Fit Record – NZ-W vs ENG-W 2d ODI, April 04, 2024

England 252 (Beaumont 81, Jones 48) beat New Zealand 196 (Halliday 57, Gaze 47, Sciver-Brunt 3-21) through 56 runs

After rankings of 15, 19 and 37 within the first 3 T20Is and a duck within the first ODI, Beaumont discovered her rhythm in a wise, measured innings. She and Maia Bouchier began watchfully, crawling to 9 with out loss after 4 overs. Simply because the England duo hit the following equipment, Hannah Rowe took a screamer off Lea Tahuhu, diving to her proper at mid-off to take away Bouchier in order that after 10 overs England have been 44 for 1.

Heather Knight survived an in depth run-out likelihood taking as unmarried as Georgia Plimmer ran in from backward level and hit the stumps on the keeper’s finish. Fran Jonas and Amelia Kerr saved a lid on England’s scoring fee however Beaumont and Knight controlled to construct at 70-run partnership off 88 balls earlier than Jess Kerr deceived Knight with a slower ball not off course because it struck the again pad, despite the fact that it took a New Zealand evaluate to overturn the unique not-out determination. Jess Kerr claimed her 2nd with a fuller, slower one as Sciver-Brunt performed the fallacious line and the ball crashed into off stump.

Beaumont’s footwork and hand-speed have been at their absolute best and he or she started to search out the boundary with extra regularity. Jonas enticed Alice Capsey down the pitch and Gaze whipped off the bails with the batter effectively out of her crease having confronted 19 balls for her rating of 6. Beaumont used to be taking a look cast till she took a swipe at Rowe’s brief ball and looped a simple catch to Plimmer at midwicket. Jonas had her 2nd wicket when Danni Wyatt attempted to string the ball via 3rd and edged to Gaze, New Zealand once more having to show to the DRS to substantiate the nick.

Bezuidenhout left the sphere within the thirty sixth over clutching at her proper hamstring as she ran to gather the ball within the outfield, then Charlie Dean edged an Amelia Kerr fallacious ‘un onto her stumps as England misplaced their 6th wicket within the house of 59 runs.

Suzie Bates entered the assault within the forty first over and had Sophie Ecclestone stuck within the deep through Maddy Inexperienced together with her fourth ball. However Jones saved amassing runs with back-to-back fours off each Jess Kerr and Bates. Jones raised the fifty partnership with a steadfast Kate Pass by way of a crisp 4 off Tahuhu. However Tahuhu replied two balls later as Jones paddled a slower ball immediately to Halliday at brief nice leg two runs shy of her half-century. Bates wrapped up the England innings with an over to spare when Lauren Bell chipped to Rowe at mid-off however England had added 86 runs for his or her remaining 3 wickets.

The absence of Devine and Bezuidenhout left stand-in skipper Amelia Kerr with a top-order batting catch 22 situation and it used to be Plimmer who used to be promoted to open along Bates. They settled right into a 33-run stand with Bates earlier than Bell had Plimmer stuck in the back of for 7, then Bates top-edged Sciver-Brunt’s first ball immediately to Capsey at sq. leg to make it 41 for two for the White Ferns inside of 10 overs. Sciver-Brunt had 2 for 7 from her first 4 overs when Capsey hung on once more to take away Amelia Kerr for simply 14.

Maddy Inexperienced hadn’t seemed at ease, dealing with 26 deliveries for her first 3 runs earlier than she scythed Ecclestone to the boundary via backward level. Halliday used to be dropped on 1 through Pass at mid-on, which might have given Ecclestone her first wicket, however Charlie Dean got here on within the twentieth over and struck together with her 3rd ball, trapping Inexperienced lbw.

Halliday and Gaze saved their facet within the contest, Gaze capitalising after Jones ignored a catch when she used to be on 6 off Dean. Gaze used to be last in on what would were her maiden ODI half-century simply days after scoring her first T20I fifty in Wellington however, no faster had Halliday introduced up her fifty off 85 balls, and the century stand, with a unmarried off Pass and Gaze used to be run out subsequent ball for 47, slicing to backward level then hesitating earlier than urgent on for the only as Beaumont fired the ball in to Sciver-Brunt on the non-striker’s finish.

Halliday introduced Bell for 6 subsequent over however, as she attempted the similar down the bottom off Pass with such power that her bat flew out of her palms, Jones finished the stumping and ended a treasured innings on 57.

Sciver-Brunt claimed her 3rd when Jess Kerr picked out Ecclestone at mid-off and Rowe used to be run out earlier than Jonas fell lbw to Ecclestone for a first-ball duck. Bezuidenhout used to be observed dressed in her pads and helmet moments earlier than Jonas’s dismissal however she did not stroll out to bat and used to be limping as the perimeters shook palms.