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Two great pieces of fielding undone by big extras count for visitors in Dunedin.

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.

And thanks to an outstanding captain’s knock from Martin leading them to their highest score of the campaign – 153-6 – they duly went on with the job, to win by 42 runs, which instead consigned the Central Hinds to the spoon, with the Sparks finishing level on points with the Spirit, behind on net run rate. After being sent in, the Sparks made a slow start of it, at 27-1 after five overs, before Martin, at No 3, got things going in the final over of the powerplay. The right-hander, one day shy of her 36th birthday, welcomed off-spinner Eimear Richardson to the crease with disdain, se...

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...