- Australia hammer New Zealand by 232 runs to sweep the Rose Bowl series
- They have now won 21 ODIs in a row, equalling the all-time record
And that is that. The bad news? It’s almost impossible to see how this Australian team play again during the home summer, their next assignment likely to be a tri-series in New Zealand, along with England, in February. That’s the window when the ODI World Cup would have (and should have) been played, but that’s a conversation for another time. The good? The Women’s Big Bash begins in just a couple of weeks, a competition that has had a lot to do with the development and dominance of this remarkable outfit. Thanks for your company throughout the course of the last couple of weeks on the OBO. Until next time, bye for now!
Rachael Haynes is the player of the match and the series. Quite right, too. She is talking now. “Meg can captain for as long as she wants but it is a really great team to lead. The great thing about today was some new players getting an opportunity and making the most of it.” On the win record, Haynes says it “is a really special thing” for the players to reflect on into the future. Sophie Devine talks now. She’s clearly gutted. “In the second game we showed we can take it to the best team in the world but we couldn’t today.” She adds that it is important to find the positives, including Amy Satterthwaite’s return just eight months after giving birth. Onto the Women’s Big Bash for Devine and about half a dozen of her teammates. Meg Lanning now collects the Rose Bowl. “Our bowlers made it really difficult to score. It was nice to finish like that.” On the record, she says they are “very proud” of being able to stitch this streak together across the course of three years.
It has been 238 games since Lanning and Perry have both missed an ODI. But did it matter? Not in the slightest. All six Australian bowlers took wickets, expertly steered by the stand-in captain Haynes, prompting a shocking performance by New Zealand. It started when Devine was out first ball to Schutt and the chase never recovered, the biggest partnership just 26. What a team. What a machine.
@collinsadam What a way to get to the record. This is Australia women's biggest runs victory in an ODI for fifteen years, and New Zealand's heaviest ever defeat in the format.
Australia equal the world record of 21 ODI wins in a row. And what a thrashing.
26th over: New Zealand 92-9 (Rowe 3, Mair 0) Target 326. Gardner is up again for leg before with her final delivery to Mair but this time it has spun too far. The home side will have to wait for their piece of history, but surely not for too long.
The wickets keep tumbling - this time Molineux gets Jensen!
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Oh yes, that’s out, Gardner trapping Rowe from around the wicket with a full delivery that’s hitting middle stump. Australia are one wicket away.
25th over: New Zealand 89-8 (Rowe 3, Huddlestone 0) Target 326. All Huddlestone can do is play out Molineux’s successful over. We say it all the time but how about this depth? Molineux has been as important as any Australian spinners across these six matches but doesn’t get a chance to bowl until seven wickets are taken and 24 overs have been sent down. But sure enough, she took her chance.
Haynes’ golden touch continues! Into the attack, Molineux gets a wicket straight away, Jensen the second New Zealander to chop on in this dreadful chase.
24th over: New Zealand 88-7 (Jensen 6, Rowe 2) Target 326. We’re into the bowlers now, the home side a real chance to finish this in a hurry. Every Australian used today has taken a wicket - well engineered, Rachael Haynes. As Mel Jones points out, what a luxury with Lanning missing today’s game with a hamstring niggle to throw the arm-band to a player of Haynes’ leadership experience.
Yep. Good call, ump #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/X3QyLEOWKq
Gardner gets in on the act! Stuck on the crease trying to flick, that’s very, very out.
23rd over: New Zealand 85-6 (Green 22, Jensen 5) Target 326. Jensen has a slap at Wareham and gets her over cover for four. With nine an over needed from here, there’s little more she can do coming in with her team in such trouble.
22nd over: New Zealand 78-6 (Green 20, Jensen 0) Target 326. Gardner gets a chance now, replacing Jonassen. She gives Green something to work fine for four but otherwise, is right on the mark. They cut to Healy on the mic in the middle about her stumping. “I’m pretty happy with that one.” Quite right. Here it is.
Georgia Wareham deceives Perkins and Healy does the rest in the blink of an eye #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/XePsRqnzWk
Brilliant wicketkeeping! Perkins tries to lap sweep Wareham and misses with the ball zipping under her bat but Healy held her pose low to the ground in order to whip the bails off in a heartbeat, giving her no chance to get her foot back. Now that Sarah Taylor has retired, the really is no better stumper in the game. Superb.
21st over: New Zealand 73-6 (Green 15) Target 326.
20th over: New Zealand 71-5 (Perkins 5, Green 14) Target 326. After boundaries in each of the last four overs, Jonassen puts an end to that run, Perkins stuck until the final ball of the set, the maiden broken with a single to square leg. The tweaker has 2/16 from her five overs so far. She so rarely lets Australia down.
