- Australia win by 71 runs after White Ferns batting collapse
- Lanning’s tourists retain Rose Bowl for 22nd straight year
That’ll be all from us today. Match report on the way for a quick round-up of all the action, and see you back here on Saturday when the White Ferns will play for pride. Thanks and goodnight.
Australia retain the Rose Bowl again and Haynes is player of the match for her crucial 87-run knock and some superb fielding.
“I just wanted to give myself a little bit of time early,” Haynes says. “Learning from game one there was a little bit of swing and it was tough to get started. I was just trying to hang in there ... and was probably afforded a little bit of time early to bat on. Just disappointing I wasn’t able to bat a little bit deeper.
45th over: New Zealand 200-10 And there it is. Four straight singles off Jonassen brings the Kiwis to the 200 mark, then a dot ball. but the Aussie’s next ball signals the end. Kasperek sends the bowler’s delivery back to her. She attempts the low catch, fumbles. But she retrieves it in time to furl it the metre or so to the stumps. And that’s all she wrote. Australia win by 71 runs.
44th over: New Zealand 196-9 (Kasperek 4, Mair 4) Only a matter of time now though before Australia can claim their 23rd ODI win on the bounce. How long until the record is extended.
43rd over: New Zealand 190-9 (Kasperek 3, Mair 3) Mair almost runs herself out at the end of the over but survives another day. Another ball, at least.
42nd over: New Zealand 185-9 (Kasperek 0, Mair 1) This is officially a collapse.Wareham outfoxes Martin, who moves forward to play the ball but is deceived and also catches a thick outside edge. The ball head straight to backward point, and to Haynes, which means that’s usually that – and it is. The run rate needed is over 10 now.
41st over: New Zealand 184-8 (Martin 20, Kasperek 0) Kerr walks now, a few short minutes after coming on. She tries to play aJonassen delivery big but catches a thick outside edge and it spikes into the air and skews to Haynes. That may have been due to the pressure to start scoring big as this quickly slips from the hosts’ grasp.
40th over: New Zealand 181-7 (J Kerr 5, Martin 18) Kerr makes her presence known with a four – the first boundary for the White Ferns since the 32nd over. She’ll need a few more of those.
39th over: New Zealand 175-7 (J Kerr 0, Martin 17) Yikes, this isn’t pretty.Jonassen has Rowe on the back foot and is driving up the run rate needed so save this series. Four dot balls and on the fifth that’s it for Rowe, who is already walking before the reply shows she was easily run out. Jess Kerr is in but it’s dire straights for NZ now with 97 runs needed from 68 deliveries.
39th over: New Zealand 174-6 Jonassen is back in the attack and makes good on her first delivery with a stumping of Green. So simple yet so brutal. Here comes Rowe.
38th over: New Zealand 174-5 (Green 27, Martin 17) Behold the Perry’s moment of magic ...
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37th over: New Zealand 169-5 (Green 22, Martin 13) That’s a better cut from Martin against Wareham. And now Green pumps the ball down the green and ut’s surely a six! But no! Perry makes an almighty leap right on the boundary, rediverting the ball into play before falling in a heap over the boards. That’s a brave attempt at a catch. The question now is whether her heel has made contact with the boundary but the final ruling is she’s clear.
36th over: New Zealand 163-5 (Green 18, Martin 11) Schutt expertly turns a ball away from Martin and it puts her off. The bowler changes it up again, and then again, making Martin reach for the shot. She’s using theleg cutter to her advantage. A masterclass ceding four runs, including two leg byes.
35th over: New Zealand 159-5 (Green 17, Martin 10) Wareham is back and giving the ball plenty of flight to encourage the shot from Martin. She is not playing ball it is pressure built all the same. There are 15 overs remaining and the White Ferns need 113 runs from 90 balls at 7.53 per over.
34th over: New Zealand 155-5 (Green 15, Martin 8) Some indecision from Green results in a shot to nowhere. Her next elicits an “oh, you are kidding me” from Healy. They steal four runs off Schutt.
33rd over: New Zealand 151-5 (Green 13, Martin 6) Some excellent sliding work from Vlaeminck stops a boundary right on the ropes.
Here’s a still of that stumping ...
Direct hit by Haynes! Halliday's gone for 32!
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32nd over: New Zealand 148-5 (Green 12, Martin 4) Schutt returns to the attack to try and exert some pressure on the partnership and she’s setting her field just how she likes it, hops to it and goes for one run to square leg. One run to Green. Dot ball to Halliday. One run to Halliday. Now Green tries to go long but Haynes displays incredible balance to retrieve the ball low and then release it against the momentum of her body for a direct hit of the stumps. That was so, so sweet to watch. Just as I was thinking NZ were really in this. Martin is up and is clearly unhappy with this remark, starting her innings with a four to third man.
