New Zealand v Australia: second women’s one-day international – live

Key events
WICKET! Halliday c Sutherland b Gardner 7 (New Zealand 76-4)
Time for spin. Ashleigh Gardner is into the attack, and she jags a wicket from her third delivery! Ball two had some extra bounce, so Halliday tries to get to the pitch of the next, fails, and slashes a top edge to Sutherland at point. Australia cruising.
19th over: New Zealand 76-3 (A Kerr 19, Halliday 7) Target 292: Brown has looked the least likely of Australia’s quicks today, and New Zealand continue to milk her wayward line and length for ones and twos.
18th over: New Zealand 70-3 (A Kerr 18, Halliday 3) Target 292: Perry drops short so Kerr rocks back and pulls away forcefully for what is destined to become a boundary but for some superb outfielding from King – who has already taken an excellent catch today. The right-left combination is starting to work for New Zealand with some good running keeping the scoreboard ticking over. With big hits at a premium against such a quality attack, this is going to be essential to keep the home side in the contest.
17th over: New Zealand 65-3 (A Kerr 15, Halliday 1) Target 292: Darcie Brown is the fifth seam bowler called into the attack and New Zealand pick up five risk-free runs from an over lacking control of line or length.
16th over: New Zealand 60-3 (A Kerr 12, Halliday 0) Target 292: All the pressure now on Amelia Kerr, who is treading water on 12 from 24 deliveries. Australia can calmly turn the screw knowing they have the game very much on their terms.
WICKET! Devine c Mooney b Perry 15 (New Zealand 60-3)
Perry just a little straight and New Zealand rotate strike comfortably. But then Devine goes! Too full and straight to cut, but she plays with an angled bat nonetheless and gets a healthy nick through to Mooney behind the stumps. Massive wicket for Australia. Devine looked assertive, and with her goes not only her runs, but a massive hit to the DLS par score.
15th over: New Zealand 58-2 (A Kerr 11, Devine 14) Target 292: Just a couple of singles from Sutherland’s fourth over.
Drinks in Wellington with Australia well on top but wary of Devine, who looks in good nick.
We’ve escaped the rain so far, but we’re now entering what is forecast to be the portion of the day most at risk of being interrupted by showers.
14th over: New Zealand 56-2 (A Kerr 10, Devine 13) Target 292: Ellyse Perry isn’t a bad second change option for Australia but she’s fortunate an opening full toss is cracked straight back at her by Devine. A foot either side would have been a boundary. Perry responds by beating the bat with a perfect line and length and a hint of movement off the pitch. Devine then somehow manufactures a boundary behind point from a delivery that jags into her off the pitch and looks perilously close to a chop-on, but comes off the cue end of the bat into the pitch and beats the field. A second boundary completes the over, and this time Devine does club a full toss straight back down the ground.
13th over: New Zealand 48-2 (A Kerr 10, Devine 5) Target 292: Lovely square drive for four gets Devine off the mark. When she gets her fast hands through the ball she looks so imposing, even against the pace of Sutherland. She repeats the stroke later in the over but this time it finds a newly-stationed Australian sweeping the cover fence.
12th over: New Zealand 41-2 (A Kerr 9, Devine 0) Target 292: Tighter line from Garth to Devine and her consistency earns her a maiden with the veteran Kiwi remaining watchful early in her innings.
11th over: New Zealand 41-2 (A Kerr 9, Devine 0) Target 292: Huge partnership now for New Zealand with Australia chipping out a couple of wickets and keeping the scoreboard under control in the early stages. And that’s a good omen for Kerr, flicking fine for four as Sutherland concedes her first runs from her tenth delivery.
WICKET! James c King b Garth 27 (New Zealand 37-2)
Kerr remains circumspect against Garth, finally getting off strike with an inside edge. James is more confident, and gets away with a lusty cut that flies off the top edge and over the cordon for four. That same edge does for James the following delivery though when she tries to play to leg, but gets a leading edge thanks to Garth’s wobble, and it carries all the way to King at midwicket, who takes an excellent running catch, holding on at full length following the flight of the ball.
