Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 2, Bristol<\/p>\n
Scotland 131-7 (20 overs): Carter 72* (52); Kerr 3-17<\/p>\n
New Zealand 132-4 (18.2 overs): Sharp 62 (43), Halliday 41* (38)<\/p>\n
New Zealand won by six wickets<\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>, Table<\/a><\/p>\n Defending champions New Zealand eliminated Scotland and kept their hopes of a T20 Women’s World Cup semi-final place alive with an impressive display in Bristol.<\/p>\n The White Ferns appeared in control at the halfway point as Scotland struggled to just 131-7.<\/p>\n Scotland were once again indebted to 21-year-old Darcey Carter, who has been one of the breakout stars of this tournament, for holding their innings together.<\/p>\n The opening batter, who also hit a half-century against West Indies, struck an unbeaten 72 off 52 balls that included eight fours and one six. <\/p>\n Sarah Bryce was the only other Scotland batter to offer any real support with 25 off 22 balls.<\/p>\n Both New Zealand openers fell to catches at mid-on off the bowling of Kathryn Bryce and when Sophie Devine was bowled by Rachel Slater, they slipped to 26-3.<\/p>\n However, with Scotland sensing an upset, Izzy Sharp and Brooke Halliday combined to steady New Zealand nerves and slowly wrestle back control.<\/p>\n Sharp accelerated after reaching her half-century – lofting Slater for a straight six – before being bowled with her side one maximum from victory.<\/p>\n Maddy Green reverse-swept a four off the first ball she faced and a leg-bye secured a six-wicket win with 10 balls to spare.<\/p>\n New Zealand’s final group game is against hosts England on 27 June (18:30 BST). They must win and hope other results go their way in order to progress to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s T20 World Cup, Group 2, Bristol Scotland 131-7 (20 overs): Carter 72* (52); Kerr 3-17 New Zealand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}