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

  1. NZ 77-7

    Rosermary Mair takes two from her first ball, running two after clipping the ball past short fine leg.

  2. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    There goes another and we're blessed with more ACDC.

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Tahuhu b McGrath 11 (NZ 75-7)

    There goes the seventh.

    Pretty similar to Plimmer's wicket earlier in the innings, kept a little low and under the bat trying to whip across the line.

  4. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Australia look like the best team in the competition.

  5. NZ 73-6

    76 needed from 30 balls

    A profitable over for New Zealand - 10 from it - but it's too little too late for Sophie Devine's side.

    Lea Tahuhu makes a good case for being moved up the order, whacking a Wareham drag-down for four through square then running hard for three through point.

    That's Wareham done, she finishes with figures of 1-21.

  6. NZ 63-6

    Lea Tahuhu is the next New Zealand batter into the cauldron.

    She and Devine work a trio of singles - not that it really matters if they do or don't with the required run-rate above 14.

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  7. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    Once again, really clever bowling from Australia.

  8. wicket

    WICKET

    Gaze lbw b Sutherland 0 (NZ 60-6)

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

    ...and it's getting worse - Sutherland is on a hat-trick!

    Izzy Gaze is out for a first-ball duck, struck in front of the stumps with an in-ducker.

    Up goes the umpire's finger, New Zealand don't even bother burning a review in desperation - although it's actually closer than it looks, grazing leg stump on umpire's call.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Green b Sutherland 1 (NZ 60-5)

    Sutherland strikes!

    Green attempts the scoop, sees herself castled.

    This New Zealand innings is falling apart.

  10. NZ 60-4

    In comes Maddy Green and she jams her bat down to block out Wareham's final ball, seeing the ball run into the covers for a single.

  11. wicket

    WICKET

    Halliday c Molineux b Wareham 2 (NZ 59-4)

    Just a short holiday at the crease for Halliday...

    The New Zealand number six top edges Georgia Wareham's delivery straight to Sophie Molineux at short fine leg.

    Undone by a bit of bounce.

  12. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    Sophie Devine has started slowly but she can go berserk out of nowhere.

  13. NZ 57-3

    92 needed from 48 balls

    New batter Brooke Halliday sweeps to bring Sophie Devine back on strike, and Schutt almost has a third wicket as the New Zealand captain offers a fine edge that's put down by opposite number Alyssa Healy behind the stumps.

    Still Schutt has figures of 2-3 from three overs - not so bad.

  14. wicket

    WICKET

    A Kerr c Sutherland b Schutt 29 (NZ 56-3)

    Holed out to long on!

    Australia bring back their other opening bowler in Megan Schutt and Amelia Kerr advances down the track to her.

    She tries to hoick the ball over the leg side, but finds herself hurried and the ball splices off the top of the bat into the hands of Annabel Sutherland.

  15. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Every dot ball is a dagger in the heart of the Kiwi run chase.

  16. NZ 56-2

    93 needed from 54 balls

    Devine gets off the mark with a single to long-on, one of just two runs from this excellent Molineux over.

    The required run-rate is now over 10.

  17. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    That is very clever bowling from Sophie Molineux, great use of the off cutter.

  18. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Great bowling from Sophie Molineux, she's made the breakthrough.

  19. wicket

    WICKET

    Bates b Molineux 20 (NZ 54-2)

    A wicket straight after the interval!

    It's Molineux who takes it, firing the ball in to remove Suzie Bates' off stump.

    Here comes captain Sophie Devine, who top-scored with 57* off 36 in Friday's win against India.

  20. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    That drop from Ellyse Perry, I wouldn't say it was a sitter but when do you ever see her drop one like that.