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RNZ News
24-06-2025
- Sport
- RNZ News
Cricket heavyweights to play in 'marquee' NZ summer
Cameron Green of Australia celebrates taking the wicket Photo: AAP / New Zealand Cricket's home 'summer' will begin on the first day of October in a schedule dominated by white-ball cricket. The Black Caps will host Australia, England, the West Indies, and South Africa in a packed home season across multiple formats with the first three sides arriving before Christmas. It will be the first time since 2020 that the West Indies have played the Black Caps in New Zealand. Australia were last on this side of the ditch in 2024 as were England and South Africa. The White Ferns will come home from the Cricket World Cup, which wraps up in early November, to a stacked home summer including a first-ever series against Zimbabwe and a re-match with their 2024 T20 World Cup finals opponents South Africa. Suzie Bates plays an attacking shot for the White Ferns during their ICC Women's T20 World Cup final against South Africa in Dubai. Photo: PHOTOSPORT There will 46 days of international cricket played at nine venues throughout the country: Eden Park (Auckland), Seddon Park (Hamilton), Bay Oval (Tauranga), McLean Park (Napier), Sky Stadium (Wellington), Cello Basin Reserve (Wellington), Saxton Oval (Nelson), Hagley Oval (Christchurch) and the University of Otago Oval (Dunedin). The Black Caps' white-ball challenges comprise three T20Is against Australia in Mount Maunganui in early October, followed by three T20Is and three ODIs against England, and a five match T20I series and a three-game ODI series against the West Indies. Only three test matches will be played over the home summer, all against the West Indies, in December at Hagley Oval, Basin Reserve and Bay Oval. New Zealand Cricket chief executive Scott Weenink said it was "great to welcome such a diverse range of opponents" to New Zealand. "Fans will see top-tier cricket across all our major centres, with the doubleheaders against South Africa offering a chance to watch the very best female and male cricketers in the world on display in a unique day-out experience. "We're thrilled to build this exciting home summer around the ICC Men's T20 World Cup and on the back of the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, giving our players a chance to shine on the global stage as well as at home in front of their own fans." Pace-bowler Kyle Jamieson said it was exciting to have some of the best teams in the world coming to New Zealand. "It feels like a marquee summer. The calibre of opposition means we'll be constantly tested for the duration of the season and that's what you want as a cricketer." White Ferns rising star Georgia Plimmer said her side had plenty to look forward to. "We want to play as much cricket as we can, especially in front of our home fans and it's exciting to have a 14-game home summer to prepare for. "It's great to see more T20I doubleheaders as they are such a great experience for teams and fans alike and it was awesome to see such strong crowds last season." 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BBC News
13-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Blaze remain unbeaten as Beaumont denies Durham
England opener Tammy Beaumont struck 81 from 44 balls to help The Blaze beat Durham and stay unbeaten in the Women's T20 gave her side a rapid start to a chase of 189 before Heather Graham's 34no in 21 deliveries brought them home with an over to spare at New Zealander Suzie Bates made 77 from 58 balls to help Durham post 188-5 but it proved not Somerset remain without a win after a four-wicket defeat at home by Lancashire. At Chester-le-Street, opener Bates hit 12 fours for the hosts and shared a stand of 73 with Mady Villiers, who made 36 from 24 pair led their side to 80-2 in the 10th over before wicketkeeper Bess Heath hit six boundaries in amassing 45 runs from 27 balls to lift Durham to a decent losing Marie Kelly in the first over of the chase, The Blaze were always up to their task, largely thanks to a Beaumont innings featuring 11 fours and three needed 14 runs from the final 12 balls but Graham took consecutive fours off Lauren Filer before Georgia Elwiss (24no) struck the winning win was The Blaze's fourth of the season and keeps them top of the table. By contrast, Somerset are bottom of the standings after a fourth defeat in five lost the toss at Taunton and struggled to 132-7, Alex Griffiths top-scoring from number seven with 27 from 18 chase was well on course with an opening stand of 60 in nine overs but Charlie Dean changed the game as she took 4-9 from her four runs were needed from the final over but Ailsa Lister (28no) got Lancashire home at 133-6 with two balls to spare for their third win of the season.
