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Wellington Blaze vs Central Hinds: The Hinds got off to a good start after electing to bowl. Claudia Green trapped Jess McFadyen LBW for two.
Power hitter Rebecca Burns and the ever-impressive Amelia Kerr then put on a second wicket stand worth 66 runs, a partnership that frustrated the Central opening bowlers of Green, Hannah Rowe, and Rosemary Mair.
Just as Burns was settling into her work, she chipped the ball back to Ocean Bartlett off her bowling and was sent walking back for 35 from 40, a knock that included seven fours.
Kerr was able to keep the score ticking over alongside fellow White Fern Georgia Plimmer until the both of them fell in the space of a few overs.
Bartlett grabbed her second wicket as she had Kerr LBW for 34 and then Flora Devonshire got Plimmer to hit one to Rowe for 21.
The Hinds bowlers of Rowe, Mair, Ashtuti Kumar, and Georgia Atkinson all kept it tight were all able to keep it tight. They were rewarded when Bartlett had her third wicket, Kate Chandler stumped for eight.
Caitlin King came in and upped the Blaze run rate adding 27 from 28 before also being out stumped to Bartlett.
Jess Kerr then showed her aggressive nature in the final few overs as she and Kasperek were able to propel the Blaze to 244/7 from their 50 overs. Kasperek was run out by Bartlett's last ball for 66 and Kerr finished on 35* from just 26 balls.
Just like the Hinds had, the Blaze were able to pick up an early wicket. Jess Kerr bowling Atkinson for two.
Emma McLeod and Hinds captain Dodd then pushed on to see the Hinds through the rest of the powerplay without further loss.
Dodd did fall six overs later for 41 with Amelia Kerr getting the wicket. Central then found themselves with both set batters gone as McLeod was stumped off Xara Jetly for 38.
Rowe could only add 11 runs at number four before she was bowled by Jess Kerr to leave the Hinds in trouble at 116/4.
They were then in further trouble when Mikaela Greig fell victim to Chandler for 25 from 33, leaving the Hinds five down and just over 100 runs left to win.
Mair and Devonshire then led a fightback with the bat as they put on a classy 47-run stand for the sixth wicket. The Blaze however had the answers to this and with the pressure of the run rate building on the Hinds, Devonshire was trapped LBW by Kasperek for 24.
Mair was the Hinds only batting hope with the amount of balls remaining slowly diminishing. When Jetly picked her up for 42 with just over four overs left it looked like the Blaze were clearly in the box seat to take out the game.
Green came to the middle and struck a couple of fours before finding herself run out by Plimmer for 11 from five balls. With rain arriving in the capital, no more play was able to be held following the runout and the Blaze found themselves victorious by 13 runs via the DLS method. Kate Gaging was on 10* and Bartlett had not faced a ball.
Otago Sparks vs Northern Districts: Emma Black had early success for the hosts with the opening two wickets of Natasha Wakelin (0) and Caitlin Gurrey (5) to leave Northern two down and only six runs on the board.
Nensi Patel and Jess Watkin tried to fight back for the visitors on what was going to be a tricky batting wicket for the visitors. Just as Patel raced out to beyond a run a ball, Louisa Kotkamp on List A debut grabbed her for 17 from 13.
Watkin didn’t last longer as she was trapped LBW by Black. Eden Carson then joined in on the action as she had Sam Barriball edging behind to Polly Inglis for 17 to leave Northern at 47/5.
Marina Lamplough was able to work alongside her skipper, Eimear Richardson to lead the fightback for her team, but calamity struck for them again when Richardson was run out by Bella James for seven.
Just as Lamplough was looking set, Felicity Robertson broke through and had her for 30 from just 31 balls.
Holly Topp could only add 10 runs but was able to work along with Jesse Prasad to get the side past the 100-run mark.
There was also a wee break for rain but no overs were lost.
When Black had her fourth wicket of the day, Topp out LBW, it seemed that the end of the innings was near.
This however was not the case as Northern newcomer, Prasad along with rising talent Marama Downes put on a record 9th wicket stand for Northern Districts worth 73 runs.
They were able to see off some tight bowling by Otago, who ended up using eight bowlers across the entire innings.
One of them was Caitlin Blakely who broke the stand as Downes edged behind to Inglis for 24.
Kayley Knight tried her best to keep rotating the strike back to Prasad who was scoring well and nearing a 50. Knight was bowled in the forty-fifth over for two and Prasad found herself trapped on 49* with no batting partners left.
Northern finished on 188/10 from 44.4 overs.
Downes had early success with the ball as James was out in the second over for one and then grabbed a second when Blakely was trapped in front for five.
Prasad also chimed in on the action with the wicket of Saffron Wilson for 17.
Robertson and Inglis were able to work their way through the early loss of wickets and they built a stand that took Otago to the 100-run mark when Robertson was bowled by Dowes for 42.
Inglis was run out soon after for 36 with Patel getting it.
Suzie Bates (33*) and Olivia Gain (44*) then saw their side through to a five-wicket win with an unbeaten 84-run stand for the sixth wicket.
Canterbury Magicians vs Auckland Hearts: Rain fell early on in Christchurch with play having to be reduced down to 41 overs per side and an eight-over powerplay.
Saachi Shahri and Cate Pedersen opened up the batting for Auckland when play finally got underway.
Canterbury were able to grab two wickets inside the powerplay with Pedersen falling for nine and Green being bowled for 14. Gabby Sullivan and Jess Simmons had the wickets respectively.
Shahri and Brooke Halliday then put on a 127-run stand for the third wicket. With none of the Canterbury bowlers able to gain any wickets, Frankie Mackay led by example as she got Shahri for 70, her 9th List A 50.
Prue Catton came to the middle with some intent but just as she was looking promising, she fell to the part-time spin of Kate Anderson for 25 from 19.
Izzy Gaze and Josie Penfold both fell for ducks in the next over with Simmons getting the wickets.
Halliday was able to get the run rate ticking over for the visitors but fell with four balls left in the inning for a superb 108, Mackay getting the wicket.
Molly Penfold finished on 2* and Fran Jonas on 4* as Auckland posted 242/7 from 41 overs.
Auckland did get some early success with the ball as Abby Gerken was bowled by Molly Penfold, the first ball of the innings.
Just like Shahri and Halliday had done for Auckland, the experienced domestic players of Mackay and Anderson put on an exceptional 136-run partnership for the second wicket.
Anderson was finding it relatively easy at the run-a-ball mark whilst Mackay was able to feed her the strike.
Anderson was then out to Molly Penfold for 82 from 85.
Izzy Sharp came in and tried her luck but fell victim to Auckland youngster Rishika Jaswal for eight.
With the run rate climbing for Canterbury, Mackay knew she needed to get going soon but was stumped by Gaze off Green’s bowling for 61 from 82.
Jacinta Savage added a quick 28 from 29 before Green had her second wicket of the day.
With the pressure building for Canterbury, it was getting to the stage where they had to go out and find boundaries.
Jodie Dean (10) was out to Molly Penfold before Sullivan soon was run out by Gaze for a golden duck.
Laura Hughes (19), Simmons (4*), and Sarah Asmussen (3*) were left with too much work to do and eventually, Auckland picked up a 14-run win.
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