ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 2, Southampton<\/p>\n
New Zealand 162-6 (20 overs): Halliday 40 (32); Alleyne 4-27<\/p>\n
West Indies 163-3 (19.5 overs): Campbelle 90* (62); J Kerr 2-17<\/p>\n
West Indies won by seven wickets <\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>, Table<\/a><\/p>\n Defending champions New Zealand were beaten in their Women’s T20 World Cup opener as West Indies edged a last-over thriller in Southampton. <\/p>\n Chasing 163, West Indies reached their target with a ball to spare as Shemaine Campbelle finished unbeaten on 90. <\/p>\n Sophie Devine was tasked with defending six from the final over and Campbelle gave the strike to 20-year-old Jahzara Claxton with one run needed, with the pair sprinting a bye from the penultimate ball to secure the victory. <\/p>\n Campbelle was visibly emotional at the conclusion as it was her first T20 fifty in 122 matches for the Windies.<\/p>\n New Zealand were left to rue several dropped catches, including star all-rounder Hayley Matthews on nine before she went on to make 48 to set up the chase. <\/p>\n The White Ferns’ 162-6 looked a competitive total at the halfway stage as they recovered from a mini-collapse from 49-0 to 56-3. <\/p>\n After Izzy Gaze made 39 at the top of the order, Brooke Halliday and Maddy Green chipped in with 40 and 35, while Aaliyah Alleyne took 4-27 for West Indies.<\/p>\n It could prove to be a crucial win for West Indies in a group where England are favourites to finish top but the fight for second place is very open. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 2, Southampton New Zealand 162-6 (20 overs): Halliday 40 (32); Alleyne 4-27…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-735020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}