{"id":456480,"date":"2025-09-27T23:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/456480\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:07:16","slug":"cwc25-warm-ups-day-2-bangladesh-seal-nail-biting-win-india-beat-new-zealand-icc-womens-cricket-world-cup-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/456480\/","title":{"rendered":"CWC25 warm-ups Day 2: Bangladesh seal nail-biting win, India beat New Zealand | ICC Women&#8217;s Cricket World Cup, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, New Zealand skipper Sophie Devine won the toss and chose to bat first in a match where play began after a rain delay.<\/p>\n<p>India struck early with two quick wickets, reducing New Zealand to 38\/2 in the eighth over. Skipper Sophie Devine and Melie Kerr steadied the innings with a strong partnership, keeping the scoreboard moving even through another rain delay.<\/p>\n<p>Devine brought up a well-crafted half-century, while Kerr was dismissed for 40 on the first ball of the 25th over. At the halfway mark, New Zealand were at 132\/3.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand took on India A in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-cricket-worldcup-2025\/matches\/warmups\/262967\/new-zealand-vs-india-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first warm-up game<\/a>, posting a strong total of 273 in the first innings, highlighted by a brilliant unbeaten century from Izzy Gaze. However, India A secured victory by the DLS method, reaching 226\/6 in 39.3 overs before rain interrupted play.<\/p>\n<p>India, on the other hand, endured a disappointing outing in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-cricket-worldcup-2025\/matches\/warmups\/262964\/india-vs-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first warm-up<\/a> game. England posted a massive total of 339, and despite a strong start, India faltered in the run chase, ultimately falling short by 152 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, New Zealand skipper Sophie Devine won the toss and chose to bat first in a match where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,145387,145385,56086,145400,145396,145399,145397,11096,145398,145395,145401,145407,145406,145388,2192,145405,145390,145389,30566,145393,145394,145403,79,145402,145404,145392,145386,145391,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-456480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","10":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","11":"tag-cricket-live-score","12":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","13":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","14":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","15":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","16":"tag-cricket-news","17":"tag-cricket-results-today","18":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","19":"tag-cricket-series-updates","20":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","21":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","22":"tag-cricket-world-news","23":"tag-icc","24":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","25":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","26":"tag-international-cricket-news","27":"tag-latest-cricket-news","28":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","29":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","30":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","34":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","35":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","36":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score","37":"tag-uk","38":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}