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First One Day Match:
New Zealand tasted success with their first victory over England A in the first one-day match.
The batters were able to get them off to a good start with contributions right throughout the order to power them to 283.
Saachi Shahri and Kate Anderson had an electrifying start, which was helped by 10 runs from wide in the first six overs with 46 runs on the board by the time Anderson fell for 19.
Georgia Plimmer worked well at number three alongside Caitlin Blakely as they put on 53 runs in just over 10 overs and New Zealand past the 100-run mark.
England A did manage to get both Plimmer (36) and Blakely (44) before they hit 50 and along with the wicket of Mikaela Greig to Maddy Villiers for 18, England would’ve felt on top at 167/5.
Polly Inglis (46) and Leigh Kasperek (25) did manage to keep New Zealand’s innings alive with some good lower-order contributions.
More wayward bowling from England saw them to 283 from a position of 246/7. Nensi Patel’s 18 from 11 also assisted in New Zealand getting past 280.
Grace Potts (2/54), Alice Davidson-Richards (2/35), Ryana MacDonald-Gay (2/58), and Villiers (2/43) all took two wickets each.
Emma Black and Hayley Jensen got the New Zealand bowling innings off to a great start with Jensen getting Emma Lamb (1) whilst Black had Grace Scrivens (0) and Sophia Smale (16) inside the first seven overs.
A counter-attacking innings by Freya Kemp (45 from 35) and assistance from Paige Scholfield (28) wasn’t near enough as the rest of England’s middle order crumbled to the spin of Leigh Kasperek and the pace of Jensen as they fell to 117/9 and then 156/9.
Potts did manage to make 30* at number ten but that was never going to be enough with England bowled out for 177 in 40.1 overs and NZ A taking a 106-run win.
Jensen finished with 4/26, Kasperek 3/35, and Black 2/30.
Second One Day Match:
Winning the toss and choosing to bowl first was just about one of New Zealand’s A most successful moments of the day.
Black had Lamb bowled in the fifth over for six to leave England at 20/1 early on.
Scrivens (29) and Gemma Adams (20) built a nice partnership of 43 runs, but both lost their wickets in relatively quick succession with Carson getting Scrivens caught and bowled whilst Molly Penfold got Adams to edge behind to Inglis behind the stumps.
With just 76 runs on the board in the first 21 overs, England was going to need a couple of players to stand up and sure they did.
Hollie Armitage and Kemp showed absolute destruction as they took to the New Zealand bowling attack, with Penfold, Patel, Black and Jess Simmons all having expensive days out with the ball.
When it looked like New Zealand A had broken through the 171-run stand, England brought out Scholfield who went bang.
She struck 57 from 26 to go along with Kemp’s earlier destructive innings of 80 from 63 and Armitage who finished on 120* from 100 balls.
England posted 334/5 from their 50 overs.
New Zealand having both their opening batters inside the shed in the first over always looked like it would end in disaster as Kate Cross had Patel (0) and Kate Anderson (5) both gone.
The next three batters of Blakely (68), Greig (42), and Prue Catton (70) did try their best to get the New Zealand A side back in the game.
With them all falling at crucial times, especially Blakley at 153/4 and Catton at 225/7, it seemed like it just wouldn’t be New Zealand’s day.
MacDonald-Gay was able to have some success with the ball getting figures of 4/27 from her eight overs.
Aotearoa A finished on 251/9 from 43.4 overs with captain Jensen not batting due to injury.
Third One Day Match:
Saachi Shahri’s start for NZ A provided a good stable base in the third and final one-day match.
Anderson was the first to go to Kirstie Gordon for 27, but the momentum was carried on by Blakely and Shahri.
Gordon then had two more wickets as she grabbed Blakely for 21 and Shahri for 59 as NZ A slipped from 114/1 to 122/3 and then 126/4 when Catton was run out for a duck.
Inglis and Greig managed to save the innings with a 97-run fifth wicket stand, Greig making 84 runs in the end and Inglis 39.
Linsey Smith got the wicket of Greig while Scrivens had Inglis.
Patel finished with 30 and was run out on the last ball along with Penfold who made 9* as New Zealand posted 287 from their 50 overs.
England had wobbles early with Penfold and Carson taking the first four wickets between them.
Penfold had the openers of Scrivens (9) and Smale (4) while Carson had Adams (16) and Armitage (1), England falling to 32/4 after 12.4 overs.
This soon became 48/5 when Kemp was bowled by Simmons.
Davidson-Richards and Rhianna Southby put on 82 runs for the sixth wicket to get England to 130 when Patel joined in on the wicket-taking action.
The rest of the English batters added very little as they were bowled out for 154 with Penfold (3/24), Carson (3/25), and Patel (3/27) taking nine wickets between them.
The 133-run win for New Zealand meant they took a 2-1 series victory.
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