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Unmukt Chand has said winning the World Cup in Townsville was a fitting end for an Under-19 side that began its journey over a year ago and has enjoyed so much success along the way

George Binoy in Townsville26-Aug-2012India’s captain Unmukt Chand has said winning the World Cup in Townsville was a fitting end for an Under-19 side that began its journey over a year ago and has enjoyed so much success along the way. The World Cup was the fourth tournament Chand’s team has won, after two quadrangular titles and a shared Asia Cup trophy.”It has been a great journey and a great finish I can say,” Chand said after scoring an unbeaten century in India’s chase of 226. “We don’t know when we will play again [as a team], probably we won’t play again together, so that’s a bit of an emotional thing as well. Really happy that we could pull it off and finish it on a high.”India’s World Cup campaign was not entirely smooth: they lost the first game against West Indies and it wasn’t until the semi-final that their batting began to show collective promise. “That’s the good part,” Chand said of the challenges India had overcome. “Initially we have had a few jitters but we carried on really well and that’s what matters the most. We peaked at the right times and that’s a quality of good teams.”In the final, the bowlers, after reducing Australia to 38 for 4, had a rare off day and India’s batsmen needed to achieve the highest successful chase of the tournament at Tony Ireland Stadium to win the World Cup. Chand, however, praised his bowlers for keeping Australia to a total as low as 225 for 8.”It happens at times. Our bowlers have done really well in all the previous matches and I guess they bowled really well today as well,” Chand said. “You can’t expect a bowling side to restrict the opposition to 150 all the time. 225, we have restricted them to a very low target I feel.”India’s chase got off to a poor start, when Prashant Chopra was caught down the leg side in the second over. That changed quickly, though, when Baba Aparajith joined Chand and gave a masterclass in driving on the off side. They added 73 in quick time and gave India a buffer in case they lost quick wickets, which they did.”It’s only a matter of one partnership. One good partnership on this wicket, it was a dream wicket to bat on,” Chand said. “We knew that we would pull it off if we had one good partnership and that’s what I was telling the other batsmen with me. To back yourself, believe yourself and keep communicating.”India went from 75 for 1 to 97 for 4, though, but Chand found another steady partner in Smit Patel, who had scored a fighting half-century in difficult conditions against West Indies in the opening group game. Both were dropped, when Chand was on 38 and Smit on 2. India needed 91 off 90 balls when the batting Powerplay had to be taken but Chand and Smit did not change their approach much, scoring only 18 off the first four overs during the restrictions.”What I was thinking inside, and I had heard Dhoni speak of this before, that in the 38th over I won’t take a risk because the bowler is not under as much pressure as he is in the 46th or the 47th over. I was just thinking that I should take it to the last moment, because you know six, seven or eight runs, you can get anytime in an over. The important thing was to save wickets. If you have wickets in hand, even eight or nine [per over] on this track was not a difficult task.”As it so happened, Chand carted Ashton Turner’s off-spin over the midwicket boundary in the last over of batting Powerplay, the 40th. After three more overs of accumulation, India needed 49 off 42 when Chand chipped Alex Gregory to midwicket, where William Bosisto dropped the chance. Chand hit a six down the ground two balls later.”I was not thinking anything at the time,” he said about the drop and the following six. “I was just thinking to get to 226. I was talking to Smit, I didn’t look at the score … I didn’t know I had scored a century until the crowd shouted and that’s when I took out my bat and all. I was in … what do people call it? The zone? I was trying to stop Smit from hitting unnecessary shots, I was going and speaking to him and telling him to play within his limits.”The boundaries came quickly after that as India made a dash for the target, Smit achieving it with a pull to the midwicket boundary in the 48th over. India’s coach Bharat Arun said their success was in part due to the manner in which his team approached the final. The Indians had appeared remarkably relaxed on the field in the lead-up to the toss. Arun, Chand and Kamal Passi were in conversation while sitting on the grass, and a few of the others were having low intensity warm-ups and drills.”We felt we needed to be absolutely relaxed. We’ve been insisting right from the beginning,” Arun said. “You cannot ask the boys to relax and then be intense with these guys, so you’ll have to be cool. Unless they are relaxed they won’t focus on the process, if they are pressurised the process goes kaput.”We said today’s game was just another game for us. There was a big tag attached to it, added pressure, I guess we played by what we decided we would.”

