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46th over: India 315-2 (Jemimah 64, Kaur 2) Jemimah gets some treatment at the start of the over \u2013 maybe for cramp? The physios look concerned but she\u2019s fed a banana and water and is ready to go. Carson gets the treatment. Four: reversed with gumption. Four: flayed with extravagant bat twirl and elongated stretch. Four more: cut behind square.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.45 EDT<\/p>\n Fifty for Rodrigues!<\/p>\n 45th over: India 302-2 (Jemimah 51, Kaur 2) M Kerr gives the ball air \u2013 Jemimah can\u2019t make the most of the first one, but leans into the second, sending it smooching through cover for four to bring up fifty. She raises her bat high in the air like a periscope to the strains of Despacito. A promotion up the order with wheels.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.39 EDT<\/p>\n 44th over: India 292-2 (Jemimah 45, Kaur 1) Two new batters now, can New Zealand tighten the stable doors? Five runs picked from the over. Six left \u2013 can India get close to 350?<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Pratika c Rowe (sub) b M Kerr 122 (India 288-2)<\/p>\n 43rd over: India 288-2 (Jemimah 41, Kaur 0) Time for one last glorious six from Pratika, down the ground, bisecting the Mumbai air, before she falls to a wonderful catch by the diving Rowe, making amends at long off, going for one more.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 42nd over: India 279-1 (Pratika 115, Jemimah 39) Bates again, as evening falls in Mumbai. She directs the field with pointed finger and firm hand. But all the reployment doesn\u2019t help \u2013 Jemimah slams one past extra cover, and another pancaked past long on.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 41st over: India 266-1 (Pratika 114, Jemimah 27) Twelve from Jess Kerr\u2019s over \u2013 four singles \u2013 impressive stamina by Pratika \u2013 and two successive free-flowing fours from Rodrigues.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 40th over: India 254-1 (Pratika 112, Jemimah 17) An over of near misses for bowler Susie Bates. First Pratika picks out Green at long off, who gets into position but drops the ball before slipping onto her backside. Then New Zealand review an lbw against Rodrigues, but ball has brushed glove.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.21 EDT<\/p>\n A hundred for Pratika Rawal!<\/p>\n 39th over: India 247-1 (Pratika 107, Jemimah 15) With a single sliding behing point, there\u2019s the second hundred of the innings, a coolly crafted one by Pratika. A standing ovation from the spectators, a hug from Jemimah. Later in the over she celebrates by lofting Mair with sizzling wrists over wide long on for six more.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 38th over: India 238-1 (Pratika 99, Jemimah 14) Just three singles off the wiley Bates. <\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 37th over: India 235-1 (Pratika 97, Jemimah 13) Three singles off Kerr\u2019s first five balls, then a paddle-sweep from Rodrigues brings the boundary. The physio comes on field to examine Pratika\u2019s wrist.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.07 EDT<\/p>\n 36th over: India 228-1 (Pratika 95, Jemimah 8) Sophie Devine with her sixth over. Two fours from it \u2013 Pratika weaves one through extra cover, Jemimah too, appassionato.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 35th over: India 218-1 (Pratika 90, Jemimah 3) Jemimah is pushed up the order to make merry from that outstanding base. Five easy runs from Melie Kerr\u2019s over.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 34th over: India 213-1 (Pratika 87, Jemimah 1) Well done Susie Bates \u2013 still got it even in her first spell of the World Cup. The highest stand of the tournament comes to an end \u2013 glorious stuff from Smriti.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Smriti c Rowe (sub) b Bates 109 (India 212-1)<\/p>\n At last! A slog sweep flies high towards the lights, comes down to earth just in front of the rope where Rowe fluffs her first attempt but catches the rebound with her wrists and to huge relief. The end of a wonderful innings.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a007.50 EDT<\/p>\n 33rd over: India 211-0 (Pratika 86, Smriti 109) Pratika helps a limping ball from Kerr down to the rope before Smriti tonks a full toss, a waist high full toss for six. The free hit just brings a single.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 32nd over: India 195-0 (Pratika 79, Smriti 101) A long break for drinks again. Just three single from Bates\u2019 over. Every single New Zealand can make India run, will exhaust them more.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>100 for Smriti Mandhana!<\/p>\n 31st over: India 192-0 (Pratika 77, Smriti 100) And with a single comes India\u2019s first hundred of the tournament, a fabulous display of hitting from Smriti \u2013 her 14th ODI century. She lifts both helmet and bat and smiles that glorious smile. In the dugout a keyboard of blue stands to applaud.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 30th over: India 188-0 (Pratika 75, Smriti 98) Devine calls up her trusty war horse Suzie Bates to have a go. Now even the immaculate fielding is starting to wilt as Smriti slots four between two immobile bodies.