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Smash and bash

New Zealand women’s cricket’s brightest young star, Amelia Kerr, took an unusual, conceivably unique, hat-trick – three googlies, three batters clean bowled – but it wasn’t enough to propel her Wellington Blaze team to a fourth consecutive domestic T20 title.

The capital’s men’s side won their final, largely thanks to a high-class innings from new Black Cap

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