VISAKHAPATNAM, India (AP) — Sophie Devine bid adieu to one-day internationals in a losing cause as England beat New Zealand by eight wickets on Sunday in their last league game at the Women’s Cricket World Cup.
Rain later forced the abandonment of the match between India and Bangladesh. India was heading for a likely victory at 57-0 in 8.4 overs in reply to Bangladesh's 119-9 in a game that was already reduced to 27 overs for each team.
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India's Pratika Rawal bats during the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup cricket match between India and New Zealand in Navi Mumbai, India, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
England's Amy Jones celebrates after scoring fifty runs during the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match between England and New Zealand at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, India, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
New Zealand's captain Sophie Devine celebrates the wicket of England's Heather Knight during the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match between England and New Zealand at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, India, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
England's Daniel Wyatt-Hodge, left, Amy Jones, extreme right, shake hands with New Zealand's players after winning the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match against New Zealand at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, India, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
England's Amy Jones, extreme right, shake hands with New Zealand's players after winning the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match against New Zealand at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, India, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
New Zealand's Amelia Kerr appeals unsuccessfully for the wicket of England's Amy Jones during the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match between England and New Zealand at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, India, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
Left-arm spinner Linsey Smith took 3-30 as New Zealand was bowled out for 168 runs in 38.2 overs. Skipper Devine scored 23 runs in her final ODI appearance, and Georgia Plimmer top-scored with 43 runs.
In reply, England scored 172-2 in 29.2 overs with opener Amy Jones posting 86 not out off 92 balls.
The four-time champions finished second behind defending champion Australia in the league with five wins and a no-result in seven games. England’s only loss was against Australia.
England pushed South Africa down to third place and the two teams will meet in the first semifinal at Guwahati on Wednesday. Australia will take on co-host India, which placed fourth, on Thursday.
New Zealand finished the tournament in sixth place with one win and two no-results in seven games. It was the least number of wins for New Zealand in Women’s Cricket World Cups since 1978.
Opting to bat, New Zealand lost opener Suzie Bates early when she was caught off Linsey Smith in the sixth over.
Plimmer and Amelia Kerr added 68 for the second wicket, but a double blow pegged back the Kiwis again.
Kerr (35) was caught out in the 19th over and Plimmer was dismissed lbw by Charlie Dean in the 20th.
New Zealand lost its last seven wickets for 67 and was bundled out in the 39th over.
Nat Sciver-Brunt returned 2-31 in seven overs, including the big wicket of Devine. Linsey Smith returned to pick up two more wickets, and Alice Capsey took 2-34 in six overs.
England made a good start in the chase with Jones and Tammy Beaumont (40) putting on 75 for the first wicket.
Devine left one final mark on the game when she trapped Heather Knight lbw for 33 in the 28th over, ending an 83-run stand for the second wicket.
Jones remained unbeaten and was voted player of the match, and Devine was given a guard of honor by both teams as she walked off the field.
“It's hugely exciting to be in the semifinals,” Jones said. “It was great for Sophie to get this recognition — she is a legend of the game and she means a lot to New Zealand cricket.”
In Sunday's second game, Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss for the first time in the tournament and India opted to bowl in a rain-truncated game.
The toss was initally delayed in Navi Mumbai by 35 minutes owing to rain and a wet outfield, but that was extended because of a heavy shower.
The game eventually started as a 43-overs contest and Bangladesh reached 39-2 in 12.2 overs before rain intervened again. After another lengthy delay, the game was reduced to 27 overs each innings.
Left-arm spinner Radha Yadav, playing her first game of the tournament, took 3-30 in six overs and Shree Charani picked up 2-23 in six.
Bangladesh’s momentum came through Sobhana Mostary who scored 26 runs off 21 balls. Sharmin Akhter top-scored with a 53-ball 36.
In reply, India was 57-0 when rain finally forced officials to abandon the game. Smriti Mandhana was 34 not out and Amanjot Kaur was 15 not out.
Worryingly for India ahead of the semifinals, in-form opener Pratika Rawal was forced off the field after injuring herself in the field.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India said Rawal injured her knee and ankle and the team's medical staff was closely monitoring her progress.
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India's Pratika Rawal bats during the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup cricket match between India and New Zealand in Navi Mumbai, India, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
England's Amy Jones celebrates after scoring fifty runs during the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match between England and New Zealand at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, India, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
New Zealand's captain Sophie Devine celebrates the wicket of England's Heather Knight during the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match between England and New Zealand at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, India, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
England's Daniel Wyatt-Hodge, left, Amy Jones, extreme right, shake hands with New Zealand's players after winning the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match against New Zealand at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, India, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
England's Amy Jones, extreme right, shake hands with New Zealand's players after winning the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match against New Zealand at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, India, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
New Zealand's Amelia Kerr appeals unsuccessfully for the wicket of England's Amy Jones during the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match between England and New Zealand at ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, India, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
PRAIA, Cape Verde (AP) — Three patients with suspected hantavirus infections were being evacuated from a cruise ship to the Netherlands on Wednesday, the U.N. health agency said, as the vessel at the center of a deadly outbreak remained off Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board waiting to head to Spain’s Canary Islands.
