Summary

  • First ODI, Chester-le-Street - England win toss and bowl

  • Hosts secure nervy one-wicket win

  • Dean dropped on 27 - NZ would have won match if catch taken

  • Bouchier falls for 59 to NZ captain M Kerr

  • NZ collapse from 147-2 to 210 all out: Green 88 (107), Kerr 55 (82); Corteen-Coleman takes 2-49 on England debut

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by Timothy Abraham & Matthew Henry

  1. Katherine Sciver-Brunt
    Ex-England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Melie Kerr is looking awesome, the last few months have been so good. The way she trains, she's obsessed with this game.

  2. New Zealand 146-2 at drinks

    Maddy Green biffs Tilly Corteen-Coleman down the ground for four.

    The players take drinks.

  3. 50 runs

    Fifty for Green

    Maddy Green with a dainty little paddle sweep round the corner off Tilly Corteen-Coleman helps the Kiwi batter reach her half-century.

    It's come off 77 balls and is her third fifty against England.

  4. NZ 136-2

    Maddy Green fails to punish a full toss from Lauren Filer and a chance to get fifty - instead nudging it to the fielder at the mid-wicket.

    Three runs off Filer's over.

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    Nothing has changed with the fitness of this team or the attitude. New season, same old same old.

    Phillip, Epsom

  6. NZ 133-2

    A dot to finish from Tilly Corteen-Coleman.

  7. Srinivas Vijaykumar
    CricViz analyst

    New Zealand's middle order play the sweep exceptionally well. In ODIs since the start of 2024, Brooke Halliday (next in to bat), Maddy Green and Izzy Gaze are among the highest run scorers playing the sweep against spinners.

    Most Runs with the Sweep Shot v Spin for New Zealand in ODIs since the start of 2024:

    • Brooke Halliday - 245
    • Maddy Green - 129
    • Izzy Gaze - 100
    • Melie Kerr - 78
  8. 50 runs

    Half-century for Kerr

    Amelia Kerr nearly barbecues Maddy Green at the non-striker's end off Tilly Corteen-Coleman.

    Four dots from the England left-arm spinner before Kerr cuts her gently for a single to reach her fifty.

    It's come off 75 balls.

  9. NZ 132-2

    Lauren Filer returns. She's being used in short burst today.

    The England quick targets the stumps. Four runs off the over.

    Amelia Kerr and Maddy Green unbeaten on 49 and 48 respectively.

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    The fielding is absolutely shocking from England so far!

    Andy, Birmingham

  11. NZ 128-2

    A rare freebie from TCC as she bowls a full toss to Maddy Green.

    The Kiwi batter emphatically whacks it through mid-on for four.

    That got what it deserved.

    Green deftly paddles the England spinner round the corner for a single later in the over.

  12. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    That was village. It happens all the time but it's one where you go 'how has Dani Gibson missed that?'

  13. NZ 121-2

    Dani Gibson with a shocking piece of fielding.

    It's punched straight down the ground by Maddy Green off Jodi Grewcock but Gibson allows the ball to slip through her grasp as she attempts to gather.

    England have been off the boil in the field today.

  14. NZ 114-2

    Tilly Corteen-Coleman is summoned into the attack as New Zealand's trial by spin continues.

    The teenage left-arm spinner spins one past the edge of Maddy Green's bat with Amy Jones thinking about a stumping.

  15. NZ 111-2

    Jodi Grewcock controls her length pretty well.

    Amelia Kerr sweeps the penultimate delivery of the over into the deep but it's fielded.

    A mixed bag from the leg-spinner but Amelia Kerr and Maddy Green are not really capitalise for the White Ferns.

  16. NZ 107-2

    Charlie Dean rattles off another over of her off spin. Three singles off it.

    New Zealand are nursing their way to a total at the moment.

  17. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    I think New Zealand have got a brilliant platform, this partnership is key. I'd love to see them accelerate a bit and they have probably got that the opportunity with spin on.

  18. NZ 104-2

    Jodi Grewcock gives the ball a bit of dry in her shirt, before spinning it between her hands.

    Her fourth delivery is given plenty of air but Maddy Green squirts it through point for a single.

    Later in the over Amelia Kerr skips down the pitch and chips Grewcock over the top but her connection is not quite clean enough to pick up a boundary.

  19. NZ 98-2

    Charlie Dean drags one down with the final delivery of her over, and Amelia Kerr swats it square but cannot quite find the boundary as Freya Kemp swoops to stop it.

    Two runs off the over.

    Change of bowling for England as Jodi Grewcock is tossed the ball on her debut. She's primarily an opening batter but does bowl quite handy leg-breaks.

  20. NZ 96-2

    Lauren Filer chuckles after an attempted bouncer is called a wide.

    England's fielding under the microscope again later in the over after Amelia Kerr works it leg side and it beats the efforts of both mid-wicket and mid-on which allows the Kiwis to pick up a couple of runs.

    The cameras zoom in on Sophie Ecclestone, who is watching on having missed out with a minor quad issue, browsing through the match programme.