India set New Zealand 325 from 44 overs: Women’s Cricket World Cup – live
14th over: New Zealand 73-3 (M Kerr 26, Halliday 4) Melie Kerr thumps Deepti Sharma’s first ball back over her head for four, then Halliday gets off the mark with a lovely straight drive for four, all along the ground.Might as well!13th over: New Zealand 64-3 (M Kerr 21, Halliday 0) Just a single from Charani’s over.New Zealand threatened a fightback when Plimmer was going well, but this game is probably over now.12th over: New Zealand 63-3 (M Kerr 20, Halliday 0) New Zealand need snookers, aka 262 from 192 balls.Brilliant work from Renuka Singh Thakur, who bowls Sophie Devine through the gate with an immculate off-cutter.
That’s a big wicket, one that almost certainly secures India’s semi-final place.11th over: New Zealand 58-2 (M Kerr 19, Devine 6) A change of spinner: Sree Charana for Sneh Rana.Just three from the over.10th over: New Zealand 55-2 (M Kerr 18, Devine 4) Sophie Devine clatters her second ball through the covers for four.Might as well!A change of ends does the trick for Renuka Singh Thakur.
Plimmer, who was looking dangerous, drags an inducker back onto the stumps to end a promising innings of 30 from 25 balls.Wickets are invaluable for India because they increase New Zealand’s DLS target should the game be rained off.9th over: New Zealand 50-1 (Plimmer 30, M Kerr 17) Time for the offspin of Sneh Rana.Lovely batting from Georgia Plimmer, who skips down to swipe the second ball over wide long-on for six, then clips four behind square to the end the over.After scoring 6 from her first 13 balls, Plimmer has hit 24 from the last 10.
8th over: New Zealand 36-1 (Plimmer 19, M Kerr 14) Plimmer pulls Gaud emphatically for four to continue New Zealand’s mini-mini-mini-revival.There’s a chance of rain later on, it says here, so there’s a chance of a washout.If New Zealand bat for 20 overs we will have a positive result.7th over: New Zealand 30-1 (Plimmer 14, M Kerr 13) Ghosh is going to continue, though she looks in a bit of pain.A misfield for Harmanpreet gives Kerr her first boundary, the third of the over.
6,3 overs: New Zealand 23-1 (Plimmer 14, M Kerr 8) Plimmer gets New Zealand moving with successive boundaries off Thakur,Richa Ghosh hurts her finger trying to stop a leg-side wide, leading to a break in play while she has it strapped,6th over: New Zealand 14-1 (Plimmer 6, M Kerr 7) Kranti Gaud, who took one of the great return catches last week to dismiss South Africa’s Tazmin Brits, drops Georgia Plimmer off her own bowling,It was a tough chance, blasted back at her, and she couldn’t hang on as she reached to her right.
I don’t think she’s just dropped the World Cup, mate.5th over: New Zealand 11-1 (Plimmer 4, M Kerr 6) New Zealand just can’t get going.Thakur’s third over costs a single, just like the first two, and the required rate screeches above eight an over.4th over: New Zealand 10-1 (Plimmer 4, M Kerr 5) Plimmer gets off the mark by cuffing her seventh ball whence it came for four.It was in the air but just wide of the bowler Gaud.
But there are only five runs from the over in total; the required rate has risen to almost eight.3rd over: New Zealand 5-1 (Plimmer 0, M Kerr 4) And again Thakur concedes only a single run.You never know in white-ball cricket, especially under lights, but this already feels like a done deal.2nd over: New Zealand 4-1 (Plimmer 0, M Kerr 3) Melie Kerr is the new batter.Her partner, Georgia Plimmer, comes very close to dragging Gaur back onto the stumps.
New Zealand’s task just got a whole lot tougher.Suzie Bates walks down the track to Kranti Gaud and top-edges a pull towards point, where Pratika Rawal takes a comfortable catch.1st over: New Zealand 1-0 (Bates 1, Plimmer 0) An excellent start from Thakur, who concedes just a single from her first over.New Zealand’s required rate is already up to 7.54 per over.
Renuka Singh Thakur will open the bowling to Suzie Bates.Let’s play!The players are coming onto the field.The night sky is clear and New Zealand’s target has been revised to 325 from 44 overs.WIth that, good luck.“I lived in Bombay (can never bring myself to call it Mumbai) for 15 years and people elsewhere do not understand the rains in Bombay,” writes Krishnamoorthy V.
“Once it starts, it’s like someone forgot to close the tap.A no result is more likely leaving India a must-win in the final match against Bangladesh.”It’s raining again.It’s not too heavy, though, and the players are practicing on the outfield.Pratika Rawal’s 122 made her the joint-fastest woman to reach 1000 runs in ODIs, equalling the record set by the great Lindsay Reeler.
She died last year, aged just 63,If you don’t know her story, please read this interview with the ABC’s Duncan Huntsdale in 2022,49th over: India 340-3 (Jemimah 76, Ghosh 4) Richa Ghosh edges her first and final ball for four,This is India’s highest score at a World Cup, beating the 330 they made against Australia earlier in the tournament,That wasn’t enough; this, surely, will be.
After Jemimah Rodrigues is dropped for four at long-off by Maddy Green, a tough but takeable chance, Harmanpreet Kaur is well caught at backward point by Eden Carson.One ball remaining.Here come the players.A reminder that it’s now a 49-over game, so India have precisely six balls remaining in their innings.Rosemary Mair will bowl them.
Thanks Tanya, hello everyone.That’s how to respond to adversity, eh: India, facing potential humiliation at their own World Cup, have batted magnificently to reach 329 for 2 from 48 overs.The game isn’t done, but it’ll need an innings for the ages for New Zealand to win.Time for me to handover to Rob Smyth, who will guide you through the one remaining over of India’s innings and then New Zealand’s chase.Bye!Rain permitting.
The covers are being unpeeled.You’ve got time to make some sandwiches.So 15 minutes more of mopping up, an over, a ten minute break, then New Zealand’s innings.
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