31st over: New Zealand 142-4 (Halliday 31, Green 11) NZ need a run rate of 6.7, which is achievable. They could probably push that down a bit if they stuck their necks out but probably don’t need to at this point. Australia’s 22-match ODI winning streak is at risk now. Halliday pops up a Carey delivery but yields nothing from it.
30th over: New Zealand 138-4 (Halliday 31, Green 10) Big shout for lbw on Green off a Jonassen delivery during which the bounce sucked all pace off the ball. The umpire is having none of it. Green responds by moving her feet beautifully and guiding the next ball through opposing fielders to deep extra cover.
29th over: New Zealand 131-4 (Halliday 31, Green 4) Green and Halliday have already got some good energy going in both communication and running. Halliday is playing balls late, almost too late but not quite, deliberately coming down with her bat on top of them. She’s in complete control.
28th over: New Zealand 126-4 (Halliday 28, Green 2) Here’s that moment from before when Halliday could seemingly not find her crease but did so faster than Healy located her stumps.
A LIFE!
Brooke Halliday gets a reprieve after being caught down the crease, with Alyssa Healy missing the stumping not once, but twice! Her uncle Ian wouldn't be very happy with that.
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27th over: New Zealand 122-4 (Halliday 25, Green 1) Well and truly into the middle order now butGreen’s experience will no doubt help the White Ferns. She has more than enough overs to build an innings and then go hell for leather at the death. Another efficient Carey over cedes only two runs.
26th over: New Zealand 120-4 (Halliday 24) Kerr air swings off Jonassen. She’s a little off kilter and appears to be getting some advice on field. In the very next ball, having played five dot balls, she tries to whip it onto the on side but gets an outside edge and Gardner is standing underneath in wait. Three runs before her 50. That has to hurt.
25th over: New Zealand 120-3 (A Kerr 47 Halliday 24) Lovely innovative shot from Kerr, who moves her feet early, gets the middle of her bat on it as she pivots for a very cute four indeed to fine leg. That is basically the only way through Carey, who has been efficient but cedes another two runs this over.
24th over: New Zealand 114-3 (A Kerr 42 Halliday 23) Halliday gets a low full toss from Gardner and takes the opportunity via a gap through the covers that can’t be hauled in. That was an expensive nine-run over but the rest of those were relatively constrained. The New Zealanders are entering an important passage of play here.
23rd over: New Zealand 105-3 (A Kerr 41 Halliday 15) Here’s Carey, one good at breaking up seemingly solid partnerships who was 3-34 in the first ODI on Sunday. Has that delivery tickled Halliday’s bat on its way through? The camera checks and it’s a no. Still, she’s effective here with four dots and two runs.
22nd over: New Zealand 103-3 (A Kerr 40 Halliday 14) A smooth no-nonsense over from Gardner still with a slip in keeps this one to two.
21st over: New Zealand 101-3 (A Kerr 39 Halliday 13) Kerr is a good person to have around for Halliday. Not necessarily just because of luck, but due to the fact she has been involved in six of the Kiwis’ last seven 50 partnerships in all formats Wareham is getting into some fancy footwork but Halliday uses the width and works it off her pads as the White Ferns tick over the 100 mark.
20th over: New Zealand 97-3 (A Kerr 38 Halliday 10) Wow, how has that missed!? Gardner’s ball is heading for the stumps. It is on target. It will nick the top ... nope, it will sail just over. To rub salt into Australia’s wounds, Halliday makes her next shot a four to long-on. Now she could be stumped though. The camera shows she has a heel hovering over the line but her toes are outside. She manages to remove herself assisted by the fact Healy misplaces the stumps and has to go again.
19th over: New Zealand 92-3 (A Kerr 37 Halliday 6) Kerr and Halliday are settling in, they hope, for the long haul. Another wicket would not be ideal right now but they are probably just about on par with Australia and could yet do something. Plenty of time yet. Wareham keeps them to three runs this over.
18th over: New Zealand 89-3 (A Kerr 35 Halliday 5)
Isn't there another camera angle for that Lanning save . #NZvAUS.
17th over: New Zealand 86-3 (A Kerr 33 Halliday 4) A drinks break gets Wareham ready for her latest stint in attack and she’s receiving some advice from Schutt. Six runs scored in this over from this new partnership.
16th over: New Zealand 80-3 (A Kerr 31 Halliday 1) A cool first over from Gardner, and one in which Halliday almost does the splits, having moved forward to play at a ball and air swinging a smidgeon before Healy collects behind the wicket.
