New Zealand\u2019s 2022 World Cup campaign may not have gone as planned, but Bates delivered a reminder of her enduring class on home soil.<\/p>\n
Her 126 not only marked her 12th ODI century but also saw her become the first New Zealand batter, and fourth overall, to cross 5,000 ODI runs.<\/p>\n
It was a commanding innings built around her strength on the leg side, with sweeps, pulls, and flicks accounting for 90 of her runs. Scoring at a strike rate of 93.33, she stitched together crucial half-century partnerships with Melie Kerr and Brooke Halliday.<\/p>\n
There were moments of fortune too, including a narrow DRS escape on 17, but Bates made it count. Starting fluently with a 54-ball fifty, she later adapted her tempo after quick wickets, anchoring the innings with maturity.<\/p>\n
Her century came up with a pull behind square,a fitting shot for an innings built on control and authority. New Zealand went on to win by 71 runs, as they conveyed a heartfelt thanks to the Hagley Oval crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s 2022 World Cup campaign may not have gone as planned, but Bates delivered a reminder of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":{"0":"post-626930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","12":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","13":"tag-cricket-live-score","14":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","15":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","16":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","17":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","18":"tag-cricket-news","19":"tag-cricket-results-today","20":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","21":"tag-cricket-series-updates","22":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","23":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","24":"tag-cricket-world-news","25":"tag-icc","26":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","27":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","28":"tag-international-cricket-news","29":"tag-latest-cricket-news","30":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","31":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","32":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","35":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","36":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","37":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","38":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}