10th over: New Zealand 37-2 (A Kerr 5) Target 292:
9th over: New Zealand 32-1 (James 23, A Kerr 4) Target 292: First change of the day for Australia with centurion Annabel Sutherland coming into the attack, and she immediately beats James for pace outside off stump. It begins a maiden over of full straight deliveries.
8th over: New Zealand 32-1 (James 23, A Kerr 4) Target 292: Kerr is off the mark with an uncontrolled slash at catchable height between slips and gully. She’s then watchful to a succession of deliveries arcing away from the bat that would be fraught with danger should she go near them.
7th over: New Zealand 28-1 (James 23, A Kerr 0) Target 292: Schutt beats the bat with a slower legspinner so James responds by crunching a square drive with a satisfying whipcrack noise off the bat. The ding-dong tussle continues with Schutt thinking she has her foe trapped leg before, but the umpire disagrees. Australia REVIEW. The first question is was it pad first or bat? Pad. Where was impact? Umpire’s call outside the line, so James survives and Australia retain their review. The Kiwi is quickly back into her work, clipping a couple off her pads.
6th over: New Zealand 22-1 (James 17, A Kerr 0) Target 292: Australia’s fielders saw that as a routine catch, but there was enough doubt for Bates to wait for the umpires to adjudicate. Garth’s line and length, finding that away swing, is going to be very testing all afternoon.
WICKET! Bates c Gardner 4 (New Zealand 22-1)
Bates is really struggling to get bat on ball and in her desperation to get off the mark advances down the pitch and is almost bowled around her legs by the accurate Garth. And after 15 dots, finally Bates connects. Again she steps down the pitch, but crucially she stays legside of the ball and flat bats over mid-on for a powerful four. But then… is she out next ball? Garth finds the edge, Gardner drops low to her right in the gully and rises confidently to claim the catch, but it looked very close tot he ground in real time, so the appeal is sent upstairs. The camera angles available to the third umpire are not especially helpful, but they see enough to trust the fielder got her fingers underneath the ball and confirm the dismissal!
5th over: New Zealand 18-0 (Bates 0, James 17) Target 292: James looks to the manor born, smoking a Schutt long hop for a huge six over square leg. She picked the length early and executed a textbook pull shot. Not so a couple of balls later. She shapes to play the same shot but the length is fuller and all James can do is scoop a top edge that is fortunate to land over square leg. Then she’s DROPPED in the gully. It was sharp, but just to the right of Gardner, who got two hands to the effort falling to her right. Let off for NZ.
4th over: New Zealand 8-0 (Bates 0, James 7) Target 292: Schutt is moving the ball appreciably into the New Zealand openers from wide on the crease while Garth is arcing the ball away from tight to the stumps. The latter is beating the bat at will, hitting a good length and inviting the drive. A rare delivery on the pads allows James to clip a neat two to backward square leg.
3rd over: New Zealand 5-0 (Bates 0, James 4) Target 292: To the in-swinging Schutt the field is 5-4 and much straighter, including a catching short mid-on. James is adjusting to international cricket nicely, waiting back in her crease to dab a couple down to third and a single behind point. Bates is looking less assured, remaining on nought from 11 deliveries after playing and missing inside the line.
2nd over: New Zealand 2-0 (Bates 0, James 1) Target 292: Kim Garth shares the new ball. She has a 7-2 field with two slips and a gully, but none of them are in play as James scores her first run in international cricket with an inside edge that dribbles down to fine leg for a single. Garth then rips a jaffa past Bates that pitches on middle and wobbles past Bates’ outside edge and the top of off stump. Garth delivers from very close to the stumps, bringing LBW into play, as well as maximising any available away swing to the right-handers. She uses that to good effect to rap Bates on the front pad outside the line, then swing one past the drive. Promising start for Australia.
1st over: New Zealand 1-0 (Bates 0, James 0) Target 292: Schutt is bowling from wide on the crease, over the wicket, angling the ball into the right-handed Bates, as well as finding some seam movement back into the veteran. The only run is a legside wide, and the only half-chance a leading edge from Bates that doesn’t carry into Schutt’s follow through after she was caught checking her stroke from a shorter ball that held up in the surface.
Alyssa Healy is revving up her troops in a huddle on the boundary ready for the second half of this contest. She will skipper from the outfield today instead of behind the stumps.