19th over: New Zealand 70-5 (Perkins 4, Green 14) Target 326. Good conversation on the television about next year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where women’s T20 cricket will feature for the first time. We broke that story back in 2018 after the World T20 in the Caribbean - another great opportunity. One scoring shot in this over, Green’s third boundary, popping Wareham back over her head. Like it.
18th over: New Zealand 66-5 (Perkins 4, Green 10) Target 326. Good cricket Maddy Green, getting a good stride in at Jonassen before driving her with top timing through the covers for four. She’s into double figures in a hurry.
Here’s the Sattherwaite dismissal.
Closing in on history! #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/uN0sDCCgQD
17th over: New Zealand 60-5 (Perkins 3, Green 5) Target 326. Green gets a boundary off the outside slither of her bat but there’s plenty to like about the way she goes about her game, always looking to be positive whatever the situation.
16th over: New Zealand 54-5 (Perkins 2, Green 0) Target 326. Australia are every chance of sweeping this series, and winning their 21st ODI in a row - equalling the all-time record - in top style by bowling out New Zealand for a double-digit score.
Satterthwaite takes Jonassen over mid-on for four and tries to do it again but miscues a flighted delivery, landing in the hands of Sutherland running back with the flight of the ball at extra cover. Nice take. What a mess for New Zealand.
15th over: New Zealand 50-4 (Satterthwaite 37, Perkins 2) Target 326. Four quality dots from Wareham to Satterthwaite to begin, off strike from the penultimate ball. It’s the only run to come from the over, cold comfort that it is New Zealand’s 50th.
14th over: New Zealand 49-4 (Satterthwaite 36, Perkins 2) Target 326. “Jess Jonassen doing Jess Jonassen,” says Mel Jones on TV of Australia’s set-and-forget left-arm orthodox. Precisely. For what it’s worth, the required rate is 7.7 an over. In reality, they need Satterthwaite to play the innings of her life to have any chance.
13th over: New Zealand 45-4 (Satterthwaite 34, Perkins 1) Target 326. Wareham now, who is gaining a reputation as a wrist-spinner who is very difficult to get away in the middle overs, enhanced throughout this series. Sure enough, she’s right on the money here to begin, allowing just three singles to the sweepers.
12th over: New Zealand 42-4 (Satterthwaite 32, Perkins 0) Target 326. A wicket and a single from Jonassen’s first over. So consistent, so frugal - the best going around.
New Zealand four down now!
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It only takes Jonassen three balls to get into the book. Martin swings and misses after dancing at the spinner and that is that - bowled middle stump. The pressure of this big chase has completely overwhelmed the New Zealand top order.
11th over: New Zealand 41-3 (Satterthwaite 31, Martin 3) Target 326. Schutt to bowl a sixth over in this spell before what I’m certain will be the introduction of spin at both ends soon enough. Of course, she finishes well, just two singles. Too good.
10th over: New Zealand 39-3 (Satterthwaite 30, Martin 2) Target 326. Ooh, there’s that bounce again from Sutherland, whacking Satterthwaite in the helmet grille when missing her hook shot. The New Zealand medico comes out to go through the usual process - the lid survives. Either side of the blow, two further inside edges - the theme of this power play - the first running away for four and the next nearly rolling back onto the stumps of the left-hander. Scrappy stuff.
9th over: New Zealand 35-3 (Satterthwaite 26, Martin 2) Target 326. Ooh, so close to another chop-on with Schutt finding Satterthwaite’s inside edge to finish. Just three runs from the over, including a wide. With four spinners in the home line-up, it won’t be long before they are turning the screws after Schutt and Sutherland.
8th over: New Zealand 32-3 (Satterthwaite 25, Martin 1) Target 326. Sutherland wins a false stroke from Sutherland but it doesn’t go to hand, over point for a couple. The tall seamer has done well to extract plenty of bounce from this surface - exactly what every player and coach in women’s cricket wants: lively pitches.
Here’s that Kerr first-baller. Not a replay she’ll ever want to see.
Schutter strikes! NZ lose their third wicket #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/0WXBoyrc8p
7th over: New Zealand 28-3 (Satterthwaite 22, Martin 0) Target 326. A massive total, three wickets in a hurry including New Zealand’s best two ball strikers... this is only going one way. Schutt goes on to complete a wicket maiden, the new batter Martin unable to get any of her hooping inswingers beyond the infield.
Very kind of Australia to put on a little catching masterclass for NZ here, they'll learn a lot from this. True spirit of cricket stuff #AUSvNZ
Amelia Kerr chops on first ball! New Zealand are in disarray.
