New Zealand women's cricket team in Ireland in 2018#2nd WODI
{{short description|International cricket tour}}
{{EngvarB|date=March 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox cricket tour
| series_name =
| team1_image = Cricket Ireland flag.svg
| team1_name = Ireland women
| team2_image = Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg
| team2_name = New Zealand women
| from_date = 6
| to_date = 13 June 2018
| team1_captain = Laura Delany
| team2_captain = Suzie Bates{{refn|group=nb|Amy Satterthwaite captained New Zealand Women for the second WODI.}}
| no_of_ODIs = 3
| team1_ODIs_won = 0
| team2_ODIs_won = 3
| team1_ODIs_most_runs = Laura Delany (75)
| team2_ODIs_most_runs = Amelia Kerr (342)
| team1_ODIs_most_wickets = Lara Maritz (6)
| team2_ODIs_most_wickets = Amelia Kerr (8)
| player_of_ODI_series = Amelia Kerr (NZ)
| no_of_twenty20s = 1
| team1_twenty20s_won = 0
| team2_twenty20s_won = 1
| team1_twenty20s_most_runs = Gaby Lewis (61)
| team2_twenty20s_most_runs = Jess Watkin (77)
| team1_twenty20s_most_wickets = n/a
| team2_twenty20s_most_wickets = Leigh Kasperek (3)
| player_of_twenty20_series =
}}
The New Zealand women's cricket team played the Ireland women's cricket team in June 2018.{{cite web |url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/651720 |title=Ireland Women's international schedule announced |access-date=28 March 2018 |work=International Cricket Council}} The tour consisted of one Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) and three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) matches.{{cite web |url=http://www.cricketireland.ie/news/article/inaugural-international-t20-double-header-increased-investment-announced-fo |title=Inaugural international T20 double-header, increased investment announced for women's cricket |access-date=28 March 2018 |work=Cricket Ireland}}{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/672200 |title=Jess Watkin, Bernadine Bezuidenhout called up for tour of Ireland and England |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=26 April 2018}} New Zealand won the one-off WT20I match by ten wickets.{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/707075 |title=Kiwi openers make short work of Ireland target |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=6 June 2018}}
In the first WODI match of the series, New Zealand set a new record for the highest innings total, scoring 490/4 in their 50 overs.{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/story/new-zealand-women-shatter-record-for-highest-odi-score-1255540-2018-06-08#close-overlay |title=New Zealand women shatter record for highest ODI score |work=India Today |access-date=8 June 2018}} At the time it was the highest score in either a men's or women's ODI match.{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/711930 |title=New Zealand Women smash world record ODI total |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=8 June 2018}} This broke the previous record, also held by New Zealand, of 455/5 against Pakistan in 1997.{{cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/104583007/suzie-bates-maddy-green-score-centuries-as-white-ferns-post-record-odi-total |title=Suzie Bates, Maddy Green score centuries as White Ferns post record ODI total |work=Stuff |access-date=8 June 2018}}
In the third WODI match, Amelia Kerr of New Zealand made the highest individual score in a WODI match, and became the youngest cricketer, male or female, to score a double century in One Day International cricket, when she scored 232 not out.{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/23780786/amelia-kerr-sends-more-records-tumbling-dublin |title=Amelia Kerr sends more records tumbling in Dublin |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=13 June 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/news/amelia-kerr-scores-232-to-become-highest-individual-scorer-in-womens-odis/articleshow/64576018.cms |title=17-year-old Amelia Kerr blasts 232* to record highest individual score in women's ODIs |work=The Times of India |date=13 June 2018 |access-date=13 June 2018}} New Zealand went on to win the WODI series 3–0,{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/723306 |title=Teenage Kerr stars with record 232* and five wickets as New Zealand win big |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=13 June 2018}} scoring 400 or more runs in three consecutive matches, becoming the first team in men's or women's ODIs to do so. Kerr finished the WODI series as the leading run-scorer and wicket-taker, and was named the player of the series.{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/18508/report/1145893/ireland-women-vs-new-zealand-women-3rd-odi-nz-women-ire-eng-2018 |title=Kerr 232*, Kasperek 113, New Zealand 440 in another massive win |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=13 June 2018}}
Squads
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| colspan=2|WODIs
!colspan=2|WT20Is |
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| {{crw|IRE}}{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/692808 |title=Laura Delany to lead Ireland Women in busy summer |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=23 May 2018}} |
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WT20I series
=Only WT20I=
{{Single-innings cricket match
| date = 6 June 2018
| time = 16:00
| daynight = Yes
| team1 = {{crw-rt|IRE}}
| team2 = {{crw|NZ}}
| score1 = 136/8 (20 overs)
| runs1 = Gaby Lewis 61 (45)
| wickets1 = Leigh Kasperek 3/25 (4 overs)
| score2 = 142/0 (11 overs)
| runs2 = Jess Watkin 77* (38)
| wickets2 =
| result = New Zealand Women won by 10 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/1145890.html Scorecard]
| venue = YMCA Cricket Club, Dublin
| umpires = Azam Baig (Ire) and Alan Neill (Ire)
| motm =
| toss = Ireland Women won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = Rachel Delaney, Lara Maritz, Cara Murray (Ire) and Jess Watkin (NZ) all made their WT20I debuts.
