The Central Districts girls are leading the points table at the Women's Under-21 Tournament in Auckland.
The Central Districts girls are leading the points table at the Women's Under-21 Tournament in Auckland.
Central Districts bounced back to winning form on Wednesday demolishing Northern Districts by nine wickets in the Women's Under-21 Tournament in Auckland.
The CD girls had been on a brilliant run of form until Auckland burst their bubble with a three wicket win on Tuesday.
After winning the toss andputting themselves into bat, Northern Districts felt the full force of Taranaki's Taila Hurley who destroyed the line-up taking 4 wickets for just 6 runs off four overs. Her teammates chipped in with one apiece to bring about the full collapes of their rivals for a 52 run total.
The mark was easily reached with CD skipper and Whanganui all rounder Jessica Watkin smashing 33 off 18 balls to set her side up for an epic win.
CD had been in a solid vein for form beating Otago and Wellington before meeting the strong Auckland side on Tuesday.
After winning that toss Watkin elected to bat, but her side could only muster 189 runs for 8 wickets in their 50 overs.
Wairarapa's Georgia Atkinson topscored with 39 not out with Hawkes Bay's Rosemary Mair managing 34 runs, while Nelson's Claudia Green chipped in with 31. The remainder of the team struggled against the Auckland bowlers.
Even Watkin could not manage the form she produced when leading CD to a win over Otago at Lloyd Elsmore Park on Saturday, nor repeat her personal effort to wreck the Wellington bowlers with an extraordinary 200 runs from 123 balls on Sunday. Watkin could only manage 16 against Auckland.
CD were to face Canterbury in a late encounter yesterday before taking on Wellington again today.
With their only loss to Auckland from the five games played at this tournament, the CD girls were leading the points table on 18 before the Canterbury game.
Watkin was the competition's top run scorer with 295 to her credit and also led the bowling attack with 12 wickets alongside he statistics.