6th over: New Zealand 28-2 (Satterthwaite 22, Kerr 0) Target 326. Big day for Sutherland, into the book after being given the chance to bat No3. What a talent.
Ash Gardner does NOT drop them! Annabel Sutherland has her first wicket of the day
NZ 2-28 after 6 #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/twZu0KJXdY
Top edge, gone! Gardner goes well racing around from long leg to take the chance on the boundary rope, Dodd out after taking on Sutherland’s shorter ball.
5th over: New Zealand 27-1 (Dodd 5, Satterthwaite 22) Target 326. Satterthwaite is having a very good power play, driving Schutt down the ground, her best shot so far, then clipping her for a second time for four through midwicket. Nicely set.
4th over: New Zealand 18-1 (Dodd 4, Satterthwaite 14) Target 326. Satterthwaite again on the front foot, this time driving Sutherland through cover and doing it nicely, earning herself a second boundary. Some more facts about Australia’s tally.
Highest women's ODI total at this ground, Australia's highest v NZ, and highest total by any team in Australia for 12 years. #AusvNZ
3rd over: New Zealand 13-1 (Dodd 3, Satterthwaite 10) Target 326. A lovely flick from Satterthwaite registers New Zealand’s first boundary, bisecting the fielders inside the circle on the legside. She tries to drive again through point, it’s uppish, and not far from waiting hands, but safe for a couple more. In the absence of Devine and Bates, so much now rides on the performance of the left-hander.
2nd over: New Zealand 5-1 (Dodd 2, Satterthwaite 3) Target 326. Annabel Sutherland, with increased responsbilities with the bat today at No3 (making 35) has the new ball. And she’s past Dodd’s outside edge with a beauty third ball - hitting the seam, generous bounce, lovely bowling. Just two singles, Satterthwaite and Dodd both clipping singles. After the early wicket comes the squeeze.
1st over: New Zealand 3-1 (Dodd 1, Satterthwaite 2) Target 326. The best chance New Zealand had to haul down this huge Australian score was for their captain to go big in the power play and make a dent - what a disaster, and Devine knows it.
@collinsadam Australia on the verge of history. If New Zealand are to stop them, they'll need to make some history of their own.
The highest successful chase in women's ODIs is 289. The highest 2nd innings total regardless of result is 305/9.
Short of a length, pulled, out! A golden duck for the skipper! Australia set the trap with two mid-wickets and they are rewarded immediately with the big wicket!
The players are back on the field. For New Zealand, Sophie Devine has Natalie Dodd with her, facing to start. Megan Schutt, as always, to take the new ball. PLAY!
Really happy for Tahlia McGrath. Getting an opportunity to finish this series after watching on over the last few weeks, the South Australian all-rounder made it count at the end of Australia’s innings, biffing an unbeaten 29 in 11 balls.
Super cameo at the back-end of the innings from Tahlia McGrath! #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/QngiPLSGUZ
Morning all. Thanks JP. A big scorecard to wake up to.“Australia have done this playing without either of Lanning or Perry in the XI for the first time since 2009,” tweets Hypocaust of the home side’s new highest score against New Zealand in an ODI. “As was evident today, Australia’s incredible depth of professional players not only leads to an array of young talent ready to step up to international level, but players such as 33 year old Rachael Haynes in the form of their life.”
What a team, what a system. Now, with that a big bit of history within their grasp over the next few hours. Should be fun. Drop me a line or send me a tweet.
@JPHowcroft Australia already thinking about breaking the 21-win streak surely, since this one seems in the bag. Apart from Devine and Bates has any White Fern troubled them with the bat?
Defending 325 it hardly matters any more, especially with the depth and variety of Australia’s bowling attack. But to find out, stay right here where Adam Collins will see you through to the close of play.
Australia are chasing history today at Allan Border Field and New Zealand will have to make history to stop them. 325 is the largest score ever racked up against the White Ferns.
The truth is Australia did it without breaking sweat. Healy (87) and Haynes (96) were patient early but still managed to put the bad ball away. Coming in at three Sutherland didn’t help the run-rate with a stodgy 35 but thereafter there was some clean hitting with Gardner (34), Mooney (29) and McGrath (29) all striking boundaries at will.
50th over: Australia 325-5 (Mooney 29, McGrath 29) McGrath survives a tight run out call at the start of Mair’s over before Mooney flicks a single to advance Australia to their highest ever score against New Zealand. McGrath’s hoick through the on-side pushes that milestone four runs higher then after a hard-run two she smashes Mair even harder through midwicket for four more. And then from the final ball of the innings McGrath hangs in her crease, swings through her arc with firm forearms and hauls the ball from off stump over the midwicket rope. Excellent late hitting from the Aussies.
