NZ grab one back

The 4th women's international T20 between the Southern Stars (Australia) and the White Ferns (NZ) took place on Wednesday at the ANZ Stadium on the outskirts of Sydney.

I was unable to make it to this match and the weather was none too good either.

So I resorted to recording the Channel Nine broadcast and then watching it back later.
Just as well as I see that Channel Nine have maintained last year's high standard of awfulness. Just imagine what it must be like to watch live tv and whilst a close runout decision is being reviewed by the tv umpire you suddenly switch into an advert. After the ad you are into the new batsman receiving their first ball. Channel Nine seem to excel in cutting people off mid sentence to show an advert that has already been broadcast thirty times before during this one match. Luckily my Tivo lets me fast forward a lot of this stuff. Channel Nine production staff do seem very amateur.

Anyway, the outcome was that NZ bowled very well and the Australian team that had won the toss and chosen to bat in the rain shortened match did not manage much of a total (92). The White Ferns then came in for their 18 overs and exceeded the required number of runs with five balls remaining. NZ had won this one making it 3-1 to Australia in the five match series.

One of the Nine commentators kept saying how sad it was that the Southern Stars had been beaten in the first match on tv. He seemed totally unaware that the previous three matches had also been on terrestial tv.

The last match is from Melbourne on Friday and my Tivo is setup to deal with the worst that Channel Nine can come up with.

Peewit

North Sydney Oval, T20 game 3

Game 3 of the womens International T20 between Oz and NZ
Today the weather was mainly sunny but not too hot.
Having lost the first two games, the White Ferns really needed to win this one or the series will also be lost.

The start time approaches

 

Stands

 

Weed

 

Shapes

 

Cameraman

 

The Southern Stars won the toss and chose to bat first

 

Frances Mackay rides the boundary

 

Commentary box. In general the commentary was very good. It is a shame that John Hastings could never get the players names right. They were still wrong in the summaries and you would have thought that the tv production staff would have checked them. Obviously not.

 

Southern Stars clock up the runs

 

Jodie Fields gets a chance to bat

 

Ball heading for Jonassen's elbow or wicket

 

The scoreboard shows 134 runs from the 20 overs. Not a bad total but looks reachable

 

White Ferns out to bat and chase that 135 required

 

Wickets were falling quickly so pressure was increasing for the middle order

 

Amy Satterthwaite top scored with 45

 

The run chase became desperate as the required run rate rose

 

The White Ferns could not get the runs and the Southern Stars wrapped up the series

 

7 runs short and another loss for NZ. Suzie Bates must be disappointed with her batting having only scored 1 run in each of the last two games

 

POM

 

I had enjoyed the match, however the early fall of NZ wickets had made for a hard run chase and in the end the overs ran out. Losing the series must hurt for NZ and the Southern Stars must know that feeling after last summers defeat by the English girls.
Those memories must now be long gone and the Southern Stars can rejoice after a really good performance with both bat and ball.

A couple of day's break now before the first of the ODI's from the SCG. I'll be there.

Peewit