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Hallyburton Johnstone Shield – North Shore [Northern Districts] v Auckland

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Description: This image was taken (but not published) by the Evening Standard over the 3rd and 5th of January 1981. It depicts a moment of action from the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield 2-day match between the Auckland and North Shore Women’s cricket teams. North Shore won by 4 wickets.

By David Ogilvie: “North Shore and Auckland had a tight finish, thanks to a couple of run outs in the middle of the North Shore innings when the team needed 132 runs to win the match. But finally North Shore won by four wickets in the New Zealand's three tests against Australia. gloom of the evening, mainly thanks to another fine innings by Chris Miller, who scored 60 to add to her 74 in the first innings.”

Auckland 1st Innings
Score – 119
Top score – F. P. Hedges - 42
Best bowling – K. V. Plummer – 5/23

North Shore 1st Innings
Score – 159
Top score – C. Miller - 74
Best bowling – S. M. Gilchrist – 4/60

Auckland 2nd Innings
Score – 171
Top score – T. L. Anderson and E. M. Ryan – both scored 33
Best bowling – C. E. Marett – 4/55

North Shore 2nd Innings
Score – 132
Top score - C. Miller - 60
Best bowling – P. A. Baker – 3/62

From New Zealand Cricket: The Hallyburton Johnstone Shield was New Zealand's first women’s domestic competition, and it began in the 1935/36 season. It evolved in 1946/47 to become a robin formatted competition and is still contested today between the six major regions: Northern Districts, Auckland, Central Districts, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago (including Southland).