Australia Women v New Zealand Women - Natwest One Day Quadrangular Series – Match Preview
The Natwest Quadrangular series takes off today, when Australian women will play New Zealand women at the Queens Park ground, Chesterfield, on June 30, 2011.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 in the recently concluded T20 Quadrangular series.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 will also be looking for a much needed confidence booster as they too did not perform well in the quadrangular series and only managed one win from their three matches.
It will be New Zealand’s captain, Aimee Watkins’ last series as she earlier announced her retirement from International cricket following the conclusion of the quadrangular series.
Watkins took over as New Zealand captain after the retirement of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haidee-Maree-Tiffen-c61264, in 2009. Her decision to retire was strongly influenced by a persistent knee injury as well personal reasons that involved things to do off the cricket field.
She has 100 One Day Internationals to her name and has also played 2 Tests along with 36 T20s till date. With this http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gordon-James-Muchall-c60376 experience she certainly would love to bow out from cricket on a high by winning the quadrangular series.
As for the Australian women side, although disappointed with the loss they suffered at the hands of the England women team, will have a point to prove and will come out http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SO-Tikolo-c2546 blazing to prove that they are still the best team.
Looking at the previous meetings between the two sides, Australian women have dominated the proceedings.
In the recently concluded Rose Bowl series between the two side in Australia, the Aussie women were comfortable winners as they beat the New Zealand team in the last two One Day International.
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rose-c86842 Bowl tournament, which was halted midway due the Christ Church earthquake, certainly shook the whole New Zealand team. The series stood at 2-2 after the T20’s in December last year. On its recommencement, on June 12, Australia ran out easy winners taking the series 4-2.
From the New Zealand side, the batter to look out for would be EC Perry, who scored the highest runs in the recently concluded quadrangular T20 series. New Zealand has called batter http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lea-Marie-Maureen-Tahuhu-c72373, who has returned home due to some personal issues.
The Australian would look for some explosive hitting from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shelley-Nitschke-c89961 will be crucial. In terms of bowling, SJ Coyte, would be looking to repeat her 4/5 best bowling figures.
The ground Chesterfield is the county side Derbyshire’s home ground. It is a small ground and one that usually sports a grassy wicket. So it might offer some bounce in the initial phase of the match.
The match is schedule to start at 1045 local time. The other teams in the tournament are http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 and England, who will play later in the day.
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