15th over: New Zealand 79-3 (A Kerr 30 Halliday 1) Yikes, Jensen hits Wareham on the half-bounce with such power and that would have been some shot except for Lanning’s hand of God which intervened. Jensen and Kerr opt for a risky third run and make it ... just. Wareham has another crack and the leg spinner gets more bang for her buck this time as Jensen skies the ball to where Vlaeminck is waiting at mid-off with open hands. That is a big breakthrough for Australia and a grand shame for the White Ferns, who welcome Halliday to the middle. She gets her first run on the board early and is in the middle with a high-risk one after Kerr hit to silly mid-on when the ball comes back from the outfield and bounces in front of Healy begging for a stumping. But she can’t quite collect. My my. Near miss that.
14th over: New Zealand 72-2 (A Kerr 27, Jensen 25) How’s this for a stat ...
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13th over: New Zealand 66-2 (A Kerr 27, Jensen 24) Wareham has a crack now and keeps her opening six to two singles.
12th over: New Zealand 64-2 (A Kerr 26, Jensen 23) Kerr hits Perry for four, uses the pace to cut away for her fourth boundary of her shift which might not have hit the ropes had an approaching Gardner managed to scoop it up. But she doesn’t, even though she is there.
11th over: New Zealand 58-2 (A Kerr 21, Jensen 22) Darkness falls over Bay Oval as Jonassen makes her entrance. Could be chilly, though google tells me it’s 19 degrees which is positively balmy. Four runs.
10th over: New Zealand 54-2 (A Kerr 19, Jensen 20) These two are settling in for the long haul. Kerr digs a single out of Perry. She will no doubt be aiming for a similar innings to the 70 she racked up against England in the third ODI, a breakthrough that helped NZ to the win.
9th over: New Zealand 51-2 (A Kerr 18, Jensen 18) This is turning into a bit of a recovery. Jensen appears relaxed but focused. A lethal mix. A short Vlaeminck delivery comes straight off the batter’s gloves and gets enough air for a four down fine leg. That’s the second time that has happened.
8th over: New Zealand 45-2 (A Kerr 17, Jensen 13) Here’s Perry for her first over at the crease, looking every bit ready and no doubt looking for movement off this wicket. She keeps Kerr to a single and then Jensen to two successive dot balls before the latter gets away a smooth four. A lovely shot with fast hands.
7th over: New Zealand 38-2 (A Kerr 16, Jensen 7) That’s not to say the run rate here is below par. It is laudable, probably, given those early two wickets. As I write this Kerr says thank you very much to another four of Vlaeminck. They always help.
6th over: New Zealand 31-2 (A Kerr 10, Jensen 6) New Zealand’s boundary percentage dipped over the past few years and they will have to keep the runs ticking over. But more to the point, they have to survive. There’s little room for error now if the top order is to work some magic and get purring. Schutt sends down ANOTHER wide. That’s five from the Aussie bowlers already.
5th over: New Zealand 26-2 (A Kerr 9, Jensen 4) A markedly stronger run rate in that last over is not built upon here, when Jensen manages just a single off Vlaeminck.
4th over: New Zealand 25-2 (Jensen 3, A Kerr 9) Schutt bowls a wide before Kerr stays put for one and then punts the next to backward square leg for a single. A couple of ho-hum balls including another Schutt wide is followed by a boundary for Kerr to deep backward point. That’s her second. Here’s her first off her second ball a couple of overs back ...
A couple of early wickets (Down & Satterthwaite) have us on the back foot early, but Melie Kerr has come to the crease and looks in the mood
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3rd over: New Zealand 15-2 (Jensen 2, A Kerr 4) New Zealand at 11/2 after the first 12 balls of the chase is still sending shockwaves throughout Bay Oval (I imagine). Vlaeminck bowls two wides but keeps her over to one run.
2nd over: New Zealand 11-2 (Jensen 1, Kerr 4) Satterthwaite is facing Schutt. Can the quick adjust her line to the left-hander? Apparently yes! Her third delivery goes across Satterthwaite and it’s heading wide just as she flings her bat at it to pop the ball straight to Healy. Well Schutt took four wickets on Sunday to claim player of the match and she’s already getting started here. The wheels are coming off early for New Zealand, and we’re seeing Amelia Kerr in just the second over.
1st over: New Zealand 4-1 (Jensen 0, Satterthwaite 4) Openers Down and Jensen are out to start the chase and Vlaeminck gets Australia’s bowling attack under way. She’s persistent with her line and length, fishing for something off Down, outside the off stump. Down is yet to warm up, and she won’t have a chance now because she is OUT! A wide line does the job and the ball flies away towards Lanning in the slips. The captain makes no mistakes. Down lasted all of five balls. Less-than-ideal start for the Kiwis. Out comes Satterthwaite, who gets her first ball away for four.
