England v New Zealand: Women’s World Cup – as it happened

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Hare’s breadth. Skin of teeth. Eye of... Shrubsole?

England squeak through at the last, the experienced campaigner Anya Shrubsole seeing them over the line with the bat (this time) after it looked like New Zealand were going to pull off a very damp heist in Auckland.

Both sides were far from perfect, after a solid start that saw them reach 96-1 New Zealand were disappointed to end up bowled out with an over to spare, having crawled to 203. In response England were in command at 176-4 and Nat Sciver set at the crease, they then lost five wickets for 23 runs. Cue frayed nerves and a good old peer down the barrel of a World Cup exit.

They creaked over the line with 1 wicket to spare and will face bottom of the table Pakistan at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch on Thursday for another MUST WIN game. They don’t make it easy for themselves, or us for that matter.

That’s it from me, thanks for your company and goodnight/morning/whatever it is. Bye!

England captain Heather Knight was visibly relieved, blowing out her cheeks she said it was, “Amazing to get this win... but credit to the Kiwis, they fought so hard. Today was all about the win and luckily we did that.

“It was nice to get over the line, the bowlers were outstanding, but we have to be better and one of the top order has to go on and do the job...

“There is a bit of relief, we will reflect on what we can do better and we can make it easier but the main thing was getting the win.

“We are building quite nicely and players are performing well, Kate Cross was outstanding, Nat Sciver and the spinners were good. It still has not clicked but hopefully that is