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. Henry Moeran
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Australia are in a very strong position but New Zealand haven't allowed themselves to get too down.

  2. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    What the Australians have done well today is used their feet and anything full has gone straight to the boundary.

  3. Aus 116-4

    Phoebe Litchfield and Ashleigh Gardner initially a little cautious to Rosemary Mair after Australia lost two quick wickets before the former signals her attacking intent.

    Litchfield moves decisively down the pitch and crisply strikes the second-to-last delivery from Mair it through the covers for four. That made a beautiful sound off the bat.

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

    New Zealand are just clawing their way back into the game.

  5. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Grace Harris can't believe what's happened.

    I fear what the changing room might look like after she's just wasted her opportunity.

  6. wicket

    WICKET

    Harris b Kerr 0 (Aus 109-4)

    Two in two for Amelia Kerr!

    A not-too-dissimilar dismissal for the Kiwi leg-spinner who gets Grace Harris first ball with one that spins back a fraction the other way.

    Harris plays all around it and is also bowled between bat and pad.

  7. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Big wicket for New Zealand, my word they needed it.

  8. wicket

    WICKET

    Perry b Kerr 30 (Aus 109-3)

    Ellyse Perry picks up a boundary, thrashing Amelia Kerr through cover for four, but is gone a couple of balls later after being bowled through the gate.

    Perry has played for turn but it goes between her bat and pad.

  9. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    I cannot stress how big of a score that is after 13 overs here.

  10. Aus 100-2

    Ellyse Perry has some rhythm now and uses the full depth of the crease to pick another four off Eden Carson, striking the Kiwi bowler through mid-off for four.

    The hundred up for Australia.

  11. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    That's a great hit from Ellyse Perry she's just starting to find her feet after a shaky start.

  12. 6 runs

    Aus 94-2

    Bosh!

    The first maximum of the innings as Ellyse Perry whacks Eden Carson over the boundary at long-off for six.

  13. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    When you see it in real time that is a catch.

  14. Litchfield survives

    Anna Harris, who is the third umpire, reckons that the ball kissed the turf when Amelia Kerr landed upon taking the catch.

    Phoebe Litchfield gets another life.

  15. Umpire review

    Phoebe Litchfield pulls Eden Carson square and Amelia Kerr dives forward to take the catch. However, has she taken this cleanly?

    Litchfield starts to walk off and the umpires want to take a look.

  16. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    A breakthrough that New Zealand definitely needed.

    In the Australian dugout they must be clueless of who's going out next.

  17. wicket

    WICKET

    Mooney c Green b Kerr 40 (Aus 86-2)

    Beth Mooney looks to move things along but ends up hitting a delivery held back by Amelia Kerr high in the air and Maddy Green calmly holds the catch.

    Green shelled a simple catch a little earlier, but takes this one above her head.

  18. Aus 86-1

    Ellyse Perry has cautious thus far, but breaks the shackles against Amelia Kerr. She dances down the wicket and pummels the Kiwi back over her head for four.

  19. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    New Zealand do need to make a breakthrough here because Australia are making significant progress.

  20. Aus 79-1

    Australia's run-rate is back over seven runs now as Ellyse Perry and Beth Mooney works singles around for the remainder of Lea Tahuhu's over.