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Otago keep up their unbeaten start to the summer, with defending champions Canterbury still searching for their first win of the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield.
Katey Martin unbeaten in both matches to get the Sparks off to a flying start in the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield.
Canterbury's Jacinta Savage was out for a golden duck in the first ball of the match. The Magicians are already among the competition's three confirmed finalists, as well as the Wellington Blaze and the Auckland Hearts, and are on course to host a finals match. Otago are out of contention and will be wondering how they managed to throw this away. Otago restricted Canterbury to 132-7 with White Ferns batter Amy Sattherthwaite’s 36 the highest score in a stop-start innings. The Sparks then didn’t cash in on wayward early bowling. The Magicians bowled 11 wides after seven overs, including...
NZ CRICKET Anlo van Deventer made an unbeaten 63 to lead the Central Hinds to their first Super Smash win. Anlo van Deventer played a starring role while the sun shone at Pukekura Park on Monday before Monique Rees held her nerve to lead the Central Hinds to their first win in the Twenty20 Super Smash. Van Deventer finished not out on 63 off 40 balls – her highest T20 score – after sharing in an unbeaten partnership of 88 with White Fern Hannah Rowe (25no off 27) for the fourth wicket to power them to 126-3 from their 17 overs after they were sent in by the Otago Sparks.
Cricket Wellington At just 14 years old, Kate Chandler snared a five-wicket haul for the Wellington Blaze against the Canterbury Magicians in Christchurch on Saturday. The Canterbury Magicians have been handed their first defeat of this season’s domestic one-day competition thanks to the stunning exploits of Wellington Blaze 14-year-old Kate Chandler. In their round five Hallyburton Johnstone Shield match at Christchurch's Hagley Oval on Saturday, the top of the table Cantabs were hammered by eight wickets after being skittled for 155. That was chiefly thanks to leg-spinner Chandler snari...