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Craig HillAusralian Women Southern Star Cricketers Retain Rose Bowl
February 12th 2009 07:09
The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars have retained the Rose Bowl after today’s fifth and deciding match against New Zealand was abandoned due to rain in Wellington.
With the series tied at 2-2, the match at Basin Reserve was abandoned without a ball being bowled. However the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars retained the trophy as reigning holders following last year’s 3-2 series win.
After losing the first two matches of the series, the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars rebounded strongly in games three and four with strong batting performances setting up a pair of comfortable wins.
After a slow start, Shelley Nitschke, who was last week named Australia’s 2008 Women’s International Cricketer of the Year at the Allan Border Medal, led the series run scorers (144), while fellow all-rounder Lisa Sthalekar was the leading wicket taker (7).
A number of records were set during the series:
• Game four featured the most runs scored in a women’s one-day international (570), eclipsing the 563 scored when England and New Zealand met in 2007;
• In game three, Alex Blackwell and Shelley Nitschke recorded the highest first-wicket stand (148) for the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars against New Zealand – a partnership that included 18 boundaries from 158 balls; and
• The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars’ game four total (4-307) was their third-highest in history and the first time they had passed the magic 300-mark against a top four-ranked team.
The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars have now held the Rose Bowl for nine consecutive series. New Zealand last won the Rose Bowl in 1999.
Attention now turns to Sunday’s Twenty20 Internationals at the SCG, when cricket fans will be served a double dose of trans-Tasman rivalry with a men’s and women’s double-header between Australia and New Zealand.
In a repeat of the concept successfully pioneered by Cricket Australia in early 2008 in Melbourne, the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars will play New Zealand before the men’s KFC Twenty20 International between the same nations.
The world’s first men’s and women’s Twenty20 International double-header was contested at the MCG in February 2008 when the Australian and English women’s teams played before Australia and India’s clash in a KFC Twenty20 International.
It will be the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars’ last official match before they defend their ICC Women’s World Cup crown in Sydney.
With the series tied at 2-2, the match at Basin Reserve was abandoned without a ball being bowled. However the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars retained the trophy as reigning holders following last year’s 3-2 series win.
After losing the first two matches of the series, the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars rebounded strongly in games three and four with strong batting performances setting up a pair of comfortable wins.
After a slow start, Shelley Nitschke, who was last week named Australia’s 2008 Women’s International Cricketer of the Year at the Allan Border Medal, led the series run scorers (144), while fellow all-rounder Lisa Sthalekar was the leading wicket taker (7).
A number of records were set during the series:
• Game four featured the most runs scored in a women’s one-day international (570), eclipsing the 563 scored when England and New Zealand met in 2007;
• In game three, Alex Blackwell and Shelley Nitschke recorded the highest first-wicket stand (148) for the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars against New Zealand – a partnership that included 18 boundaries from 158 balls; and
• The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars’ game four total (4-307) was their third-highest in history and the first time they had passed the magic 300-mark against a top four-ranked team.
The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars have now held the Rose Bowl for nine consecutive series. New Zealand last won the Rose Bowl in 1999.
Attention now turns to Sunday’s Twenty20 Internationals at the SCG, when cricket fans will be served a double dose of trans-Tasman rivalry with a men’s and women’s double-header between Australia and New Zealand.
In a repeat of the concept successfully pioneered by Cricket Australia in early 2008 in Melbourne, the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars will play New Zealand before the men’s KFC Twenty20 International between the same nations.
The world’s first men’s and women’s Twenty20 International double-header was contested at the MCG in February 2008 when the Australian and English women’s teams played before Australia and India’s clash in a KFC Twenty20 International.
It will be the Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars’ last official match before they defend their ICC Women’s World Cup crown in Sydney.
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