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 29th over: India 181-0 (Pratika 75, Smriti 91) Smriti grabs a handful of salt and scrubs it into the raw wound. A one-kneed six cracked up and into the night, the next, also on one knee, swept down to the rope. Kerr ia unimpressed.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a007.29 EDT<\/p>\n 28th over: India 170-0 (Pratika 75, Smriti 80) Tahuhu continues to feel the heat as Pratika flays her past point and a sprawling fielder for one four, past midwicket for another.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 27th over: India 161-0 (Pratika 66, Smriti 79) New Zealand break through! \u2013 no, they don\u2019t. Smriti looks stone-dead lbw to Milie Kerr but but choses to review Sue\u2019s raised finger, because why not, and DRS finds a slither of an inside edge. The news surprises Smriti, already walking off, as much as it does Kerr, who shrugs her shoulders in disbelief.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 26th over: India 155-0 (Pratika 64, Smriti 76) Smriti crouches down by her stumps \u2013 the humidity is starting to tell here \u2013 the boundary fielders constantly sipping from drinks. Tahuhu returns and starts her second spell with a wide. Then Pratika parries one angled into her pads with a wristy steer for four.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 25th over: India 147-0 (Pratika 58, Smriti 75) At half way, New Zealand are yet to take a wicket and India are steaming across the ocean and far away. Pratika with the dancing feet this time, four lofted over mid on. More quick drinks.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 24thover: India 140-0 (Pratika 52, Smriti 74) Another Smriti four, as she leans back and caresses the ball away. Devine tries to stem the flow with a short ball but it drifts leg side for a wide.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Ffity for Pratika<\/p>\n 23rd over: India 132-0 (Pratika 50, Smriti 69) Smriti opens her eyes wide and, twinkling of toe, pulls Mair across the grass and over the rope. A nipped single brings Pratika her second fifty of the World Cup and the over finishes with four more for Smriti, a wayward delivery nudged past the keeper.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 22nd over: India 121-0 (Pratika 48, Smriti 60) Pratika contemplates a scoop, but changes her mind at the last second, grounded to the crease. Just three singles from Devine\u2019s over.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 21st over: India 118-0 (Pratika 46, Smriti 59) Mair returns to try and break this dangerous partnership. No cigar, but no boundaries either. The ground is alive with the Mexican wave. And a stat for you: Smriti and Pratika have the most runs by an opening pair in ODIs since 2024.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 20th over: India 113-0 (Pratika 43, Smriti 58) A run rate of four from the first ten overs became 7.5 from overs ten to 20. Eight off Carson\u2019s fourth over, including a four from Smriti, inelegant by her standards, but does the job.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.53 EDT<\/p>\n 19th over: India 107-0 (Pratika 42, Smriti 52) Jess Kerr starts her over with a no ball but the free hit brings naught as Pratika finds the cover fielder. A sharp bit of fielding by Halliday in the ring cuts off a boundary. Five singles<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Fifty for Smriti Mandhana!<\/p>\n 18th over: India 102-0 (Pratika 40, Smriti 50) Smriti brings up the century partnership by lofting Carson for four \u2013 eggs over easy, one bounce before clearing long on boundary. A couple more brings fifty, making her the second highest run-scorer this World Cup behind Healy.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 17th over: India 94-0 (Pratika 38, Smriti 44) Ice towels and sun umbrellas bring temporary relief. Jess Kerr resumes, Smriti threads four between third and backward point like the expert seamstress she is.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 16th over: India 86-0 (Pratika 36, Smriti 38) Kerr tosses the first ball of the over up and SMriti strolls down the pitch and pings her for six over deep mid wicket. Four more from a Pratika square drive that whistles exquisitely over the rope ahead of the despairing sweeper. DRINKS, and India have wrestled control.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.39 EDT<\/p>\n 15th over: India 74-0 (Pratika 31, Smriti 31) Devine cuts her losses and replaces the expensive Tahuhu with Jess Kerr, whose first two overs went for three. The ploy works immediately, with just three singles run.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.29 EDT<\/p>\n 14th over: India 71-0 (Pratika 28, Smriti 27) Steady from Kerr, but India milk five singles from it.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.29 EDT<\/p>\n 13th over: India 67-0 (Pratika 28, Smriti 27) Pratika has decided Tahuhu must go. After the second ball flies off the pad and down to the rope, she pulls out a short-arm jab over wide long on, then a glorious front-foot lofted drive with pose held for all of Mumbai to appreciate, for four more.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 12th over: India 53-0 (Pratika 20, Smriti 25) ICC woman\u2019s cricketer of the year 20204 Melie Kerr is whistled into the action. A single and two leg byes from her first over.