New Zealand’s Rosemary Mair celebrates a wicket throughout their Girls’s Cricket World Cup 2025 match in opposition to Bangladesh at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati, India, October 10, 2025. — ICC
GUWAHATI: Skipper Sophie Devine and Brooke Halliday struck very important half-centuries as New Zealand thrashed Bangladesh by 100 runs in Guwahati on Friday, registering their first victory of the ICC Girls’s World Cup 2025.
Devine and Halliday’s half-centuries led the White Ferns to a formidable complete of 227/9 on the board of their set of fifty overs after they opted to bat first within the eleventh recreation of the match.
New Zealand received off to a shaky begin to their innings as skilled opener Suzie Bates’ run-out and Rabeya Khan’s twin strike lowered them to 38/3 in 11 overs.
They added 112 runs for the fourth wicket till Halliday fell sufferer to Fahima Khatun within the thirty ninth over. She remained the top-scorer with 69 off 104 deliveries, laced with 5 fours and a six.
Devine was then concerned in a quick 29-run partnership with Maddy Inexperienced (25) till ultimately being bowled by Nishita Akter Nishi within the forty fourth over, scoring 63 off 85 deliveries, studded with two fours and as many sixes.
Rabeya Khan was the choose of the bowlers for Bangladesh, taking three wickets for simply 30 runs in 10 overs, whereas Fahima Khatun, Nishita Akter Nishi, Nahida Akter and Marufa Akter chipped in with one scalp apiece.
In response, Bangladesh’s batting unit was folded on a meagre 127 in 39.5 overs regardless of Fahima’s resistance.
The all-rounder top-scored with a gutsy 34 off 80 deliveries, whereas Nahida (17) and Rabeya (25) had been the opposite to amass double figures in opposition to a ruthless New Zealand bowling assault.
Lea Tahuhu and Jes Kerr collectively led New Zealand’s bowling cost with three wickets every, adopted by Rosemary Mair with two, whereas Amelia Kerr and Eden Carson chipped in with one apiece.
The 100-run victory lifted New Zealand to the fifth place within the Girls’s World Cup 2025 standings, changing Bangladesh as a consequence of superior internet run price, as each groups have two factors after three matches.
