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. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    That is a beautiful shot from Sophie Molineux. She's in the squad for her left-arm spin but she's a very good batter.

  2. Aus 148-8

    Not a particularly aesthetically-pleasing finish from Brooke Halliday, but there's no doubting it's been kind of effective. Just the one boundary off the final over as Sophie Molineux manages to get her bat under the ball to Halliday's second delivery and clinically dispatches it to the fence.

  3. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    It seems like Australia are only looking for that boundary. That's really well bowled from Brooke Halliday. Australia haven't played the latter part of this innings well.

  4. wicket

    WICKET

    Sutherland st Gaze b Halliday 2 (Aus 138-8)

    Brooke Halliday's right-arm filth gets another wicket!

    Slow, high and wide. Annabel Sutherland cannot resist and has a big waft at it after dancing down the pitch.

    Ball does not connect with bat and Isabella Gaze whips the bails off.

  5. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    What's pleasing about Australia is that every success brings us some ACDC.

  6. Aus 138-7

    Seven runs from the penultimate over as Tahlia McGrath finishes it with a stylishly boundary over cover with a drive on the up off Rosemary Mair.

    Here's two wickets in two balls from New Zealand leg-spinner Amelia Kerr, who has spearheaded their fightback.

  7. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    At one point it looked like Australia were set for minimum 170.

  8. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    Another really clever bit of bowling from Rosemary Mair. For this wicket you've got to take the pace off and she's done that.

  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Gardner c Jonas b Mair 7 (Aus 131-7)

    Australia giving their wickets away a little here.

    Ashleigh Gardner advances down the wicket to Rosemary Mair and ends up top-edging a flat-batted slap into the hands of Fran Jonas at short third.

  10. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    This New Zealand side are holding their nerve. Even though Australia's batting line-up is ridiculous, it's a hard wicket to come out to.

    New Zealand need to try and keep them under 140.

  11. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    New Zealand are up and about here.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Wareham c Tahuhu b Kerr 4 (Aus 129-6)

    Amelia Kerr misses out on a hat-trick but two balls later has her fourth wicket.

    Wide from the Kiwi leg-spinner and Georgia Wareham cannot resist going after it, and ends up cutting the ball into the hands of Lea Tahuhu at backward point.

    A brilliant fightback from New Zealand this.

  13. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    Brooke Halliday has such a funky action. She bowls off the wrong foot which doesn't look right but it can be effective. That is the best worst over I've ever seen by her. The New Zealand coaching staff are laughing.

  14. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    That might be the last over of Brooke Halliday. It was absolutely village. I've just seen the worst ball of the tournament from her. That was not a thing of beauty.

  15. Aus 127-5

    Eeesh. Not pretty from Brooke Halliday, who sends down a succession of full tosses.

    However, neither Georgia Wareham nor Ashleigh Gardner are able to dispatch them to the boundary.

  16. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    That could be a significant moment in this game.

  17. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    Deja vu, we've seen Melie Kerr take the exact same catch earlier but this time making sure she puts the ball nowhere near the ground.

  18. wicket

    WICKET

    Litchfield c Kerr b Halliday 18 (Aus 121-5)

    No doubts this time as Amelia Kerr takes the catch cleanly in the deep!

    Brooke Halliday, who bowls off the wrong foot, and Phoebe Litchfield pulls it square where Kerr races in from the boundary and dives forward to take the catch.

  19. Aus 121-4

    Here's that Phoebe Litchfield chance from earlier which was given not out after Amelia Kerr was deemed to have grounded it.

    What do you think?

  20. Aus 121-4

    Lea Tahuhu goes short to Phoebe Litchfield, and the Aussie batter is unable to generate enough power off a slow-ish pitch to find the boundary.

    Four overs to go. Australia will want 170. New Zealand will hope for more wickets and something closer to 150.