Bangladesh have named Jason Swift, the Australian who has worked with Lancashire for the past six years, as their fielding coach

ESPNcricinfo staff10-Jul-2011Bangladesh have named Jason Swift, the Australian who has worked with Lancashire for the past six years, as their fielding coach. Swift, 40, has signed a two-year contract and is expected to join the Bangladesh team ahead of their tour of Zimbabwe later this month.Swift is a Level 4 qualified coach, the highest under the ECB programme, and is assistant coach of the Lancashire Academy besides being in charge of the county’s Colts team. He played nine domestic one-day matches for the Australian Capital Territory in the late ’90s, and was also a dependable middle-order batsman in league cricket in Canberra.Bangladesh’s newly appointed coach, Stuart Law, had a lengthy stint as a player at Lancashire, towards the end of which he worked with Swift.

Essex were indebted to tail-enders Bryce McGain and Tony Palladino for achieving some semblance of respectability in their County Championship battle against Warwickshire at Southend

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ScorecardNeil Carter claimed the key wicket when he trapped Ravi Bopara lbw for 1•PA Photos

Essex were indebted to tail-enders Bryce McGain and Tony Palladino for achieving some semblance of respectability in their County Championship battle against Warwickshire at Southend. Between them they were responsible for over a third of Essex’s total of 149 for 9 before rain in mid-afternoon washed out further play.Coming together at 91 for 8, Palladino and McGain added a valuable 43 before the Australian fell lbw to Rikki Clarke for 24 spanning 63 deliveries. Before the rain came Palladino, in his first Championship outing of the summer, had struck 31 that included five fours.The only other batsman to hold up Warwickshire for any length of time was Matt Walker who battled the way through 19 overs in making 29 from 56 balls. He was finally undone by Chris Woakes, another lbw victim, on a day when the visiting seam attack were the dominant force.Their ability to swing the ball proved the decisive factor as bottom-of-the-table Warwickshire enjoyed one of their more successful days in the field against opponents also struggling to preserve their First Division status.After Woakes trapped Mark Pettini lbw for a single with the 14th ball of the match, Neil Carter was to pile further misery on Essex with a devastating spell that brought him three wickets in the space of eight deliveries at a personal cost of two runs. Tom Westley edged to Darren Maddy in the slips, Jaik Mickleburgh was bowled and Ravi Bopara fell lbw for just a single.That left Essex 31 for 4 and three runs later captain James Foster was left regretting his decision to bat even more when he became another victim of Clarke. Clarke and Carter had so far picked up three for 26 and three for 48 respectively, while Woakes had figures of 2 for 39.The one bit of encouraging news for Essex is that Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria is likely to play in the Friends Provident Twenty20 finals day at the Rose Bowl on August 14. Kaneria has been axed from the Pakistan Test squad currently touring England and Essex are planning to re-register him for the remainder of the season. They are now seeking approval from the England and Wales Cricket Board.

Saleema, who is Kainat’s mother, says, “This isn’t just a win for me, it’s a win for every aspiring female cricketer and umpire in Pakistan”

ESPNcricinfo staff15-Sep-2024Saleema Imtiaz has become the first Pakistani woman to be nominated to the ICC international panel of development umpires. Imtiaz’s nomination makes her eligible to officiate in women’s bilateral international matches and ICC women’s events. Her first on-field appearance in a bilateral series will be in the T20I series between Pakistan and South Africa starting on Monday in Multan.”The journey has been filled with hard work and personal sacrifices, but now, standing at the cusp of this new chapter, it all feels worth it,” Imtiaz said in a statement released by the PCB. “This isn’t just a win for me, it’s a win for every aspiring female cricketer and umpire in Pakistan. I hope my success motivates countless women who dream of making their mark in the sport. This moment reflects the growing influence of women in cricket and the PCB’s commitment to fostering that development.”Imtiaz is the mother of Kainat Imtiaz, who has played 40 international games for Pakistan so far. The senior Imtiaz has officiated in 22 T20Is so far, 16 on field and in six as the TV umpire. Her most recent game as the on-field umpire was the Women’s Asia Cup final in Dambulla, between Sri Lanka and India, after officiating in three others games in the tournament.”Ever since Kainat made her debut for Pakistan in 2010, my own dream has been to represent my country at an international level,” she said. “While I’ve had opportunities with the Asian Cricket Council, officiating at the highest level has always been the ultimate goal. I’m now focused on performing to the best of my abilities in both bilateral and ICC matches, and building my reputation as a reliable and respected match official.”Imtiaz began her umpiring career with the PCB women’s panel in 2008 and she had officiated in the 2022 Asia Cup and the 2023 ACC Emerging Women’s Cup in Hong Kong as well.Ahmed Shahab, Khalid Mehmood Sr., Rana Muhammad Arshad and Qaiser Waheed have been promoted to the PCB Elite Panel of Umpires from the PCB Supplementary Panel of Umpires. Qaiser will replace Shozab Raza, who will retire on 31 October.The four umpires to be promoted from the development panel to the supplementary panel are: Anser Mahmood (with effect from 1 November), Jamshid Iqbal, Naseer Ahmed and Zeeshan Arif.

