HIGHLIGHT
Welcome to bat, India posted a less than impressive 133 for eight in the gathering A match with Shafali top-scoring with a 34-ball 46 and Taniya Bhatia contributing with a 25-ball 23.
They, in any case, created a taught exhibition with the ball to limit New Zealand to 129 for six and register their third progressive success in the competition and seal a last-four spot.
With this success, India bested Group A, having beaten Australia and Bangladesh in their last two trip. "It is an incredible inclination when your group is performing that way," India captain Harmanpreet Kaur said after the match.
"We did likewise botches, we got a decent beginning in the initial 10 overs and we didn't convey the energy. We bowled well in patches and a few times, we were not sufficient and need to concentrate on those zones," she included. Safeguarding a worse than average aggregate, India presented turn straight away however Deepti Sharma drained 12 runs with opener Rachel Priest (12) hitting her for two limits.
In any case, experienced pacer Shikha Pandey expelled Priest in the following over when she had her gotten at mid wicket. With Shikha and left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad bowling pair, New Zealand played with alert to arrive at 28 for one.
Once again into the assault, Deepti then tidied up Bates with a stunner of a conveyance as New Zealand slipped to 30 for two. Poonam Yadav and Radha Yadav then mounted the weight on the Kiwis and soon the Black Caps were 34 for 3 when the previous rejected captain Sophie Devine (14).
Maddy Green (24) and Katey Martin (25) at that point attempted to restore the innings with a 36-ball 43-run stand.
In any case, Gayakwad came back to expel Green, who moved down the pitch just to wind up with an outside edge as Bhatia wrapped up.
Radha then expelled Martin to leave New Zealand at 90 for 5 in 16.3 overs. Requiring 44 off 21 balls, Kerr (34) shot four limits to aggregate 18 runs in the penultimate over bowled by Poonam to bring the condition down to 16 off six balls.
In the last finished, Heyley Jensen (11) and Kerr broke a four each however Shikha held her nerves at last to guarantee India's success. Prior, 16-year-old Shafali gave the firecrackers as India scored 49 for one in the powerplay overs. Be that as it may, they lost six wickets for 43 hurries to waste the great beginning. Smriti Mandhana (11), who came back to the playing XI in the wake of missing the last match because of ailment, withdrew early however Shafali and Taniya (23) kept the scoreboard ticking, including 51 runs for the subsequent wicket.
In the tenth over, Taniya was gotten by Amelia Kerr at in reverse point, while Jemimah Rodrigues (10) was gotten by Kerr in the twelfth over as India slipped to 80 for 3. Captain Harmanpreet's (1) poor structure additionally proceeded and she was before long back to the hovel in the wake of being gotten and bowled by Leigh Kasperek.
Shafali, who was dropped at long-on in the eighth over and at mid-wicket in the tenth over, at that point holed out to Jensen at profound additional spread. She had four hits to the fence and three most extreme shots in her innings.
Left-gave player Deepti Sharma (8) and Veda Krishnamurthy (6) raised the 100 in the fifteenth over however both withdrew soon as India drooped to 104 for 6.
Radha Yadav then impacted 14 off nine balls, which remembered a six for the last finished, to give some decency to the aggregate.