New Zealand Women vs Australia Women, second ODI match started at Basin Reserve Stadium, Wellington city in New Zealand. Due to rainy weather, their first match was cancelled and this time Australia Women won by 65 runs where DLS method Needed to apply due to rain. AUSW started batting and scored around 291-7 runs. Their openers started batting as well and we saw an average performance. When it came to Annabel Sutherland turn, she did her century and remained not out at *105 runs from 81 balls. Molly Penfold took four wickets behalf of NZW. Besides NZW started their batting similarly as their opponent. But due to DLS method, it gave them lower runs target and New Zealand women team easily Crossed that and won the match. The DLS method was the game changer otherwise Australia Women might had a chance to achieve the victory where Annabel Sutherland was selected as the player of the match
New Zealand Women have been weak in all their matches since winning the league as they have faced Australia Women who look set to beat them in every match. In this match too, they were defeated by a huge margin of 65 runs, which is very bad. In this match the Australia batsmen have set a huge target of 291 in 50 overs which the New Zealand Women batsmen could not achieve as it started raining during the match due to which the help of DLS was taken and Australia won the match. If it had played the entire innings the match would have been lost. Because Australia Women bowler took 5 wickets in 30 overs which would have hurt New Zealand Women more in the next few overs.
The total score collected by the Australian women's team were enough to win. Moreover, the performance of the New Zealand women's team would not have won this match, although the result of the match has been decided through DLS due to rain. In terms of batting, Annabel Sutherland of the Australian women's team gave a great performance. Her innings of a century helped the team to set a big target. On the other hand, the biggest problem of the New Zealand women's team was that they did not last long on the wickets, due to which their score did not last long. They were able to score only 122 runs after losing 5 wickets. New Zealand definitely spent more in terms of wickets and overs, due to which the team did not win this match.
If they win the next match, they will have a chance to draw the series, but if they are unable to do that, then they will have to lose the series. However, according to the general prediction, the Australian women's team will win, but if New Zealand women can turn their performance then and if the rain does not cause any problems it is possible to win the next match,