{"id":314628,"date":"2026-03-05T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314628\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:47:13","slug":"white-ferns-continue-dominance-oer-zimbabwe-in-womens-international-first-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/314628\/","title":{"rendered":"White Ferns continue dominance oer Zimbabwe in women’s international – first ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brooke<\/p>\n

\nWhite Ferns batter Brooke Halliday set the foundation for victory over Zimbabwe in the first ODI.
\nPhoto: www.photosport.nz\n<\/p>\n

The White Ferns have continued their dominance over Zimbabwe with a 180 run win in the first one-dayer in Dunedin.<\/p>\n

The hosts were sent in to bat and posted a very competitive total of 354\/3 with Brooke Halliday scoring an unbeaten 157.<\/p>\n

It was Halliday’s highest ODI score and her first century for the White Ferns.<\/p>\n

Top order batter Maddy Green scored 67 and wicketkeeper batter Izzy Gaze had an unbeaten 59 in the victory for the second half century of her ODI career.<\/p>\n

In reply, Zimbabwe put together a soild 93-run partnership for the second wicket but could not score at the rate required before being dimissed in the 48th over.<\/p>\n

Opener Kelis Ndhlovu top scored for the visitors with 52.<\/p>\n

Captain Amelia Kerr was the pick of the White Ferns bowlers taking 4-35 off her 10 overs.<\/p>\n

Jess Kerr also took 3-28 off 8.3 overs.<\/p>\n

Game two of the three match series is on Sunday at the same venue of University Oval in Dunedin.<\/p>\n

See how every ball played out on our blog:<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White Ferns batter Brooke Halliday set the foundation for victory over Zimbabwe in the first ODI. Photo: www.photosport.nz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-314628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}