New Zealand v Australia: third women’s T20 international – live

1m ago 22.50 EDT 13th over: Australia 106-1 (Voll 63, Litchfield 21) Georgia Voll is dropped again and New Zealand have grassed more chances than they’ve hung onto across the series. This time it’s Bella James who lets a chance slip at short third, as Litchfield makes the White Ferns pay immediately with back-to-back boundaries. To rub salt in the wound the players are setting up for the next over but have to run back to position for a free hit that Jess Kerr at leasts limits to a single. Share 5m ago 22.47 EDT 12th over: Australia 92-1 (Voll 61, Litchfield 10) It was only a matter of time before Australia would start to make New Zealand pay for so many dropped catches. 16 runs from Carson’s over goes a long way to doing that, as Litchfield hammers a pull shot to the fine leg rope, then Voll finishes off with back-to-back boundaries with exquisitite strokes on either side of the wicket. Share 8m ago 22.44 EDT 11th over: Australia 76-1 (Voll 52, Litchfield 3) Georgia Voll brings up a half-century as Rosemary Mair grasses a simple chance at long-of and the Australia pair scamper through for two. It’s not unusual to see Australia’s opponests failing to take their chances, as England found out in the Women’s Ashes, but New Zealand seem particularly rattled in the field. Share 17m ago 22.35 EDT 10th over: Australia 71-1 (Voll 48, Litchfield 2) Georgia Voll resumes after the drinks break an mandatory concussion tests by stepping down the wicket to smack Kerr over midwicket for a boundary. Share 19m ago 22.33 EDT Drinks are called a tad early – after 9.3 overs – after Georgia Voll gets down on one knee looking to sweep Melie Kerr but instead cops a blow in the grille. Australia are 66-1. Share 20m ago 22.31 EDT 9th over: Australia 65-1 (Voll 43, Litchfield 1) New Zealand get the breakthrough - and just their sixth wicket in the series - as Mooney’s streak of T20I scores of 44 or more ends at six innings. Phoebe Litchfield joins her great mate Voll at the crease. Share 26m ago 22.26 EDT WICKET! Mooney c James b Devine 21 (Australia 64-1) Bella James makes her mark on debut with a sensational catch in the deep. And it’s the key wicket of Beth Mooney after the in-form opener pulls over square but is caught just inside the rope. Share 29m ago 22.23 EDT 8th over: Australia 61-0 (Mooney 20, Voll 41) Eden Carson into the attack but Voll is up and running now as she picks up singles and occasional twos with ease. The opener took time to get her eye in but has 41 from 35 balls, while the White Ferns won’t mind that Mooney has only faced 13 deliveries in eight overs even if she has reached 20 runs. Share 32m ago 22.20 EDT 7th over: Australia 54-0 (Mooney 19, Voll 35) Melie Kerr takes over from Devine wiht the powerplay done, but Voll picks her line straight away and pummels a drive through cover for four. Voll picks up a pair of twos off the back foot and then with a sweep, as the Australia openers round out the over with a series of singles. All too familiar and ominous signs are appearing for New Zealand. Share 35m ago 22.17 EDT 6th over: Australia 43-0 (Mooney 18, Voll 25) Mooney finally takes her turn for a solid block at the striker’s end and ensures Australia finish the powerplay in command. The opener begins the over by caressing a stright drive to the rope and finishes it by dancing down the track to lift Mair over midwicket for another boundary. No doubt Mooney is the prized wicket for New Zealand. But all signs suggest she is set for yet another big score (even allowing for the dreaded #bloggerscurse). Share 39m ago 22.13 EDT 5th over: Australia 33-0 (Mooney 9, Voll 24) Sophie Devine is thrown the ball and continues to contain Georgia Voll. At least until the opener gets away with a punishing boundary behind square. Mooney is, not surprisingly, looking much more comfortable and could do with Voll turning over more of the strike. Share 47m ago 22.05 EDT 4th over: Australia 27-0 (Mooney 8, Voll 19) Mair keeps turning the screws from her end with only the one run coming from the last ball of the over. The White