Live updates: New Zealand vs Australia, second women's ODI at the ...

WICKET. RUN OUT.

21 minutes agoSat 21 Dec 2024 at 3:53am

New Zealand need 195 runs from 150 balls with six wickets in hand

37 minutes agoSat 21 Dec 2024 at 3:37am

New Zealand are 4-81. NZ requires 211 runs off 180 balls

54 minutes agoSat 21 Dec 2024 at 3:20am

G'day Mike.

Georgia Voll got her opportunity to play against India due to the injury of Alyssa Healy.

Voll was exceptional, but the return of Healy means Georgia is running the drinks in this series.

It speaks to the depth of Australian cricket.

With 19.5 overs remaining, the players have gone off the field and the covers are on the pitch at the Basin Reserve.

New Zealand is 5-122. They need 170 runs from 119 balls.

Australia is a long way ahead in this game.

New Zealand are 65 runs behind where they need to be for the Duckworth-Lewis System — which almost certainly is about to come into the equation as the rain gets heavier.

The rain is starting to come in.

Maddy Green hits a boundary to start the 31st over.

The umpires have come together as thunder can be heard.

We are coming off.

Megan Schutt bowls to Maddy Green.

The first ball is defended.

Green then hits over the top and scores two runs.

BEATEN. Great ball from Schutt who beats the outside edge of Green's bat.

FOUR. Schutt tries a short ball but get pulled to deep square to the boundary. That was a sweet shot.

Green defends then takes a single to end the over.

New Zealand: 5-118, NZ requires 174 from 120 balls

Green: 22 off 40

Down: 0 off 1

Lauren Down fends the final ball of the Alana King over.

New Zealand: 5-111, NZ requires 181 from 126 balls

Green: 15 off 34

Down: 0 off 1

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21m agoSat 21 Dec 2024 at 3:53am

Great fielding from Australia.

Amelia Kerr has been run out at the striker's end.

Maddy Green hit the ball to Phoebe Litchfield and took off for the quick single.

Litchfield fired the ball to keeper Beth Mooney who whips the bails off.

The bail lights up with the bat on, not behind, the crease.

Was the bail dislodged from the stump? I'm not so sure. But the third umpire was convinced enough to give Kerr out.

The leg spin of Alana King has been called upon for the first time.

King is bowling to Amelia Kerr who starts with a pair of dot balls.

Kerr plays a late cut to third and runs two.

A pull shot into the leg side nets a single for Kerr.

Maddy Green is on strike.

Australia's opening bowler Megan Schutt is back on to bowl.

Wicketkeeper Beth Mooney is up to the stumps.

Maddy Green cuts and gets a single.

Schutt bowls to Kerr who fends into the off side.

Kerr knocks a ball to mid-wicket and scampers through for a quick single.

Green is on strike and plays behind backward point for another single.

A diving Ash Gardner at mid-on denies Kerr a single.

Kerr is able to squeeze the ball into the off side for a single to end the over.

New Zealand: 4-108, NZ requires 184 from 132 balls

Kerr: 35 off 51

Green: 15 off 33

Annabel Sutherland continues with her sixth over.

Maddy Green hits a single to start the over, then Amelia Kerr knocks a ball into the leg side for one run.

Green is back on strike and she pulls to mid-wicket for no run.

Sutherland bowls and Green is on the back foot defending.

A short ball is bowled and Green pulls in the air, but safely, for one run.

Kerr drives to mid-off for no run to end the over.

New Zealand: 4-104, NZ requires 188 from 138 balls

Kerr: 33 off 47

Green: 13 off 31

Ash Gardner bowls a short ball on Amelia Kerr's hip. Kerr does not punish it, and she groans in annoyance.

Kerr sweeps into the leg side and gets a single.

A dot ball is then followed by a quick single into the off side for Maddy Green.

Kerr sweeps again for a single.

That is 100 runs for New Zealand.

A drive to long-on from Green for one run ends the over.

New Zealand: 4-101, NZ requires 191 from 144 balls

Kerr: 32 off 45

Green: 11 off 27

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37m agoSat 21 Dec 2024 at 3:37am

Annabel Sutherland bowls to Amelia Kerr who works the first ball into the leg side for a single.

Maddy Green is on strike and cuts to the point fielder for no run.

FOUR. Maddy Green is given width and she cuts over backward point and to the rope.

A miscue on a cover drive from Green results in a dot ball.

A nice ball from Sutherland must be fended away from Green.

And another dot ball ends the over.

New Zealand: 4-97, NZ requires 195 from 150 balls

Kerr: 30 off 42

Green: 9 off 24

Ash Gardner bowls to Amelia Kerr who skips down the pitch and drives to long-on for a single.

Maddy Green then plays a lap to fine leg for a single.

A ramp shot from Kerr connects and goes over the head of the wicketkeeper for two runs.

Gardner now comes around the wicket and beats Kerr with a ball that goes straight on. It just misses the off stump.

A punch into the leg side from Kerr gets a single.

Maddy Green faces the final ball of the over and defends.

New Zealand: 4-92, NZ requires 200 from 156 balls

Kerr: 29 off 41

Green: 5 off 19

Darice Brown bowls short to Amelia Kerr who pulls in to the air but it falls just short of Alyssa Healy at mid-wicket.

Kerr then gets a single, hitting to Healy at mid-wicket who has a bobble.

A misfield from Australia allows Maddy Green to run two from a straight drive.

A cut shot goes straight to point for no run.

The final ball of the Brown over is another dot ball.

New Zealand: 4-87, NZ requires 205 from 162 balls

Kerr: 25 off 37

Green: 4 off 17

Ash Gardner bowls to Maddy Green who drives to mid-off for no run.

Garnder bowls shorter and Green defends on the back foot.

Green this time skips down the wicket but again needs to defend.

Gardner tosses up her fourth delivery and Green mistimes her drive.

Green finally can work a ball into square leg for a single.

Amelia Kerr faces the final ball of Garnder's over and hits a cross-bat shot to long-on for a single.

New Zealand: 4-84, NZ requires 208 from 168 balls

Kerr: 24 off 35

Green: 2 off 13

Darice Brown continues and will bowl to Maddy Green.

Brown has got her line right to start the over and opens with a trio of dot balls.

BEATEN. Green tried to play a backfoot cut shot and the ball bounced a little higher than anticipated. The ball just beats the outside edge.

Brown then bowls a nice yorker which Green must dig out.

Green does cut to deep point for a single to end the over.

New Zealand: 4-82, NZ requires 210 from 174 balls

Kerr: 23 off 34

Green: 1 off 8

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54m agoSat 21 Dec 2024 at 3:20am

Maddy Green is the number six batter for the White Ferns.

She plays her first ball into the off side for no run.

Gardner gets plenty of spin and hit clips off Green's pads for a leg bye.

FOUR. Amelia Kerr skips down the wicket and hits over the top to end the over.

New Zealand: 4-81, NZ requires 211 from 180 balls

Kerr: 23 off 34

Green: 0 off 2

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56m agoSat 21 Dec 2024 at 3:17am

Spin has worked straight away for Australia.

Brooke Halliday tried to play a big shot but the ball hits high on the bat.

It looks to backward point and into the waiting hands of Annabel Sutherland.

Australia will have spin bowling for the first time today.

The off spin bowler will come around the wicket to the left-handed Halliday.

The first ball is blocked and the second misses the outside edge.