- Bernadine Bezuidenhout (NZ) made her WT20I debut for New Zealand, after previously playing for South Africa.{{cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12065972 |title=Cricket: Debutants impress as White Ferns thrash Ireland |work=New Zealand Herald |access-date=6 June 2018}}
- Bernadine Bezuidenhout (NZ) equalled the record for the most dismissals by a wicket-keeper in WT20Is (5).
- Suzie Bates and Jess Watkin made the highest partnership for New Zealand Women and the fifth-largest partnership for any team in W2T0Is.
}}
WODI series
=1st WODI=
{{Single-innings cricket match
| date = 8 June 2018
| time = 11:30
| daynight =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|NZ}}
| team2 = {{crw|IRE}}
| score1 = 491/4 (50 overs)
| runs1 = Suzie Bates 151 (94)
| wickets1 = Cara Murray 2/119 (10 overs)
| score2 = 144 (35.3 overs)
| runs2 = Laura Delany 37 (65)
| wickets2 = Leigh Kasperek 4/17 (2.3 overs)
| result = New Zealand Women won by 347 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/1145891.html Scorecard]
| venue = YMCA Cricket Club, Dublin
| umpires = Azam Baig (Ire) and Alan Neill (Ire)
| motm =
| toss = New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = Cara Murray (Ire) and Jess Watkin (NZ) both made their WODI debuts.
- Suzie Bates and Maddy Green (NZ) scored their tenth and first centuries in WODIs respectively.{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1148872.html |title=New Zealand make the highest ODI total of all time |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=8 June 2018}}
- Suzie Bates also became the leading run-scorer for New Zealand Women in WODIs, passing Debbie Hockley's total of 4,064 runs.{{cite web |url=https://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-press-releases/new-zealand/white-ferns-smash-world-record-total-bates-surpasses-hockley/300188 |title=White Ferns smash world record total, Bates surpasses Hockley |work=Wisden India |access-date=8 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143658/https://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-press-releases/new-zealand/white-ferns-smash-world-record-total-bates-surpasses-hockley/300188 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}
- Cara Murray (Ire) returned the worst bowling figures in WODIs.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/44418219 |title=New Zealand women make record ODI total against Ireland in Dublin |work=BBC Sport |access-date=8 June 2018}}
- New Zealand Women set a new record for the highest innings total in WODIs.
}}
=2nd WODI=
{{Single-innings cricket match
| date = 10 June 2018
| time = 11:30
| daynight =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|NZ}}
| team2 = {{crw|IRE}}
| score1 = 418 (49.5 overs)
| runs1 = Sophie Devine 108 (61)
| wickets1 = Lara Maritz 4/58 (8.5 overs)
| score2 = 112 (35.3 overs)
| runs2 = Laura Delany 33 (70)
| wickets2 = Anna Peterson 2/12 (4 overs)
| result = New Zealand Women won by 306 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/1145892.html Scorecard]
| venue = The Hills Cricket Club, Dublin
| umpires = Roland Black (Ire) and Michael Foster (Ire)
| motm =
| toss = New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes =
}}
=3rd WODI=
{{Single-innings cricket match
| date = 13 June 2018
| time = 11:30
| daynight =
| team1 = {{crw-rt|NZ}}
| team2 = {{crw|IRE}}
| score1 = 440/3 (50 overs)
| runs1 = Amelia Kerr 232* (145)
| wickets1 = Gaby Lewis 1/81 (9 overs)
| score2 = 135 (44 overs)
| runs2 = Una Raymond-Hoey 42 (68)
| wickets2 = Amelia Kerr 5/17 (7 overs)
| result = New Zealand Women won by 305 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/1145893.html Scorecard]
| venue = Clontarf Cricket Club, Dublin
| umpires = Jareth McCready (Ire) and Paul Reynolds (Ire)
| motm =
| toss = New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = Amelia Kerr (NZ) made the highest individual score in WODIs, and became the youngest cricketer, male or female, to score a double century in One Day International cricket.
- Leigh Kasperek (NZ) scored her first century in WODIs.
- Amelia Kerr and Leigh Kasperek's partnership of 295 runs was the highest for the second wicket in WODIs.
- Amelia Kerr also took her first five-wicket haul in WODIs.
}}
Notes
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References
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External links
- [http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/_/id/18508/new-zealand-women-tour-of-ireland-and-england Series home at ESPN Cricinfo]
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