ICC Women’s World Cup: New Zealand v Australia – live!

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Over-by-over report: Can hosts New Zealand cause an upset against the world No 1 Australians in Wellington? Find out with Emma Kemp.

That’s it for our coverage today. Keep an eye out for a match report to go up shortly, and please do join us throughout the rest of the tournament. Bye for now.

As it happens, this is Australia’s 100th ODI win against New Zealand. Now they will take it to the West Indies on Tuesday at this same venue.

Lanning is praising the depth of her squad, especially the lower order who she says “can rescue our innings”. She is, of course, referring to Gardner, who missed the start of Australia’s campaign after testing positive for Covid but returned in indefatigable fashion.

“It was great to have her back,” Lanning says. “Obviously a tough 10 days for her but she’s come back incredibly well. That innings certainly gave us the momentum heading into the bowling. We thought it was a good score without match-winning and probably went a bit too hard to get their key batters out.”

Speaking of Devine, she has just spoken about her side’s performance and is disappointed with their batting display and says Australia’s batting was the “blueprint” for success.

“The reason we wanted to bowl first was to contain them and get a few more wickets and put the pressure on them,” she says. “Guess that shows the quality of the Australian side as, even though they were three to four down, had the run rate under control and were able to launch in the death overs.”

Now she’s talking about Gardner’s performance and Australia’s all-round output with the bat.

“She hit with the wind and was outstanding the way she played. We certainly would have to go back to our plans around how you gonna do it but,