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. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    A great feature of Australia's play is that they are athletes, they probably do shuttle runs in their sleep.

  2. Aus 37-0

    The more experienced Lea Tahuhu is thrown the ball by Sophie Devine as she attempts to claw things back after Alyssa Healy's aggressive start.

    Tahuhu's head bobs forward as she attacks the crease with her delivery stride. A leg bye, wide and some clever farming of the strike allow Australia to collect eight runs off the over.

  3. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    Alyssa Healy is trying to send everything now.

  4. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Alyssa Healy looks on it today I tell you.

    Australia are on fire here.

  5. Aus 29-0

    Wowzers. Alyssa Healy skips down the track and powerfully square drives, on the up, as Eden Carson's third ball to the fence for four.

    Flair, style and aggression from the Aussie skipper.

  6. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    These are problematic signs for New Zealand.

  7. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    That's more like the Alyssa Healy we know. Fran Jonas really didn't get her length right at all and Healy capitalised on that. She's started to pick up after a slow start.

  8. Aus 22-0

    After that reprieve Alyssa Healy decides now is the time to go after left-arm spinner Fran Jonas, who is making her World Cup debut.

    The Aussie skipper twice takes the aerial route, thwacking Jonas back over her head for a couple of fours down the ground.

    Australia pocket 13 runs off the over.

  9. Healy survives

    A very good decision to review by the Australia skipper, because that looked close.

    However, the technology showed it struck Healy outside the line.

  10. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    This is very exciting, I don't know about this one.

  11. Australia review

    Alyssa Healy attempts to sweep a straight one from Fran Jonas. New Zealand appeal.

    It's given out, but Healy decides to review.

  12. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    New Zealand have started right on the money here.

  13. Aus 9-0

    Like a bell ringer at a village church, spinner Eden Carson idiosyncratically clasps her hands together in front of her as she runs in to bowl.

    The final ball of Carson's over is wide and flighted which tempts Alyssa Healy into an expansive aerial drive but she does not quite get the distance to match the elevation.

  14. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Australia can get a bit obsessed with getting to a certain total.

  15. Aus 2-0

    Rosemary Mair bowling for New ZealandGetty Images

    The call to prayer echoes around the the vicinity of the Sharjah Cricket Stadium as the first over from Rosemary Mair starts relatively serenely.

    A single apiece for Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney.

  16. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Rosemary Mair is laughing because she realised what a diabolical call that was.

  17. Healy survives

    Miles down leg.

    New Zealand maybe thought they had two chances with the caught behind as well, but Alyssa Healy's bat was miles away from the ball.

  18. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    We've got drama straight away. I felt as if it hit the pad.

  19. New Zealand review

    Alyssa Healy has been hit on the edge of her pad by Rosemary Mair and New Zealand decide to review it.

    Ball looks to be heading down leg side, so slightly baffling.

  20. Tash Farrant
    England bowler on BBC Sounds

    I'm excited for this game. Australia are the favourites but New Zealand had that great game against India so I feel like their confidence may bring us a close game.