Associated Press footage showed health workers in protective gear heading to the ship for the evacuation that included the ship's British doctor, who Spain's health ministry said had been in “serious condition” but has improved. An air ambulance later departed.
Three people have died, and one body remained on the ship, the World Health Organization said. Eight cases have been recorded in all, three of them confirmed by laboratory testing. Hantavirus usually spreads by inhaling contaminated rodent droppings and can spread person-to-person, though the WHO calls that rare.
Contact tracing had begun on two continents, Europe and Africa, in search of infections around people who earlier left the ship, which departed over a month ago from South America for stops in Antarctica and several remote Atlantic islands.
Two Argentine officials investigating the origins of the outbreak said the government's leading hypothesis is that a Dutch couple contracted the virus while bird-watching in the city of Ushuaia before boarding.
They said the couple visited a landfill during the tour and may have been exposed to rodents. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, with the investigation ongoing. Authorities previously said Ushuaia and surrounding Tierra del Fuego province had never recorded a hantavirus case.
The Dutch foreign ministry said the three people evacuated were a 41-year-old Dutch national, a 56-year-old British national and a 65-year-old German national who would be "immediately transferred to specialized hospitals in Europe.” A Dutch hospital confirmed it would take one. German authorities were preparing for a second.
Two remain in "serious condition," Dutch ship operator Oceanwide Expeditions said, and the third had no symptoms but was “closely associated” with a German passenger who died on the MV Hondius ship on May 2.
Health officials said passengers and crew members still on the ship are without symptoms; the WHO said passengers represent 23 nationalities. Their journey to the Canary Islands will take three or four days, Spain’s health ministry said, adding that the arrival “won´t represent any risk for the public."
Meanwhile, authorities said testing in Switzerland, South Africa and Senegal had shown positive for the Andes strain of the virus. The WHO says the species of hantavirus is found in South America, primarily in Argentina and Chile, and can spread between people, though that’s rare and only through close contact.
The World Health Organization’s top epidemic expert told The Associated Press the risk to the public is low, and the Andes variant is known even if WHO has never seen a hantavirus outbreak on a ship.
“This is not the next Covid, but it is a serious infectious disease,” Maria Van Kerkhove said. “Most people will never be exposed to this.”
For those on the ship, access to clinical care is important, she said, because infected people can develop severe acute respiratory distress and need oxygen or mechanical ventilation. The hantavirus incubation period can be one to six weeks, or more, she said.
The ship left Argentina on April 1. The WHO has said the itinerary included stops across the South Atlantic, including mainland Antarctica and the remote islands of South Georgia, Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha, St. Helena and Ascension.
The ship is now in the Atlantic off West Africa's island nation of Cape Verde. The WHO said passengers were isolating in their cabins.
Two Dutch infectious diseases experts were joining the ship, Van Kerkhove said.
Spain’s health ministry said it would receive the ship in the Canary Islands after a request from the WHO and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. The Canary Islands regional president , Fernando Clavijo, said he worried about the risk to the population and demanded a meeting with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Authorities in Switzerland said a former passenger was being treated at a Zurich hospital after testing positive for the Andes strain. South African authorities earlier said two passengers who were transferred there tested positive for the strain. One, a British man, was in intensive care and the other collapsed and died in South Africa.
Swiss health office spokesperson Simon Ming said the patient there had left the ship during its St. Helena stop. It was not clear when or how he traveled to Switzerland.
The patient’s wife hasn’t shown symptoms but is self-isolating as a precaution, a statement by the office said.
“There is currently no risk to the Swiss public," the office said, while looking into whether the patient had come into contact with others.
At St. Helena, the body of the Dutch man suspected to be the first hantavirus case on board was taken off the ship. His wife flew to South Africa, where she collapsed at the Johannesburg airport and died.
Later, a British man was evacuated at Ascension Island and taken to South Africa.
The ship's operator has not said if other people left at those or other locations.
The South African health ministry says officials have traced 42 out of 62 people, including health workers, they believe had contact with the two infected passengers who traveled there. The 42 tested negative for hantavirus.
But 20 people still need to be traced, including five people who may have been on flights to South Africa with some of the passengers as well as flight crew members.
Some may have now traveled overseas, the ministry said.
DeBre reported from Buenos Aires and Keaten from Geneva. Chinedu Asadu in Abuja, Nigeria. Gerald Imray in Cape Town, South Africa; Mark Banchereau in Dakar, Senegal; Renata Brito and Joseph Wilson in Barcelona; Geir Moulson in Berlin; Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands and Michelle Gumede and Mogomotsi Magome in Johannesburg contributed to this report.
This version corrects to say the evacuated doctor is British.
An air ambulance takes off with evacuated patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship from the airport in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
An air ambulance takes off with evacuated patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship from the airport in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
The MV Hondius cruise ship is anchored at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship into an ambulance at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Health workers in protective gear arrive to evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
A night view of the MV Hondius cruise ship anchored at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
An aerial view of the MV Hondius Dutch cruise ship anchored in the Atlantic off Cape Verde, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Arilson Almeida)
An aerial view of the MV Hondius Dutch cruise ship anchored in the Atlantic off Cape Verde, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Arilson Almeida)
