10:03pm That will be all from us. Join us tomorrow as England take on Sri Lanka in Colombo. Until next time, from Harshith, Shashank, Thilak and me (Shashwat), this is goodbye!

Sophie Devine, New Zealand captain: Really pleasing for this side to finally get on the board, in tough circumstances. Was not the prettiest innings from me and Brooke. Then the bowlers took charge. Diabetes was not playing ball. Was running low on sugar, tried to get in as much sugar with coke and jelly beans. Just another challenge in conditions that are already tough enough. Wanted to get off a couple of overs earlier, but Maddy chewed by ears off asking to stay on. Really exciting to welcome (Mair) back into the side. Her ability to move it off the seam and attack the stumps…she (Tahuhu) just keeps surprising me. Ability to put pressure on the batters. She lost about six kilos judging by the sweat (smiles). After the game against Australia, felt we were good in places. South Africa game was disappointing. This was important. As we saw last night, anyone can beat anyone. Run-rate, with the weather around, every point is absolute gold. Have to focus on the next game. Cannot control what else happens.

Nigar Sultana, Bangladesh captain: Whatever we have done in the last game, we wanted to do the same good things here. We are not being consistent as a batting unit. When you chase 200-plus, and top order does not click, it is difficult to chase this sort of target. Initially, we bowled really well. What we expect from Marufa, we did not get today. Other bowlers bowled wonderfully. All the spinners have done really well. Till 30th over, we were in control but after that, they kept playing their shots and we leaked boundaries. (On plans to the Devine-Halliday partnership) We were talking about bowling in right areas and not give any freebies. We tried all our bowlers and they tried their best to keep it simple and execute their gameplan. But they are experienced, they played their game easily. (On the batting) There is a lot of things we have to learn from here definitely. We have seen lower middle order being the past part of the games because they get runs (and help the team). We have to learn from here, and how to get going in the middle and play according to requirement. We just get to play top sides when we play ICC events. Otherwise, we are not playing against them. We have lack of experience there. We wanted to play our normal game but we could not capitalize. (Improvement) How our bowlers bowled today, it was quite impressive. They have been doing well for the team. Hoping they can do the same team. Rectifying our mistakes as a batting team, and looking forward to that.

Brooke Halliday, Player of the Match: (Her approach) The biggest thing over the last couple of days was being okay with getting ones and being quite boring. We knew what the plan was, it was to bat for a long time (until the 40th over), and then from there, have a bit of a party time. I couldn't but Sophie could. We have had a lot of net bowlers who bowled similar to what we got today. Figured out how we were going to play (the Bangladesh bowlers). The sweep shot, that was something I tried and practice in (the camp in) Chennai. Got out a couple of times, but also scored a few runs with that. It is easy to bat with Sophie. It was not easy to bat out there. The mental side was tough, and the physical side hit us towards the end. There was a point where we thought 'oh my' - this single taking is tough. Sophie kept it really simple and that works for me. What we did today was keep it simple. If we keep doing what we can control, we will go well in Colombo.

9:43pm A slow march towards victory for NZ, with Bangladesh hanging on, but the result never really seemed in doubt, especially after a powerplay in which NZ bagged three. They tightened the screw further after it, reducing Bangladesh to 33-6 at one stage. From there, Bangladesh did show some resistance to stitch together partnerships and take the score past 125 but they were always playing catch-up and with none of the top order batters having a say, it became an exercise in damage limitation.

NZ, even though they won by 100 runs, were not spotless with the ball. They conceded 30 extras - 21 of which were wides, and they might have to rectify that. Tahuhu, in her 100th ODI, picked up three, with Jess Kerr also popping up with a three-wicket haul. Mair, playing her first game of the tournament, also finished with two wickets, with Amelia Kerr the other wicket-taker.