New Zealand 210 all out
New Zealand go from 147-2 in the 35th over to 209 all out with nine balls left unused. That was a lurching end to their batting effort. England’s debutants all put their hand up with wickets and catches and they’ll be confident of chasing this target down after the break.
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48th over: New Zealand 207-9 (Mair 2, Illing 0) Charlie Dean gets her second wicket and has 2-21 from seven overs. Excellent. Lauren Bell will hope to hoover this final wicket…
WICKET! Jess Kerr b Dean 2 (New Zealand 207-9)
Jess Kerr misses with a swipe and Charlie Dean hits. New Zealand nine down and falling in a heap.
47th over: New Zealand 206-8 (J Kerr 2, Mair 2) Bell beats the edge of Rosemary Mair’s bat with another slower ball but there’s no nick so no dice with the hat-trick. Bell beams a wide smile nevertheless, she has 2-36 from her nine overs and England have put the skids on New Zealand in the last ten overs.
WICKET! Nensi Patel lbw b Bell 0 (New Zealand 205-8)
Lauren Bell is on a hat-trick! Another slower ball deceives new batter Nenis Patel and the review doesn’t save her, three reds and Bell has two in two.
WICKET! Izzy Sharp st Jones b Bell 6 (New Zealand 205-7)
Slower ball from Bell and Sharp’s charge meets with fresh air, Amy Jones takes the bails off with the batter stranded.
46th over: New Zealand 204-6 (J Kerr 1, Sharp 6) Brilliant debut bowling from Tilly Corteen-Coleman, she finishes with 2-49 from her ten overs.
WICKET! Maddy Green c Gibson b Corteen-Coleman 88 (New Zealand 203-7)
Green is gone! Tilly Corteen-Coleman has her second wicket as Maddy Green attempts a big one down the ground but finds Dani Gibson who takes a neat catch on the boundary edge.
45th over: New Zealand 201-5 (Green 87, Sharp 5) Bell offers width and Green cuts away for four to bring up the 200 for New Zealand. Green misses out on another wider ball, cutting to the boundary rider on the off side. Seven off the over, five to go.
Stephen Nicholls emails in, he’s impressed with Charlie Dean’s efforts as skipper.
“Great to have international cricket back on the OBO. I’m impressed with Charlie Dean’s captaincy. She has treated her debutant bowlers cleverly, with each of them starting with wickets and decent economy; then brings herself on when planned to bowl to Halliday, and correctly uses DRS when the umpire turns down the appeal. This is very promising.”
Agreed, Dean has been impressive. England’s bowling has been tidy too. Their fielding on the other hand…
44th over: New Zealand 194-5 (Green 81, Sharp 4) Corteen-Coleman into her ninth over, a full toss is swatted away by Green for a welcome boundary. Lauren Bell is coming back for the death with three overs up her sleeve.
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43rd over: New Zealand 186-5 (Green 75, Sharp 2) Izzy Sharp joins Green in the middle. New Zealand deal in singles but they could do with finding the fence.
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WICKET! Isabella Gaze c Jones b Gibson 11 (New Zealand 183-5)
Lovely catch from Amy Jones stood up to the stumps and Gibson has her first ODI wicket
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42nd over: New Zealand 183-4 (Green 74, Gaze 11) Filer slams a ball into the middle of the deck, Gaze pulls away with a top edge but the ball falls short of Freya Kemp running in from deep square. Filer finishes her work with the ball and has decent figures of 1-43 off her ten overs. She only got the call up to play at the last minute due to Issy Wong reporting a niggle.
41st over: New Zealand 178-4 (Green 73, Gaze 8) Green shuffles across her stumps and gets a flick on a full ball from Gibson that beats Amy Jones stood up to the stumps and runs away for a boundary. Nine overs to go, what can New Zealand muster?
40th over: New Zealand 171-4 (Green 67, Gaze 7) Shot! Gaze opens her shoulders and bunts a full and fast ball from Filer down the ground for four.
39th over: New Zealand 166-4 (Green 67, Gaze 3) Grewcock has bowled well today, just three runs off her over and she has decent figures of 1-26 off her six overs so far.
38th over: New Zealand 166-4 (Green 67, Gaze 3) Izzy Gaze is the new batter, she’s off the mark with a compact drive. Green then plays the shot of the day, at least according to Michael Atherton on commentary as she unfurls a languid cover drive that bisects the field for four.
Speaking of which, some doofus wrote all about the cover drive this week:
WICKET! Brooke Halliday lbw b Dean 6 (New Zealand 158-4)
The plan works first ball! Dean pins Halliday in front of leg stump, the umpire says no but Dean is confident and goes for the review. The DRS shows three reds and Dean has the wicket. Great captaincy and execution from Dean and Halliday has to drag herself from the middle.
