Summary

  • Watch in-play highlights from Nagpur

  • Australia slumped to 4-4 after four overs

  • Leigh Kasperek took 3-13 from 4 overs

  • Champions Australia won the toss

Live Reporting

Mike Minay

  1. 6 runs

    First six of the match

    Australia 57-5

    Australia are now racking up the runs. Ellyse Perry moves onto 32 with a lovely six towards deep mid-wicket. 

  2. Aus 50-5

    Ellyse Perry, the dual football and cricket international, is playing a lone hand for Australia here. Ponytail poking out of the back of her helmet, she pulls the off-spin of Amy Satterthwaite for four.

  3. Sanjay Manjrekar
    Former India batsman

    "New Zealand must have planned this the moment they were slated to play Australia in Nagpur. They've bowled 10 overs of spin out of 12."

  4. wicket

    WICKET

    Australia 30-5

    Speak to soon, Mike! Bermingham bowls a ball with fantastic turn on it and despite the shuffle across from Blackwell she's beaten and the ball hits the off stump. The partnership is over and Australia are really up against it now. 

  5. Halfway

    Australia 27-4

    Australia will be thankful they are not all out after the start they made. They were 4-4 very early on but since then there's been a careful partnership between Ellyse Perry and Alex Blackwell. At this rate expect a total of only 50 or 60 runs.

  6. Boundary

    Australia 17-4

    Finally something to celebrate for Australia after their dreadful start. Kasperek bowls the ball to Blackwell, who is now settling her side down. It's swept away for four and Australia have their first boundary of the match. 

  7. Australia 11-4

    Finally, things calm down a little for Australia. They've managed to gain seven runs since the last wicket, Perry on 6, Blackwell on 2. Meg Lanning targeted 140 before play started, what she'd give for that now!

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    WICKET

    Australia 4-4

    Wow! Australia are showing exactly how not to play Twenty20 here. Erin Osborne plays for a bit of turn and the ball sneaks away to get the outside edge, and is caught by wicketkeeper Rachel Priest, again it's Kasperek bowling.

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    WICKET

    Australia 2-3

    It's a disastrous start for the Aussies. Captain Meg Lanning is run out by a mile. The ball was knocked to mid wicket but hesitation sees her sent packing. 

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    WICKET

    Australia 2-2

    Oh dear Australia. This time it's the second opener to go as Alyssa Healy walks back to the pavilion. Caught again by Tahuhu in a similar mid-on position. Disaster for Australia.

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    WICKET

    Australia 2-1

    Elyse Villani is out for a duck, a shot played up towards mid-on and comfortably caught by Tahuhu off the bowling of Kasperek.

  12. Here we go!

    Australia Women v New Zealand Women

    First ball of the day is bowled, with Elyse Villani and Alyssa Healy opening up for Australia. Morna Nielsen is bowling for New Zealand.

  13. Australia win toss and choose to bat

    Australia Women v New Zealand Women

    Australia women have won the toss and will bat first in Delhi.

    Meg Lanning, Australia captain said: "Hopefully we will put up a good score and defend it. Our last couple of games we have got confidence from. The confidence is high in the group. One change, Farrell goes out. We'll aim for 140 to start off with and then adjust."

  14. sun

    Conditions

    Australia Women v New Zealand Women

    It's nice and sunny in Delhi this morning with play getting under way at 10:00 GMT. Although some games in this tournament have been hampered by rain, so far both these teams have played full 20-over matches, and we expect more of the same today.

    Conditions in Dehli#bbccricket

  15. Good morning

    Australia v New Zealand

    Welcome to day six of the Women's World Twenty20 tournament and a match between the current top two sides in Group A: Australia and New Zealand. 

    Australia beat South Africa by six wickets in their first match whereas New Zealand have already beaten Ireland (by 93 runs) and Sri Lanka (seven wickets).

    Group A Table#bbccricket