| New Zealand 260-9 (50 overs): Satterthwaite 75, A Kerr 50, Vastrakar 4-34 |
| India 198 all out (46.4 overs): Kaur 71, Tahuhu 3-17, A Kerr 3-56 |
| New Zealand gained by 62 runs |
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Women’s World Cup hosts New Zealand produced a medical efficiency to beat India by 62 runs in Hamilton.
India, regardless of impressing with the ball, struggled with the bat and fell effectively in need of the White Ferns’ 260-9.
Amy Satterthwaite and Amelia Kerr each hit half-centuries for New Zealand, earlier than Kerr turned the match with two wickets in two balls.
New Zealand go joint-top of the early group-stage table on 4 factors, with India on two factors.
India face West Indies, who’ve a 100% document thus far, on the identical venue on Saturday (01:00 GMT), with New Zealand again in motion nearly 24 hours later (22:00 GMT, Saturday) in opposition to event favourites Australia.
New Zealand present their class
New Zealand have been surprisingly beaten by West Indies within the opening sport of the event, however have bounced again with consecutive victories.
Their batting was stable, if unspectacular, in posting a stiff goal for India.
However it was within the subject the place their class – and potential tournament-winning pedigree – shone by means of.
They stored a miserly test on the run-rate, with the tempo, accuracy and hostility of Lea Tahuhu (3-17) complemented by a battery of skilful seam and spin bowlers.
And maybe essentially the most skilful of all of them is 21-year-old leg-spinner Kerr, who halted an India fightback with an excellent thirtieth over.
As Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur, two of India’s most skilled gamers, started to seek out the boundary with extra regularity, Kerr stepped up.
First she had Raj expertly stumped with a fizzing leg-break earlier than, from the very subsequent ball, Richa Ghosh was bamboozled by a googly that rocked again her off stump.
India did have moments of their very own, however they have been primarily within the subject, the place the dying bowling of Pooja Vastrakar (4-34) caught the attention.
There was additionally a landmark second for 39-year-old Jhulan Goswami who grew to become the joint main wicket-taker in World Cup historical past by claiming her thirty ninth sufferer.