What does one make of that? Party Time never got started, Australia added only 58 in the last 10 overs. Wickets kept falling, and nobody was able to score freely from the off. Only four boundaries in the last 10 overs, and only one six in the entire innings. Solid contributions off the top from Haynes, Healy, and Lanning, but all of them fell when they tried to accelerate.
Nonetheless, 271 is still an imposing total. New Zealand’s women have only once in their history chased a bigger score to win a match. That was the slightly bigger 276 they scored in Auckland in 2017, when Amy Satterthwaite made a ton and Katey Martin gave invaluable support. They’ll need something very similar today to repeat that result.
50th over: Australia 271-7 (Wareham 11, Jonassen 1) Jess Jonassen to the middle, a much better player with the bat than getting four balls at the end of the day suggest. A couple of hurried singles, a dot ball, two runs from a midwicket swipe, and Australia’s hurried and harried final overs come to an end.
Last over of the day to be bowled by Kasperek, with five of the six wickets to fall. Can she grab another? Wareham gets low to sweep powerfully, but just one run to midwicket. Five balls to go. Mooney comes down, drives over cover... and is caught! Sliced the shot, Satterthwaite running back with the flight of the ball flings out her arms, and Kasperek does get her best figures in ODIs. She has 6 for 42 right now.
49th over: Australia 266-6 (Mooney 26, Wareham 7) Another run out goes begging, this time the ball bouncing off Jess Kerr’s hands at the stumps. There was gas on the throw from Halliday. Some late sun comes out as Wareham smears across the line. She’s a powerful striker. Neither she nor Mooney can beat the outfielders though. Twos, ones, nothing bigger. Jess Kerr finishes off her day with 0 for 51 from her 10 overs.
48th over: Australia 259-6 (Mooney 24, Wareham 2) Kasperek does indeed concede three more singles in her wicket-taking over to take her figures to 5 for 40, making this her second-best ODI performance. Then she gets a leading edge from Georgia Wareham that only just clears mid-off! Which would have made today her best figures once again, with six wickets. The ball eludes Rowe’s grasping fingers though. 5 for 41 with one over to come in her allotment.
Five wickets for Leigh Kasperek! Currently her best figures, but she’ll probably concede three more runs today to make it her second-best. She’s done a great job to keep Australia somewhat in check. Carey comes down to hit over midwicket, doing what she has to do, but Green is right back on the rope, takes the snare, tiptoes near the line, and looks back to make sure she won’t step on the padding to concede a six. Safe.
47th over: Australia 255-5 (Mooney 22, Carey 14) Jess Kerr returns, bowled very tidily earlier. Singles, then a fast two to midwicket. Still no flurry of fours for Australia. Kerr around the wicket to the left-handers. A chance of a run out as Carey clubs over midwicket and they come back for two: Hannah Rowe’s throw to the bowler’s end was a couple of feet too far from the stumps for Kerr to gather with enough time. Eight from the over. The partnership 35.
46th over: Australia 247-5 (Mooney 20, Carey 8) Mooney going nicely. Places Satterthwaite really well towards square leg, softly enough to get back for two. Then just bangs her down the ground, no finesse but enough power on the drive that nearly carries for six. Three singles follow.
45th over: Australia 238-5 (Mooney 12, Carey 7) Lovely stuff from Mooney to start the over against Mair, using her opening batting style. Advances and drives the bowler along the ground through extra cover for four. Then walks down again and taps a single off her ankle to square leg. Three singles and a wide to follow, there hasn’t been a really big over for Australia all day. Healy with a dozen from the second over of the day was the peak.
44th over: Australia 230-5 (Mooney 6, Carey 6) Satterthwaite bowling deep into the day drags one down, giving Carey the chance to swivel and pull a boundary, but the Kiwi skipper comes back well, diving to field off her own bowling, then beating the attempted cut. Seven from the over.
43rd over: Australia 223-5 (Mooney 4, Carey 1) Two left-handers at the crease. Amelia Kerr is using the wrong ‘un extensively to move the ball away from their outside edges. Using that looped yorker as well. Three singles from her final over! No wickets for her today, but she’s conceded 41 from 10 overs, a good contribution.
42nd over: Australia 220-5 (Mooney 2, Carey 0) Another new bat to the crease in the form of Nicola Carey. Great opportunity for the Kiwis to keep up the squeeze. No one has found it easy to start, even Gardner to an extent.
