At Boland Park, Paarl: Australia 173-9 (Alyssa Healy 55 off 38, Meg Lanning 41 off 33, Ellyse Perry 40 off 22; Amelia Kerr 3-23 off 4, Lea Tahuhu 3-37 off 4) White Ferns 76 in 14 overs (Ashleigh Gardner 5-12 off 3 overs, Megan Schutt 2-8 off 2 overs) by 97 runs.
It was a golden start for the White Ferns at the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa, but only of the duck variety.
New Zealand suffered an embarrassing 97-run thrashing at the hands of Australia in Paarl on Sunday (NZ time) as star opening batters Suzie Bates and Sophie Devine remarkably both fell for first-ballers in a forlorn chase.
No sooner had the Aussies racked up a record score of 173-9 against their trans-Tasman rivals (beating their 166-9 in Invercargill in 2011) than they struck gold in the reply, as the Ferns folded for a paltry 76 all out in 14 overs – their lowest-ever T20 World Cup score, and third-lowest-ever in the format.
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