For New Zealand, the experienced Suzie Bates strides out to the crease, joined by Bella James. They will have Megan Schutt and a new white ball to deal with.
How good is Australia’s 291? It’s the fourth highest ever in ODIs against New Zealand.
A suite of Sutherland stats for you, courtesy of the incomparable @Hypocaust.
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Only two women have made two centuries when batting at #5 or lower in their ODI career. Marizanne Kapp (from 99 innings) Annabel Sutherland (19 innings).
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Youngest Australian woman to make three ODI centuries: 20y 267d Meg Lanning, 23y 70d Annabel Sutherland, 26y 22d Karen Rolton.
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Today’s century by Sutherland was the seventh fastest by an Australian in ODI cricket.
Sutherland has long been destined for greatness and at just 23 years old she now averages 46 with the bat and 21 with the ball in ODIs.
Jonathan Howcroft
Thank you Martin. This Australian team really is full of weapons, and this was a prime example of backing at least one member of the extraordinarily deep batting order to fire in testing conditions to set a difficult total. It’s hard to imagine New Zealand making 292 against the Australian attack on a surface doing a bit, but there are some showers around, and batting second allows them some wiggle room to play to the DLS par score should that become relevant.
Annabel Sutherland has guided Australia to another ominous first-innings total with a sublime century for her second in as many matches. The 23-year-old went through the gears as the White Ferns were regularly able to break up Australian partnerships whenever they threatened to get out of hand, until Sutherland unleashed at the death and took the total to 291-7.
Molly Penfold did the damage for New Zealand with career-best figures of four for 42 that included the key wickets of Healy, Perry, Mooney and McGrath. The pacer might have had an even stronger hand of five if not for grassing a tough caught and bowled chance off Sutherland in her last over. There was plenty of movement for the New Zealand quicks while their spinners were hit and miss, so it will be interesting to see how Australia take to the conditions.
I’ll leave you there with Jonathan Howcroft to steer us home. Thanks for following, but do stick around for what should be an intriguing New Zealand chase.
Australia set New Zealand a target of 292
50th over: Australia 291-7 (Sutherland 105, Garth 11) Sutherland gets her century and Garth completes a fine cameo undefeated as Australia stretch the target to 292 runs. Rosemary Mair finishes with 1 for 56 which is a touch harsh on the White Ferns pacer.
Annabel Sutherland reaches a century
The all-rounder makes it back-to-back ODI tons with two runs through cover. The 23-year-old has again been the standout batter as her hot form continues with a ton from 78 deliveries with two sixes and 11 boundaries.
49th over: Australia 278-7 (Sutherland 98, Garth 6) Devine turns to her trust in spin late in the Australia innings with Kerr to send down the second-last over. Sutherland pummels two more boundaries before looking to bring up her century with a drive over cover. The Australian can only take a thick edge and set off for a quick single as Garth is almost caught short while failing to slide her bat. It’s the closest of calls but the third umpire says the bat was grounded. Another little let-off for the tourists.
48th over: Australia 267-7 (Sutherland 88, Garth 4) Eden Carson continues but has been kept in the attack a little too long as Sutherland goes bang! Two sixes in the over, both crunching drives over mid-on that clear the rope with ease. 19 runs from the over as Sutherland closes in on a ton and Australia edge towards 300 with 12 legal deliveries to come.
47th over: Australia 248-7 (Sutherland 71, Garth 3) Molly Penfold returns to bowl her final over and chase a first ODI five-for. The pacer almost has it not once, not twice, but thrice, as three chances go begging. The best was a caught and bowled opportunity off the ever-dangerous Sutherland who clubs a straight drive hard enough for it to bounce out of Penfold’s hands. Either side of that are a couple of skyward strokes on the leg-side, the first falling just out of Kerr’s reach at deep midwicket for four. The last ball of the over drops just short and bounces off the fielder’s knee and into the rope. Penfold finishes with 4 four 42 but there will be a hint of frustration.
46th over: Australia 239-7 (Sutherland 63, Garth 2) Kim Garth joins Sutherland at the crease as Alana King is trapped in front and Carson continues to cause problems in the second half of the innings.