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 11th over: India 50-0 (Pratika 20, Smriti 24) Another bowling change, Tahuhu starts with a wide and follows up with a wide three balls later. And another slips past Smriti\u2019s off stump. Tahuhu curls her lip as she walks back. A delivery drifts widish of Pratika\u2019s off stump , who promptly tucks cuts her for four. New Zealand\u2019s change bowlers have not managed to capitalise on the miserliness of the opening pair.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 10th over: India 40-0 (Pratika 15, Smriti 22) Pratika flays four like a chef presented with some rotten vegetables, pulling Devine over midwicket. But four dots complete the over and at the end of the power play, India\u2019s run-rate is a grudingly respectable four an over.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 9th over: India 35-0 (Pratika 11, Smriti 21) Ignore me, as Smriti shimmies down the pitch with twinkling boots and lofts Carson over long off and for six. Gorgeous shot which pleases as on-edge crowd.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8th over: India 28-0 (Pratika 11, Smriti 14) Smriti starts the over by slashing a juicy pie from Devine past backward point for four. Just one more run though, so India hardly steaming along .<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 7th over: India 23-0 (Pratika 11, Smriti 9) The first over of spin, with the fresh-faced Eden Carson, black towel tucked into her waistband. Smriti sweeps the first-ball loosener down to the rope. But the ring successfully prevent any more boundaries.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 6th over: India 18-0 (Pratika 11, Smriti 4) Devine brings herself into the attack and Smriti rushes her first ball, sending the ball flying just past a airborne point. Dab-dab, we return to the singles game.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 5th over: India 15-0 (Pratika 10, Smriti 2) A boundary at last, as Mair sends down a half volley and Pratika flicks her away off her ankles and down to the rope. And another! A greedy step forward and angled over cover. The engine is running.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a005.54 EDT<\/p>\n 4th over: India 6-0 (Pratika 2, Smriti 1) Lots of empty seats at the moment, but on TMS Steve Finn says that spectators are gathering in the shaded areas to shelter from the sun \u2013 it\u2019s 3.15 in the afternoon in Mumbai. A couple of singles off Kerr\u2019s second over, and then an out of character wide. India cannot pierce New Zealand\u2019s fielders waiting in a tight ring.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 3rd over: India 3-0 (Pratika 1, Smriti 0) The crowd are chomping for boundaries, but New Zealand\u2019s bowlers are not complying. More stinginess from Mair, nibbling the ball both way and giving India nothing. Jut a single.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 2nd over: India 2-0 (Pratika 0, Smriti 0) Jess Kerr at the other end, neat lengths, Smriti, watchful, taps the ball back. An excellent maiden.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Play!<\/p>\n 1st over: India 2-0 (Pratika 0, Smriti 0) Rosemary Mair, hair scraped back, earrings dancing, starts with an outswinger that Pratika lets go safely by. And so it continues for much of the over, with two leg byes from the last ball.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n India have limped to this stage, on the back of three losses. But here they are, and they must turn things around today. After the anthems, New Zealand huddle for a giant high five, Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal trot to the middle.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Hot, hot, hot<\/p>\n It\u2019s 35 degrees at the DY Patil stadium, and a humidity level in the 50s means that sweat won\u2019t evaporate very effectively. It\u2019s going to be tough out there.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n I think Sophie Devine summed up the situation pretty well pre-match:<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t imagine the a type pf pressure that India feel, a billion people tuned into the TV screens. I\u2019ve got real empathy for them, for us it\u2019s a really exciting challenge, playing India, in India, in a World Cup, these are the moments that you want to be playing cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>India bring in Rodrigues<\/p>\n India XI: Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Harleen Deol, Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Renuka Singh, Kranti Gaud, Shree Charani.<\/p>\n Mumbai\u2019s Rodrigues replaces Amanjot Kaur, but still no extra bowler.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>New Zealand unchanged<\/p>\n New Zealand XI: Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Devine (capt), Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Isabella Gaze (wk), Jess Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Eden Carson, Lea Tahuhu.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Harmanpreet looks calm in the storm. \u201cThe pitch is looking good and we have a good opportunity with the extra batter to set a big total.We want to enjoy the moment and play good cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>New Zealand win the toss and bowl<\/p>\n Sophie Devine: \u201cWe don\u2019t think the surface will change much and we just want a first crack with the ball. We haven\u2019t played as much as we\u2019d like but\u2026we walk towards the pressure, playing India in India in a World Cup, it doesn\u2019t get much bigger than that.\u201d<\/p>\n