Terrific stuff from Kasperek. It starts with the early deliveries of the over has Mooney driving to mid off, no run. To point, no run. To cover, no run! More flight, tipped to the leg side and Mooney is sprinting to beat the bowler. Four balls for one run, and Perry feels that she has to go. Kasperek has come back over the wicket, given more air, lots of width, and Perry’s attempted cover loft instead gets an outside slice, landing in the hands of backward point.
41st over: Australia 219-4 (Perry 16, Mooney 1) Into the last 10 overs now, not quite party time with a couple of recently arrived guests at the crease. Perry throws a few shapes though as Amelia Kerr drops short, Perry pounding a sweep shot for four.
40th over: Australia 213-4 (Perry 11, Mooney 0) Beth Mooney to the crease, then. It’s her 100th match for Australia today, and Alyssa Healy’s 200th.
Caught behind! Huge wicket for New Zealand, the key one remaining. The likely difference between chasing over 300 or something more attainable. Kasperek has been giving the ball air, drawing shots over cover and the like. This ball she skids through faster. Gardner tries to cut, but it’s through her. Thick edge. Bounces off Martin’s palm, off again, taken on the third juggle. Gardner throws her head back and walks before the umpire’s finger goes up.
39th over: Australia 209-3 (Perry 10, Gardner 16) Against Mair, Perry plays the glide to deep third to turn over the strike as soon as she gets it. Mair tries the bouncer again, but this time outside off stump, and it works as Gardner’s uppercut misses. Too straight with the next short ball, a slower one that Gardner waits on and swats away, but Amelia Kerr at long leg is able to slap the ball back into play as it bounces, reaching over the rope to drag it back and save two runs. Perry then opens up and lofts two runs over cover, using a big gap there skilfully.
38th over: Australia 202-3 (Perry 7, Gardner 12) The fast movement continues for Gardner, slashing away two runs, fiercely flicking another off her leg stump that gets saved in the deep. Again Perry slows things down, a single and a couple of dots from the balls she faces. Gardner 12 off 7, Perry 7 off 15.
37th over: Australia 197-3 (Perry 6, Gardner 8) Expressed yet? We’ve gone 36 overs so far today without seeing a six. Gardner hits one from her third ball. A short ball from Mair, and Gardner waits back and absolutely cleans out the pull shot, over backward square. Puts Perry on strike after that, who is content to see out the over.
36th over: Australia 189-3 (Perry 6, Gardner 1) Five from the Kasperek over, and the wicket of Haynes, who pushed through a difficult beginning to be the centre of this innings. Lots of time left for Gardner now to express herself.
There’ll be no second century for Haynes today. She wants to attack Kasperek again, but long on and long off are both back. Haynes advances but doesn’t get a good piece of it, and the drive hangs in the air long enough for long on to get in comfortably. New Zealand fighting their way back into the contest. Will need to get through Perry and Gardner though for their work so far to pay off.
Just catching the replay, that looked like the carrom ball from Kasperek. Flicked off the middle finger and floating down, less pace on the ball. Good variation! Didn’t know she had that one in her kit bag.
35th over: Australia 184-2 (Haynes 87, Perry 2) Amelia Kerr back on immediately after the wicket falls, ties down Perry for three balls at the cost of a single. Still has the left-hander to deal with. And nearly catches Haynes! Hard to call that a dropped catch. Driven, low, very hard. Kerr dives across one-handed and touches it. Saves four runs, can’t hang onto the chance. Haynes cuts two from the last ball, so that’s three from the over.
34th over: Australia 181-2 (Haynes 85, Perry 1) Ellyse Perry to the middle then, and off the mark quickly with a pull shot. The final stages will be interesting.
That whooshing sound is the huge sigh of relief coming from Rosemary Mair. Satterthwaite nearly gets Haynes with the second ball of the over, as Haynes shapes to play a reverse lap shot and Katey Martin anticipates the path of the ball, stepping across and nearly catching the ball clean off the face of the bat. It goes just wide. But Lanning goes next ball, skipping down and trying to clear the bowler, but finding mid off instead. Just a cloughed shot.
33rd over: Australia 179-1 (Haynes 84, Lanning 49) Jensen in again, and Lanning is dropped! That is an absolute shocker from Rosemary Mair. Lanning flicks the ball off her pads, high to deep square leg. Mair doesn’t have to move. Stands, waits. Then inexplicably drops to her knees, but keeps her hands pointing upwards. Gets stuck in this awkward halfway position, fends her palms at the ball instead of waiting, and parries it down. She did every possible thing wrong there, and gives the best ODI batter in the world a second chance. The runs keep coming.
