
2nd semi-final – New Zealand v West Indies
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, 18 October
New Zealand 128/9 (20.0) beat West Indies 120/8 (20.0) by 8 runs
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2010 – Victory in a pulsating semi-final encounter at Sharjah saw New Zealand reach the final of the Women’s T20 World Cup for the first time in fourteen years.
With the White Ferns set to face South Africa in the final on Sunday, the tournament will have a new winner for the first time since 2016.
333 – Suzie Bates made her 333rd appearance for New Zealand in all formats (170xT20I and 163xOD), making her joint most capped player in the history of women’s international cricket, alongside India’s Mithali Raj. Bates can now claim the outright record in the final.
118 – Bates’ innings with the bat (26) saw her become the only player to score at least 100 runs at seven different editions of the Women’s T20 World Cup. At 37 years of age, Bates is also the oldest player to contribute 100+ at a single edition.
194 – Having endured a brutal run of results in the lead up (though with the major caveat that all their bilaterals this year had been against Australia and England), New Zealand’s management were under scrutiny, but were rewarded for sticking to their guns at this World Cup.
Georgia Plimmer has scored more runs in her last six T20I innings (194 at 32.33, strike rate 116.16) than she did in her first 23 in the format (193 at 10.15, strike rate 83.91).
1 – While Bates and Plimmer haven’t been the fastest scoring partnership at the World Cup, they have provided solidity. New Zealand have lost just one wicket in the powerplay during the tournament.
200.00 – Though no player produced a standout innings, New Zealand found their way to a competitive total thanks to small but significant contributions from a number of quarters. Brooke Halliday’s 18 (9) was the highest strike rate innings of her T20I career (200.00), while Izzy Gaze’s 20* (14) was her second highest SR innings (142.85).
4 – West Indies were almost catapulted into the final by a scintillating all-round display from Deandra Dottin. With the ball, Dottin took her third four wicket haul in T20Is (4-0-22-4).
All three of Dottin’s 4-fers in the format have been taken at T20 World Cups, indicating her unerring ability to perform on the biggest occasions. No other bowler has taken more than two such hauls at Women’s T20 World Cups:
- 3 Deandra Dottin (WI)
- 2 Diana David (IND); Ash Gardner (AUS); Megan Schutt (AUS)
11.45 – Dottin’s World Cup bowling average is now twice as good as her record in non-World Cup games. At T20 World Cups, Dottin has taken 31 wickets in 20 innings at an average of 11.45 and an economy of 6.15 rpo, compared with 36 wickets in 39 innings at an average of 24.25 and an economy of 6.49 rpo in the rest of her T20I career combined.
Remarkably, Dottin had barely bowled a ball in the lead up to the tournament. In the twelve months prior, the entirety of her bowling in all formats consisted of three overs for 37 runs and no wicket in the WCPL. She finished the World Cup with figures of 7-0-38-5.
10 – Afy Fletcher (3-0-23-2) finished with the joint most wickets for West Indies women at a single edition of the T20 World Cup, equalling Dottin’s tally of ten in 2018.
31 – In the chase, New Zealand were then tasked with holding off a rampaging innings from Dottin with the bat. Dottin’s 33 off 22 balls included three big sixes. Dottin has cleared the rope at T20 World Cups twelve more times than any other player:
- 31 Deandra Dottin WI (34 innings)
- 19 Sophie Devine NZ (36 innings)
- 19 Harmanpreet Kaur IND (33 innings)
114 – This also saw Dottin draw level with Devine in terms of most career sixes in women’s T20Is (Dottin has played 130 innings to Devine’s 138).
162.16 – Dottin’s batting strike rate for the tournament was the second highest by a woman who has scored 100+ runs at a T20 World Cup, beaten only by her own record of 213.20 in 2010.
33 & 4/22 – Though it ended up in vain, Dottin’s brilliant all-round performance made her the first woman to both score 30+ runs and take four wickets in a T20 World Cup match.
4 & 3 – Across the entire history of women’s international cricket in all formats, there have only been three instances of a player taking four or more wickets and hitting three sixes in the same match. Dottin accounts for two of them:
- Ellyse Perry (AUS) v IND at Sydney, 2016 (T20I)
- Deandra Dottin (WI) v SA at Bridgetown, 2018 (ODI)
- Deandra Dottin (WI) v NZ at Sharjah, 2024 (T20I)
120 & 5 – This was the third time that Dottin has scored 100+ runs and taken five or more wickets during a T20 World Cup campaign (in 2016, 2018, and 2024). No other player in tournament history has achieved this all-round feat more than once in their World Cup career.
12 – Melie Kerr (4-0-14-2) now has the third most wickets at a single edition of the Women’s T20 World Cup, and will have Anya Shrubsole (in 2014) and Megan Schutt’s (in 2020) joint record of 13 in her sights heading into the final.
9 – Player of the match, Eden Carson (4-0-29-3) has now taken nine wickets at an average of 9.00 in T20Is against West Indies.
5.38 rpo – Until the semi-final, West Indies had been the fastest scoring side in the tournament against spin bowling (averaging 7.69 rpo). New Zealand’s spin attack of Kerr, Carson, Fran Jonas and Suzie Bates took combined figures of 13-0-70-7 in Sharjah (5.38 rpo).
25 – New Zealand’s spinners have collectively taken the most wickets (25) at by far the best average (11.92) and strike rate (12.40) in the tournament.
4.00 rpo – The White Ferns’ spinners in this match were ably supported by seam, as Rosemary Mair delivered the most economical innings of her T20I career (4-0-16-0).
2016 – It was left to Bates to deliver the coup de grace in the final over. On a fairy-tale night for New Zealand cricket, Bates was bowling in a T20I for the first time since March, and took her first T20 World Cup wicket since 2016.
11 – This was the eleventh time in her storied career that Bates scored 25+ runs, taken at least one wicket and taken a catch in the same T20I, the most by any woman in the format. West Indies captain Hayley Matthews is next on the list (10).
Stats derived from ESPNcricinfo statsguru.