up some good catching practice tonight.

  2. Ind 86-6

    What would typically be a decent over for India, nine from Eden Carson's last including a tasty final ball cover drive by Vastrakar that goes for four.

    But the required run-rate is now up at 12.50, it's still not enough.

    Carson finishes with figures of 2-34.

  3. Ind 77-6

    Pooja Vastrakar gets a run from her first ball, working the ball through mid-wicket for a single.

    India need more than that though, they haven't hit a boundary since the end of the powerplay.

  4. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    India are crumbling here and there is no way you could see them winning this game. But if they go down to a massive wicket, the consequences could be enormous.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Reddy c Bates b Mair 1 (Ind 75-6)

    New Zealand pluck another India wicket out of the Dubai sky!

    Reddy steps back, forward, balloons the ball high into the covers.

    Suzie Bates is set to take the catch for about a minute before the ball drops comfortably into her hands.

    A second wicket for Rosemary Mair, India into the tail.

    India's Arundhati Reddy caught by Suzie Bates off the bowling of Rosemary Mair

  6. Firdose Moonda
    Cricinfo writer on BBC Test Match Special

    The crowd do seem rather stunned and we see that happen a lot when India are not performing to expectations. I also wonder if the pressure that built on India in the build-up is taking its toll. There's so much talk that this is their World Cup to win.

  7. Ind 74-5

    Four runs from Amelia Kerr's second over, some way short of what's required.

    Arundhati Reddy gets her first run with a single to mid-wicket.

  8. Firdose Moonda
    Cricinfo writer on BBC Test Match Special

    That feeling of frustration is just over-flowing from India now. I've seen them getting really emotional today, we see it in the men's game also, and you've got to learn to keep that under control.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Ghosh c Devine b Tahuhu 12 (Ind 70-5)

    Well, Ghosh won't be hanging around to enact that tactics talk...

    A slower ball from Lea Tahuhu utterly befuddles the India batter and she spoons the ball high in the air.

    Sophie Devine runs in from mid-on to take the catch and Ghosh swipes her bat furiously.

    And that required run-rate has crept above ten now as well.

    India's Richa Ghosh caught by New Zealand's Sophie Devine off the bowling of Lea Tahuhu

  10. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    I'm glad I don't have to give a 15-minute summary of this game because I would have no idea where to start!

  11. Ind 63-4

    98 needed from 60 balls

    India run two more runs off a Carson wide, with the New Zealand bowler seemingly sceptical that the ball didn't contact either bat or Ghosh's body.

    We reach the halfway stage with India needing almost 10 an over and New Zealand in control.

    The players will take drinks and a member of India's coaching team comes on to earnestly talk tactics with the batting pair.

    Worm

  12. Firdose Moonda
    Cricinfo writer on BBC Test Match Special

    That was a proper clanger, there's no other way to describe it. Some of the fielding today has been really poor.

  13. dropped catch

    Deepti dropped on 0

    Ind 58-4

    Should have been five down.

    Deepti Sharma whips Eden Carson's ball towards Brooke Halliday at mid-on, who flails at what should be a simple catch and doesn't even get a touch.

    Deepti runs two to take India to 58-4.

  14. Ind 55-4

    Can Deepti Sharma turn it around for India?

    She fends the final ball of Tahuhu's over to point.

  15. Firdose Moonda
    Cricinfo writer on BBC Test Match Special

    Jemimah Rodrigues of India bats during the Women's T20 World Cup match against New ZealandGetty Images

    Jemimah Rodrigues will be furious with herself. She just didn't get hold of it and the fielder didn't have to move at all. I thought her and Deepti Sharma would be the tonic India needed to get back in it, but all of India's best players are now gone.

  16. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    India are in all sorts of trouble, they really are.

  17. wicket

    WICKET

    Rodrigues c Green b Tahuhu 13 (Ind 55-4)

    Barely had to move!

    Lea Tahuhu has a wicket in her first over, seeing Jemimah Rodrigues chip the ball straight to Maddy Green at mid-on.

    The crowd, which seems to be mostly supporting India, has gone rather quiet...

    Jemimah Rodrigues left 'frustrated' after being caught out by New Zealand's Maddy Green

  18. Firdose Moonda
    Cricinfo writer on BBC Test Match Special

    You can see that New Zealand are still in two minds about protecting the boundary; meanwhile I think there's a lot of anger in the India management camp.

  19. Ind 52-3

    Here's Jess's younger sister Amelia with her leg-breaks for New Zealand.

    India fail to reach the boundary but take runs from every ball of the over, with Rodgrigues bringing up her side's fifty sweeping to square leg.

  20. Firdose Moonda
    Cricinfo writer on BBC Test Match Special

    New Zealand players celebrate the wicket of Harmanpreet Kaur of India during the Women's T20 World CupGetty Images

    We needed a firestarter of a match for this tournament and this is exactly what we've got tonight. It's a real nail-biter.