New Zealand women's cricket team in Australia in 2020–21 should not be confused with Australia women's cricket team in New Zealand in 2020–21.
Team1 Image: | Flag_of_Australia.svg |
Team1 Name: | Australia women |
Team2 Image: | Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg |
Team2 Name: | New Zealand women |
From Date: | 26 September |
To Date: | 7 October 2020 |
Team1 Captain: | Meg Lanning[1] |
Team2 Captain: | Sophie Devine |
No Of Odis: | 3 |
Team1 Odis Won: | 3 |
Team2 Odis Won: | 0 |
Team1 Odis Most Runs: | Rachael Haynes (222) |
Team2 Odis Most Runs: | Amy Satterthwaite (111) |
Team1 Odis Most Wickets: | Jess Jonassen (8) |
Team2 Odis Most Wickets: | Amelia Kerr (6) |
Player Of Odi Series: | Rachael Haynes (Aus) |
No Of Twenty20s: | 3 |
Team1 Twenty20s Won: | 2 |
Team2 Twenty20s Won: | 1 |
Team1 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Ashleigh Gardner (90) |
Team2 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Amy Satterthwaite (69) |
Team1 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Delissa Kimmince (6) |
Team2 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Sophie Devine (4) |
Player Of Twenty20 Series: | Ashleigh Gardner (Aus) |
The New Zealand women's cricket team played against Australia women's cricket team in September 2020 and October 2020.[2] [3] The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is).[4] [5] On 21 August 2020, Cricket Australia named a 18-member combined squad for the fixtures.[6] New Zealand Cricket confirmed their squad one week later, with their former captain Amy Satterthwaite returning to the side.[7]
Originally, the WT20I matches were scheduled to be played in Sydney, with the WODI matches taking place in Queensland.[8] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a revised schedule was issued, with all the matches taking place at Allan Border Field in Brisbane, using biosecure protocols.[9] The New Zealand team departed for the tour on 9 September 2020.[10]
Australia won the first two WT20I matches to take an unassailable series lead.[11] It was also Australia's tenth consecutive bilateral series win against all teams in the format.[12] New Zealand won the final WT20I match by five wickets, with Australia taking the series 2–1.[13] It was New Zealand's first win in thirteen matches across all formats against Australia.[14] Australia also won the first two WODI matches to win the series, with their captain Meg Lanning scoring her 14th century in the format in the second match.[15] Australia won the third WODI to win the series 3–0,[16] equalling the winning streak in ODIs of 21 matches, set by Ricky Ponting's team of 2002–03.[17]
Australia's Ellyse Perry was initially ruled out of the first game of the three-match T20I series, due to hamstring injury she suffered during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.[22] On 29 September 2020, Cricket Australia confirmed that Perry had been ruled out of the series due to her ongoing injury.[23] New Zealand's Suzie Bates was ruled out of the final two WODI matches, due to shoulder injury.[24]
Prior to the international matches, the teams played a one-off 40 over warm-up, with Australia Women winning by 11 runs.[25] Following the match, the teams also played a practice Super Over, with New Zealand Women winning by five runs.[26]