Cricket
Jess Kerr and Hannah Rowe took three wickets each, as England were bowled out for 194 runs.
Hamilton (Web Desk) – Twelve runs needed to win, 12 runs needed to reach a century, all the time in the world, but why wait? In the space of three balls, Sophie Devine twice pulled Charlie Dean over the fence at deep midwicket to score a breath-taking century and secure an emphatic consolation win for New Zealand in Hamilton in their final match of the ODI series, which was England won 2–1. 1.
Devine came to the crease with his team scoring 14 runs for 2 wickets and scored a century in 93 balls and achieved the target of 195 runs with 11 overs remaining. She was well supported by Maddy Green, with whom she shared an unbroken partnership of 105, and Amelia Kerr, who scored 29 out of 31 in a 76-run partnership with her captain.
There was no sign of the quad strain that has kept Devine out of action since the fourth T20I thanks to his impeccable footwork as he led the England attack – particularly offspinner Dean and pacer Laurence Filer – in a typically powerful innings. which underlined his importance to White. The Ferns were in danger of missing a golden opportunity to defeat England.
The visitors were bowled out inside 50 overs for the second consecutive match, with fast bowlers Jess Kerr and Hannah Rowe taking three wickets each to restrict them to 194 with 3.3 overs remaining. Once again England had to rely on Player of the Series Amy Jones, whose unbeaten scores of 92, 48 and 50 provided strength to her side after a middle-order collapse. On this occasion, she reached a run-a-ball fifty and shared a 73-run partnership with Dean for the seventh wicket, after the pair had made a record 130-run partnership in the previous match. But this time it was not enough to counter what was to come from Divine.
Kate Cross hit a four in the third over of the run-chase as Georgia Plimmer – opening for Bernadine Bezuidenhout, who injured her hamstring while fielding in the second ODI – chased one outside off stump and edged it past wicketkeeper Jones. Went near. Suzie Bates then sent Maia Boucher straight to the leading edge at midwicket in an attempt to turn a Nat Sciver-Brunt squarer down the leg side.
At the end of the powerplay, the hosts were 31 for 2 as Devine and Amelia Kerr got into the early stages of their partnership. Devine was on 13 when she sent a sharp, hard chance through the hands of Heather Knight at slip off the bowling of Filler. Devine clubbed Dean for two sixes in three balls over deep midwicket and completed his half-century with four fours in five balls in Dean’s next over.
In the middle, Sophie Ecclestone was struggling with a calf problem at the start of her seventh over, but she broke the stand by LBW to Amelia Kerr before leaving the field for treatment. Ecclestone returned to action and saw Jones miss a stumping opportunity off Green when New Zealand needed 43 runs from 88 balls.
Filler, who replaced fellow seamer Lauren Bell in the eleven to play the fourth ODI of his debut international career, conceded 17 runs in his sixth over, 12 of which were fours hit in the ground by Devine. With 12 runs required, Devine moved within striking distance of a century by clearing the deep midwicket fence a short distance from Dean and he repeated the effort two balls later.
Earlier, Rowe struck in her second over, the fourth of the match, when she hit a ball on the back thigh of Tammy Beaumont which was on track to ping the top of leg stump and Jess Kerr edged Maia Boucher to Georgia Plimmer. Caught by extra on. Cover with a leg-cutter for 19.
After 10 overs, England’s score was 50 for 2, but Sciver-Brunt and Knight added 58 runs for the third wicket, losing 4 wickets for 13 runs in 34 balls. Amelia Kerr got a difficult chance, but she could not hold on to a ball bowled straight to her by Sciver-Brunt on 15 at the time. However, he eventually had Sciver-Brunt caught by Fran Jonas for 27.
Sophia Dunkley, who lost her place in the line-up after five T20Is where she reached double figures only once with a score of 32 in four innings, was injured after Alice Capsey sprained her ankle during training on Saturday. Later returned to the team. But Dunkley faced five balls, scoring only 1 run, before playing a ball from Jess Kerr down the wrong line, which took a backward turn and hit the top of middle stump.
Kerr took the second wicket by hitting a full toss to Danny Wyatt on the front pad and England’s score reached 88 runs for 5 wickets.
Jones had another big job to do to save his team and after calling Knight for a run and seeing his captain run out for 31, he would again need Dean’s help as Kerr edged the ball to square. The score increased to 95 by sending it down the leg to wicketkeeper Izzy Gage. For 6.
New Zealand looked to be in danger of handing a defeat to England similar to the first two matches of this series, when Gaze missed a stumping opportunity as Jones, on 18, advanced beyond her crease and attempted to bounce the ball. She moved here and there in an attempt. Jonas’s delivery on the leg side. At that time, England’s score was 111 for 6 and when Dean overturned an LBW decision off Bates, with the ball appearing to disappear over the leg stump, he and Jones continued to apply pressure with Union He was independent, which his team desperately needed.
Jones brought up her half-century with a powerful single off Kerr, but she fell shortly afterwards to Bates at backward point straight to Eden Carson, ending her stand with Dean, who returned shortly afterwards. Moved when he dismissed Brooke Holiday on the cover of Rowe. Rowe claimed his third with a short ball which Cross headed down the back leg side.
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