Kiran Carlson smashes 77 off just 29 balls in losing cause as Middlesex take consolation win

ECB Reporters Network02-Jul-2023A superb all round performance from Ryan Higgins saw Middlesex to victory over Glamorgan, despite a fastest ever T20 half-century for the Welsh county by captain Kiran Carlson.Higgins hit 71 off 36 balls to steer his side to a total of 200, then took 3 for 20 with his seam bowling, including two wickets in two balls to change the momentum of the match.Glamorgan had looked to be romping to victory when they were 95 for 1 off 6.4 overs when Carlson was out for 77, scored off just 29 balls.It was a consolation victory for bottom-of-the-table Middlesex, Glamorgan just one place above them, with Ethan Bamber and Luke Hollman also taking three wickets each as Glamorgan slipped to 151 all out.Middlesex openers Stephen Eskinazi and Joe Cracknell treated the early deliveries from left arm spinner Prem Sisidoya with respect, but a reverse slog sweep for six off the final ball of the opening over lit the blue touch paper.With plenty of ramp and reverse shots, they accelerated to 69 without loss at the end of the powerplay, with both openers 33 not out.Spin was proving harder to get away and the first wicket fell with Cracknell trying to ramp Sisodiya. Eskinazi followed soon after, bowled giving himself room against Peter Hatzoglou.Max Holden was caught off a ramp shot to Hatzoglou, while the medium pace of Andy Gorvin trapped John Simpson lbw trying a reverse sweep.Luke Hollman hit a six first ball and was out second, bowled by Sisodiya, but as the wickets kept falling at the other end Higgins kept going whenever he was on strike. He went to his 50 with a six off Tom Bevan over midwicket and two runs off the last ball took his team to 200.Glamorgan were looking for an even faster start, Carlson scoring 19 out of 20 taken from the first over by Joshua De Caires.The opening partnership reached 39 before the end of the third over, when Sam Northeast went for just 2 – showing how dominant Carlson had been in the early stages.The 50 came up in the fourth over. Carlson brought up his two balls later off just 15 deliveries. Glamorgan reached 87 at the end of the powerplay with Northeast and William Smale having contributed two runs each compared to 70 from Carlson.Carlson was finally out for 77, caught and bowled by Hollman clutching onto a fiercely hit flat-batted shot.However the atmosphere changed as Glamorgan lost two wickets in two balls Smale lbw to Higgins and the Chris Cooke caught behind first ball.Another burst of two wickets in two balls changed the momentum back to Middlesex, Colin Ingram was lbw to a ball which appeared to pitch comfortably outside leg stump, then next ball Timm van der Gugten was caught and bowled by Ethan Bamber to give him his third wicket.Another caught-and-bowled, this time to Higgins, saw the end of Bevan, Sisodiya also skying the ball to depart after a brief cameo as Glamorgan subsided to 151 all out.

