T20 World Cup, Group 2, The Oval <\/p>\n
New Zealand 163-6 (20 overs): M Kerr 42 (34); Gibson 2-30<\/p>\n
England 164-1 (17.2 overs): Wyatt-Hodge 89* (53), Dunkley 49* (38)<\/p>\n
England won by nine wickets<\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>. Tables<\/a><\/p>\n England’s winning run at the T20 World Cup continued with a rampant nine-wicket victory over New Zealand in their final group game at The Oval.<\/p>\n Already assured of top spot in Group 2, and with it a place in next week’s semi-finals, England built on the momentum of their four previous wins by cruising a chase of 164 with 16 balls to spare.<\/p>\n Danni Wyatt-Hodge, now the tournament’s leading run-scorer, kept up her superb form by crashing 89 not out. She was supported by Sophia Dunkley, who made 49 not out in their unbroken partnership of 128.<\/p>\n Defending champions New Zealand, who are now eliminated, are a shadow of the side that won this title in 2024 but the dominant nature of England’s win only added to the sense of momentum around this side.<\/p>\n After limiting New Zealand early on, they took three wickets in four balls without conceding a run in limiting the White Ferns to 163-6.<\/p>\n Sophie Devine hit three sixes in a 14-ball 30 on her final international appearance but otherwise England were always in control.<\/p>\n Their semi-final opponents will be confirmed on Sunday, with India or South Africa appearing the most likely.<\/p>\n That match will take place on Tuesday afternoon or Thursday evening back at The Oval, where England’s women’s side have never lost any of their 11 matches.<\/p>\n Win that and they will return to Lord’s for the final on Sunday for a chance to win their first World Cup since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup, Group 2, The Oval New Zealand 163-6 (20 overs): M Kerr 42 (34); Gibson 2-30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662179","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\/662179","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=662179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}