37th over: New Zealand 158-3 (Green 62, Halliday 6) Grewcock rattles through a quick over and it looks like being just one over for Lauren Bell as Charlie Dean brings herself back on. I think this is a ploy to get Halliday who has a weakness against left arm spin…
36th over: New Zealand 155-3 (Green 61, Halliday 4) Six runs off Bell’s over, New Zealand will definitely be targeting 260 or so at least here, England have bowled well but fielded terribly so far.
35th over: New Zealand 149-3 (Green 58, Halliday 1) That was Jodi Grewcock’s first international wicket and what a name to have as the first in the back pocket… albeit even she looked pretty sheepish at the manner of the dismissal. ‘Dross gets wickets’ as they so often say in club cricket with perhaps slightly different wording.
Brooke Halliday joins Green in the middle, Lauren Bell is coming back for a burst.
WICKET! Amelia Kerr c Bell b Grewcock 55 (New Zealand 147-3)
Amelia Kerr has a shocker. She tries to punish a full toss from Grewcock but ends up slapping it straight to Lauren Bell at mid off. England can’t believe their luck and Kerr can’t believe what she’s done after laying all the groundwork.
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“Morning James from sunny/rainy Salvador, May being that kind of month” emails Cressida Evans.
“Does anyone in the Graun hive mind have any tips on how to listen to this match from outside the UK? Can’t seem to get the BBC, Guerilla cricket aren’t interested in women’s cricket sadly and the YouTube offerings are challenging me to speak Hindi. All advice gratefully etc. In the meantime, thanks for some excellent updates and if you could wiggle your nose and improve our fielding that would be grand! Abraços from Brazil”
I can’t help with England’s ropey fielding but I can certainly enquire as to how to tune in from foreign climes. Any OBO followers out there got an overseas link for Cressida? Thanks for tuning in, always lovely to hear from readers in far flung places.
34th over: New Zealand 146-2 (A Kerr 55, Green 56) Is this the charge? Green brings up her fifty with a paddle fine for two runs and then scuds a length ball back down the ground for four runs. Ten runs in total off the over and the partnership is over a hundred between Green and Kerr. Time for a drink and then we might see some humpty from the White Ferns.
33rd over: New Zealand 136-2 (A Kerr 52, Green 49) England are just starting to build the pressure with some wily bowling, Filer completes her eighth over, she’s gone for just 33 runs so far with just three singles off her latest.
32nd over: New Zealand 133-2 (A Kerr 50, Green 48) Mightily impressive from Corteen-Coleman, just a single from her over which sees Amelia Kerr bring up her half century.
31st over: New Zealand 132-2 (A Kerr 49, Green 48) Filer returns, Green and Kerr rotate strike, four off the over. They might have to put the foot down soon, England happy with this run rate, the game isn’t getting away from them.
30th over: New Zealand 128-2 (A Kerr 46, Green 47) TCC misses her lenght and sends down a full bunger that is duly dispatched down the ground for four by Maddy Green. Three more singles make it seven off the over. The partnership for New Zealand is up to 86 but the run rate is hardly towering at 4.2 per over. New Zealand have plenty of wickets in hand for a charge in this back half of the innings.
29th over: New Zealand 121-2 (A Kerr 45, Green 41) Not again! Dani Gibson gifts four with a poor misfield at mid on. “It’s catching like a virus” says Nasser Hussain on the tv commentary.
28th over: New Zealand 114-2 (A Kerr 44, Green 35) Corteen-Coleman replaces Dean, she’s assured enough on debut to be tinkering with her field. Lovely flight and guile nearly sees Green stumped, the ball beating the edge but the batter just about manages keep her foot in the crease.
27th over: New Zealand 111-2 (A Kerr 43, Green 33) Grewcock nearly sneaks one through the defences of Maddy Green who manages to chop down on it at the last minute. A mixture of flat and flighted balls from Grewcock, just four off the over with a wide down the leg side.
26th over: New Zealand 107-2 (A Kerr 42, Green 31) Excellent from Charlie Dean once more, she whistles through her over for the cost of just three runs.
25th over: New Zealand 104-2 (A Kerr 41, Green 29) Flighted stuff from Grewcock but she doesn’t get too many revs on the ball, relying more on changes of pace and drift in the air. She’s carded to open the innings with the bat but bats in the middle usually. Six off her first over and New Zealand bring up their 100 to polite applause at Durham.
24th over: New Zealand 98-2 (A Kerr 37, Green 27) Charlie Dean miserly once more, she’s gone for just 12 runs off her four overs. England’s other debutant is being summoned for a bowl – Essex’s 21 year old all-rounder Jodi Grewcock is going to show us her leg-spin.
23rd over: New Zealand 96-2 (A Kerr 36, Green 26) Another misfield from England from Bell at midwicket. They’ve been poor in the field today after all the talk of this being an area that they’ve really looked to improve on. Charlotte Edwards looks on notepad in hand inscrutably but she’ll be ticking inside at the poor showing thus far. Fifty partnership between Kerr and Green.
