CM vs NBW 16th Match Prediction

CM vs NBW Team Previews

Canterbury Women

The Canterbury women's team is doing a good job in the competition so far as they are positioned in the second spot in the points tally. They have played 5 matches and have won four of them to earn 16 points so far in the competition. Only the Wellington women are ranked higher in the table. The Canterbury women have a net run rate of +0.675 at the moment. In their last match against Auckland women, Canterbury lost the toss and was asked to bat first at the Auckland venue where the game was played.

Batting first in the match against Auckland, Canterbury women scored 137 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. This was the 15th game of the Women's Super Smash for 2022-23 and was played yesterday in Auckland. The Canterbury women's team made a disastrous start to their innings when lost a couple of wickets with practically nothing on the board. But then there was a good partnership for the 3rd wicket between Natalie Cox and Amy Satterthwaite that took the score to 79 for 2. Canterbury women kept on losing wickets after that and the highest score for them was attained by Amy Satterthwaite who hit 56 runs from 46 balls.

Natalie Cox scored 30 runs from 36 balls with 4 boundaries and laid a good foundation with Satterthwaite. The lower middle order for Canterbury could not take full advantage of the situation but the Canterbury did get a decent total on the board. The Canterbury women did a fine restriction job on Auckland women. Although there were some good contributions from the Auckland middle order, Canterbury women restricted Auckland women to 110 for 9 from their quota of 20 overs. Gabby Sullivan was the pick of the bowlers with 4 wickets for 21 runs.

Northern Brave Women

The last match for Northern Districts women was against Otago women. This game was washed away due to rain when batting first the Northern Districts women had reached 122 for 7 in 18.4 overs. Due to the showers, no result was possible in this match as it had to be abandoned. Northern Districts women played their last game before that against Wellington women. They lost this game by a margin of 59 runs. Northern Districts women won the toss and decided to field first in the game. 

Wellington women while batting first scored 140 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. There were some excellent contributions made to the total from the likes of Thamsyn Newton, Rebecca Burns, and Maddy Green. Newton hit 41 runs from 44 balls with 2 fours and 1 six. Burns occupied the crease for 25 balls to score 26 runs with 2 fours. Maddy Green scored a quick 24 from 14 balls with 4 boundaries to accelerate the scoring in the last few overs and take it to a decent total. There were 18 extras in the innings as well.

The Northern Districts chase ran into troubled waters straight away with wickets falling at regular intervals. The only real resistance from Northern Districts batters came from Marina Lamplough who scored 32 runs from 37 balls with 3 fours. During the Wellington innings, the best bowler for Northern Brave in the game was Nensi Patel. She picked up 3 scalps giving away 28 runs from her quota of 4 overs. Marina Lamplough had a great match with both bat and ball. She was among the wickets as she picked up 2 wickets for 31 runs.