2024/25 HALLYBURTON JOHNSTONE SHIELD
Round 8
Sunday 9 February 2025
Pukekura Park, New Plymouth
CENTRAL HINDS defeated NORTHERN DISTRICTS by 5 wickets
Central Hinds : 4 points
Northern Districts : 0 points
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Selected Milestones
Central Hinds - second highest all-time List A total
Central Hinds - highest successful chase in Hinds matches; second highest overall
Caitlin Gurrey - fifth List A century (third against Central Hinds)
Flora Devonshire - 73 not out, career best List A score
Caitlin Gurrey loves a hundred against the Hinds | PHOTOSPORT
Left-hander Flora Devonshire brought up her half century with a six as the reinvigorated Central Hinds fought to chase down Northern Districts’ strong total of 292 at Pukekura Park - and did it.
Pulling off their highest run chase, and recording the second highest successful chase in the history of the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield (all teams), the Hinds stayed right in the frame of a title tilt, albeit with a tough last two rounds to come.
Northern’s star act had been Caitlin Gurrey who slammed her fifth List A century, 112 off 108 balls, in a 71-run fourth-wicket stand with Nensi Patel (22) — Gurrey dominating. It was Northern's best fourth wicket stand against the Hinds in matches between these two sides.
It was also Gurrey’s third one-day century against the Hinds, while Hannah Rowe impressed for the hosts again.
Rowe conceded just 34 runs and took three wickets off her 10 overs to back up yesterday’s four-for — and, knocked over centurion Gurrey’s stumps.
Central kept their heads in a tough chase that went down to the wire, having needed 24 runs off the last three overs.
Veteran Kerry Tomlinson’s rejuvenated form assisted at the death, while young Emma McLeod’s run-a-ball 63 got the Hinds in the contest earlier in the chase.
But it was Devonshire who drove her side home with six boundaries and two sixes in her unbeaten, career best 73* off 71 balls, in a five-wicket win that was achieved with just five balls to spare.
It goes down as the Hinds' second highest List A total of all-time (the winning boundary taking them to 296/5), and keeps them ahead in the race for the last qualifying spot in the Final, needing one more win from the last two rounds (against the defending champion Otago Sparks in Dunedin) to qualify.
