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By Michael Doyle
Topic:Cricket
Following the abandonment of the first match due to rain, Australia and New Zealand face a crucial Game II of the Rose Bowl.
Listen to all the action on ABC Radio, check out all the stats in our live scorecard, or follow along in our live blog.
By Michael Doyle
Looks like a break from cricket has not done much harm to the captain
– Peta
G'day Peta.
Alyssa Healy looks in nice touch, considering she has missed about a month of cricket.
The Aussie captain has put away bad balls, and fended good balls confidently.
These are good signs for this match, this series, and next month's Ashes.
By Michael Doyle
So Molly Penfold is going to bowl from the opposite end to where she started.
She will now be bowling downwind.
FOUR. Doesn't matter which end you bowl from, if you bowl way outside off stump, Alyssa Healy will swing the willow at it. Healy got it over the offside field and to the cover-point boundary.
Penfold follows up with a shorter ball which Healy punches away — in the air — to the mid-wicket fielder.
Another dot ball follows.
FOUR. Another very wide ball outside off stump and Healy lashes at the ball. She catches the toe-end of the bat, but it flies over gully and down to the boundary.
A pull shot to fine leg gets a single. Phoebe Litchfield will face the final ball of the over.
The final ball is a dot, as Litchfield defends.
By Michael Doyle
New Zealand's captain has decided to bring herself on.
Sophie Devine is a genuine swing bowler and will be hoping to make the most of the conditions.
Devine bowls to Phoebe Litchfield and starts with a trio of dot balls.
Litchfield guides a ball to third for a single, then Alyssa Healy works a ball off her pads for another run.
A dot ball ends the over.
By Michael Doyle
Rosemary Mair continues, bowling to Alyssa Healy.
The first ball is a dot.
FOUR. Another ball on the pads is whipped over the leg side to the boundary.
Healy misses a wide ball outside off stump.
BEATEN. That was a better line, outside off stump from Mair. She encouraged Healy to drive and beat the outside edge.
FOUR. Healy was not missing another chance at a cover drive. The Aussie captain was on the front foot early and hit a textbook cover drive to the boundary.
A dot ball ends the over.
By Michael Doyle
THERES ACTUAL CRICKET BEING PLAYED!!!
– Chris
G'day Chris.
I know! Actually cricket being played.
Let's hope the rain around Wellington stays away.
Thanks for joining me on the ABC Sport live blog.
By Michael Doyle
Molly Penfold is bowling to Phoebe Litchfield.
The first ball is a dot.
Litchfield then charges and gets a thick edge over gully for a single — bringing Healy on strike.
Two dot balls are followed by an inside-edge which allows Australia to take a single.
A dot ball ends a really nice over from Molly Penfold.
By Michael Doyle
Rosemary Mair is bowling to Alyssa Healy.
The first three deliveries are dot balls, with Mair bowling nice line and length to the Australian captain.
Healy gets hit in the body after missing a ball off her side. The ball is certainly swinging at the Basin Reserve.
FOUR. Great shot from Healy. It was a poor ball from Mair, on her pads, and Healy dispatched it to the mid-wicket boundary.
FOUR. Another loose ball on the pads, and Healy whips it to fine leg for four more runs. That is a disappointing end to what had been a nice over from Mair.
By Michael Doyle
Right-arm pace bowler Molly Penfold will bowl the second over.
The first ball is down the leg side, but clips the leg of Phoebe Litchfield so it is not a wide.
WIDE. Well, another ball down the leg side does result in the umpire raising her arms to signal wide ball.
Australia takes a single after Litchfield works a ball off her pads into the leg side.
Now bowling to the right-handed Healy, Penfold gets her line right and gets a dot ball.
WIDE. Penfold bowls too far outside the off stump and concedes her second wide of the over.
Two dots after followed by a single — off a misfield by Suzie Bates at extra cover — ends the over.
By Michael Doyle
Rosemary Mair is playing her first ODI for New Zealand since 2022.
She comes in for the opening ball of the match.
WIDE. That is a loose ball well down the leg side.
FOUR. Another loose ball from Mair which is on Alyssa Healy's hip. Healy rocks onto the back foot and helps the ball down to fine leg and for a boundary.
Mair gets her line right and forces Healy to fend the next two deliveries.
Healy gets a single after New Zealand's gully fielder slipped on a wet patch of grass.
Pheobe Litchfield is now facing.
BEATEN. What a cracking delivery from Mair, who beats Litchfield all-ends-up. There is a slight appeal from Izzy Gates, the wicketkeeper, but I think the ball flicked Litchfield's pad on the way through.
Litchfield gets a single down to third to end the over.
By Michael Doyle
Captain Alyssa Healy and Pheobe Litchfield are walking out to the middle after being sent in by the White Ferns.
It is a green pitch that greets them in Wellington, after spending several days under the covers.
The White Ferns will need to make the most of the opening overs, with the ball expected to do a bit.
A win for Australia and they will retain the Rose Bowl, which they have held since 2000.
By Michael Doyle
By Michael Doyle
Australia fast bowler Kim Garth is reprimanded for using inappropriate language after being hit for a boundary during the third ODI against India.
A fast bowler angry after being hit to the boundary? Well, now I have heard everything.
By Michael Doyle
We will get cricket today — unlike the first game which was a complete washout.
There is rain in Wellington forecast for this afternoon, anywhere between 2pm to 5pm local time.
That would be when New Zealand is batting in the second innings.
Let's hope the weather stays away and we get a full match.
By Michael Doyle
By Michael Doyle
By Michael Doyle
Australia's captain Alyssa Healy is fit and back in the team.
She missed the India ODI series with a knee injury.
She told broadcaster TVNZ she is thrilled to be back out on the ground.
"It's like first day of school, back out here playing cricket again," she says.
"I'm really excited and I know the girls are too. It's been a long couple of days of waiting for a game."
By Michael Doyle
Australia will bat first at the Basin Reserve.
New Zealand won the toss and captain Sophie Devine has elected to field first.
By Michael Doyle
The opening match of the three-match ODI series between Australia and New Zealand has been abandoned without a ball being bowled.
By Michael Doyle
Good morning Australia.
After a complete washout of the first match, we return to the Basin Reserve in Wellington with hopes of some cricket.
The Rose Bowl between Australia and New Zealand is now a two-match showdown, following Game I's abandonment.
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