22nd over: New Zealand 90-2 (A Kerr 33, Green 24) Charlie Dean on the button once more as Kerr and Green accumulate and build this partnership.
21st over: New Zealand 87-2 (A Kerr 32, Green 22) Lauren Filer returns and her pace is good, clocked at 73 mph and just a single off the over.
20th over: New Zealand 86-2 (A Kerr 32, Green 21) Excellent over from Charlie Dean who finds a hint of turn and ties Green down with extremely accurate bowling. Five dots in a row before Green manages to bunt the final down the ground and steal the strike for the next.
19th over: New Zealand 85-2 (A Kerr 32, Green 20) Dani Gibson has been a bit too straight in her spell so far, another one clips the pads of Maddy Green and whistles away for four leg byes.
18th over: New Zealand 79-2 (A Kerr 31, Green 19) Captain Charlie Dean brings herself on for a twirl, she was supposed to be resting/managing her workload for this series as she’s had a few back issues but the injury to Nat Sciver-Brunt saw her drafted in as skipper. Gah! It’s another misfield from England and it is Maia Bouchier who is the culprit once again after she dropped an easy chance earlier, a drive down the ground from Maddy Green should have been cut off but runs away for four.
17th over: New Zealand 73-2 (A Kerr 30, Green 14) Something of a scruffy over from Gibson who chucks a few down the leg side and then drops short and is pulled away for four. Time for a drink.
16th over: New Zealand 64-2 (A Kerr 28, Green 8) Another nice over from TCC, just three singles off it. Sun shining down at Durham, these two sides in a tussle.
15th over: New Zealand 61-2 (A Kerr 26, Green 7) Gibson looks fit and has put on a yard of pace by all accounts. She slides one down the leg side and Amy Jones pulls off some lightning work with the gloves to prevent four byes.
14th over: New Zealand 57-2 (A Kerr 24, Green 6) Kerr dances down and gets her rewards, timing a lofted drive off TCC for four. Fifty up for New Zealand.
13th over: New Zealand 48-2 (A Kerr 18, Green 4) Another debutant makes her bowling bow. Dani Gibson’s medium pace is on a nagging line and she rattles through her first for the cost of just three runs.
12th over: New Zealand 45-2 (A Kerr 17, Green 2) Maddy Green joins Kerr in the middle and sees out the rest of TCC’s second and wicket-taking over with a couple of singles.
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WICKET! Georgia Plimmer c Bell b Corteen-Coleman 20 (New Zealand 42-2)
What a moment for Tilly Corteen-Coleman! She tempts Plimmer into a dance down and the Kiwi batter can only plink an easy catch to Bell at mid off! A first international wicket for the youngster and she’s deserved it after a very tidy start.
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11th over: New Zealand 42-1 (Plimmer 20, A Kerr 16) Bell sends down her sixth over on the spin, just three runs off it.
10th over: New Zealand 39-1 (Plimmer 18, A Kerr 15) A very tidy over from Corteen-Coleman to begin with. She sets her own field and lands it on a postage stamp, just two singles off it and much encouragement from her teammates.
9th over: New Zealand 37-1 (Plimmer 17, A Kerr 14) Bell goes back of a length and gives Kerr to much width which she gleefully accepts with a cut for four.
Right then, the debutant Tilly Corteen-Coleman is coming on to bowl. Deep breaths!
8th over: New Zealand 32-1 (Plimmer 17, A Kerr 9) Drop! Maia Bouchier spills a simple chance at gully to give Plimmer a life! Bouchier hangs her head, it was right at her, went in and straight out. Plimmer had just hit two fours too – a pull followed by a rasping cut shot. Filer trudges back to her mark and allowed herself a chunter.
7th over: New Zealand 23-1 (Plimmer 9, A Kerr 8) Lauren Bell is on the money again, just a single to Kerr off the over. England could maybe put a slip in and ramp up the pressure here, they’ll want early wickets after winning the toss and getting first use of the ball in helpful conditions.
6th over: New Zealand 22-1 (Plimmer 9, A Kerr 7) Melie Kerr shows her shotmaking class with a punishing cut for four off Lauren Filer. That flew away to the fence like a pebble skimmed across a glacier. Kerr really is a joy to watch.
5th over: New Zealand 16-1 (Plimmer 8, A Kerr 2) Plimmer pounces on a full delivery from Bell and scythes through cover point for four runs. Bell going full in search of that early swing. The outfield is lush but pretty quick and there’s a decent crowd in, about 4000 tickets sold in advance and a fair few more walk ups.