Newsroom
27-05-2025
- Sport
- Newsroom
Cricket legend Suzie Bates finds her second wind in a new home
It's 8:30am on a fresh Durham morning and Suzie Bates, by her own admission, isn't quite awake yet. It's not that it was a late night for the 37-year-old White Fern, but instead it was a long, long day. Bates and her teammates played a 50 over match away against Lancashire the day before, at the seaside town of Blackpool. On a good day it's a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Durham, situated in the north-west of England, and the best part of 200 kms. It was the fourth away fixture Bates has played in the Metro Bank One Day Cup since arriving in mid-April, so she's becoming familiar with the nation's motorways. 'It's been very busy. We've had two games a week and there's been a lot of travel. The girls said we've spent 53 hours on the bus so far. I did try and ask how many miles that was, but they hadn't worked that out,' Bates says. The side travel to fixtures the night before but then look to get home after the game has finished, so they can sleep in their own beds. It's meant Bates, who represented New Zealand in basketball at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, has had plenty of travel time to watch the NBA playoffs, play lots of cards, and get to know her teammates better. 2025 has seen the beginning of a new era in women's cricket in England, with the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) restructuring the game into a three-tiered domestic competition, calling it 'the next stage in the evolution of women's cricket' as they forecast that there could be an 80 percent increase in the number of professional women players in England and Wales by 2029. Durham were one of eight counties awarded the highest Tier 1 status, with Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey and Warwickshire and it's meant that not only have there been opportunities for domestic players, but also overseas talent like Bates. With a largely young side at his disposal, and needing an opening batter, the idea of having an experienced player like Bates appealed to Durham's director of cricket, former Australian international Marcus North. In their first season, they also wanted an overseas player who was available for most of the season and with a lack of White Ferns fixtures during their season, Bates was well positioned. 'His enthusiasm and how important he thought the women's programme was going to be to Durham for years to come, was a pretty good selling point and just to be a part of something for the first time is obviously special. They've got a great set-up with the ground, the resources and the training facilities,' Bates says. 'It sounded like a really good fit. They were really excited about having a women's team and I could tell they were going to invest a lot in the programme so that excited me.' The first stage of the 50-over competition is now at an end, with Durham winning three of their eight matches as Bates accumulated 292 runs at an average of 36.5, including three half-centuries. The competition has been of a high standard, with new England head coach Charlotte Edwards wanting all her top players to participate whenever possible. 'I knew as soon as she [Edwards] got the gig they'd all be playing. I think it's brilliant for that to come from the head coach. I know in New Zealand when you have all the White Ferns, all the contracted players, playing Supersmash or HBJ [Hallyburton Johnstone Shield], it just lifts the whole standard and it helps with everything. It helps with confidence knowing that you've scored runs against the best bowling attacks and selectors have a better gauge of where everyone's at, with everyone playing,' Bates says. 'I think in this era when we're professional cricketers, you get paid to play cricket and there's no real reason at the moment that they can't be involved. Some of the teams have some really strong line-ups and yesterday [against Lancashire] it felt like it was potentially good preparation for potentially facing England in India [at the World Cup] with the likes of Sophie Ecclestone, Kate Cross and Mahika Kaur who's just been selected, so for me it's been brilliant. Charlotte's drawn a line in the sand with that. She'll do a great job, she's been successful everywhere she's gone.' Just as Edwards and Bates played against each other for their countries, Bates has also played against, and with, her head coach at Durham, Danielle Hazell. 'I've played a lot of cricket against her, probably more one day than T20. She was a wily off-spinner and then in her last season we both played at the Adelaide Strikers, so I've had a bit to do with her and she's coached now for a number of years. She's one of the best woman cricketers that the Durham system has produced. She's been coaching Yorkshire but this is much closer to home for her,' Bates says. 'She's brilliant. She has a really good way about her. She's firm but fair and if you're a young player she keeps you in line but she's also really positive. We've managed to win three games, but with those losses it's about making sure that the younger players are learning and taking the positives so I think she's perfect for this type of group. She has a really good relationship with the captain and myself and the senior leadership group work well together so she's got some really good people around her.' One competition Bates, as an overseas player, cannot take part in, is the Vitality T20 Women's County Cup. Durham have won their only fixture in the competition to date, but this presents an opportunity for Bates, one that she was aware of before she signed on. 