The 1st One-Day International (ODI) between New Zealand and England happened to be a good competition between the two, a thrilling see-saw contest.
It started with England winning the toss and electing to bowl first. New Zealand openers Suzie Bates and Bernadine Bezuidenhout gave a good opening-wicket partnership of 90 runs with Suzie Bates scoring her 47th ODI fifty, placing her joint 3rd in terms of the number of ODI fifties. But after the fall of 1st wicket, New Zealand lost wickets in cluster. Charlie Dan was the pick of the bowlers with a spell of 9-0-57-3 and also completed her 50 ODI wickets. The fall of wickets in regular intervals had New Zealand all-out for 207 (48.2 overs), failing to capitalize on the strong start.
* Fastest woman to take 50 ODI wickets(by innings), breaking a record that had stood since 1987:
26 Charlie Dean (England)
27 Lyn Fullston (Australia)
28 Laura Marsh (England); Rajeshwari Gayakwad (India)
29 Charmaine Mason (Australia); Dane van Niekerk (South Africa)
Charlie Dean is now in record books 🤩
Innings bowled to 50 Wickets:
26: Charlie Dean
27: Lyn Fullston
28: Laura Marsh / Rajeshwari Gayakwad
29: Charmaine Mason / Dane van Niekerk#CricketTwitter #NZvENG via @_hypocaust pic.twitter.com/tcl0PNXc3m— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) April 1, 2024
The 2nd inning didn’t start well for England, as even they lost wickets in regular intervals, courtesy of amazing spells from Jess Kerr(10-1-48-2) and Lea Tahuhu(10-1-56-1). Post powerplay, it was Amelia Kerr(10-0-46-2) who further troubled the England batters rolling them down to 79-6 in 17 overs. What followed was a batting masterclass from Amy Jones along with Charlie Dean where they scored an amazing 92*(83) and 42*(70) respectively. They stitched a record-highest 7th wicket partnership of 130 runs to get England past the winning line by 4 wickets.
Highest 7th wicket partnership in Women’s ODIs:
Amy Jones, Charlie Dean 130* runs VS NZ 2024
Sneh Rana, Pooja Vastrakar 122 runs VS Pakistan 2022
Aliyah Riaz, Fatima Sana 114 runs VS SA 2023
Sarah Tsukigawa, Nicola Browne 104* runs VS Eng 2007
Nat Sciver-Brunt, Danielle Hazell 104 runs VS SL 2016
* Most runs scored to win a women’s ODI run chase after the fall of the 6th wicket:
129 ENG v NZ, today (79/6 – target 208)
111 WI v ENG, 2009 (66/6 – target 177)
109 NZ v IND, 2022 (171/6 – target 280)
Highest score by a Batter at 6 or lower in Women’s ODIs:
Shemaine Campbelle(WI-W) 105
Amy Jones(Eng-W) 92*
Chloe Tryon(SA-W) 92
Fatima Sana(Pak-W) 90*
Alex Blackwell(Aus-W) 90
Highest score batting at #5 or lower in a women’s ODI run chase:
92* Amy Jones (ENG) at #7 v NZ, today
90* Ellyse Perry (AUS) at #5 v ENG, 2014
90 Alex Blackwell (AUS) at #6 v IND, 2017
89 Sophie Devine (NZ) at #5 v WI, 2014
(* indicates stats sourced from Hypocaust)