Visitors wrap up victory inside first hour on day three in Cardiff

ECB Reporters Network23-Apr-2022Middlesex wrapped up victory against Glamorgan by an innings and 82 runs inside the first hour of the third day of their LV= Insurance County Championship match in Cardiff.Glamorgan started the day still needing 111 runs to make Middlesex bat again but, having seen the Middlesex tail put on 226 runs in their innings, there would have been a glimmer of hope.Those hopes faded very fast as two wickets fell within the first three overs of the day with Toby Roland-Jones claiming his first five wicket haul of the season.Middlesex finish this match with 22 points to Glamorgan’s three after the visitors put in a near perfect performance on the second and third days of this match.The two Glamorgan not-out batsmen at the start of the day were Sam Northeast and Michael Neser and it needed to be those two who put a real dent in the deficit. That is not what Glamorgan got. Both were dismissed by Roland-Jones within the space of eight balls, Northeast edging to second slip and Neser caught at mid-on.With just nine runs added to the overnight score Glamorgan were eight wickets down with Middlesex still more than a hundred runs in front.It was Tom Helm who finished things off, trapping Timm van der Gugten lbw before bowling Michael Hogan when Glamorgan’s No. 11 had a massive swing at a ball that crashed into his stumps.The performance of the Middlesex bowlers will leave them with some intriguing selection issues going forward. Roland-Jones, Helm, Martin Andersson and Shaheen Shah Afridi were all excellent in this game. With Ethan Bamber and Tim Murtagh waiting in the wings, it will be interesting to see who misses out in the coming matches.For Glamorgan, it will be a case of the team who were on the field in this match finding a way to replicate their performances from the victory over Nottinghamshire in the last round of the County Championship.Peter Handscombe, the Middlesex captain, was pleased with his side’s performance and full of praise for Roland-Jones, who missed four months of the 2021 season with a knee injury.”That’s pretty close to the blueprint that we want to play,” he said. “We have been doing a lot of work on our identity and how we want to go about it as a group. That was very, very impressive.”We missed [Roland-Jones] last year for quite a long period of the season so it is great to see him back, clean bill of health and just bowling beautifully. He didn’t miss, he just came in and to be relentless on his line and length, credit to him, he has obviously done a lot of work to get his body right and then in pre-season he has come out better and stronger for it.”

Beth Mooney’s outstanding innings guided the Scorchers to victory while defending the Heat gained a big win over the Thunder

ESPNcricinfo staff11-Nov-2020Marizanne Kapp was forced to retire hurt with an elevated heart rate, a problem she has managed during her career and struck her during the T20 World Cup earlier this year, as the Sixers suffered a second defeat against the Scorchers. They were led to victory by an outstanding innings from Beth Mooney who herself battled the heat. Kapp was playing nicely on 33 when she had to retire and medics ruled her out of the match so the Sixers were a key bowler down. Although Stella Campbell removed Sophie Devine in the first over it was a wayward display but they managed to fight back after the Scorchers reached 1 for 72. However, with the asking rate just above a run-a-ball, Megan Banting was dropped at long-on on 3 in the 17th over by Ellyse Perry, who parried the ball for six, and contributed a handy innings in a stand of 36 with Mooney which sealed the game. The stuttering Sixers had again lost early wickets as Alyssa Healy and Ashleigh Gardner fell in the Powerplay and Kapp’s retirement in the 14th over meant they lost a set batter ahead of the final push. Perry reached fifty off 41 balls but did not really cut loose in the closing overs, facing just 11 of the last 30 deliveries.An incisive performance from legspinner Amelia Kerr set up defending champions the Heat for a much-needed victory. Kerr, who had just four wickets in the tournament before today, made an immediate mark when introduced in the seventh over by trapping Heather Knight lbw and she repeated the dose to claim Thunder captain Rachael Haynes in her next over. Three balls later, the struggling Tammy Beaumont was run out for 12 off 20 deliveries before Phoebe Litchfield, having played one superb cover drive, was defeated by a googly from Kerr and comfortably stumped to leave them 5 for 57. The Thunder scratched into three figures and a couple of Powerplay wickets – Grace Harris picking out long-on and Jess Jonassen caught at the second attempt by Haynes – gave some hope, but an increasingly rapid third-wicket stand of 86 between Georgia Redmayne and the talented 16-year-old Georgia Voll secured the win by a margin that will also help the Heat’s net run rate. The game finished in a flurry of boundaries with six coming in 18 deliveries.

