3rd over: Australia 26-0 (Mooney 8, Voll 18) DROPPED! Voll slices a straight drive skyward as Maddy Green plants her feet at mid-on. Green barely has to move but can only get fingertips to the ball before it tumbles to the turf. What a left off for Australia, and an opportunity that New Zealand can ill afford to waste! And another chance goes begging from the very next delivery. This one is much tougher as Eden Carson dives hard to her right at point but does well just to get a hand to the ball.

2nd over: Australia 11-0 (Mooney 2, Voll 9) Rosemary Mair shares the new ball and quickly shows how much she has learned since leaking runs in the first T20 last week. A tidy over only gives up a trio of singles as the opening pair put Australian hearts in mouths with a chaotic, aborted attempt at a second run off the final delivery.

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