England beat New Zealand in final World Cup warm-up

Women's T20 World Cup warm-up, Dubai

New Zealand 127-4 (20 overs): A Kerr 64* (46); Bell 1-13

England 131-5 (17 overs): Wyatt-Hodge 35 (19), Sciver-Brunt 31 (32); Tahuhu 2-14

England won by 5 wickets

Scorecard (external), external

England comfortably hit New Zealand by 5 wickets successful their last warm-up crippled up of nan Women's T20 World Cup.

After losing nan flip successful Dubai, they restricted New Zealand to 127-4 from their 20 overs.

Seamer Lauren Bell and spinners Linsey Smith, Sarah Glenn and Charlie Dean each took 1 wicket apiece.

England raced to 70-3 successful nan eighth complete earlier Danni Wyatt-Hodge was caught connected nan mid-wicket bound for 35 disconnected 19 balls.

Captain Heather Knight made 7 and erstwhile Nat Sciver-Brunt (31) was dismissed England needed 31 to win.

But, Dani Gibson deed an unbeaten 22 disconnected 15 balls to spot England location pinch 18 balls to spare.

Left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone played nary portion successful nan crippled arsenic nan world number one-ranked bowler was rested arsenic portion of a workload guidance plan.

England lost their opening warm-up crippled against Australia by 33 runs connected Sunday.

Their opening crippled is against Bangladesh successful Sharjah connected Saturday (15:00 BST), earlier matches against South Africa, Scotland and West Indies.

The tourney originates connected Thursday erstwhile Bangladesh big Scotland (11:00).

It was owed to return spot successful Bangladesh but was moved to nan United Arab Emirates successful August aft civilian unrest.