1st ODI – England v New Zealand
Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street, 26 June
England 157/1 (21.2) beat New Zealand 156 (33.3) by 9 wickets
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1 – This was England women’s third meeting with New Zealand at the Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street, and the first in which the hosts came out on top:
- New Zealand won by 25 runs, 1996
- New Zealand won by 63 runs, 2002
- England won by 9 wickets, 2024
156 – New Zealand women have now been bowled out for under 200 in one in four of the ODI innings they have played since 2020 (12 out of 48).
172 – England’s victory was the biggest they have achieved in an ODI against the White Ferns in terms of balls remaining:
- 172 balls at Chester-le-Street, 2024
- 135 balls at Blackpool, 2007
- 107 balls at Lincoln, 2015
54.5 – With England racing to their modest target, this was the third shortest non-rain affected ODI that they have contested on home soil:
- 48.2 – ENG 107/3 (18.0) beat SL 106 (30.2) at Chester-le-Street, 2023
- 52.5 – ENG 58/2 (19.5) beat NED 57 (33.0) at Leicester, 1990
- 54.5 – ENG 157/1 (21.2) beat NZ 156 (33.3) at Chester-le-Street, 2024
7.35 – England’s run-rate was the second highest they have achieved in an ODI run chase:
- 8.52 rpo – 81.3 (9.3) v South Africa at Cuttack, 2013
- 7.35 rpo – 157/1 (21.2) v New Zealand at Chester-le-Street, 2024
- 6.80 rpo – 219.5 (32.1) v South Africa at Northampton, 2022
9/100 – New Zealand’s day had started quite brightly, after winning the toss and scoring 56/1 in the powerplay. As soon as the fielding restrictions changed however, they began their worst 2nd-10th wicket collapse in an ODI since 2020, and their heaviest against England since 2018.
4 – Chief destroyer for England, Charlie Dean (9-1-38-4) took the sixth haul of four wickets or more in her ODI career. After just 31 career innings, Dean has already taken the joint second most 4-fers by an English woman in the format:
- 8 Katherine Sciver-Brunt (139 innings)
- 6 Charlie Dean (31 innings)
- 6 Anya Shrubsole (85 innings)
- 6 Jenny Gunn (136 innings)
Dean’s remarkable average rate of 5.2 innings bowled per 4-fer is the best by any woman with four or more such hauls in their ODI career:
- 5.2 Charlie Dean (ENG) – 6 in 31 innings
- 5.8 Laura Harper (ENG) – 4 in 23 innings
- 6.2 Rosalie Fairbairn (ENG) – 5 in 31 innings
- 6.5 Lyn Fullston (AUS) – 6 in 39 innings
Dean is also the only England women’s spin bowler to have taken two four-wicket hauls in ODIs against New Zealand:
- 4-29 Jacqueline Court at Hyderabad, 1978
- 4-29 Rosalie Fairbairn at Chelmsford, 2004
- 4-36 Charlie Dean at Worcester, 2021
- 4-37 Charlotte Edwards at Bankstown, 2009
- 4-38 Charlie Dean at Chester-le-Street, 2024
- 4-47 Heather Knight at Mount Maunganui, 2015
38 – Dean is now the highest wicket-taker in women’s ODIs played since the 2022 World Cup:
- 38 Charlie Dean ENG (18 innings)
- 36 Ash Gardner AUS (19 innings)
- 32 Nadine de Klerk (21 innings)
29 – Sophie Ecclestone (7-1-28-2) maintained her record of taking at least one wicket in every innings she has bowled for England since the start of 2023. This run now stretches to 29 innings in all formats, during which Ecclestone has taken 63 wickets at an average of 15.52.
1 – Lauren Filer (5-1-18-1) delivered the first maiden of her ODI career.
3 – Amy Jones (ct 3) broke the record for the most instances of an England women’s keeper taking three or more catches in an innings during their ODI career:
- 6 Amy Jones
- 5 Sarah Taylor
- 3 Jane Smit
51 – While the rest of the New Zealand batting order had a day to forget, Brooke Halliday maintained her success in ODIs against England. Halliday has now made four half-centuries in her 11 career innings against England, compared with just one fifty in the remaining 16 innings she has played against other opposition.
76* – Tammy Beaumont’s innings was her 29th score of fifty or more in ODIs, nine of which have been made against New Zealand. Charlotte Edwards (13) is the only English woman to have made more scores of 50+ runs in ODIs against the White Ferns.
38 – Maia Bouchier (67) scored the second half-century of her ODI career. As with her first, against Sri Lanka last year, Bouchier brought up her milestone off precisely 38 balls. This made her one of just three English women to have scored more than one sub-40 ball fifty in their ODI career. The others are Amy Jones (4) and Nat Sciver-Brunt (7).
Overall, there have been sixteen sub-40 ball fifties made by English women in the format, with ten of them occurring since the start of 2019.
137 – Beaumont and Bouchier’s partnership was England women’s second highest opening stand in ODIs against New Zealand:
- 152 Jan Brittin & Jan Southgate at Bristol, 1984
- 137 Tammy Beaumont & Maia Bouchier at Chester-le-Street, 2024
- 111 Tammy Beaumont & Amy Jones at Headingley, 2018
This was also England women’s first century opening stand in any ODI since Beaumont and Emma Lamb made 149 against South Africa at Grace Road in July 2022.
20 – Beaumont became the first English woman to be involved in twenty century partnerships during their ODI career:
- 20 Tammy Beaumont (106 innings)
- 18 Charlotte Edwards (180 innings)
- 16 Claire Taylor (120 innings), Sarah Taylor (119 innings)
Since her recall to the ODI side in 2016, Beaumont has featured in 60.6% of all England women’s century partnerships in the format (20 out of 33).
58 – Suzie Bates has now played the most international matches in England of any visiting player in women’s cricket:
- 58 Suzie Bates (NZ) – 0 Tests, 29 ODIs, 29 T20Is
- 57 Mithali Raj (IND) – 5 Tests, 41 ODIs, 11 T20Is
- 57 Jhulan Goswami (IND) – 5 Tests, 41 ODIs, 11 T20Is
- 50 Harmanpreet Kaur (IND) – 2 Tests, 27 ODIs, 21 T20Is
Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.
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