Black Ferns coach Glenn Moore believes a balanced squad will be better suited to toppling England in the final of the women's rugby world cup tomorrow morning.

New Zealand's returned to a five-three forwards-backs split on its bench, as halfback Kristina Sue replaces flanker Linda Itunu.

Glenn Moore said their forward-heavy bench approach in the semifinal was a matter of rest and rotation rather than game plan.

He said, "we've got a big workload on the forward pack in the last few games and we're working with four day turn-arounds and we just wanted to have the ability to manage some of the workload."

It's the third straight game that the Black Ferns have named an unchanged starting XV.