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\nBrooke Halliday.
\nPhoto: photosport\n<\/p>\n
The White Ferns are off the mark at the Cricket World Cup after thumping Bangladesh by 100 runs in Guwahati.<\/p>\n
Having opened their campaign with losses to Australia and South Africa, a desperate New Zealand dominated the contest after choosing to bat, posting 227-9, boosted by half-centuries to Sophie Devine and Brooke Halliday.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh never threatened the target, reduced to 33-6 at one point before being dismissed for 127 in the 40th over.<\/p>\n
The result lifts New Zealand to fifth on the standings in the eight-nation round-robin tournament heading into a match against winless Sri Lanka staring on Tuesday night (NZT).<\/p>\n
Captain Devine said it was a relief to taste victory.<\/p>\n
“Really pleasing for this side to finally get on the board, in tough circumstances,” she said.<\/p>\n
“After the game against Australia, we felt we were good in places but the South Africa game was disappointing.<\/p>\n
“This was important. Run-rate and with the weather around, every point is absolute gold. We have to focus on the next game. We cannot control what else happens.”<\/p>\n
Halliday top-scored with 69 while Devine’s 63 was her third consecutive half-century, consolidating her lead as the tournament’s top runscorer.<\/p>\n
Devine said their fourth-wicket partnership of 112 “was not the prettiest” and the 36-year-old admitted she felt unwell at times, in her status as a type 1 diabetic.<\/p>\n
“Diabetes was not playing ball. I was running low on sugar, so tried to get in as much sugar with coke and jelly beans,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It was just another challenge in conditions that are already tough enough.”<\/p>\n
Jess Kerr (3-21) skittled the Bangladesh top order, taking three of the first four wickets while fellow-seamer Lea Tahuhu (3-22) was just as lethal through the middle stages in her 100th one-day international.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooke Halliday. Photo: photosport The White Ferns are off the mark at the Cricket World Cup after thumping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-72192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}