49th over: Australia 306-5 (Mooney 28, McGrath 12) Devine will bowl the penultimate over of the innings, but she begins with a delivery that leaks down the legside and is helped on its way by McGrath for four. A single brings up the 300 for Australia for just the ninth time in ODIs. McGrath celebrates the milestone by leaning back and carving a sumptuous drive over cover for a very handsome four.
Australia women have made more 300+ totals in ODIs since the start of 2018 (5), than they did in their entire history in the format from 1973-2017 (4).#AUSvNZhttps://t.co/nIWGisBC2E
48th over: Australia 295-5 (Mooney 27, McGrath 2) Mooney and McGrath keep the scoreboard ticking over for Australia. Huddleston finishes with 2/62.
History is not on NZs side from here. #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/ZnhhhhEFK7
Huddleston continues but her opening delivery is driven through the covers for four by Mooney, who is supreme touch. Molineux is not so fluent and she can only pick out Devine at mid-off when a single brings her on strike.
47th over: Australia 287-4 (Mooney 21, Molineux 2) Mair’s ninth over begins abysmally with a legside delivery helped away for four by Mooney followed up by a junk waist-high full toss that’s helped around the corner for six by the Australian batter. Ball three hits a better line and length but Mooney is flying and leans into a cover drive that also finds the fence. Australia already look to have plenty to equal the world record winning streak in ODI cricket.
46th over: Australia 270-4 (Mooney 5, Molineux 1) Good over in the circumstances for New Zealand, featuring the wicket of Gardner and no boundaries.
Huddleston would not be my choice for this situation, but Devine has turned to her opener, and she’s rewarded with a wicket. The first ball of the over is a wide long-hop that Gardner cuts for two, the second is in the Australian’s arc but she can only pick out Kerr, the midwicket sweeper coming in off the rope to pouch the catch and shame the fielders who dropped catches off her own bowling.
45th over: Australia 265-3 (Gardner 32, Mooney 3) Mair is back for her third spell, but she has the misfortune of bowling to Gardner at the death. Ball three is a supremely-timed jab that goes way over square-leg for six, and that’s followed up by a genuine edge that runs away for four. Gardner already 32 from just 18 deliveries.
44th over: Australia 252-3 (Gardner 19, Mooney 3) Same same from Jensen, tight for four deliveries and all that good work undone by a leg stump full-toss that Garden swings away for an easy four.
43rd over: Australia 246-3 (Gardner 14, Mooney 2) Brilliant from Kerr. After beating Haynes she has both Mooney and Gardner in trouble with her beautifully flighted leg-spin. Gardner almost perishes outside off, so she responds the only way she knows how - attack - smashing a huge six over cover. She tries again next ball but Kerr holds it back and induces the top edge that loops gently towards point for Kerr’s richly deserved fourth wi.... I can’t even type it. That was village. Another quite horrible dropped catch, this the worst of the lot. This has been an embarrassing display from New Zealand in the field. Kerr deserves much better.
Most women's ODI wickets before 20th birthday:
57 Holly Colvin (ENG)
54 Ellyse Perry (AUS), Amelia Kerr (NZ)
47 Dane van Niekerk (SA)#AUSvNZhttps://t.co/LBt4l5apZBhttps://t.co/f6zhjB5f3Q
Sorry everyone, that one’s on me. No century for Haynes after all. The excellent Kerr has her third of the day, pinning the Aussie skipper LBW. Full delivery, attempted sweep, missed, up goes the umpire’s finger.
Oh no. Rachael Haynes OUT LBW for 96 #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/1IXGbyS2Qf
42nd over: Australia 237-2 (Haynes 96, Gardner 7) Jensen returns for another spell and for four deliveries keeps Australia honest - but ball five is a rank full toss that Haynes slaps for six. The Aussie skipper will soon be celebrating her second ODI century, exactly one year to the day since her first.
41st over: Australia 227-2 (Haynes 88, Gardner 5) Kerr follows up her wicket-ball with a couple of beauties before letting herself down with one that drifts onto Gardner’s pads before being helped behind square for four. A low-bouncing googly is then pushed into the offside for a single, but the turn and lack of bounce will have been noted by Australia’s army of spinners.
Kerr, by some margin the most dangerous New Zealand bowler, has her second, bowling Sutherland around her legs attempting to sweep. Australia probably not too upset at the arrival of Gardner to the crease with Sutherland struggling to keep the scoreboard ticking over consistently, despite her obvious straight hitting power.
Sutherland's maiden innings comes to an end! Well batted!