32nd over: Australia 171-1 (Haynes 77, Lanning 48) Some good ground fielding from New Zealand during Satterthwaite’s over. Amelia Kerr is fast at midwicket to cut off a shot and throw at the stumps. Would have had Lanning out had the throw hit. Then Brooke Halliday at deep backward point saves a boundary with a one-handed flick back, and Lauren Down at mid off dives across to keep the last ball to one.
31st over: Australia 164-1 (Haynes 73, Lanning 45) Hayley Jensen on for her first over. Interesting that it has taken so long. She’s opening the batting at the moment, but very much as a pinch-hitting experiment. Has always been around this team as a bowler foremost, and has a non-existent batting record. But can be a very tidy operator with the ball, especially in T20 formats. Perhaps that’s the thinking, to use her late in the innings when there are more attacking shots flying around. Lanning chops away a boundary first ball, behind point, but dots and ones thereafter.
30th over: Australia 157-1 (Haynes 72, Lanning 39) Four runs from Satterthwaite’s over, including a run of three dot balls when Lanning keeps missing or finding the field, but it doesn’t help much. Australia with all the ingredients for a 300+ total given their wickets in hand and the hitting ability of players to come in, especially Ash Gardner.
29th over: Australia 153-1 (Haynes 69, Lanning 38) Finally, the Aussies get hold of Jess Kerr! She’s been parsimonious today but the innings has worn on and the workload has mounted. Drops short and Lanning punishes the pull shot. Gets fuller and Haynes launches down the ground, over mid on. 11 from the over, with two Kerr overs to go.
28th over: Australia 142-1 (Haynes 63, Lanning 33) A gloved sweep from Haynes lobs over the wicketkeeper from Satterthwaite, and gets the batter a run. Lanning pulls fiercely to midwicket but only for one. Lanning backing away to force to point. Haynes pulls out the lap sweep for a double, then a cut for a single. Runs all around the ground for this pair, they scored from every ball in the over.
27th over: Australia 135-1 (Haynes 58, Lanning 31) It’s all about the favoured area behind point for Lanning, with Jess Kerr operating outside the off stump. Her square drives, her steers. Then Haynes drives a couple of balls through the covers. Six from the over, a fifty partnership comes up. Still going at exactly 5 per over across the innings.
26th over: Australia 129-1 (Haynes 55, Lanning 28) Amy Satterthwaite comes on for a bowl. Has bowled very little even when she’s been playing for the last three or four years, but bowled well in the second T20 match the other day. Off-spin is her trade. The Aussies slice a few singles but nothing further.
25th over: Australia 125-1 (Haynes 53, Lanning 26) Jess Kerr returns, with five overs left to bowl today, and Lanning gets more luck first ball. Drives it behind point, deep third comes around to field, and fumbles it onto the rope. Brooke Halliday the culprit. Conversely, when a full toss slips out of Kerr’s hand, Lanning can’t put it away and finds that deep backward point fielder for one run. Still, 8 from the over with a stack of singles. The run rate is up to five an over, and Australia’s position looks better and better.
24th over: Australia 117-1 (Haynes 51, Lanning 20) The leg-stump whip works for Lanning this time, going along the ground rather than airborne and speeding away for four. Seven runs from Mair’s over.
23rd over: Australia 110-1 (Haynes 50, Lanning 14) A measured fifty comes up for Haynes, working away a single as she’s done most of the day. The 15th fifty of her ODI career. Amelia Kerr doing a good job on Lanning at the moment. Making her defend from the crease, play out three dots through the middle of the over before pulling one run.
22nd over: Australia 107-1 (Haynes 49, Lanning 12) Rosemary Mair returns, and as she did earlier, starts her spell with a boundary. A touch short and Haynes pulls her fine. Mair comes back well though: squeezes one between Lanning’s bat and pad, nearly yorks Haynes, then has a false shot from Lanning hanging high over backward square leg but no one can catch it. That was the attempted flick off leg stump. Hayley Jensen was just trotting in from the deep, thinking that the keeper was running back. That should have been Jensen’s attempt and she should have been full throttle at it. Might not have got there, but it was poor understanding from the fielders.
21st over: Australia 99-1 (Haynes 43, Lanning 10) A strange one for wicketkeeper Katey Martin: the attempted stumping via the header. Amelia Kerr gets bounce, hits Martin in the grille and back onto the stumps. Haynes’ foot was down though. Finds the field, misses a sweep, and it’s a quiet over for Kerr and NZ.
20th over: Australia 96-1 (Haynes 40, Lanning 10) Haynes will have to take the lead now. Skips down to Kasperek to drive a single. Actually, scrap that. Lanning will take the lead. Just shuffles at Kasperek and clubs over the bowler’s head for four. Next ball, yanks it a bit more, over long on this time, but good enough to clear the field. Welcome to the arena!
