Kate Pulford

Five England players have made it to the women's World Cup 2009 XI announced by the ICC day after the team lifted their third world title by beating New Zealand by four wickets in Sydney

New Zealand inched closer to the World Cup final with a five-wicket win over India in the Super Six at the North Sydney Oval

Haidee Tiffen set the pace of New Zealand's 205 with a watchful half-century in the battle of the big guns

Allrounder Kate Pulford has springed back into the New Zealand squad for the Women's World Cup with impressive performances in the domestic circuit

New Zealand panicked when they needed utmost calm and failed to score 10 runs in the last two overs as India took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five match one-day series

Jaya Sharma played a stellar role, for the second time in as many matches, as the Indian Women romped home to a facile nine wicket victory against New Zealand in the second one-dayer at Aurangabad

The Indian women's team has pooh-poohed suggestions that poor umpiring played a part in the drawn one-off Test against New Zealand at Vapi

The only Test of the tour between India Women and New Zealand Women drifted to a dull draw on the fourth day of the match - and chances were that even if there were four more, it might have ended the same way

New Zealand's CLEAR White Ferns cricket side has lost the services of batsman Kate Pulford, nine days out from the opening game of the CricInfo Women's World Cup