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By Michael Doyle
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Australia retained the Rose Bowl with victory on Saturday. Now they look for a 2-0 series win against New Zealand in the final match of the series.
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Mair bowls to Healy.
The first two deliveries are fended away for no run.
Great running from Australia. Healy fends and the two Australians scurry for a quick single. Litchfield is on strike.
Mair bowls a nice line and Litchfield defends on the front foot.
Three dot balls end the over.
By Michael Doyle
Molly Penfold bowls and it hits the pad of Phoebe Litchfield. Australia has run a leg bye. Alyssa Healy is on strike.
Molly Penfold has bowled consecutive wides. First outside off, then down the leg side. That is four wides from Penfold, now early in her second over.
FOUR. Penfold attempted a short ball like she did in the previous over, and Healy pulled it away to the boundary.
Healy defends.
DROPPED. Healy has now been dropped. Heally pulled and it flew off her gloves fine. A diving Izzy Gates at wicketkeeper could not hold onto the diving chance. A run is taken.
Both openers have been dropped.
Two dot balls end the over.
By Michael Doyle
Rosemary Mair will bowl to Phoebe Litchfield for the first time today.
Litchfield defends a full ball on the stumps.
New Zealand believe they have dropped a catch. The ball was down leg side and Litchfield and hit the Australian's thigh pad. The ball was dropped by wicketkeeper Izzy Gates and the White Ferns look upset. They will need someone to send a message out that Litchfield did not hit it.
Litchfield then leaves the next ball.
DROPPED. That was an edge, and Bella James cannot grab the one-handed catch. She was diving to her left and the ball just did not stick in the hand. James dropped three catches in the last match — this will not improve her confidence. Australia ran a single.
A wide ball is followed by Mair.
FOUR. Alyssa Healy has crunched a half-volley, outside off stump, to the cover boundary to end the over.
By Michael Doyle
Molly Penfold is coming off career-best figures. She took 4-42 on Saturday.
She will bowl to Phoebe Litchfield who defends the first ball.
WIDE. That was loose from Penfold and is well down the leg side.
Litchfield gets off the mark with a single, working a ball off her pads to backward square leg.
WIDE. Fair dinkum that ball almost missed the pitch. Penfold wanted to bowl outside off stump and swing the ball away from Healy, but she got it all wrong.
FOUR. A short ball from Penfold and Healy rocks onto the back foot and pulls wonderfully to the boundary.
Healy cuts straight to the point fielder for no run.
A fuller ball is driven, but miscued by Healy for no run.
Healy defends on the front foot to end the over.
By Michael Doyle
New Zealand's fast bowler Rosemary Mair has a fresh, white cricket ball in her hand.
Australia's openers are captain Alyssa Healy and Phoebe Litchfield.
Mair comes in to bowl and Healy plays a cover drive which is well fielded. It needed a diving stop or it was going to the boundary.
BEATEN. Great follow up from Mair who pitched the ball a little shorter and beat the outside edge of Healy's bat.
A fuller ball is worked into the leg side from Healy for no run.
EDGE. Healy is squared-up and gets and edge which sails between point and backward point. Lucky. Healy gets two runs.
Healy then drives to mid-off for no run.
Mair comes in for the final ball of the over and it is left outside the off stump by Healy.
By Michael Doyle
Australia may have retained the Rose Bowl, but there is plenty at stake for both teams today.
For Australia, they are looking for a solid performance with the Ashes less than three weeks away.
Victory for Australia also means they win the Rose Bowl series.
For New Zealand, a victory today will do three things:
The final point is very important for the White Ferns. They will want to avoid the repechage to get into the world cup. There is a really great feeling around this team after their shock T20 World Cup triumph earlier this year.
They could really build confidence with a win today.
By Michael Doyle
Is this game being telecast to Australia on free to air television
– Marg
Hello Marg.
Pay television provider Foxtel, along with its steaming service Kayo, is the TV broadcaster of this match.
There is no free-to-air broadcast of this match.
ABC Sport will be blogging every ball of today's match.
I hope you join me throughout the day.
By Michael Doyle
Missed Saturday's match?
Australia was awarded a 65-run victory via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method in the second one-day international against New Zealand as rain ended the game in Wellington early.
Read the full story below.
By Michael Doyle
Like the tourists, New Zealand will also field an unchanged side from the team who lost on Saturday.
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Australia will keep the same side who claimed victory on Saturday.
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Australia's captain Alyssa Healy has won the toss and elected to bat.
"Looked like [the pitch] carried on being nice conditions at the back end of last game, and the wicket hasn't changed a lot since then," she told broadcaster TVNZ.
By Michael Doyle
Rejoice, cricket fans.
After rain ruined the men's Test between Australia and India in Brisbane, and rain washed out Game I and shortened Game II of the Rose Bowl — we have blue skies for Game III.
It looks like the women's playing today will get a top of about 21 degrees Celcius, with some cloudy skies.
There is practically no rain forecast, other than maybe a 5 per cent chance in the afternoon.
By Michael Doyle
Compliments of the season to you all.
Welcome to ABC Sport's live blog coverage of Game III of the Rose Bowl.
Australia has already retained the trophy after their win over New Zealand on Saturday.
However, the series result is still undecided, with New Zealand being able to draw the series with a triumph today.
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