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40th over: Australia 221-1 (Haynes 87, Sutherland 35) Sutherland‘s all-or-nothing straight drive or bust approach eats up a couple of dots from Devine’s latest over, then she connects, hammering a powerful four over long-on. Then she’s back to the dots, hitting the mid-off fielder with strokes that require more finesse before finishing with a thick edge that loops over cover and away for two. Plenty of game management for Sutherland to work on as she takes her first steps into international cricket. Very Shane Watson playing Tests areas today.
39th over: Australia 214-1 (Haynes 87, Sutherland 29) Kerr returns for her eighth over, and Australia continue to deal in singles for the time being.
38th over: Australia 210-1 (Haynes 85, Sutherland 27) Devine gets away with a couple of leg-stump full tosses as Australia’s aggression doesn’t translate to the scoreboard.
37th over: Australia 205-1 (Haynes 83, Sutherland 24) Huddleston’s figures aren’t great, but they’d be uglier if she hadn’t enjoyed a couple of bonus overs against Sutherland. This time she has Haynes on strike and the Aussie skipper carves her through cover for four first ball. Then ANOTHER HUGE LET OFF for Haynes, a mistimed drive miles in the air and a routine catch is shelled in front of the sightscreen. Deary me, this has been woeful from the White Ferns in the field.
The resulting single brings Sutherland on strike, and she’s had enough of hitting the field, going over the top - and how - for a huge six over long-on. That was very impressive. Time for an hour or so of fireworks from the home side.
36th over: Australia 192-1 (Haynes 77, Sutherland 17) Devine back into the firing line and she has the misfortune to bowl to Haynes looking to pick up the pace after a few becalmed overs. The Aussie opener clears her front leg, swings truly and just clears the long-off rope for six. She goes again next ball with poorer timing but enough brute force to earn four through long-on.
35th over: Australia 180-1 (Haynes 66, Sutherland 16) Sutherland clearly has the goods - excellent technique, composed at the crease, intent to score - but she is going to have to figure out a way to rotate the strike. An innocuous Huddleston over begins with five dot balls with Australia’s number three playing relentlessly in the V, looking for a straight drive, when a dab square to bring Haynes into the action was probably the better option. Sutherland 16 from 40 after coming in at 144-1.
34th over: Australia 179-1 (Haynes 66, Sutherland 15) After the final drinks break Haynes shows the first signs of opening up, freeing her arms and forcing Rowe through the offside for four. Sutherland also shows greater intent but continues her run of hitting the field.
33rd over: Australia 171-1 (Haynes 60, Sutherland 13) Huddleston continues but with the ball no longer swinging she looks unthreatening. Her figures are saved by a couple of lusty blows finding fielders, especially against Sutherland, who has a habit of hitting good-looking dot balls. The youngster is now 13 from 32 deliveries and eating up time when Australia should be making hay.
32nd over: Australia 170-1 (Haynes 59, Sutherland 13) Double change for the White Ferns with Rowe back into the attack, but she’s too straight and too short to Sutherland who whips her first boundary. Haynes continue to anchor things at the other end. Hopefully they’ll look to up the scoring rate soon after a few flat overs since Healy’s dismissal.
31st over: Australia 163-1 (Haynes 57, Sutherland 8) For reasons best known to her, Sophie Devine has recalled Huddleston to the attack in place of Mair, despite New Zealand enjoying a rare spell of pressure. Three balls into the over five wides leak down the legside.
30th over: Australia 156-1 (Haynes 56, Sutherland 7) Very ODI middle-overs areas for three deliveries of Kerr’s latest over, but then Haynes tries to go over the top and, not for the first time today, does not time her assault well, and she’s lucky to see the ball drop safely in the onside.
29th over: Australia 153-1 (Haynes 55, Sutherland 5) Sutherland clearly times the ball with great force but she’s faced a couple of testing overs on her arrival at the crease and her inability to manipulate the strike means the run-rate is taking a little breather. Good spell for New Zealand.
28th over: Australia 149-1 (Haynes 53, Sutherland 3) Mair and Kerr in tandem is New Zealand’s best bowling partnership; Mair’s control teamed with Kerr’s guile. After the former kept Sutherland honest the latter has come in and really made her earn her stay at the crease, landing a series of dipping spinning leggies that test the outside edge consistently. A rare maiden for the White Ferns.
27th over: Australia 149-1 (Haynes 53, Sutherland 3) The breakthrough brings Mair back into the attack and she is immediately back onto her probing line and length from earlier. Sutherland is unfazed though, putting bat to ball with confidence and shrugging off one that beats her outside edge.
26th over: Australia 146-1 (Haynes 53, Sutherland 0) That was an excellent innings from Healy. She was controlled early and then went through the gears as New Zealand erred. She’ll feel like she left a century out there though. Huge moment for Australia as Healy departs with 18-year-old Annabel Sutherland striding to the crease. In her debut series she has already opened the bowling, and now she’s the youngest first-drop since Meg Lanning.
