New Zealand v Australia: second women's T20 international – live!

14th over: Australia 88-2 (Mooney 48, Haynes 6) Mooney drags across the line at Mair, straight to midwicket and no run. Then gets a dipping full toss that Mooney slams wide of mid off, Satterthwaite lunging across with one hand and just getting fingertips to it. Two runs, then she scorches a square drive but there’s a deep point in place, so only one run. Haynes can’t beat Newtwon at backward point with a steering shot, Newton has been a point of energy in the field. Mair slips down the leg side for a wide. It’s only the third extra of the innings, after a couple of leg byes. Good discipline after NZ bowled a number of wides the other night. Last ball of the over, Mooney walks across and plays the ramp shot for four. From outside off stump, took it off a length, no fine leg in place.

13th over: Australia 79-2 (Mooney 41, Haynes 5) A sweep shot for two from Haynes against Amelia Kerr, after which a short fine leg is brought into place. Kerr keeps things tight, a couple of dot balls, and Mooney again trying to loft over long on. Just gets one run as she doesn’t get hold of it.

12th over: Australia 74-2 (Mooney 39, Haynes 2) Mooney is still helter skelter: charging Mackay to defend, then to try lofting a big one and miscuing over mid off for two runs, then to drive a single. Haynes scoops a couple of runs, then lumps a sweep shot straight to short fine, after which Mooney wants another sharp single and gets turned back.

11th over: Australia 69-2 (Mooney 36, Haynes 0) Well, it had been a good over for Australia up until that wicket. Rowe was driven through cover by Mooney, though a good save from Jensen kept the scoring to two. Then a bad ball from Rowe sat up on the leg stump and Lanning clouted a pull shot along the ground for four. But things come undone from the fifth ball, and then on the sixth Haynes steers straight to backward point and again Mooney tries to pinch a single, having to turn back to the non-striker’s end and nearly running herself out this time. She’s got some bees buzzing in her head just now.

A Tuesday barbeque! What was the thinking there? Mooney drives Hannah Rowe hard and straight to cover – and sets off for the run anyway. Lanning honours the call but she wasn’t expecting it, and she’s a bit slower to respond. She needs a bad throw, but Jess Kerr collects cleanly and fires straight into Katey Martin’s gloves, and the wicketkeeper does the rest. Umpire doesn’t even bother going to the replay.

10th over: Australia 61-1 (Mooney 33, Lanning 22) Frankie Mackay is back, off-spin around the wicket to the left-hander to start, but Mooney gets a single immediately. Over the wicket to Lanning, who checks a push into the cover gap for one. Flight to Mooney, who advances and drives square. Tamsyn Newton pursues it back to the rope, slides and flicks back to Amelia Kerr who is backing her up. Three runs. Mackay drops short but Lanning has uncharacteristically missed out on a few opportunities behind point, and she whacks another one that gets saved well by a diving Mair. Big wingspan on that fielder. Then a slight chance at midwicket as Lanning flicks over Amelia Kerr, who perhaps fingertips the ball as she leaps for the catch. Two more streaky runs. But this Australian pair is still there.

9th over: Australia 54-1 (Mooney 29, Lanning 19) A good over from Amelia Kerr, five runs from it, having tied down Lanning through the middle of the over. Only singles pushed around the field, then two runs as Lanning pulls the sixth ball. The googly pitching too short again.

8th over: Australia 49-1 (Mooney 27, Lanning 16) The Kerr sisters bowling in tandem now, with Jess coming back. Lanning tries to do what Healy failed to do, and Lanning succeeds, opening the face and driving over cover, deliberately lofted. Rotates the strike, then Mooney picks up a slower ball and just whacks it off a length over midwicket. Four more. 11 from the over with a leg bye and another single for Mooney to backward point.

7th over: Australia 38-1 (Mooney 22, Lanning 11) The fielding restrictions come to an end, and Amelia Kerr comes into the match. The Australians went after her the other night, Gardner especially, and hit her out of the attack. Very rare that you would see A. Kerr, the best bowler for NZ by a mile, not complete her four overs in a T20. She did get Lanning out caught in the deep, but a lot of her leg-breaks flew into the deep without being caught. No big shots this time: Mooney drives a single, Lanning back-cuts a couple of runs to deep third, then they take a couple more singles. Lanning using her feet early, converting balls into low full tosses. So she gets a short ball from the sixth of the over, Kerr trying a wrong ‘un but bowling it short and wide, and gets away with it as Lanning cuts straight to the backward point fielder.

