Summary

  • Group A, Sharjah

  • Australia win by 60 runs to go top of group

  • New Zealand, chasing 149, bowled out for 88 in final over

  • Sutherland & Schutt take three wickets each

  • Australia slip from 109-2 to close on 148-8 - Kerr takes 4-26

  • Scroll back through live text to watch highlights

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter & Timothy Abraham

  2. Here are the remaining fixtures in Group A:

    • 9 October: India v Sri Lanka
    • 11 October: Pakistan v Australia
    • 12 October: New Zealand v Sri Lanka
    • 13 October: Australia v India
    • 14 October: Pakistan v New Zealand

  3. Here are the final four wickets from New Zealand's innings.

  4. New Zealand captain Sophie Devine: "We needed to have a good start and we let the run-rate creep up too much. By the ten over mark it was up over 10-an-over. At the half way mark we thought the wicket played better than we thought it would. But we got ourselves into a bit of a hole.

    "When we were bowling we strayed a little too far from the stumps and that's where we had been good against India. In the field we were a little sloppy. With the bat we need to play some more courageous shots.

    "We've still got two games to go. We don't want to get too carried away with run rate. Sri Lanka is our next big game."

  5. New Zealand slip from first to third in the Group A table, with their net run-rate dropping from a mighty 2.9 to -0.050.

    Australia replace them at the summit, while Pakistan now occupy the second qualifying spot.

    India sit fourth with a net run-rate of -1.127, with Sri Lanka bottom.

  6. Player of the match Megan Schutt on the game: "I feel like I've lost a few litres. It was a really good game, it was a crucial match. New Zealand played really well against India so to come out on top is really cool."

    "We ebbed and flowed in the first innings, we thought 160 then 150, probably left a few out there. We said that we needed to start well in the powerplay and that's what we did."

    "I'm pretty low maintenance, didn't change much. We said as long as we did the simple stuff we'd succeed and that's what we did."

    "We had emphasis on fitness coming in. In a tournament like this with extreme heat it's important."

    "It's about the small successes. At end of the day it is a World Cup and we need to enjoy it, for some of the girls, its their first one so we really need to enjoy it."

  7. We've got a lot of wickets to run through.

    Here's some from the top of the New Zealand order...

    'Such clever bowling!' - Sutherland takes two wickets in two balls

  8. Lydia Greenway
    Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    That is a walloping win from the Aussies. They started the powerplay well and didn't slow down.

  9. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    New Zealand's net run rate takes a huge hit. For Australia, they continue to dominate, they've won this game so convincingly.

  10. wicket

    Australia win by 60 runs
    Breaking

    Carson b Schutt 5 (NZ 88 all out)

    New Zealand fall four balls short of making it to the end of the innings.

    A clinical display from Australia off the first ball to the last.

    Both were bowled by Megan Schutt, who finishes with remarkable figures of 3-3 with the removal of Eden Carson.

    She's the seventh New Zealand batter bowled, with Sophie Devine's side losing 9-34 from 9.2 overs after drinks.

  11. Lydia Greenway
    Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    The intent in the field that the Aussies have got, even when they know they've won, is admirable.

  12. NZ 88-9

    Might New Zealand make the full 20?

    They survive the 19th, with Eden Carson and Fran Jonas taking five singles off Ash Gardner's penultimate over.

  13. NZ 83-9

    Molineux wraps up her four overs with a couple of singles seeing her finish on 2-15.

    The stats on New Zealand's collapse - since half way drinks they've lost eight wickets from 7.1 overs for 27 runs.

  14. Lydia Greenway
    Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    A quicker ball, we've seen that all evening from Sophie Molineux really.

  15. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Once again, the first ball of the over from Sophie Molineux sees a wicket.

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Devine b Molineux 7 (NZ 81-9)

    Molineux returns, Molineux strikes!

    Sophie Devine has been stood at the other end as her side has rapidly collapsed, but now it's her to depart for seven from 15, a far cry from her outing against India a few days ago.

    She becomes the sixth New Zealand batter to be bowled, cleaned up by the excellent Sophie Molineux.

  17. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    The only hope that might remain for other teams is that Australia did lose eight wickets.

  18. NZ 81-8

    Eden Carson arrives at the crease, a wide and a couple of singles sees New Zealand creep into the eighties - can they make a hundred?

    Sutherland finishes with figures of 3-21, a superb outing.

  19. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Australia rampaging their way towards a mighty big win.

  20. wicket

    WICKET

    Mair b Sutherland 2 (NZ 78-8)

    ...and that's all Mair will score.

    The New Zealand tail-ender is beaten all ends up by Sutherland's delivery, offering little footwork and having her stumps up-ended.

    This race is almost run.