What a moment for 18-year-old Annabel Sutherland! #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/kzdae48c0E
Healy is in her element now, peppering the cow corner boundary regardless of who’s bowling. This time she chips Kerr with complete control to wide long-on. But then she perishes! Instead of hitting to leg she tries to clear long-off but fails to get enough on it and, incredibly, New Zealand hold onto a catch in the deep - Rowe completing the task. It’s no surprise Kerr makes the breakthrough.
A super knock comes to an end!
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25th over: Australia 138-0 (Haynes 50, Healy 82) Haynes tips and runs to pass 50 before Healy pulls out that lofted flicked drive through midwicket for four. Some inventiveness follows with an intentional edge through the vacant cordon for four more. Rowe didn’t do much wrong, but she does not have the weapons to contain Healy going through the gears. At the halfway mark in Australia’s innings they are on track for a massive total.
67 ball fifty for Rachael Haynes, her fifth 50+ score in her last six ODI innings.
Seven of Haynes' fifteen scores of fifty or more in her ODI career have been made against New Zealand. #AUSvNZhttps://t.co/nIWGisBC2E
24th over: Australia 127-0 (Haynes 49, Healy 72) Kerr back on for the White Ferns, and not before time, she’s the only bowler to consistently ask questions of the Australian openers, and even if she goes for a few her team needs a breakthrough. And she earns it - and it’s dropped! Shocking miss from Mair coming in from the square-leg boundary, letting the ball through her hands and away for four. New Zealand have been abject in the field today. they really look tired of being on the receiving end of Australian run-making at the end of these back-to-back white ball series.
Another life for Alyssa Healy #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/cIdMbwie94
23rd over: Australia 120-0 (Haynes 48, Healy 66) Hannah Rowe’s turn for a trundle and she keeps things pretty tight with her right-arm variations.
64* - Alyssa Healy is playing her best ever ODI innings for @AusWomenCricket against New Zealand, eclipsing her 62* against them in December 2012. Boom. pic.twitter.com/3epJ3SlYC1
22nd over: Australia 117-0 (Haynes 48, Healy 64) Ominous signs for New Zealand now. Healy welcomes Jensen to the crease for her third over by lofting a length delivery effortlessly over midwicket for the day’s first six. That was scarily easy for the Aussie opener. She goes again two balls later without the same timing, but more than enough force to celebrate a boundary. Two balls after that she goes again - and this time it’s a thick edge that should be taken in the deep. But it isn’t. Awful from New Zealand, Kerr and Perkins failing to take responsibility at deep midwicket and allowing the ball to land between them. That’s at least four huge let-offs in the field for this Australian opening partnership.
63 ball fifty for Alyssa Healy.
This is Healy's tenth 50+ score in ODIs since the start of 2018 and her first ODI half-century against New Zealand since Dec 2012.#AUSvNZhttps://t.co/nIWGisBC2E
21st over: Australia 103-0 (Haynes 48, Healy 51) Green is probably fortunate her spell extends to a third over, and she continues to struggle with her line as Australia bring up the century partnership and Healy strolls past 50 with plenty left in the tank.
Hundred partnership for Healy & Haynes. This is their third century opening stand in their last five ODI innings.
Australia 100/0 (20.2)#AUSvNZhttps://t.co/nIWGisTcUc
20th over: Australia 98-0 (Haynes 46, Healy 48) Sensing the game is drifting away from New Zealand, Jensen moves around the wicket to Haynes, and she begins by bowling short and wide without a fielder at third or a boundary rider near point. The outcome is inevitable. The rest of the over is better, but Australia are cruising.
19th over: Australia 94-0 (Haynes 42, Healy 48) More comfortable accumulation from Australia’s openers in what is a frankly ordinary over from Maddy Green. Singles surround the rankest of full tosses that Haynes slaps to the midwicket fence, before the over ends with Healy forcing a front foot drive between mid-off and extra cover. Australia starting to get away from New Zealand now.
18th over: Australia 83-0 (Haynes 36, Healy 43) After a quick drinks break Hayley Jensen is invited into the attack to bowl her skiddy right-arm medium-fast, but she struggles to nail her line to the right-hand left-hand combination and runs flow easily for both batters.
17th over: Australia 77-0 (Haynes 33, Healy 40) Interesting move from New Zealand with Kerr’s dangerous leggies replaced by Maddy Green’s right-arm finger spin. Green begins well, spinning the ball into Healy, then - like Kerr before her - is unfortunate to watch Haynes try to go downtown without any timing, lofting the ball between the two chasing fielders. To run salt into the wound there are overthrows, then Haynes sweeps the only loose delivery of the over for four. There is no justice for bowlers.
