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Durhamfootman wrote:Knight brought up her 1500th T20I run with a single, but then thumped the ball over long on for six and match, leaving Nat S-B stranded on 1999 career runs

Sciver brings up her 2000 runs first ball

England starting to go walkabout a bit now. 69-1 becomes 81-4

hole out, hole out, run out, hole out

there's a bit of a pattern emerging

England win with loads of time left in the game, but losing 6 wickets en route to 107 feels careless

perhaps the batters were tying to impress WPL selectors in real time. If they were, then only Capsey will have increased any interest in securing her services

and indeed Capsey signs for Delhi for around £75k

Ecclestone goes to UP warriorz, whoever they are, for £180k, whilst Nat S-B gets the joint top bid... £320k to Mumbai

after losing to SL, this is pretty much a do or die match for SA...... and atm they are throwing wickets away

SA are being dropped back into contention. 2 drops in 2 overs by NZ's keeper, who's now pretending that her fingers hurt. These come in the two overs after she gave away 4 byes. She is standing up in fairness, but it sounds as though she's making a bit of a horlicks of things

oh blimey... NZ!

first the keeper drops the two top scorers who drag SA to a half defendable total from disaster, then she gets a 2 ball blob

Bates also gets a 2 ball blob to add to her first baller in the last match.

then the number 3 charges Kapp and nicks off and now Kerr nicks off chasing a wide one

18-4 and Sophie Devine must be wondering what on earth her teammates are doing.

NZ heading home early it seems.

Meanwhile job done for England. One more victory should see them into the semis given that massive NRR.

I don't think I quite appreciated what a dreadful team NZ have become. if the last pair can bat out the last 2 overs they might reach 70

nope... 67 all out to go with the 76 all out in the first match

it's really quite shocking

Durhamfootman wrote:I don't think I quite appreciated what a dreadful team NZ have become.

I had no idea - I hadn't seen any of the cup so far, and am watching a highlights of the SA/NZ match now. Things are pretty bad for NZ, I fully expected them to dominate SA.

Bangladesh won the toss and batted first. It seems to have been the right decision and they've batted creditably finishing with 107-7, their skip Joty scoring 57 off 50 balls. They've batted as well as anyone could have expected and avoided having their bowlers flayed for the full 20 overs which will surely stand them in good stead for the remaining 2 matches against NZ and SA

they might even feel a little optimistic against a mis-firing SA and a hopeless NZ

Aus giving a lot of respect to Marufa after her first match exploits. I wonder if Bangladesh will think of bowling her out

They choose not to and now Australia are running through the gears

in the end it was a very watchful run chase for Australia, chasing down 107 with 10 balls to spare. At least Bangladesh bowled Marufa out who finished with a very worthy 1-19

Australia win again, in other news sun rises and bear shits in woods.