New Zealand picked up their first win of the Women’s World Cup at the third attempt with a 100-run victory over Bangladesh in Guwahati.

The White Ferns, beaten by title favourites Australia in their opening game before going down to South Africa earlier this week, skittled the Tigresses for 127 in 39.5 overs.

Bangladesh, set 228 for victory, had overcome Pakistan in their first fixture before pushing England all the way in defeat on Tuesday but appeared in danger of a big defeat on Friday after an early 33-6 collapse.

And while Fahima Khatun commendably steadied the ship to help steer Bangladesh clear of 100 runs by hitting 34 off 80 balls, with Nahida Akter and Rabeya Khan, it ultimately proved too little too late.

New Zealand’s big win was confirmed when Fahima was caught by Georgia Plimmer off Eden Carson’s delivery.

New Zealand’s Lea Tahuhu recorded 3-22 on her 100th ODI appearance, with Jess Kerr also taking three wickets.

New Zealand had earlier rallied from 38-3 with the bat to post 227-9, thanks chiefly to Brooke Halliday (69) and Sophie Devine (63).

Devine and Halliday shared a fourth-wicket stand of 112 from 167 balls, with the former posting her third successive fitty-plus score after a ton versus Australia and 85 against South Africa.

New Zealand move up to fifth place in the table on two points, ahead of sixth-placed Bangladesh on Net Run Rate.

Player of the match Halliday said: “I guess the biggest thing over the last couple of days after that last match was being ok with getting runs and being quite boring.

“I went out there again with Sophie so we knew what the plan was, it was just try to bat for a very long time until that 40th over. Then, from there, hopefully we could have a bit of a party time, which I failed to get to, but Sophie was able to capitalise a little bit.

“The perks of the last couple of days is we’ve had a lot of net bowlers who actually bowled quite similar to what we had today. So being able to figure out how we were going to play certain bowlers and then just today going out there and watching the ball and just having an idea of how things were going to go.”

New Zealand will now bid for back-to-back wins to strengthen their chances of finishing in the table’s top four against Sri Lanka in Colombo on Tuesday, the day after Bangladesh face South Africa in Vizag.

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