Australia A 229 for 8 (Quick 52, Davies 48, O’Rourke 3-44) beat New Zealand A 228 (Seifert 100, Carter 41, Thornton 4-32) by two wickets
Will Sutherland returned to bowling for the primary time because the finish of final season then performed an vital hand with the bat to assist Australia A to a slender victory within the ultimate one-day sport towards New Zealand A and a 3-0 sequence scoreline.
Sutherland, who was captaining Australia A, took 1 for 20 from six overs in his first aggressive bowl since struggling a stress fracture within the Sheffield Protect ultimate. He then made 32 as a part of a seventh-wicket stand of 52 with Ollie Davies to take the house facet to the brink of victory after that they had misplaced wickets often within the chase.
Tim Seifert dominated with the bat for New Zealand A with a superbly-controlled century which included six sixes earlier than being eighth out. He shared a stand of 76 with Leo Carter to raise the innings from 39 for 3.
Tom Bruce, the New Zealand A captain, had prevented three consecutive first-ball geese however edged Sutherland to slide for two.
When Carter fell to Tom Rogers they stuttered once more till Jacob Duffy supplied Seifert with assist to haul the entire over 200. Henry Thornton continued his exceptional few days with 4 extra wickets to make it 11 in two outings after his 7 for 39 within the second sport.
Matt Quick took cost of the early phases of the chase however he fell to the very promising Will O’Rourke who then eliminated Josh Phillipe and Ashton Turner to carry New Zealand A again into the sport.
Davies joined Matt Renshaw to settle the chase however when Renshaw drove to cowl Australia A nonetheless wanted 65. Davies and Sutherland bought them a lot of the method there earlier than Thornton’s memorable week ended with him hitting the successful runs.
It accomplished bounce again from Australia A who had misplaced the four-day sequence 2-0.
