New Zealand women's cricket team in Ireland in 2018

 
  Ireland women New Zealand women
Dates 6 – 13 June 2018
Captains Laura Delany Suzie Bates[nb 1]
One Day International series
Results New Zealand women won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs Laura Delany (75) Amelia Kerr (342)
Most wickets Lara Maritz (6) Amelia Kerr (8)
Player of the series Amelia Kerr (NZ)
Twenty20 International series
Results New Zealand women won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs Gaby Lewis (61) Jess Watkin (77)
Most wickets n/a Leigh Kasperek (3)

The New Zealand women's cricket team played the Ireland women's cricket team in June 2018.[1] The tour consisted of one Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) and three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) matches.[2][3] New Zealand won the one-off WT20I match by ten wickets.[4]

In the first WODI match of the series, New Zealand set a new record for the highest innings total, scoring 490/4 in their 50 overs.[5] At the time it was the highest score in either a men's or women's ODI match.[6] This broke the previous record, also held by New Zealand, of 455/5 against Pakistan in 1997.[7]

In the third WODI match, Amelia Kerr of New Zealand made the highest individual score in a WODI match, and became the youngest cricketer, male or female, to score a double century in One Day International cricket, when she scored 232 not out.[8][9] New Zealand went on to win the WODI series 3–0,[10] scoring 400 or more runs in three consecutive matches, becoming the first team in men's or women's ODIs to do so.[8] Kerr finished the WODI series as the leading run-scorer and wicket-taker, and was named the player of the series.[11]


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  1. ^ "Ireland Women's international schedule announced". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Inaugural international T20 double-header, increased investment announced for women's cricket". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Jess Watkin, Bernadine Bezuidenhout called up for tour of Ireland and England". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Kiwi openers make short work of Ireland target". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  5. ^ "New Zealand women shatter record for highest ODI score". India Today. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  6. ^ "New Zealand Women smash world record ODI total". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Suzie Bates, Maddy Green score centuries as White Ferns post record ODI total". Stuff. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  8. ^ a b "Amelia Kerr sends more records tumbling in Dublin". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  9. ^ "17-year-old Amelia Kerr blasts 232* to record highest individual score in women's ODIs". The Times of India. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  10. ^ "Teenage Kerr stars with record 232* and five wickets as New Zealand win big". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  11. ^ "Kerr 232*, Kasperek 113, New Zealand 440 in another massive win". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 June 2018.