New Zealand full file girls’s ODI run chase as captain Melie Kerr scores 179 not out in opposition to South Africa

New Zealand accomplished the very best profitable run chase in girls’s one-day worldwide historical past off the again of captain Melie Kerr’s beautiful 179 not out from 139 balls.

The White Ferns accomplished a pursuit of 347 with two deliveries remaining in opposition to South Africa at Basin Reserve in Wellington, with Kerr hitting 23 fours and a six, together with the profitable boundary, as her facet triumphed by two wickets.

New Zealand’s chase eclipsed the 339 India had achieved in final yr’s Ladies’s World Cup semi-final in opposition to Australia in Mumbai.

Kerr had amassed 232 not out in opposition to Eire in 2018, changing into solely the second girl, after Australian legend Belinda Clark, to attain an ODI double hundred.

However she ranks her knock versus South Africa as her greatest, saying: “It is ⁠No 1. To get a giant hundred like that in ‌a giant chase in opposition to a top quality facet is certainly No 1.

“I used to be actually calm out ‌there. I used to be so targeted on simplifying it to every over and the place we wanted to be to get the job executed.

“Once I did hit the profitable runs, I used to be truly fairly fizzed. It exhibits how a lot it means to me. I am a reasonably ⁠relaxed character with celebrations and all that stuff. However that was particular.”

Kerr – who will play for the Oval-based MI London in The Hundred this summer season – had additionally scored a century within the remaining T20 worldwide in opposition to South Africa as her workforce took that sequence 4-1.

New Zealand’s ODI sequence versus the Proteas concludes on Saturday, additionally in Wellington, with the edges at the moment tied at 1-1 after two video games.