It is a knock out game for both India and New Zealand. India started extremely well in this tournament but have stumbled against stronger opponents. New Zealand have got both Indian openers out within the first 10 overs and will look to contain India.
Harmanpreet and Mithali both holding their ground and played responsibly. It's ok to keep 4+ run rate in women's cricket, lost 2 more wickets in another short time. Mithali has to play strong now to keep this pace.
India comprehensively outplayed New Zealand. 265 was a good score, but their bowling was even better. Their win by 186 runs is India's biggest victory in the World Cup. And it has come against a strong team, not any minnows.
This win will surely boost India confidence level to enter next knock out stage. Yesterday was Indian bowling was superb and most of the NZ top batting line up was lost within 60 runs. I didn't expect this kind of performance from NZ team but as we all know anything can happen in this cricket. Now slowly India is moving up in the points table.
I don't think India has much chance to move on to the finals as their semi final match is against Australia. They're mighty and in form, on the other side England is facing South Africa. So I think it's quite clear. It'll be England vs Australia for the trophy.