16th over: Australia 70-0 (Haynes 26, Healy 40) Devine beats Haynes’ outside edge with a slower ball during a much tighter over for NZ. The Australian captain has punished the bad ball today but she’s still a long way from fluent.
15th over: Australia 68-0 (Haynes 25, Healy 39) Kerr is going to be crucial. She has been the only bowler so far to consistently challenge Australia’s batters rather than simply try to contain them. And she’s unlucky not to bag Haynes this over when the Aussie opener goes aerially towards cow corner without timing the hit cleanly, but the ball lands short of the long-on fielder. Otherwise there’s plenty of shuffling and industry at the crease with singles worked to all angles.
14th over: Australia 63-0 (Haynes 23, Healy 36) Healy has had enough of respecting Devine after two tight overs from the Kiwi skipper. A forehand smash to a short ball only earns her a single, but after Haynes rotates the strike she clubs a four over mid-off then times a beautiful straight drive for back-to-back boundaries. Australia’s openers have bided their time this morning but their body language indicates they are ready to cut loose.
13th over: Australia 53-0 (Haynes 22, Healy 27) Glorious from Healy. She was already advancing down the pitch to Kerr but a loose delivery exaggerated what was a full toss out of the hand, allowing the batter to hammer the ball through the cover fielder for four. Otherwise there’s some interesting cat-and-mouse between Kerr and the Australians with both openers keen to get a move on.
12th over: Australia 48-0 (Haynes 22, Healy 22) Devine has bowled well all series and she’s continuing that form today. After starting her spell with a maiden she begins her second over with one that lifts off a length to make Healy flinch. Another dot follows, making it eight in a row for Devine, and Healy replies by swinging and missing outside off, frustration getting the better of her. She finally rotates strike the following delivery with Devine offering a smidgen of width. New Zealand’s disciplined bowling is keeping Australia in check so far.
11th over: Australia 47-0 (Haynes 22, Healy 21) Double change for the White Ferns with Amelia Kerr giving us our first look at spin for the day. After an opening wide loosener the right-arm legpsinner hits a good length and generates some turn back into the left-handed Hayens. She lands her googly nicely too and looks to be right on this morning - before sending down a long-hop that Haynes slaps disdainfully for four. The response is good though, beating the batter’s inside edge for a hearty LBW appeal, but it’s declined, presumably for not coming back enough. Interesting over.
10th over: Australia 42-0 (Haynes 18, Healy 21) Unsurprisingly there’s a bowling change for the White Ferns, and it’s Sophie Devine into the attack with her right-armers. She starts promisingly, hitting the deck hard and shaping the ball away from Healy with the Australian opener happy to play out a maiden with a series of controlled front foot pushes and drives into the offside.
9th over: Australia 42-0 (Haynes 18, Healy 21) More of the same from metronomic Mair. Nothing flash, just line and length, giving nothing away. She has 0/14 from her five overs.
8th over: Australia 40-0 (Haynes 17, Healy 20) Huddleston begins her fourth over poorly, dropping short and inviting Haynes to pull her behind square for four. As is so often the case, the bowler overcorrects, and Haynes holds her form superbly in the textbook cover-drive followthrough as the ball skips gleefully away to the extra cover boundary. And a carbon copy two balls later, following a wide, as Australia peel off 14 runs with the minimum of fuss. The newish white ball didn’t swing as much for Huddleston that over, which made her little more than a bowling machine for these batters on a surface like this.
7th over: Australia 26-0 (Haynes 4, Healy 20) More of the same from Mair, landing the ball consistently in top-of-off areas. She strays onto Healy’s pads briefly, but the error only concedes a couple of runs.
6th over: Australia 24-0 (Haynes 4, Healy 18) After that wayward opening over Huddleston has settled into a nice groove, shaping the ball away from the right-handed Healy on a decent line and length, even beating the bat on one occasion. She occasionally offers a touch of width but the field is well set and Australia’s opener is unable to time anything with force through the gap - until the final delivery when Healy muscles one through the overworked cover fielder and away to the fence. That was a good battle between bowler and batter.
5th over: Australia 19-0 (Haynes 3, Healy 14) Another probing over from Mair, continuing her excellent start, denying either batter width or length on an excellent surface for run-making.
4th over: Australia 17-0 (Haynes 2, Healy 13) Better from Huddleston, shaping the ball nicely back into the left-handed Haynes and forcing the Aussie skipper to dig out a testing couple of yorker-length deliveries. The line is then much tighter to Healy, who is respectful.
