2024/25 HALLYBURTON JOHNSTONE SHIELD
Round 2
Sunday 17 November 2024
Bay Oval, Mt Maunganui
NORTHERN DISTRICTS defeated AUCKLAND HEARTS by 1 wicket
Northern Districts : 4 points
Auckland Hearts : 0 points
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SELECTED MILESTONES
Maddy Green: second List A ton for Auckland Hearts
Eve Wolland : career best batting
Auckland Hearts captain Maddy Green is looking in commanding form, backing up Saturday's first-round 65 with an unbeaten 118* off 124 balls today - the WHITE FERN's second career century for the Hearts, and fifth overall in List A one-dayers.
However, utimately the first Hallyburton Johnstone Shield century of the summer was all in vain, as Northern Districts' determined chase boiled down to a nailbiter.
ND needed their last 20 runs off 54 balls, with just one wicket in hand.
It was advantage Hearts, but 18-year-old Wolland became the hero of the day as she led her side home and struck the winning boundary in the 47th over, to finish with a career best 48 not out - gutsy Naidu meanwhile surviving 28 deliveries for her four runs.
Wolland's previous career best was 22.
Earlier, Green's century - 118 not out off 124 balls, including nine boundaries at first drop, had begun at 4/1 in the second over of the day.
It was a one-woman effort, with extras the next highest contributor to Auckland's 194, on 20.
They were dismissed in the 47th over and that shortfall would prove critical.
Naidu had a good all-round day having led the wicket-taking with 3/40, and fellow pace opener Marama Downes (below) again looking a threat this season as she picked up 2/28.
Captain Jess Watkin's 2/28 and Nensi Patel's 1/31 also kept the pressure on the Hearts as the spinners did their job well, Watkin going on to provide 35 valuable runs when it was ND's turn to bat.
She shared a 53-stand with opener Yaz Kareem (33) for the third wicket, before a big, collective Hearts fightback with the ball, Molly Penfold taking 3/54 off her 10.
But Northern chased down their target, to the delight of their teammates, in the 47th over for the rare 1-wicket victory.
The only previous occasion on which the ND women had won a one-dayer by one wicket was in 2019/20, in Dunedin in a last-ball thriller.
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