Girls’s Cricket World Cup: New Zealand off the mark with large win over Bangladesh

New Zealand chase down 141 for the lack of only one wicket in rain-reduced 27-overs-a-side conflict with Bangladesh; Suzie Bates (79no) turns into the second New Zealand batter to move 1,000 runs within the Girls’s World Cup, and the quickest general to take action, in 21 innings

Suzie Bates struck 79, sharing in an unbroken 108-run partnership with Amelia Kerr, as New Zealand coasted to a snug nine-wicket win over Bangladesh in the Girls’s World Cup.

Event hosts New Zealand bounced again from their agonising three-run defeat to the West Indies of their opening sport with an emphatic show within the rain-shortened sport in Dunedin.

Diminished to a 27-overs-a-side contest, Bangladesh posted a reasonably aggressive whole of 140-8 batting first, with opener Fargana Hoque (52) spectacular in scoring her nation’s first-ever half-century at a World Cup.

Bangladesh had managed solely two fifty opening partnerships throughout their first 42 ODIs earlier than notching two in as many video games on this match as Fargana and Shamima Sultana (33) placed on 59 collectively for the primary wicket contained in the opening 10 overs.

Bangladesh could not capitalise on the sturdy platform offered, although, with spinner Amy Satterthwaite doing the majority of the injury and claiming 3-25 from her 5 overs to tear via the center order.

In reply, New Zealand misplaced Suzie Bates (14) within the seventh over, bowled by Salma Khatun, however Kerr (47no) joined Bates within the center and the pair noticed the hosts house with out additional alarm – Bates turning into the second New Zealand batter to move 1,000 runs within the Girls’s World Cup, and the quickest general to take action, in 21 innings.

She ought to have been dismissed for 58, just for Bangladesh wicketkeeper Shamima to fluff a stumping likelihood.

What’s subsequent?

Watch each sport of the Girls’s Cricket World Cup reside on Sky Sports activities Cricket, with New Zealand subsequent in motion towards India from 1am on Thursday. Bangladesh have an extended wait until their subsequent sport, Sunday at 10pm when they’ll face Pakistan.

England, following defeat to Australia of their opening group sport, are subsequent in motion towards the West Indies from 10pm on Tuesday.