3rd over: Australia 16-0 (Haynes 2, Healy 13) Haynes takes a risky single from the first ball of the third over that would have seen her perish had Devine thrown down the stumps. Huge opportunity missed for the White Ferns with Devine only 10-15m away from the non-striker’s end at mid-off. Another excellent over thereafter from Mair, keeping a top-of-off line and length to Healy, until the final ball anyway, when she drops a fraction short and Healy is on it in a flash, whipcracking a front foot pull well in front of square that flies to the boundary. That was a serious shot.
2nd over: Australia 11-0 (Haynes 1, Healy 9) Holly Huddleston shares the new ball for the first time this series and she finds plenty of away swing to Healy bowling right-arm over the wicket. That swing is right into Healy’s arc though and she drives a wide half-volley sweetly to the cover fence, then flays a shorter wide delivery over gully for another boundary. That swing out of the hand then leads to a wide as Huddleston figures out the right line to such a confident batter. She does just that to end the over with three dots.
1st over: Australia 2-0 (Haynes 1, Healy 1) The left-handed Haynes is off the mark early, milking a single off her pads. Healy follows her on the scoreboard a little streakier, inside-edging down to fine-leg. Good start from Mair, excellent line and length bowling right-arm over the wicket.
The players are out in the middle. There’s a little cloud around Allan Border Field, which may help the swing bowlers early on.
Rosemary Mair is at the top of her mark, Rachael Haynes is on strike. Here we go...
This is the first time since Lanning debuted in Jan 2011, that Australia women have played a match that featured neither Lanning or Perry.#AUSvNZhttps://t.co/TFrW0Z7Fa9
Annabel Sutherland - the 18-year-old opening bowler appearing in her debut series - is listed to bat a first drop today. That is a serious flex from the Australian selectors.
121 ODIs, 102 T20Is
5486 runs – the second-most for New Zealand in women's internationals
☝️ 67 wickets
She has competed at five separate editions of the @T20WorldCup, captaining her side in the 2018 tournament
Happy birthday, Amy Satterthwaite pic.twitter.com/9q01uQLYw1
Australia, for so long symbolised by Meg Lanning and Ellyse Perry, will have to do without both as they seek one more win to tie the record for consecutive ODI victories.
Related: Australia's women continue relentless pursuit of ODI winning streak record | Geoff Lemon
Here’s a little something to pass the time from Tanya Aldred on Jason Gillespie, perhaps the most liked man in cricket in both Australia and England. Some feat.
David Hopps, who has reported on Yorkshire cricket for decades, cannot speak of him highly enough, “He brought a generosity of spirit to Yorkshire cricket, which is not always something it is famous for. He was an emollient you poured over Headingley, everyone loved him, when he walked through the gates he could make a Yorkshire fan who hadn’t smiled in five years beam with pleasure.”
Related: The Spin | 'Everyone loved him': Jason Gillespie leaves England as a national treasure
One change also for New Zealand with Holly Huddleston replacing Lea Tahuhu.
NZ XI: Sophie Devine, Natalie Dodd, Amy Satterthwaite, Amelia Kerr Katey Martin, Maddy Green, Hayley Jensen, Katie Perkins, Hannah Rowe, Rosemary Mair, Holly Huddleston
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That injury to Lanning means Rachael Haynes will skipper Australia in their chase for history at Allan Border Field. Tahlia McGrath comes into the XI.
News from the toss: Tahlia McGrath comes in for Meg Lanning after the skipper suffered a low grade hamstring strain during the batting innings on Monday.
The White Ferns won the toss and have sent us in for a bat #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/w0K3pG61IJ
What a shame! Meg Lanning has a low grade hamstring strain that keeps her out of today’s record-chasing match. #AUSvNZ
In a change to the script from the first couple of matches in the series New Zealand called correctly and have decided to have a bowl. Let’s see if Australia can secure the record as front-runners.
Today's ODI at Allan Border Field will be the third played on the same pitch. @holly_ferling has our conditions report #AUSvNZpic.twitter.com/7zRIXtKOcz
@JPHowcroft@collinsadam morning gents, cant see past Aussie girls getting the record
Agreed Stuie. The only slight concern might be Devine and Satterthwaite hitting form last time out. Both can go big when the mood takes them.
Hello everybody and welcome to live over-by-over coverage of the third and final one-day international of the series between Australia and New Zealand from Brisbane. Play gets underway at 10.10am local, 11.10am AEDT.
With Australia enjoying an unassailable 2-0 lead, and no serious questions over form or fitness to be answered, today is all about history. After 20 straight victories, one more for Australia’s women will draw them level with the record winning streak in ODI history, bringing them alongside Ricky Ponting’s formidable men’s outfit from earlier this century.
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