Women's Cricket
Women's World Cup: India lose by 62 runs against New Zealand, Kaur scores 71 runs - Highlights, Scores, Updates
India has only won twice against New Zealand in 12 matches at the World Cup stages so far. Mithali Raj & Co. fail to better that record. Follow Highlights.
The Women in Blue will look to keep their winning streak going (Source: BCCI Women Twitter)
Welcome to the live blog of the New Zealand vs India match-up at the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2022!
The Indian women's cricket team, led by skipper Mithali Raj once again failed to come out victorious against New Zealand as they lost by 62 runs. India's top order was not able to score many runs leading to a heavy defeat against the hosts. Vice-captain Harmanpreet Kaur was the only player to score a half-century (71).
India has thrashed Pakistan in their World Cup opener, winning by 107 runs apart from winning their two warmup matches. New Zealand, on the other hand, lost their opener to West Indies in a thriller but followed it up with a convincing win against Bangladesh.
India will now face the West Indies in the next match of the World Cup on March 12th.
Follow all updates live here:
Live Updates
- 10 March 2022 6:51 AM GMT
100 up for INDIA!
A very attacking field for Sneh Rana. Amelia once again tries a googly, but it sits up nicely this time and Sneh Rana sends it to the boundary square of the wicket.
100 up for India with that shot, but it has taken them 30 overs to reach that mark.
IND - 101/5 (30)
- 10 March 2022 6:50 AM GMT
Golden Duck for Richa Ghosh!
Googly first up from Amelia Kerr, Richa tries to cut it from the back foot and misses it altogether. BOWLED.
- 10 March 2022 6:46 AM GMT
Mithali Raj walks!
Mithali Raj tries to come down the track and play across the line. Misses it completely and is stumped by Katey Martin. A strange, strange shot at this point and this match is going out of India's grasp rather quickly.
IND - 97/4 (29.4)
- 10 March 2022 6:40 AM GMT
Harmanpreet gets going!
A couple of boundaries for the Indian vice-captain and the Indian innings seems to be slowly coming to life. Still a lot to do though for the veteran pair out in the middle.
IND - 92/3 (28)
- 10 March 2022 6:23 AM GMT
IND - 61/3 (23)
Mithali Raj is now itching to get that run-rate up. She is trying to flash at everything in her zone and has managed to eke out a boundary of an outside edge, which flew just wide of slip.
Harmanpreet is still trying to get her eye in.
IND 61/3 (23)
- 10 March 2022 6:08 AM GMT
Yastika Bhatia falls!
There goes another for India. Yastika Bhatia tries to work Tahuhu towards the mid-wicket region for a single, but all she manages is a leading edge to cover, where Frances Mackay takes a dolly.
INDIA SINK FURTHER.
IND - 50/3 (19.1)
- 10 March 2022 6:04 AM GMT
Exceptional bowling from NZ
Some great bowling by New Zealand, thankfully for India the batters in the middle have been calm and collected. Mithali Raj has been handed a life after being dropped at short cover off Lea Tahuhu.
IND - 47/2 (18)
- 10 March 2022 5:53 AM GMT
Slow and steady
They have been slow, but they are rebuilding well are Yastika Bhatia and Mithali Raj.
IND - 43/2 (16)
- 10 March 2022 5:28 AM GMT
Horror for India!
Last ball of the powerplay and Deepti Sharma has to walk leg before wicket by Lea Tahuhu. It was given not-out on field, but the White Ferns have it turned around via a review.
IND - 26/2 (10)
The strike rotation has been absolutely terrible so far and India have just made this chase much more difficult for themselves.
- 10 March 2022 5:09 AM GMT
Smriti Mandhana walks!
The pressure builds and Smriti Mandhana falls. The southpaw tries to go aerial over cover off Jess Kerr but hits it straight to Suzie Bates, who was standing there.
Officially a terrible start for India and they would need Bhatia to rebuild with yet another left-hander Deepti Sharma.
IND - 10/1 (5.4)
