Australian Women's tour of NZ - 3 T20s (21/03 -> 26/03)

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I couldn't find a thread for this short tour to against our Tasman rivals

CommBank T20I tour of New Zealand ​

Australia T20 squad: Tahlia McGrath (c), Ashleigh Gardner (vc), Darcie Brown, Nicole Faltum, Kim Garth, Grace Harris, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Voll, Georgia Wareham

New Zealand T20 squad: Suzie Bates (c), Eden Carson, Sophie Devine, Maddy Green, Brooke Halliday, Polly Inglis, Bella James, Fran Jonas, Jess Kerr, Melie Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Georgia Plimmer, Lea Tahuhu

First T20 | March 21: Eden Park, Auckland

Second T20 | March 23: Bay Oval, Tauranga

Third T20 | March 26: Sky Stadium, Wellington

 

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New Zealand XI: Suzie Bates (c), Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr, Sophie Devine, Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Jess Kerr, Polly Inglis (wk), Lea Tahuhu, Rosemary Mair, Eden Carson

Australia XI: Beth Mooney (wk), Georgia Voll, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Ashleigh Gardner, Annabel Sutherland, Tahlia McGrath (c), Grace Harris, Georgia Wareham, Megan Schutt, Darcie Brown

 

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We kept NZ to 2/137, which is our lowest wicket tally when bowling first and bowling the full 20 overs

The bigger issue though is Gardner going off with a finger injury




And with Gardner off I do question if King is the best replacement fielding option, especially she again dropped a pretty regulation catch with Devine scoring another 13 runs after the drop

 

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Pity we didn't do this to NZ in the T20 WC

 

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A double header at the same ground men and women?

 

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I mean this in a totally good & respectful manner, but damn Mooney is a freak

 

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Highest womens T20 score in NZ - will require a record run chase to win this

 

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What is slightly crazy about today's win is that this is the first T20 series we've won in NZ

 

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Game 3 last game for the Aussie players for a while:

Australia XI: BL Mooney†, G Voll, P Litchfield, EA Perry, A Sutherland, TM McGrath*, GM Harris, G Wareham, AM King, KJ Garth, M Schutt

New Zealand XI: SW Bates*, GE Plimmer, AC Kerr, IR James, SFM Devine, BM Halliday, ML Green, JM Kerr, PM Inglis†, RA Mair, EJ Carson

New Zealand have won the toss and they have opted to bowl first.

 

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Highest score on this ground in a T20 game in a WT20I is 159 runs in Wellington. Originally, thought this game was played at the Basin Reserve.

 

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Wonder if we were tempted to give Faltum a game behind the stumps and use Mooney in the field as we've often seen when playing both Healy & Mooney

With Faltum named in this squad, it would suggest she's currently seen as the keeper in waiting and maybe getting the odd game into her, especially in a dead rubber, could be a good way to get the odd game under her belt

 

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First match at this venue between these teams at this venue since 2010

 

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TV commentators just said Brown has returned home for family reasons - hope all is ok

 

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This is a big game for alot of the Wellington girls in the NZ lineup.

 

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Dont usually see Sophie Devine getting emotional before a game......

 

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Rosemary Nair with a fairly elementary opportunity there.

 

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Voll is a very good boundary hitter, but if she could develop her game to look for the gaps to run singles & 2s between those boundary balls, she'd become a more dangerous player

At the moment she just seems to have a high percentage of her runs come from boundaries with that her focus when it comes to scoring


Looking at Mooney's approach with how few for balls she faces, I think a few of our younger players can learn from that approach

 

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Rosemary Nair with a fairly elementary opportunity there.

The Maddy Green drop was even worse

 

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Voll dropped for the 6th occasion and Halliday hurt her hand/thumb in the drop

 

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NZ should be dominating this game but those dropped catches are inexcusable for a supposedly international side.

 

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These NZ ladies need to work on alot of their fielding during this break. Some of this is beyond laughable and lacks basic common sense.

 

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That was a really poor last ball from Devine

Nearly get an LBW on the second last ball when going full, and then the last ball goes short

 

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Perry gets Australia to 180 in the last game of the summer and that will be too much for the NZ ladies.

Just a matter of how much Aussies win by for me from here.