'Part of the conversation I had with Marcus [North] initially was just around my plans for the future. I talked about the 50-over World Cup this year, and the T20 World Cup next year. Obviously, I'm much closer to the end [of my career] than the start, and he talked about coaching and I said it's always been something that I've been interested in,' Bates says. ' I think it's actually quite nice when you're in the thick of it, playing and worried about preparing and performing, to then go to a game and I guess just be around the group to bring good energy and not have to worry about performing, and I'm at that end of my career where I'm thinking about the future, so to be able to dabble in bits of coaching and be on the sidelines has been really nice. It's a nice way when you're still playing to be able to experience some of those opportunities and think about what you would do as a coach. I've really enjoyed this group because they're so young and keen and they listen and they ask lots of questions and you feel like you can, not only with performances, but have impact off the field as well.' Bates will still see plenty of T20 action, with 14 matches lying in wait for Durham in the Vitality Blast, starting with a game against the Bears in Birmingham on May 31, and finishing against Essex on July 18. Then, she'll have two further 50-over games before finishing and heading home after her last game on July 30. 'It's just been really refreshing at this stage of my career to be in a completely new environment, and I think for such a long stint as well to be able to fully immerse yourself in it, whereas a lot of the franchise stuff, you're in and out and you can't really make much of an impact other than runs and wickets, so yeah, I've loved it and feel like it's just a place where I'll have lots of fond memories and hopefully come back at some point.' Bates says. Once she's back in New Zealand, she'll have a break in August, head to Abu Dhabi in mid-September for warm-up matches before the World Cup in India in October, as the White Ferns look to add the 50-over title to the T20 World Cup they famously won in 2024. As we finish our chat, I correctly guess that coffee is likely to be next on Bates' list for the day, and sure enough, she doesn't disappoint. After spending the first weekend looking for a quality establishment, her teammates sent her in the direction of 'Fuel Café', which splits the short drive from her home to Durham's ground perfectly. Their barista, Daryl, will provide the refreshments before Bates heads in for a physio session. With Bates away for a total of 15 weeks, you can't blame her for seeking the comforts of home. 'He went to Aussie for a bit and came back and had learnt how to make coffee properly so every day we're pretty much in there. I have managed to find a decent coffee.'
Time of India
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Time of India
Smriti Mandhana's stunning century takes her to new high on all-time ODI list
NEW DELHI: continued her golden run in ODIs, bringing up her 11th hundred in style during the final of the Women's Tri-Nation ODI Series against Sri Lanka in Colombo on Sunday. Her fluent 116 off just 101 balls set the tone for India's commanding total With this knock, Mandhana now stands third on the all-time list of most centuries in Women's ODIs, behind Australia's (15) and New Zealand's Suzie Bates (13). Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. It was a masterclass in timing and shot selection, as the left-hander struck 15 fours and maintained a brisk strike rate of 114.85. Most hundreds in women's cricket Meg Lanning (Australia): 15 Suzie Bates (New Zealand): 13 Smriti Mandhana (India): 11 Tammy Beaumont (England): 10 Hayley Matthews (West Indies): 9 Opening the innings with debutant Pratika Rawal, Mandhana anchored India after an early wicket. While Rawal managed 30 off 49 balls, it was Mandhana who dominated the partnership, finding boundaries with ease and keeping the scoreboard ticking. India came into the final as table-toppers, having won three of their four games. The Harmanpreet-led side made one change, handing a debut to medium-pacer Kranti Goud in place of Shuchi Upadhyay. Explained: Why Rohit Sharma retired from Test cricket Sri Lanka, meanwhile, missed the services of their key all-rounder Kavisha Dilhari due to illness. Inoka Ranaweera and Piumi Wathsala came into the XI as replacements. Regardless of the outcome, Mandhana's milestone innings has once again underlined her stature as one of the finest batters in women's cricket today.
BBC News
09-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Durham sign NZ star Bates as first overseas player
Durham have signed New Zealand star Suzie Bates as their first ever women's overseas joins for the entire 2025 season, meaning she will be available for the T20 Blast and the One-Day 37-year-old is vastly experienced with 348 caps for the White tally of 4,716 runs in T20 internationals is the most of any female cricketer and nearly 1,000 more than India's Smriti Mandhana in second place on the all-time has scored 5,896 runs in one-day internationals including 13 centuries and is the only New Zealand women to score more than 10,000 white-ball runs."I can't wait to get over to Durham and join a talented squad and add my experience to the group and get stuck into the season," she told the club's website, external. Bates the 'perfect fit' for Durham Bates has been one of the outstanding cricketers in the women's game since her made her New Zealand debut in also represented her country at basketball in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing before cricket took centre right-hand batter was named Player of the Tournament in the 2013 World Cup and the ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year that same years later, Bates was then named Wisden's Leading Women's Cricketer in the at the T20 World Cup in South Africa last year, she was the leading run-scorer in the tournament as the White Ferns claimed the title for the first has previously played in England for Hampshire and Kent and she captained Oval Invincibles to success in The Hundred in 2022."This is an historic moment for Durham, and we are thrilled to welcome a player of Suzie's calibre to the club," said , externalDurham's director of cricket Marcus North."Her record internationally and domestically is second to none and with a wide range of experience across the globe she will be the perfect fit for our group going into the 2025 season."
