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Otago had a big win over ND with a century for Isy Parry. Wellington had a close victory against Auckland whilst CD got up over Canterbury.
Otago vs Northern Districts:
Natasha Wakelin and Amelia Harvey opened up for Northern Districts, a side that would be looking to make more than the 19 runs that they’d made the day before.
Harvey and Eve Wolland both fell inside the first six overs with Zarah Moana taking the two wickets for zero and six respectively.
Jessie Canty and Wakelin then shared a solid 64-run stand for the third wicket and in quick time too! The 50-run stand came in 38 balls with Wakelin showing an aggressive nature.
However, the loss of Wakelin for 37, trapped LBW by Chloe Deerness left Northern in a period of a collapse as Catherine Hardie (6) and Canty (10) both fell to Katelyn Walton leaving ND at 89/5.
They soon found themselves seven wickets down with Elle Archer (15) and Megan Pearson (3) falling to Deerness.
Ananya Sharma led a fightback alongside Brittany Jenkins and Aria Mischewski to guide the score to 156 when Jenkins was out to Molly Mason-Galletly for 13.
Sharma and Mischewski soon had Northern up to the end of the last over, but they had less than 200 on the board. Mischewski was bowled by Louisa Kotkamp for a quickfire 29 from 36.
Dayle Anderson was run out last ball and Northern finished on 199/10 with Sharma ending on 32*.
Otago had an early struggle with Abby Fookes falling for a first-ball golden duck to Mischewski.
Hannah Wilson was out in the fifteenth over for 30 from 45 as she was run out in a combined effort by Wolland/Wakelin.
As the partnership between Isy Parry and Deernes started to build, Wakelin tried to rotate her bowlers with the hope that one of the nine used would get a breakthrough.
This wasn’t to be for the Northern side with Parry making a century from 110 balls to finish on 103* and Deerness hitting the winning runs to end on 50*.
Otago took a comfortable eight-wicket win inside 38 overs.
Wellington vs Auckland:
Hannah Francis and Neha Ramanathan got Wellington through the first seven overs of the innings before they lost three quick wickets with the two owners falling to Issy O’Connell whilst Ashleigh Henderson was bowled by Rishika Jaswal for one.
Rachel Bryant and Esme Olney-Boyd led a good fightback and whilst their partnership was slow it was due to the tough bowling by Kate Irwin and Jaswal through the middle overs.
Anika Todd had Olney-Boyd at the end of the 29th over for 28 runs. Todd soon took her second wicket Dhriti Girish for two and Wellington was reeling at 111/5.
Bryant fell four overs later for a well-made 37 from 85, Irwin getting the prized wicket. Eva Hay then went next ball and Wellington was seven down.
Ava Conroy and Isla McKenzie started to rebuild the Wellington innings with a 31-run partnership in 6.2 overs. They had a couple of overs that went for over a run-a-ball with Irwin sent for a couple of boundaries off Conroy's bat.
Sophie Court then had two wickets in the forty-fourth over with Conroy out for 19 and Lily Campbell (who had come into the side for Blaze representative Kate Chandler) out for a golden duck.
Emma Parker was also dismissed for a duck by Anika Tauwhare and Wellington was all out for 158 in 44.4 overs.
Auckland had a great start to the innings with Elizabeth Buchanan scoring at over a run-a-ball in the opening stand of 48 with Jaswal. However, they quickly slumped to 69/5 as Buchanan (29), Irwin (4), Jaswal (20), Neena Wollaston (1), and Brooke James (0) all quickly fell. Francis and Bryant picked up the wickets.
Anika Todd and Jess Smith led the middle-order fightback as they shared a solid 55-run stand for the sixth wicket. Smith was the more aggressive of the two as she contributed 32 of the 50 runs.
The loss of Todd quickly ended the Auckland innings however with Campbell getting the wicket as the partnership was looking dangerous.
Smith also fell to Campbell for a run-a-ball 38 and the Auckland side relied on the tail to get them home. O’Connell (2) and Lightbourne (7) couldn’t last though and Auckland were bowled out for 148 in 30.4 overs, giving Wellington a 10-run win.
Canterbury vs Central Districts:
Canterbury had a poor first three overs with Sophie Arnold being bowled by Aniela Apperley for seven.
Darcy-Rose Prasad and Sammy Borcoski got Canterbury into the game as they shared a 44-run stand for the second wicket.
Gretel Fairbother broke the stand in the sixteenth over with Borcoski out for 9.
Maggie Martin could only last five balls as she fell for one run with Catherine Hollard getting the wicket. Prasad then was run out by Ella Hogan/Hollard for 34 and the Canterbury side was in trouble.
Central captain Emma McLeod ran out for Eloise Borcoski for a quick 23 from 26 to leave Canterbury in further trouble with five wickets down and less than 100 runs on the board,
McLeod bowled a tough spell in the middle overs coming for 23 runs in her ten overs and was backed up nicely by Apperley (2/24 from 8) and Fairbrother (2/19 from 7).
This restricted the Canterbury batters as they limped their way to 144/6 when Niamh McKenzie went for a quickfire 35 from 32. This led to the downfall of the Canterbury batting innings as they ended up at 173/10 in 41.3 overs.
Abby McKissock (7), Ruby Makeham (7), Katriel Thomas (0) and Abigail Hotton (2) were the final wickets to fall with Hollard getting Hotton and Thomas while Fairbrother had Makeham and Vanessa Taylor run out McKissock.
Central had an opening stand of 38 between Reese Drager and Catherine Hockly. Drager was the more aggressive of the two as Hockly made four from 34. They were the benefit of some loose bowling by Canterbury who suffered 18 wides in the opening stand.
Drager and McLeod stood strong against the Canterbury bowling attack with the two of them scoring freely and finding the boundary rope a combined 13 times between them.
Just like the first wicket, Hotton bowled Drager for 35. Canterbury were going to need to take regular wickets if they were going to win as Central were already at 80/2 after 15.1 overs.
Taylor and McLeod carried on the work that Drager had left them with as they shared a 48-run stand for the third wicket in just over eight overs.
When Canterbury took the wicket of Taylor for 25 they also then had Abby Treder for 1 and they would’ve thought they would be within a shot of winning.
However even though Central lost the wickets of Sophie Campbell (2) and Apperley (2), it was up to McLeod who saw them home with a 62* from 60 balls.
Central ended up taking the win by 4 four wickets with more than 15 overs left in the game.
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