Out. Beth Mooney has chipped a ball straight to mid-wicket.

Easy catch for Brooke Halliday.

New Zealand has fought back tremendously.

Rosemary Mair bowls to Annabel Sutherland.

The first ball is fended away.

Sutherland hits high into the air, BUT SAFE. It was a pull shot that was not struck well. But the ball lands in between two fielders. The Aussies take a single.

Mooney is on strike and fends into the off side for no run.

Kerr bowls to Mooney who takes a quick single.

Sutherland is on strike and a dot ball follows.

EDGE. Just wide of first slip. Sutherland drove and the ball just went wide of Sophie Devine. Australia run two.

Two dot balls and a single to Sutherland end the over.

Here comes the woman of the moment.

Annabel Sutherland is at the crease, coming off back-to-back centuries in ODI cricket.

She defends the first ball from Rosemary Mair.

FOUR. A loose ball on Sutherland’s pads is whipped through square leg to the boundary.

A dot ball ends the over.

Phoebe Litchfield is aggressive and it is her undoing.

She skips down the wicket to Mair, tries to hit over the leg side, but gets and edge and is caught at extra cover.

A little wobble her for Australia.

Rosemary Mair is back into the attack and Phoebe Litchfield hits a wide ball to deep point for a single.

That is the 50 of Phoebe Litchfield. 

It has been a really nice innings.

Beth Mooney is in the middle and facing her first ball.

Mooney works a ball of her hip for a single.

Amelia Kerr has another wicket.

A terrific wrong-un had Ellyse Perry trapped in the crease.

She tried to defend, but the ball went between bat and pad, and into the stumps.

Great bowling.

Kerr bowls to Litchfield for a dot ball, then a single.

Perry then runs a single on a drive, then another single for Litchfield. Lichfield is on 49.

FOUR. Phoebe Litchfield skips down the wicket and hits over mid-on and to the rope.

New Zealand put a fielder at long-on.

A dot ball is followed by a single down to the long-on fielder.

Ellyse Perry is on strike. She fends off the back foot.

FOUR. Perry drops to one knee and sweeps to deep backward square and to the rope. You cannot bowl on Perry’s pads.

Perry then plays a late shot to backward point for a single. Correction, a poor throw to the keeper goes past Gates and Australia take another run. Two off that ball.

Amelia Kerr bowls to Phoebe Litchfield.

The first ball is fended, then Litchfield misses an attempted reverse sweep.

A cut shot forward of point gets a single for Litchfield.

Perry is on strike and she plays a cross-bat shot to deep square for a single.

EDGE. Litchfield again goes for the reverse sweep. Sophie Devine at first slip tried to anticipate where the ball would go, but when it came off thew edge it flew past where Devine was standing. Two runs for Australia.

A single to the leg side ends the over.

Eden Carson continues with finger spin.

The first ball to Litchfield is a dot, then the Australian cuts to deep point for a single.

Ellyse Perry skips down to the wicket and drives for a single.

A dot ball is followed by a leg glance from Litchfield for a single.

FOUR. A loose ball from Carson onto Perry’s pads is swept to a vacant fine leg and to the boundary rope.

Ellyse Perry has come out to the middle.

She gets a single off her first ball.

Phoebe Litchfield then gets a single.

NZ bowler Amelia Kerr then bowls three dots to end a very good over.

Amelia Kerr strikes immediately.

Alyssa Healy tried to sweep a ball that was outside her off stump.

Healy missed, the ball spun, and hit the wicket.

Great ball. Great wicket.

Amelia Kerr bowls and starts with three wides.

A little harsh to be called a wide, and it beat the keeper for two more runs.

Carson bowls to Healy and the Australian drives past mid-on for a single.

Litchfield skips down the wicket but miscues her shot for no run.

Litchfield then plays a lofted reverse-sweep. The boundary fielder stops it for two runs.

The next ball is worked off Litchfield’s hip for a single.

Healy then skips down the wicket, fends into the off side, and runs a quick single. Great cricket.

A flat, faster ball is defended by Litchfield to end the over.

BEATEN. That is Molly Penfold’s best ball. It looked to swing into Healy, then hit the seem and went away to beat the outside edge.

A wide ball is then hit over cover by Healy for two runs. The outfield appears to be a little slow, after rain in Wellington over the past week.

Healy then hits in the air and gets a thick edge. It lands short of the fielder at third and Australia run a single.

FOUR. Penfold drags her delivery short and Litchfield pulls over mid-wicket and to the rope.

Litchfield charges and plays a great square cut. Brooke Halliday dives and stips the boundary. Australia run two.

Two more runs to Litchfield to end the over as she plays a pull shot to deep square.

New Zealand has turned to spin for the first time.

Eden Carson comes to bowl her right-arm finger spin.

Alyssa Healy defends the first ball off the back foot.

Healy charges and hits over mid-wicker. There is a fielder out there to cut off the boundary. Australia run two.

A wide ball is cut by Healy to deep point for a single.

Litchfield faces and defends off the back foot.

The Australian then skips down the wicket but is forced to defend.

A drive from Litchfield goes to the mid-on fielder for no run.

Molly Penfold bowls short to Alyssa Healy, who pulls to deep square for a single.

Phoebe Litchfield then tries to play the paddle shot over fine leg but misses.

A good yorker from Penfold was dug out well by Litchfield.

WIDE. Another wayward ball from Penfold. This time it was a short ball that went well over Litchfield’s head.

WIDE. Another ball down the leg side. Another wide called by the umpire.

Litchfield gets a ball on her pads and works it to the vacant square leg region for two runs.

A dot ball follows as Litchfield misses out on a chance to work the ball to the leg side.

A full ball at the toes goes for no run to end the over.