6th over: Australia 33-1 (Mooney 20, Lanning 8) Difficult to time the ball early for Lanning, who keeps trying to go over the off side against Hannah Rowe’s seamers. Skews a ball high over point for two runs, lucky not to be caught, misses another couple of attempts. But the one time she goes leg side, she gets the timing there. The ball is a bit fuller, and Lanning clubs it high down the ground over the rope. The two, the six, and four dots from the over.

5th over: Australia 25-1 (Mooney 20, Lanning 0) Mooney again picks up a boundary from that straight ball from Mair, first of the over, but Mair bowls really well after a single gets Lanning on strike. Full and straight, yorks the Aussie captain twice, who just keeps the ball out. No further scores bar a leg bye as Katey Martin goes tumbling down the leg side and does an awkward sideways roll that bends her neck. “I don’t need a chiropractor anymore after that,” she says on the player mic.

4th over: Australia 19-1 (Mooney 15, Lanning 0) The captain Meg Lanning to the crease for the final ball of the fourth over. Defends.

Another good piece of fielding to start the over, this time Newton is able to offset her previous miss with a diving stop at backward point after Mooney steers the ball looking for the boundary at deep third. They take a run, and Healy pushes at Jess Kerr’s delivery outside off and misses. Rare that you see the Aussie keeper-opener start this slowly: by now she’s usually either on 20 or she’s out. She backs away to leg his time, wanting to make room but making too much in the end. And from the fifth ball of the over – I swear I wrote the above lines before this happened – Healy swings big at a fuller swinging ball, looking to go over cover, and she’s brilliantly caught behind! Katey Martin standing up to the stumps takes a rebound catch. The thick edge, hits her gloves and out before she has time to think, but she’s able to knock the rebound in front of her body, and from there can dive forward to snare the second chance.

3rd over: Australia 17-0 (Healy 3, Mooney 14) Healy wants to get going. Advances at Mair, strikes the ball nicely to the on side of straight, but a top diving save from Hannah Rowe prevents a boundary. They take a run. Mair hits a really nice length to Mooney, twice moving the ball away from the lefty off the seam and beating the edge. Too straight from the final ball though, and Mooney flicks through long leg for four, beating Newton’s sliding attempted save.

2nd over: Australia 12-0 (Healy 2, Mooney 10) Jess Kerr from the other end, and she was the standout the other night. She bowls right-arm swing, generally comes over the wicket, starts the ball wide, and swerves it into the right-hander, away from the left. That’s how she got the left-handed Mooney first ball the other night, swinging across and caught at slip. But Kerr’s first ball today is a bit straight, so Mooney can drive a single off her stumps to the leg side. Healy tries a big pull shot off a shorter ball, and just gets enough of a top edge to have it carry over midwicket in the circle. One lucky run. Mooney back on strike. Doesn’t want to be a sitting duck when Kerr gets her length right, so Mooney advances to change the length. Smart move, and it gets her a fuller length to drive through cover for four! Top shot, beating the field along the ground. Kerr comes around the wicket in response, to see whether she can bring her catching cordon into play with a touch of outswing, while also bringing lbw into play with the straight ball. But she drops too short again to end the over, and Mooney pulls for four. She’s such a classy player along the ground. Doesn’t hit many sixes, but doesn’t need to: she hits more fours more consistently than anyone in the game.

1st over: Australia 2-0 (Healy 1, Mooney 1) Away we go. Frankie Mackay will open the bowling and open the batting today, in the absence of Devine. The only word thus far is that she’s sick, rather than injured. Wishing her all the best. Mackay bowls off-spin, and she got Healy out in the first over the other night. So Healy is watchful starting the match today, taking four balls to push a single along the ground through cover. Mooney adds another. No aerial shots, no advancing down the wicket.

Sophie Devine isn’t playing today, I’m just looking for information on what is presumably an injury absence for the captain. So a change-up to the NZ team at the top of the order, and the inclusion of Thamsyn Newton. For Australia, teenage speedster Darcie Brown will make her debut, which is exciting. Tayla Vlaeminck is being rotated out of the side to help her return from long-term foot fractures.

Australia
Beth Mooney
Alyssa Healy +
Meg Lanning *
Rachael Haynes
Ashleigh Gardner
Ellyse Perry
Nicola Carey
Georgia Wareham
Jess Jonassen
Megan Schutt
Darcie Brown

New Zealand
Frankie Mackay
Hayley Jensen
Amy Satterthwaite *
Amelia Kerr
Katey Martin +
Maddy Green
Brooke Halliday
Hannah Rowe
Thamsyn Newton
Jess Kerr
Rosemary Mair

The coin falls Amy Satterthwaite’s way this time around, after Lanning got to choose to chase in the first match. Generally that’s the preferred method for teams in T20 these days: know what you’re chasing. Especially in a day match where floodlights and dew won’t change the batting conditions in the second innings.