4th over: New Zealand 11-1 (Plimmer 3, A Kerr 2) Plimmer clips a single into the leg side and Kerr opens her account with a flick off an in-swinger into the leg side. All eyes on England’s fielding, that is an area that Charlotte Edwards has really been drilling them on to improve, dropped catches and sluggish efforts were becoming all too common sight in the years preceding.
3rd over: New Zealand 8-1 (Plimmer 2, A Kerr 0) Georgia Plimmer works a single down to deep third to bring Kerr on strike to Lauren Bell. It’s a top over from the lissom limbed seamer, she keeps Kerr honest for three dots.
2nd over: New Zealand 7-1 (Plimmer 0, A Kerr 0) New Zealand’s captain comes to the middle, Amelia Kerr is in white hot form and is very much a key wicket. Filer wasn’t down to play today but a late niggle for Issy Wong saw her get the call up.
WICKET! Suzie Bates c Jones b Filer 6 (New Zealand 7-1)
Lauren Filer strikes in her first over! Bates beaten for pace and bounce and nibbles at a lifter outside off stump, the thin edge flying to Amy Jones behind the sticks.
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1st over: New Zealand 6-0 (Bates 6, Plimmer 0) Lauren Bell has the ball in hand and she bowls England’s first ball in anger for 194 days. It is outside off stump and Suzie Bates picks up two runs with a guide through point. Could be a huge summer for Lauren Bell as she leads this England seam attack, she had a fantastic stint in the WPL with RCB and has really worked on her accuracy.
Ah, as I type that she serves up a full bunger on leg stump that Suzie Bates clips off her pads nonchalantly for four. Six off the first over, England buzz about in their new powder blue kit.
The players take to the field for the anthems, we’ll be underway very shortly.
Tanya is on the tools for the county championship live blog, you can dip a toe right here:
England are blooding new players then, Sky show a nicely done package with Ian Ward and Head Coach Charlotte Edwards as she talks about how she has been drilling this team and making sure they are primed to give everything in something of a defining summer. Edwards describes teenage off spinner Tilly Corteen-Coleman as “a dream” to work with.
Raf was critical of the status quo in this piece a few weeks back. It would have been nice to see another teenage sensation, this time with the bat in hand - Davina Perrin get an opportunity.
Teams:
England hand ODI dayboos to Jodi Grewcock, Tilly Corteen-Coleman and Dani Gibson.
England: Emma Lamb, Jodi Grewcock, Heather Knight, Maia Bouchier, Freya Kemp, Amy Jones (wk), Dani Gibson, Charlie Dean, Lauren Filer, Lauren Bell, Tilly Corteen-Coleman
New Zealand: Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr (capt), Maddy Green, Brooke Halliday, Izzy Gaze (wk), Izzy Sharp, Jess Kerr, Nensi Patel, Rose Mair, Bree Illing
England win the toss and choose to bowl first
The sun is shining in Durham but it still looks like top coat temperature. Charlie Dean has no hesitation in sticking the opposition in. She says there are three debutants in the side today and mentions “turning the page” with this ODI side. Kerr admits that she would have bowled first too, there should be some life in the wicket early on.
Confirmed sides in two tics.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to the start of the English international summer. England’s women take on New Zealand in a three match ODI series before a trio of T20s against Amelia Kerr’s impressive White Ferns sets them up for a home T20 World Cup on home soil.
Charlie Dean steps up to take the Captain’s arm band with Nat Sciver-Brunt hoping to recover from a calf tear in time to lead the side in the World Cup starting on June 12th.
“I think it’s 194 days maybe since our last international game.” Dean told the press in her media duties ahead of this series. “We’ve had a really productive winter. We’ve not had international series, which hasn’t been fantastic, but we’ve really made the most of the prep that we have had.”
It is a huge summer for English and women’s cricket, as Raf Nicholson excellently put it in these pages:
“Historic occasions are like buses: you spend ages twiddling your thumbs and then two come along at once. England have waited nine years for another home World Cup, wallowing all the while in memories of their win in 2017, and almost a century for a maiden women’s Test at Lord’s. Now both are being thrust upon them over the space of a single month, from 12 June to 13 July, in a true summer bonanza for women’s cricket.
First, though, a T20 World Cup dress rehearsal: three one-day internationals against New Zealand, followed by three Twenty20s against the same opposition, and another three against India. The 50-over series, which begins on Sunday in Durham, feels a little as if it has been plonked thoughtlessly into the calendar. The wicketkeeper Kira Chathli and all-rounder Jodi Grewcock could make their England debuts – after all, the head coach, Charlotte Edwards, promised us she would “look to the future” after England’s drubbing in last year’s 50-over World Cup semi-final. But right now, no one in the England management has much bandwidth to plan for anything other than the possibility of reaching a home final at Lord’s on 5 July.”
Play begins in Durham at 11am and we’ll have news from the toss and the teams very shortly. Join us for all the OBO action and please do get in touch throughout the day.
