Summary

  • NZ (won toss) `beaten by 46 runs

  • Beaumont, dropped on 64, hits 97 from 65 balls

  • England captain Heather Knight out with hamstring injury - Nat Sciver leads side, Emma Lamb debuts

  • NZ's Suzie Bates back after injury for first international for 11 months

  • First of three women's T20 internationals, Chelmsford

  • Tweet using #bbccricket or text 81111 (standard message rates apply)

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews and Kal Sajad

  1. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Two

    Beaumont manipulates the field and just moves across her crease.

  2. Eng 173-3

    Four more!

    Really wide from Sophie Devine, and Tammy Beaumont shuffles across and drives over the top for four more. She's up to 95.

    This is now England's highest T20 score against New Zealand.

  3. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Two

    The nervous nineties. She's not got long to get that T20 hundred. She'll be thinking about it.

  4. Eng 169-3

    Slow, and wide, from Sophie Devine and Tammy Beaumont carves it over the covers for another boundary.

    She's up to 91.

  5. New Zealand skipper Sophie Devine is going to bowl the penultimate over.

  6. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Cricket statistician on BBC Two

    Two sixes and 20 fours for England so far. They are heading towards their highest score for England against New Zealand, which is 172.

  7. Eng 161-3

    Tammy Beaumont works a single, before Sophia Dunkley plays out two dot balls to end the over. She's made a run-a-ball 13 so far.

    Debutant Emma Lamb is doing some nervous lunges on the sidelines. She's got a smile on her face, though.

  8. Eng 160-3

    Three singles start Hayley Jensen's third over.

    Tammy Beaumont is up to 83 - her second highest score in T20 international cricket.

  9. Tymal Mills
    England pace bowler on BBC Two

    New Zealand look a little bit rusty tonight.

  10. Tammy Beaumont has been brillant today.

    Here are the best shots from her half-century...

  11. Alison Mitchell
    Commentator on BBC Two

    Oh goodness me. That is the second put-down by the captain tonight. I'm not quite sure how she managed to not hold on.

  12. dropped catch

    Dunkley dropped on 10

    Oh, no. Sophie Devine has dropped another one.

    Sophia Dunkley looks to throw the kitchen sink at a flighted, wide one from Amy Satterthwaite, and Devine gets there, has the ball in her hands, but it then pops out.

    That isn't great.

  13. Leigh Kasperek's figures of 1-54 are the most expensive by a New Zealand bowler in international women's Twenty20 cricket.

    Ouch.

  14. Tymal Mills
    England pace bowler on BBC Two

    Add it to the highlights reel. This has been an absolute world-class innings.

  15. Alison Mitchell
    Commentator on BBC Two

    The first six for Beaumont in this innings. A tremendous strike.

  16. 6 runs

    Eng 152-3

    Shot! Tammy Beaumont advances down the track and slots Leigh Kasperek over mid-wicket for her first six of the night. She's up to 80.

    That's the end of Leigh Kasperek too. She's had a night to forget, conceding 54 from her four overs. England have really targeted her.

  17. Eng 144-3

    Sophia Dunkley twice picks up a couple with a little paddle sweep. I'm surprised it took New Zealand two showings to plug that gap.

  18. Tymal Mills
    England pace bowler on BBC Two

    She'll be eyeing a hundred at this rate and there's no reason why she can't get there.

  19. Eng 140-3

    Oh! Beauty!

    Tammy Beaumont is beaten on her outside edge, as she looks to drive away.

  20. Isa Guha
    Former England bowler on BBC Two

    Tammy Beaumont has been so good in that cover region today.