ECB chief executive pledges to double number of state schools playing cricket within five years, and hopes to seize post-World Cup opportunity to grow the game

ESPNcricinfo staff01-Aug-2019Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, has said that the absence of cricket from state schools is “nowhere near good enough” as the governing body looks to capitalise on the “inspirational moment that can spark that interest in the game” provided by the World Cup final.Speaking to Sky during the first Ashes Test, Harrison pledged to double the number of state schools playing cricket in the next five years, and said the sport needed to shed its “tag of privilege” in the UK.”We’ve got an outstanding partnership with Chance to Shine, which enables us to reach around 22% of state schools in this country at the moment,” Harrison said, “[but] that is nowhere near good enough for us. We need to double that over the next five years at least, and make sure that we’re reaching out to girls and boys.”There are sports that do it very well… that we’re talking to now to enable us to get that scale and that reach across schools, and make sure we give kids the opportunity.”Harrison also claimed that cricket was competing “with everything” – including console games such as Fortnite – for young people’s attention.”It’s all a big challenge trying to capture kids’ imaginations and young people’s imaginations,” he said. “We are competing with everything. We’ve had a lot of news about Fortnite recently in the news – that’s the kind of competitive landscape that we’re in.”We’ve got a plan – it’s called ‘Inspiring Generations’. We launched it at the start of the year, [and] it’s literally kicking off right now using the Ashes and the World Cup as a platform for growing the game.”It’s all about transforming the women’s and girls’ game in this country, and looking again at our schools strategy, because we’re not comfortable about where we’re at with schools in this country.”Harrison praised the make-up of the crowds at the World Cup, and said that cricket needs to eschew its reputation as an elitist sport.”Cricket is a wonderful game that somehow carries around this tag of privilege in this country,” he said. “It’s something we need to shed and get away from as quickly as possible, and that’s what we’re doing.”Our country is changing, and so the game needs to change, as we’ve proved over decades that it can do. One of the great things about this World Cup is that we were filling grounds with vibrant, colourful, diverse crowds – noisy, amazing crowds that we want coming back to our grounds as often as possible.”Harrison claimed that cricket had already enjoyed a post-World Cup bounce, highlighting strong sales in Vitality Blast tickets, and claimed that the ECB had seen “people writing in and saying ‘my family have never really looked at cricket as being an option’, and suddenly it’s something that their kids are talking about, they want to play, they want to be part of”.Despite their apparent marginalisation to open up a window for The Hundred from next year, he said that the ECB have “got to put our counties at the heart of the challenge to grow the game in this country”, and to ensure “that our county clubs are filling grounds across the country more regularly and for more formats of the game”.He also highlighted the role of the ECB’s South Asian community programme, and said England “have got an incredibly diverse team that won the World Cup and that’s playing in this Ashes Test right now” – despite the fact that ten of the side for the Edgbaston Test are white British and six were privately educated.

The race to the playoffs is on; while Sunrisers seem quite comfortable at top, Royals will hope their million-dollar gambles rescue them and seal a spot in the top four

The Preview by Sruthi Ravindranath28-Apr-20184:03

Tait: Stay aggressive, attack Sunrisers’ bowlers

Form guide

Sunrisers Hyderabad: beat Kings XI by 13 runs, beat Mumbai Indians by 31 runs, lost to Chennai Super Kings by four runs, lost to Kings XI Punjab by 15 runs
Rajasthan Royals: beat Mumbai Indians by three wickets, lost to Chennai Super Kings by 64 runs, lost to Kolkata Knight Riders by seven wickets, defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 19 runs

Big picture

Sunrisers Hyderabad’s bowling unit has been an enigma this season. They have the best economy in the Powerplay, middle overs and death. Twice now, they’ve defended totals that many other teams would’ve called 20-25 too little.On Thursday, they didn’t have Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Billy Stanlake. Their captain Kane Williamson was dismissed for a duck and the bowlers had only 132 to work with. Most sides would’ve looked at not conceding the game easily. Not Sunrisers, whose bowlers triggered a sensational Kings XI Punjab slide. From 55 for 1, they hurtled to 119 all out.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Even as this played out in Hyderabad, Royals were enjoying the palaces and what Rajasthan’s wildlife has to offer. They’ve had five days off but now will have to gear up for four games over the next 10 days.Since their tournament opener against each other, Royals and Sunisers have had mixed fortunes. Two of Royals’ three wins have come batting first. Sunrisers’ batting, meanwhile, keeps malfunctioning. They have not had a 30-plus opening partnership in their last four games, which, not surprisingly, coincides with Shikhar Dhawan’s low scores. Royals’ openers have misfired too. But with Rahul Tripathi back at the top, and Ajinkya Rahane discovering a new gear, things could get hot pretty early in Jaipur.

