- Updates from the first ODI match of the series in Brisbane
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1st over: New Zealand 0-0 (Dodd 0, Bates 0) Megan Schutt takes the new ball for Australia and she opens with a probing maiden. There’s one slip in place for the speedster as she lands every delivery on a good length, targeting the top of the right-handed Dodd’s off stump with some hooping inswingers.
A maiden to start for Shooter #AUSvNZ
In other Australian cricket news, one of the giants of the modern game, Belinda Clark, has announced she is to step back from direct involvement with the governing body. Megan Maurice has written about Clark’s status in the Australian game.
Clark has long been a tireless advocate for women’s cricket, taking on the role of chief executive of women’s cricket Australia while still captaining the national team and seeing the women’s game through the merger with the Australian Cricket Board in 2003.
Related: 'When she speaks, you listen': Cricket Australia prepares to lose Belinda Clark | Megan Maurice
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