England captain Heather Knight makes another half-century as her side beat New Zealand by 15 runs in the second T20 to take a 2-0 series lead.
England captain Heather Knight made another half-century as her side beat New Zealand by 15 runs in the second T20 to take a 2-0 series lead.
Danni Wyatt, Alice Capsey and Nat Sciver-Brunt - who will switch to this series from the fourth game after their involvement in the Women's Premier League - are set to join Knight and Amy Jones. There is uncertainty about all three with the former averaging 17 in her past 13 T20 innings, Beaumont back in the side after a two-year absence and Bouchier has moved up and down the order and is yet to settle into a role.
A superb throw from Glenn brought the early run out of Bernadine Bezuidenhout before the key strike of Bates, as New Zealand threatened to get away from England in the powerplay after some wayward bowling from the seamers. The rising rate allowed Knight to return to Gibson and Bell and both used slower balls effectively, with the former having Kerr caught at short fine leg as the all-rounder looked to ramp to the boundary.
"I felt like I struggled to get going a little bit. I found it quite hard. I thought they bowled really well and they made it quite tricky for us. It was nice to hang in there and go hard at the end.""I thought we got ourselves into winning positions. We just missed a little bit at the end of the innings and again with the bat a great start and we let ourselves down in the middle. There are still some great positives to take.
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