19th over: Australia 82-1 (Haynes 39, Lanning 1) Amelia Kerr nearly makes it two. Should have been two, really. She turns a wrong ‘un into Meg Lanning, hits her on the back leg in front of off stump, and Umpire Cotton says not out. Maybe thought the impact might have been outside the line, as Lanning was moving across? But it looked out to me. Kerr throws her head back. There’s no DRS for this match.
18th over: Australia 82-1 (Haynes 36)
At last!
17th over: Australia 80-0 (Haynes 35, Healy 43) Alyssa Healy keeps backing away to try to make room, Amelia Kerr keeps following her with the wrong ‘un. Eventually Healy has to charge to drive a single through cover. Cat and mouse. Haynes sweeps a couple more. The left-hander is playing the leg-spinner more convincingly at the moment. Drinks.
16th over: Australia 76-0 (Haynes 32, Healy 42) Time to go for Haynes. She steps down the pitch and smears Kasperek over long on, one bounce for four. Turns over strike. Healy tries something similar, over cover, but doesn’t get it. Slices the ball high and it lands between cover and mid off. Lucky to get away with it. The partnership endures though, up to 4.75 per over, and plenty of headroom if no wicket falls.
15th over: Australia 69-0 (Haynes 26, Healy 41) Haynes is starting to run well, reaches for a cut shot and hares back for the second to the deep. Healy misreads a couple from Amelia Kerr in this over. Got out to her last match. This could be an interesting match-up.
14th over: Australia 65-0 (Haynes 23, Healy 40) Bowling change, Leigh Kasperek with her off-spin. Doesn’t do anything fancy with the ball, just lands it on a good length consistently with a bit of flight, sometimes some turn. Healy drives a single, Haynes plays a reverse for two runs trickling towards deep third, and that’s all she wrote for the over.
13th over: Australia 62-0 (Haynes 21, Healy 39) So much air from Amelia Kerr this morning. It’s like she’s trying to loop up the ball underneath the bat, yorking these players rather than deceiving them with turn. Drags one down when trying the googly, but deep midwicket protects the fence. No such luck when Kerr bowls a big full toss though, and Haynes sinks to one knee to play the lap shot over her own shoulder through deep fine. Another over tending towards expensiveness, seven from it.
12th over: Australia 55-0 (Haynes 16, Healy 37) Understatement from Healy, which does occasionally happen, playing an on-drive with very little backlift or follow-through that speeds for four. That followed a more airy shot over midwicket to the fence. Rowe attempts a bouncer to respond but it digs into the surface and balloons miles over the batter and wide of her. The over costs 10 and the 50 partnership comes up. Rowe has been the one to let the tap open.
11th over: Australia 45-0 (Haynes 16, Healy 28) Fielding restrictions off, and here’s Amelia Kerr with her leg-spin. First ball is a real looper that Haynes pushes back. One short ball is cut for four by Haynes, but the rest are up at her toes and giving her no room to do anything, worried about being beaten by the flight.
10th over: Australia 42-0 (Haynes 12, Healy 28) First bowling change. Hannah Rowe comes on for Mair, a tall right-arm seamer with a long ponytail. She batted really well to win the second T20 match for NZ. Has to do it with the ball now. Gives Haynes a half-volley first up, and the batter gratefully drives it through cover for four. A wide and a few singles and the scoring pressure eases a bit for Australia. Still no wickets down with 41 on the board after the first 10 overs: it’s a good position to be in despite some excellent opening bowling.
9th over: Australia 33-0 (Haynes 6, Healy 27) Ball on a string now from Jess Kerr! Healy can’t read her swing. Kerr has been getting the ball to swing in a long way, and this over makes that swing less pronounced. Three times Healy goes pushing at it, three times it beats her outside edge. Satterthwaite brings up the deep third and pushes mid on back to the boundary, in case there’s a big shot. Healy plays smart and pushes at the ball instead, deliberately edging it through the newly vacant region for four.
8th over: Australia 29-0 (Haynes 6, Healy 23) Mair goes in at the pads of Healy who is trying to be aggressive again, but smacks it with a straight bat at short midwicket on the bounce. Defends the next, on the off stump. Healy will have to go soon, it’s in her nature. Like the scorpion and the frog. She defends the third ball too. How long can she hold back? Opens the face and glides a single, keeps her cool. Haynes finds the field with the remaining two deliveries, she’s 6 from 25 now. One run from the over.
