8.5 in the air and taken! Pakistan are storming back now! Dangles the carrot outside off and Bates bites. Charges down the track, looking to go over long on but does not get any of it. Clinks it off the bottom part of the bat and Dar, running in from the long on fence, makes no mistake whatsoever! 50/2

6.3 goes straight up, and taken by Sana, eventually! Given plenty of air on a length outside off and that entices Plimmer to hare down the track. Does not get to the pitch and then swishes at it wildly. Skews it high up and Sana, stood at extra cover, gets the job done after a couple of juggles! 41/1

11.2 straight to Fatima Sana, and Pakistan have three! Tossed up full outside off and this seems to drop on Kerr late. She wanted to go over mid wicket after charging but could not get under it as much as she would have liked. Picks out Sana to perfection, and Pakistan are absolutely delighted. Now then. Now then... 58/3

18.1 Fatima Sana holds on, and lets out a huge roar of delight! Devine departs, and that is a monumental moment in the game! Tossed up on a fullish length just outside off. Devine advances and swings for the hills. Shanks it completely and that brings Sana into play at long on. She takes it reverse-cupped, near her right shoulder and sends her counterpart on her way. Falls over while throwing the ball up in celebration, but that will not hurt, at least not at this point. Pakistan have the wicket they would have wanted! 96/5

17.6 stumped by a mile! Pakistan finally make a chance count! Extraordinarily slow outside off and that just does not arrive. Hangs in the air and Halliday, looking to fetch it, swings way too early. The ball spins well past the inside edge and Muneeba does brilliantly to gather and take off the bails. Timely wicket for Pakistan! 96/4

19.6 taken this time, and Pakistan's woeful catching effort ends on a sweet note! Fired in full on leg stump. Green looks to go downtown and tries to do so by generate momentum with her charge. Gets a good piece of it but not enough to clear the massive straight boundary. Sana gets behind it, keeps her eyes on the ball and pouches the chance. And no, this is not a drill. Pakistan have actually held onto a catch! 110/6

2.4 timmmbbbberrrr, and Tahuhu is pumped! Huge moment in the game! Full ball that starts on off and shapes back in beautifully. Nips back in a shade too and that means Muneeba, aiming for the Gulf, only swishes at thin air. Hears the death rattle soon after, and Muneeba's fun is over! 19/2

1.2 goes straight up, and Devine does the rest. Riaz's promotion does not pay off, and Pakistan lose their first! Throws up the invitation, on a full length just outside off and Riaz takes up the challenge. Does not get to the pitch, though, and gets too far under it. Clinks it up to mid off and Devine was never dropping that! 7/1

4.6 Has Javed been run out?! Oh my word, looks like she is walking! Zipped in full on leg stump and this ties up Sana completely. She has a swish at it but misses. The ball deflects off the boot towards short third, prompting Pakistan to chance their arm on the single. Tahuhu comes swooping in like a falcon and with the cheekiest and niftiest of under-arm flicks, catches Javed short at the batter's end. Well short, in fact, and Pakistan are reeling! 23/4

4.1 hot knife through butter, and Jonas is into the wicket-taking act instantly! Excellently-delivered arm-ball, starting outside off and shaping back in. Shamas advances, trying to access the long on region but the ball keeps coming back into her. Breees past the inside edge and thunders into the stumps. Jonas is jubilant; Pakistan a little wobbly! 21/3

11.2 Sana bites the dust too, and NZ are on the brink of qualification now. They can see it, and they can feel it! Flighted up full outside off and Sana, knowing she is running out of partners, decides to take on the inside-out lofted stroke. Does not get it out of the middle and cuts across it too much. Bates judges it well, back-tracks and sends the Pakistan skipper on her way! 56/9

5.4 does her all ends up! Pakistan are falling like a heap of cards! Sizzling yorker on middle stump and Amin is all at sea. Might have been a slower ball because Amin seems to reach out in front for it (still not getting there). The ball squirms under the bottom of the bat and then knocks back the stumps. NZ in the ascendancy! 28/5

9.5 beautiful bowling, and Dar has been done in, hook, like and sinker! Fizzed through devilishly on a full length outside off. Plenty of revs on this, meaning the ball drifts in, drops on Dar and then rags past the outside edge. She had to come out of her crease to reach out for it but once the ball went past the bat, Gaze was in the game. She made no mistake and Kerr, like she almost always does, provides NZ with the breakthrough! 52/6

10.3 lobbed up, and Carson snatches another semi-final hope away from India! Given plenty of air on a length outside off. Grips in the surface and spins back. Sohail hangs her bat out and clinks it tamely towards Carson, who tracks it all the way and then sprawls forward to her right to snare the chance. Carson is over the moon; Pakistan (and India), not quite! 55/7

11.1 safe on the catch. Just! But not on the run out! It is all happening here in the ring of fire! Angled in full on leg stump. Sana clears her front leg and swings at it with all her might. Slices it up and luckily for her, the ball lands just in front of Green, running to her right at long on. But wait. The drama is not over. Far from it. Aroob wanted to come back to keep her captain on strike but despite the dive, she is caught inches short of her crease. Superb work by Green, and another nail into the coffin has been hammered! 56/8

11.4 there it is - New Zealand will now visit surroundings they have not seen since 2016! Into the semi-finals and on a day where they needed to get the job done, they have done so very, very handsomely! Heartbreak for Pakistan, and heartache for India! Teased up full on middle and leg, and Iqbal gives in to the temptation. Has a heave at it but all she manages is a tame lob to mid on. Embraces, smiles and handshakes all around in the NZ camp. They needed to win tonight. And they have won tonight. At a canter really. And they now move to the semi-final, and will contest the games that matter at this year's T20 World Cup! 56/10