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England 209 for 6 (Jones 92*, Dean 42*) beat New Zealand 207 (Bates 50, Bell 3-41, Dean 3-57, Cross 2-24) by 4 wickets
Tahuhu eliminated in-form England opener Maia Bouchier together with her seventh ball of the match, caught by Inexperienced at sq. leg and then Amelia Kerr had Alice Capsey lbw for a duck as she tried to reverse-sweep, placing the vacationers at 55 for 4.
Tahuhu made Danni Wyatt soar with a brief, sharp ball to start with and when Nat Sciver-Brunt was run out for simply 12 two balls later, England had been 5 wickets down inside 14 overs. Amelia Kerr’s googly went straight by means of Wyatt to elicit an elated shout of “come on!” from New Zealand’s stand-in skipper, who sensed a win that had regarded unlikely after the house facet’s innings.
However Jones and Dean constructed a peaceful, rock-solid partnership to regular England, Jones citing her fifty off 52 balls with a 4 over deep midwicket off Tahuhu and ending two runs shy of her greatest ODI rating when Dean struck the profitable runs, a 4 off Fran Jonas.
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Valkerie Baynes is a basic editor, girls’s cricket, at ESPNcricinfo