In the news

Bhuvneshwar trained with the squad in Jaipur, a sign that he’s on the road to recovery. If he’s good to play, then either Sandeep Sharma or Basil Thampi will have to miss out.

The likely XIs

Rajasthan Royals: 1 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 2 Rahul Tripathi, 3 Sanju Samson, 4 Ben Stokes, 5 Jos Buttler(wk), 6 Heinrich Klaasen, 7 Dhawal Kulkarni, 8 K Gowtham, 9 Shreyas Gopal, 10 Jaydev Unadkat, 11 Jofra ArcherSunrisers Hyderabad: 1 Shikhar Dhawan, 2 Kane Williamson (capt), 3 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 4 Manish Pandey, 5 Yusuf Pathan, 6 Shakib Al Hasan, 7 Mohammad Nabi, 8 Rashid Khan, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar/Sandeep Sharma, 10 Siddarth Kaul, 11 Basil Thampi

The previous meeting

Royals were handed a nine-wicket thrashing when the sides last met. After Sunrisers restricted Royals to 125, Dhawan and Kane Williamson put together a 121-run second-wicket stand to lead the cruise.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Strategy punt

Stokes and Buttler have been dismissed twice by Rashid Khan in T20s, having faced the legspinner for 13 and five balls respectively. In T20s since 2015, Stokes has been dismissed 10 times by legspinners and averages just 12.6 against them. Perhaps there’s a case for Williamson to hold his trump card back for the middle overs when these two are most likely to bat.

Stats that matter

• In the three games this season, pacers have picked 20 out of the 29 wickets in Jaipur, although spinners have had a better economy rate. This is good news for Sunrisers, again.
• Rahane averages 40.3 with 12 30-plus scores at the Sawai Mansingh in the IPL, but averages just 16.4 against Sunrisers across all seasons. What better time than now to turn it around?
• Manish Pandey, who top-scored for Sunrisers in their last match against Kings XI, needs 20 more to register 4000 runs in T20s.

Fantasy picks

Tripathi had phenomenal success as an opener last year. There’s enough indication he’ll continue to open. Having had a rough tournament so far, he’ll be eager to make amends. Among the uncapped players, he’s sure to give you good returns without costing your purse much should he fire. He’s also certain to start barring a last-minute injury. There’s also perhaps a case to pick K Gowtham, who has proven to be a useful lower-order hitter in addition to a few regular overs with the ball.

The hosts completed a 40-run win over their neighbours after half centuries from Meg Lanning and Elyse Villani and three wickets from Amanda-Jade Wellington flattened New Zealand

Daniel Brettig at the MCG19-Feb-2017
ScorecardElyse Villani struck 73 runs off 47 balls at a strike rate of more than 150•Getty Images

A firecracker of an innings from Elyse Villani set the Australia on the path to a comfortable victory over New Zealandin the opening match of their T20I series at the MCG.Villani’s 73 from a mere 47 deliveries powered the hosts to 151 from their allotted 20 overs, largely in partnership with the captain and reigning Belinda Clark medallist Meg Lanning.New Zealand struggled in response, never threatening to match the required run rate while losing regular wickets. The absence of Ellyse Perry, Australia’s star allrounder, was no great handicap to Lanning’s side, with the young legspinner Amanda-Jade Wellington stepping up admirably with three wickets.The visiting captain Suzie Bates had chosen to send the Australians in to bat upon winning the toss, and the early wickets of Beth Mooney and the debutant Ashleigh Gardner – run out after facing just a single ball – handed the early momentum to the tourists.However Lanning’s composure was important in settling the innings down, avoiding further wickets while building a stand with Villani. So effectively did the pair accelerate that Australia were able to pile up no fewer than 97 runs from their final 11 overs, having been a relatively sedate 2 for 54 after nine overs.New Zealand’s reply began serviceably enough, but from the moment Rachel Priest offered a catch to Lanning off the bowling of Molly Strano they were always pushing up hill. The loss of Bates in the 11th over was a critical blow, and Amy Satterthwaite’s determined rearguard served mainly to reduce the margin of defeat.The second T20I takes place at Geelong’s Kardinia Park on Sunday.