7th over: Australia 28-0 (Haynes 6, Healy 22) Jess Kerr comes around the wicket to the left-hander, looking to swing the ball away and find the edge. But bowls a surprise ball second up, swinging into the pads. Haynes gets a little edge on it, otherwise the lbw appeal would have been louder. Another inswinger and Haynes edges into the ground and back towards the stumps, the batter having to knock it away with her club. This has been great stuff from Kerr the Elder. Stops a Haynes drive off her own bowling, then ties up Haynes on off stump with a good length, and finishes with a forward defensive. No runs at all, her second scoreless over for the innings, and this one far more threatening than the first.
6th over: Australia 28-0 (Haynes 6, Healy 22) Mair has settled things down, giving Healy a single early in the over and then keeping Haynes quiet again. The Aussie vice-captain has 6 from 17 by the time she gets off strike. Plenty of ability to catch up, but the slow start might create opportunities for NZ. Healy tries the pull shot again from the sixth ball and it’s too full, she plays over the top of it and it passes by her off stump.
5th over: Australia 26-0 (Haynes 5, Healy 21) A good back and forth between Jess Kerr and Healy, who is trying to drive the swing bowler out through cover. Aims one huge shot, misses. Kerr floats one up to follow that holds its line, beating the edge. Healy takes guard further across, so Kerr bowls wider still, outside the tram tracks but legal because of the batter’s movement, and still has Healy reaching and unable to do anything but squeeze a run to deep third. Kerr’s first hittable delivery to Haynes follows though, just short enough for Haynes to dip her knees and pul through long leg for four.
4th over: Australia 21-0 (Haynes 1, Healy 20) Mair lands one on her length so that Healy defends, but loses her line thereafter and gets glanced for two. Then the perfect delivery, belatedly, and it’s edged past the keeper! Not even a full shot, just a push looking for a run, and a thick edge flies off the Kookaburra bat for four. NZ captain Amy Satterthwaite had recently taken out the slip in favour of a short cover, given Healy’s strokeplay, and that would have been the simplest catch for first slip. Instead it’s four runs. A single to follow.
3rd over: Australia 14-0 (Haynes 1, Healy 13) Haynes gets her first run of the day, nudging Jess Kerr to the leg side. Healy again plays a different style from the start, that crisp pull shot to a ball that’s only bouncing hip-high, but they’ve got a deep backward square to protect the boundary. Back to Haynes, stepping across this time to guard her off stump. Misses out on a couple of attempted cuts to the ball angled across her. Haynes 1 from 11, Healy 13 from 7.
2nd over: Australia 12-0 (Haynes 0, Healy 12) Different strokes for different folks! First ball from Rosemary Mair to Alyssa Healy, it’s right-arm seam on a length outside off stump, and Healy utterly cracks that away with a pull shot for four. Nice clean sound off the bat to deep midwicket. The next ball is that length as well, more in at the body, so the Healy shot this time drags the ball away rather than spanking it, but the same result, through square leg this time. And another four two balls later, full on the pads and tucked through midwicket along the ground, beating the field. Finally Mair finds her line and length, swinging away outside off, and Healy leaves. A dozen runs from the over though, more than making up for the quiet start.
1st over: Australia 0-0 (Haynes 0, Healy 0) Away we go. Jess Kerr with the ball. She’s a right-armer who swings it in a long way to right-handers. She’s starting with the left-handed Haynes on strike though. The bowler still bowls as she would normally, starting very wide on the crease and getting the ball to swing from well outside leg stump towards the pads. That makes it very hard for Haynes to score, stabbing to the leg side, but it does reduce the dismissal possibilities. No chance of an lbw or a bowled, and no chance of an edge unless there’s a variation ball that swings further across the batter, passing outside her off stump. Kerr tries that variation from the sixth ball, and Haynes leaves. A scoreless over, though an unthreatening one.
If you’re not up with the news, Sophie Devine ain’t here for the White Ferns. She played the first T20, missed the second with what was described as an illness, withdrew from the third before the washout with what was described as fatigue, and has now gone home to skip the whole ODI series. Must be some longer-term fatigue issue. She’s been playing a lot domestically and internationally this last season, and it is April by now, after all. All the best to Sophie with getting refreshed.
Australia
Alyssa Healy +
Rachael Haynes
Meg Lanning *
Ellyse Perry
Beth Mooney
Ashleigh Gardner
Nicola Carey
Jess Jonassen
Georgia Wareham
Megan Schutt
Tayla Vlaeminck
New Zealand
Hayley Jensen
Lauren Down
Amy Satterthwaite *
Amelia Kerr
Brooke Halliday
Maddy Green
Katey Martin +
Hannah Rowe
Jess Kerr
Lea Tahuhu
Rosemary Mair
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