Ferns quick does her best to close out a maiden while using her left boot to try to stop a straight drive but it bounces away for an quick single. A promising over, filled with variety, from Mair. Share 50m ago 22.02 EDT 3rd over: Australia 26-0 (Mooney 8, Voll 18) DROPPED! Voll slices a straight drive skyward as Maddy Green plants her feet at mid-on. Green barely has to move but can only get fingertips to the ball before it tumbles to the turf. What a left off for Australia, and an opportunity that New Zealand can ill afford to waste! And another chance goes begging from the very next delivery. This one is much tougher as Eden Carson dives hard to her right at point but does well just to get a hand to the ball. Share 1h ago 21.56 EDT 2nd over: Australia 11-0 (Mooney 2, Voll 9) Rosemary Mair shares the new ball and quickly shows how much she has learned since leaking runs in the first T20 last week. A tidy over only gives up a trio of singles as the opening pair put Australian hearts in mouths with a chaotic, aborted attempt at a second run off the final delivery. Share Updated at 21.56 EDT 1h ago 21.53 EDT 1st over: Australia 8-0 (Mooney 1, Voll 7) SIX! Georgia Voll makes a red-hot start with a huge six over midwicket. The Australia opener picks up the length, gets down on one knee and heaves the ball over the rope. But she is fortunate to survive a tough caught and bowled chance just two deliveries later. Voll smashes the ball straight back at Jess Kerr, but the White Ferns pacer can’t get a hand around it as it bounces off her lower arm. Share 1h ago 21.47 EDT Jess Kerr will open the bowling for the White Ferns, in all black today. A sparse crowd is inside the stadium, as Australia’s Beth Mooney takes guard at the striker’s end. Play! Share 1h ago 21.45 EDT The anthems are done and dusted, and the players are heading out onto the pitch, which is bathed in sunshine on what looks like a glorious Wellington day. Play about to start in the final T20 of this series! View image in fullscreen Australia line up for the national anthem. Photograph: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Share Updated at 22.06 EDT 1h ago 21.45 EDT Bates’ opposite number Tahlia McGrath says: “We’ve got a new challenge, though, playing in a new venue, the first time being here today, quick look and adapting to the conditions and hopefully post another big total.” On the long straight boundary at Sky Stadium, and the short boundary square of the wicket, McGrath says: “Yeah, we’re going to have to adapt. It looks very long straight and a touch shorter square and like I said, adapt and see how the wicket plays as well.” Share Updated at 21.47 EDT 1h ago 21.41 EDT Susie Bates says after winning the toss her decision to bowl was partly down to the “fresh wicket” in Wellington. “I think the way we know Australia are going to play, whatever they put on the board, we’re going to have a crack and have a chase, but yeah, fresh wicket, you never quite know what a par score is and we haven’t played here for a while. “We’ gotta take wickets and that’s not necessarily through doing anything too different. It’s just being consistent with our bowling and and then with the bat, we’ve just got to keep attacking. “So we’ve talked a lot about it and now the proof is going to be the pudding today with how we got there with our last game of the summer for the White Ferns.” Share Updated at 21.47 EDT 1h ago 21.37 EDT Line-ups The teams are in. Australia are unchanged and at full strength, New Zealand make one change with Bella James coming into the XI for Lea Tahuhu. New Zealand: Suzie Bates (c), Georgia Plimmer, Amelia Kerr, Bella James, Sophie Devine, Brooke Halliday, Maddy Green, Jess Kerr, Polly Inglis (wk), Rosemary Mair, Eden Carson Australia: Beth Mooney (wk), Georgia Voll, Phoebe Litchfield, Ellyse Perry, Annabel Sutherland, Tahlia McGrath (c), Grace Harris, Georgia Wareham, Alana King, Kim Garth, Megan Schutt Share 1h ago 21.31 EDT New Zealand win toss and will bowl first Suzie Bates wins the toss and her team will have a field at a sunny Cake Tin in Wellington. Share Updated at 21.35 EDT