England Women vs New Zealand Women 5th T20I: New Zealand's tour of England has ended, where both teams first played 3 ODIs and then a series of 5 T20 matches. The last match of the tour was played at Lord's in the form of the fifth T20, in which England defeated New Zealand by 20 runs and won the series 5-0. Batting first, England scored 155/7 in 20 overs, in response to which New Zealand could score only 135/8 after playing the entire overs. England captain Heather Knight (46* runs) was selected as the Player of the Match and Sarah Glenn (8 wickets) was selected as the Player of the Series.

England made a strong score due to Heather Knight's innings

England lost the toss and batted first but lost wickets at regular intervals. Among the first four batsmen, Alice Capsey scored the highest 25 runs, while Natalie Sciver scored 16 runs. Amy Jones (11) and Freya Kemp (2) could not do anything special and returned to the pavilion. From here Heather Knight got the support of Charlie Dean. Both of them took the score beyond 140. Charlie contributed 24 runs in 19 balls. At the same time, Knight remained unbeaten after scoring 46 runs in 31 balls. In this way, England scored more than 150. Fran Jonas took the highest number of 4 wickets from New Zealand.

New Zealand managed to cross the line despite Amelia Kerr's innings

While chasing the target, New Zealand lost two wickets in the powerplay at a score of 31. Captain Sophie Devine also got out after scoring 12 runs. Amelia Kerr and Brooke Halliday took the score past 100. Amelia scored 43 and Halliday scored 25 runs. However, as soon as these two were out, the innings fell apart and no batsman from the lower order could even reach double figures. In this way, New Zealand had to face defeat. Lauren Bell took the maximum of 3 wickets from England's side.

England had also whitewashed them in the ODI series

The England team, which won the T20 series 5-0, had also performed brilliantly in the ODI series played before this. New Zealand did not win a single match. The English team won the ODI series 3-0.