Summary

  • NZ 128-6 (Devine 50) win with 10 balls to spare

  • England 127-7 (Wyatt 35, Bouchier 25) - NZ won toss

  • Maia Bouchier (Southern Vipers) makes England debut

  • Second T20, Hove; series now level at 1-1

  • Highlights on BBC Red Button at 22:30 BST

  1. Postpublished at 20:28 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    The pitch doesn't exactly seem a cracker, but England will feel they are slightly below par there I think.

    Here are five of the seven wickets to fall.

  2. Postpublished at 20:27 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    Rosalie Fairbairn
    Former England all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    A very interesting innings.

    It really went from one side to the other in terms of the momentum.

    There was a period in the middle where Sophia Dunkley and Dnni Wyatt were very positive and Maia Bouchier impressed on her debut.

    But I think New Zealand will be pleased with that score and confident for the chase.

  3. Postpublished at 20:26 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    It is hard to put into words just how much better that was from New Zealand.

    Their lines with the ball, their fielding, was just so, so much better.

    We've got a really interesting game on our hands.

  4. Eng 127-7published at 20 overs

    Two to finish. Mady Villiers works through square leg, and scampers back. She should probably be run out, but New Zealand keeper Katey Martin makes a bit of a mess of it, and ends up knocking the stumps with her body rather than the ball.

    New Zealand will need 128 to win and to level the three-match series at 1-1.

  5. Eng 125-7published at 19.5 overs

    Dot ball.

    Mady Villiers moves to leg this time, but misses as she has to stretch for the ball.

  6. Postpublished at 20:23 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    Emily Windsor
    Southern Vipers player on BBC Test Match Special

    That dropped catch has hurt New Zealand as the next ball Mady Villiers has faced has gone for four.

    That's inventive.

  7. Eng 125-7published at 19.4 overs

    Shot!

    Mady Villiers shuffles outside off stump and that allows her to shovel the ball past fine leg and away to the boundary.

    That's a brilliant shot because Hayley Jensen noticed it and followed her, but Villiers still got it away.

  8. Postpublished at 20:23 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    Emily Windsor
    Southern Vipers player on BBC Test Match Special

    New Zealand will be very happy with singles from here.

  9. Eng 121-7published at 19.3 overs

    Sarah Glenn takes a single to mid-off.

    Again a direct hit and she was in trouble.

  10. dropped catch

    Villiers dropped on 2published at 19.2 overs

    Eng 120-7

    Oh, no!

    Mady Villiers looks to go over the top, but slices it up in the air and Brooke Halliday drops it.

    It was spinning a lot, to be fair.

  11. Eng 119-7published at 19.1 overs

    Sarah Glenn takes a single into the on side.

    Hayley Jensen gathered in her follow through, and Glenn would have been well out with a direct hit, but the throw is wayward.

  12. Postpublished at 20:21 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    Rosalie Fairbairn
    Former England all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    Let's go for 10 off the last over.

    It's difficult when there's lower-order batters at the crease, but they'll be used to having to perform with the bat now with the quality of cricket they're playing in The Hundred and the Charlotte Edwards Cup.

  13. Eng 118-7published at 19 overs

    Sarah Glenn works the final ball of the over through mid-wicket for a single. Just five from the over, though.

    Can England get up to 125? A boundary or two would sneak them closer to 130.

    This is a big final over.

  14. Not outpublished at 20:19 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    Red. Red. Green.

    It was in line, but it was going a couple of inches over the top of the stumps.

  15. Postpublished at 20:19 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    Emily Windsor
    Southern Vipers player on BBC Test Match Special

    That's hit Sarah Glenn and she's hurt.

    It looked like a rib-tickler. It's hit her straight on the hip bone and looks painful.

  16. New Zealand reviewpublished at 20:19 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    Sarah Glenn has been hit on the elbow/in the stomach as she looks to swipe away, over the leg side. She ends up on her haunches.

    New Zealand appeal. The umpire says no. Sophie Devine sends it upstairs.

  17. Postpublished at 20:16 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    Rosalie Fairbairn
    Former England all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    You felt like a wicket was going to come with the number of dot balls.

    You could sense something was going to happen. The batters couldn't get Kasperek away there.

  18. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 18 overs

    Ecclestone c Bates b Kasperek 5 (Eng 113-7)

    Chipped straight to cover.

    With all the fielders up in the ring, Sophie Ecclestone is tempted into trying to drive through - or over - them, but chips Leigh Kasperek straight to Suzie Bates.

    Kasperek finishes with figures of 2-20 from her four overs. Considerably better than her 1-54 on Wednesday...

  19. Postpublished at 20:14 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    Emily Windsor
    Southern Vipers player on BBC Test Match Special

    What's been more noticeable in this game is that New Zealand seem to have set bowling plans to batters.

    They seem to have been a lot clearer today than they were on Wednesday at Chelmsford.

  20. Postpublished at 20:13 British Summer Time 4 September 2021

    Rosalie Fairbairn
    Former England all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    Kerr has mixed up her pace really well.

    She's bowled a lot of different deliveries meaning the batters haven't been able to settle.

    New Zealand have done really well to pull this back around.