Quick turnaround for Wellington rematch at Basin

Published on 02 Jan 2020

The SkyCity Hamilton Northern Spirit and Knights will step onto the field against the Wellington Blaze and Firebirds for the second time in three days at the Basin Reserve tomorrow.

The Wellington sides came to Bay Oval high on confidence and in home final positions on the table, but the day ended one game apiece with the Knights overcoming the Firebirds by five wickets, but the Spirit succumbing to the Blaze.

The Knights will be looking to roll out a similar performance to boost them up the table, with a clinical bowling performance only matched by their own feats with the bat.

For the Spirit, the key will be finding an answer to Sophie Devine.

The Spirit made early inroads into the Blaze line-up, but a Devine century took the game away from them and posted a total that forced the Spirit to take risks from ball one.

The Spirit have shown more than enough in this Super Smash campaign to suggest they could hand the Blaze their first defeat of the competition

Wellington Blaze vs SkyCity Hamilton Northern Spirit - Friday, January 3, 12.40pm at Basin Reserve, Wellington.

Wellington Firebirds vs Knights - Friday, January 3, 4.10pm at Basin Reserve, Wellington.

SKYCITY HAMILTON NORTHERN SPIRIT DREAM11 SUPER SMASH SQUAD - ROUND SEVEN VS WELLINGTON BLAZE

Felicity Leydon-Davis (c)

Kate Anderson

Emma Baker

Bernadine Bezuidenhout

Lucy Boucher

Carolyn Esterhuizen

Katie Gurrey

Lauren Heaps

Olivia Lobb

Lily Mulivai

Eimear Richardson

Charlotte Sarsfield

KNIGHTS DREAM11 SUPER SMASH SQUAD - ROUND SEVEN VS WELLINGTON FIREBIRDS

Dean Brownlie (c)

Peter Bocock

Joe Carter

Anton Devcich

Daniel Flynn

Jake Gibson

Brett Hampton

Scott Kuggeleijn

Daryl Mitchell

Brett Randell

Tim Seifert

Ish Sodhi

Anurag Verma