da dobrowin： The Australian women’s team asserted their place alongside their malecounterparts as the number one team in their sport, following their sixwicket victory over New Zealand at the Albert Cricket Ground in Melbournetoday
da prosport bet： Rick Eyre08-Feb-2000The Australian women’s team asserted their place alongside their malecounterparts as the number one team in their sport, following their sixwicket victory over New Zealand at the Albert Cricket Ground in Melbournetoday.The win ensured that Australia claimed an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the threematch series over the only team who could be considered a serious rival totheir quest for the World Cup this coming December. The win, Australia’ssixth in six one-day internationals in the past eleven days, means that theRose Bowl – women’s cricket’s answer to rugby union’s Bledisloe Cup -returns to Australian soil.New Zealand squandered a good opening stand of 81 in 21.2 overs to finish on8/166. Australia scored the required 167 for the loss of just four wicketsand 22 balls to spare.Debbie Hockley, who today became the first woman to appear in 100 one-dayinternationals, picked up from where she left off on Sunday, dominating thebatting and taking the attack to the Australian bowlers. She blasted ThereseMcGregor out of the attack after taking four boundaries off her third over.The first wicket fell when Kate Pulford (27) was run out, the third run outof the series in which Hockley was involved.When Hockley was dismissed, caught off a top edge to wicketkeeper JuliaPrice off the bowling of Avril Fahey for 66, the momentum fell away.Kathryn Ramel finished unbeaten on 28. Avril Fahey (3/27) was the mostsuccessful of the Australian bowlers, while Cathryn Fitzpatrick (2/34) leftit till her final over to take two wickets in the aspace of threedeliveries. Charmaine Mason, who was so successful with the ball againstEngland, went wicketless in this game, taking 0/39.As they have done so many times in the past, Belinda Clark and LisaKeightley got Australia off to a rousing start in their chase of 167,sharing an opening partnership of 124. Helen Watson broke the stand whenshe accepted a return catch off Clark in the 32nd over. Clark’s 78 from 96deliveries was her fourth consecutive ODI half-century, and included thefirst six of the international summer, when she pulled a Haidee Tiffen fulltoss over the square leg boundary.Keightley (49) was bowled by Katrina Keenan while attempting to bring up herhalf-century. Despite the loss of Cherie Bambury (4) and Jo Broadbent (runout without scoring) the Australians cruised to their target with relativeease.The final match in the series will be played at the Junction Oval, St kilda,tomorrow. Though a dead rubber, Australia will be aiming to finish theirbrief international season with seven wins out of seven.
