The quartet of Jamie-Lea Winch, Rebecca Wigfield, Wendy King and Ellen Falkner ensured they finished top of section two by adding three victories to the six they'd already claimed over the first two days of action in the city in New Zealand.

Having beaten Malaysia’s Emma Firyana Saroji, Nur Fidrah Noh, Nor Hashimah Ismail and Azalina Arshad 17-10 in their first outing of the day, they went on to defeat Japan’s Masako Satoh, Noriko Maebayashi, Midori Matsuoka and Hiroko Emura 23-17.

This was followed by a 14-13 success over Israel’s Shira Eshel, Beverly Polatinsky, Riki Ovadia and Tamar Kamzel, keeping up their 100 per cent record.

Next up for the English foursome will be the winner of the play-off between Wales’ Anwen Butten, Jess Sims, Kathy Pearce and Emma Woodcock and the Philippines’ Hazel Jagonoy, Ronalyn Greenlees, Sonia Bruce and Rosita Bradborn.

Also through to the semi-finals are New Zealand’s Katelyn Inch, Angela Boyd, Kirsten Edwards and Val Smith, who backed up a 29-6 win over Ireland by beating Hong Kong 25-15 and Fiji 28-11.

They have topped section one and will face the winner of the play-off between Australia’s Kelsey Cottrell, Carla Krizanic, Rebecca Van Asch and Natasha Scott, and Scotland’s Julie Forrest, Stacey McDougall, Lauren Baillie and Claire Johnston.

It was a good day all round for the hosts whose men’s triples and men’s pairs teams also topped their respective sections.

Mike Nagy, Blake Signal and Ali Forsyth secured first place in section one of the men’s triples after beating Wales 17-13, Namibia 18-16 and Malaysia 19-13.

Awaiting them in the last four is either Australia or Scotland, while the other semi-final will see section two winners England go up against either Japan or Ireland.

In the men’s pairs, New Zealand’s Mike Kernaghan and Shannon McIlroy ensured top spot in section two after overcoming Spain 27-10, Norfolk Islands 28-11 and Wales 21-13.

Awaiting them in the last four is either Ireland or England, while the other semi-final will see section one winners Australia go up against either Scotland or Malaysia.

Canada’s Kelly McKerihen is one of two guaranteed semi-finalists in the women’s singles having secured first place in section one by beating Fiji’s Sainiana Walker 21-5, Kenya’s Susan Kariuki 21-12 and the United States’ Kim Heiser 21-15.

The other is Scotland’s Lesley Doig, who ensured top spot in section two by overcoming Cook Islands’ Teokotai Jim 21-6, Brunei’s Bella Chuchu 21-10 and South Africa’s Colleen Piketh 21-15.

Malaysia’s Siti Zalina Ahmad and Australia’s Karen Murphy will meet for the right to face McKerihen, while double Commonwealth Games champion Jo Edwards of New Zealand and Norfolk Islands’ Carmen Anderson will battle it out in a bid to secure a last-four encounter with Doig.

All semi-finals are scheduled for tomorrow.