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2 days ago
- Sport
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Black Caps v South Africa: Twenty20 Tri-series live updates from Harare
Advertise with NZME. All the action as the Black Caps face South Africa, for the second time, in the Zimbabwe Twenty20 Tri-series Black Caps outclass Zimbabwe to remain perfect in T20 Tri-series The Black Caps are two from two in the Rob Walter era and have added Zimbabwe to the list of their new coach's scalps. Two days on from a 21-run victory over South Africa in Harare, New Zealand managed a comprehensive eight-wicket win over their hosts, remaining unbeaten in the Twenty20 Tri-series and consolidating their place as leaders after each team's first two matches. Back to as close to full strength as possible, given the return of Mark Chapman, Rachin Ravindra and Michael Bracewell from American Major League Cricket, the Black Caps' senior players stood tall to make short work of their hosts. Having played second fiddle in the Black Caps' opener, Matt Henry was the leader of the Kiwi attack, claiming 3-26 with the ball in restricting Zimbabwe to a run-a-ball 120-7. Then, as the squad's senior batter, an unbeaten 59 from 40 balls to Devon Conway at the top of the order guided New Zealand home with 37 balls to spare. Conway's innings was not only timely, given his lack of form at the end of the New Zealand summer, but needed after the 34-year-old was initially overlooked for the squad and only included when Finn Allen was ruled out through injury. The only blemish on the Black Caps' day came with the news Glenn Phillips was ruled out by a groin injury and replaced in the squad by Tim Robinson – man of the match in the opening victory over the Proteas. Already top of the table, victory puts New Zealand further ahead with four points from two matches, above South Africa (two points) and Zimbabwe (zero). After winning the toss and opting to bowl first, it took the Black Caps until the final over of the power play to strike with the ball as Henry bounced out Brian Bennett (21) to give Bevon Jacobs his maiden international catch running in from square leg. At 39-1 at the end of the first six overs, captain Mitchell Santner turned to his spinners to put the brakes on Zimbabwe's innings, even as he dropped Wesley Madhevere on 27 off his own bowling. Fresh from his arrival from America, Ravindra (1-10) accounted for Clive Madande (8), stumped by Tim Seifert, as the hosts crawled to 61-2 at the innings' halfway point. Madvehere wasn't able to make the most of the life he was afforded and lost his leg stump to Milne for 36 at 71-3, before Ryan Burl came and went for 12 when he was snared by Bracewell (1-15). In need of a big finish, Zimbabwe lost captain Sikandar Raza (12), caught at cover by Chapman off Santner, and Tashinga Musekiwa was caught by Duffy in the deep off Henry before the 100 was raised off the 103rd ball of the innings, six down. Zimbabwe at the very least made sure New Zealand needed to chase more than a run-a-ball, even as Tony Munyonga gave Henry a third wicket by finding Chapman at deep square leg, and closed their innings at 120-7. In reply, Conway was given a life when he was dropped on one by Blessing Muzarabani at short third man, who in turn removed Seifert for three at the other end with his first ball, to have the Black Caps 5-1 in the second over. Such a small target afforded New Zealand's batters the chance to start slowly and they crawled to 19-1 until Ravindra hammered three boundaries in three balls off Trevor Gwandu and cleared the cover boundary for the innings' first six in the next over off Muzarabani. At 43-1 after the power play, Conway continued to ride his luck with a number of chances through top-edged pull shots. Ravindra, meanwhile, wasn't as lucky and was well caught by Muzarabani for 30 when he ramped straight to third man off Tinotenda Maposa, having added 59 runs for the second wicket. After scratching his way to 34 from 29 balls, Conway broke the shackles in the 11th over, sending Richard Ngarava over deep midwicket for his first six and Raza over long-on for his second, as the required run-rate plummeted down to less than four an over. A punch out to cover took Conway to 50 in 34 balls and New Zealand to 100 in the 13th over. At the other end, Daryl Mitchell made sure to enjoy himself with the target in sight and even reverse ramped Gwandu for six over the keeper's head to move the target into single figures. Fittingly, it was Conway who had the final say, and pulled Gwandu to the deep square leg boundary, completing the run-chase and completing victory at a canter. The Black Caps continue their Tri-series campaign on Tuesday when they face South Africa for the second time at the same venue.
NZ Herald
3 days ago
- Business
- NZ Herald
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NZ Herald
4 days ago
- Business
- NZ Herald
Regional airline Sounds Air forced to drop routes as it sells part of fleet
A Sounds Air nine-seater Pilatus PC12 plane. The airline is selling off its PC12 fleet. Photo / NZME Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech. Regional airline Sounds Air forced to drop routes as it sells part of fleet A Sounds Air nine-seater Pilatus PC12 plane. The airline is selling off its PC12 fleet. Photo / NZME Regional airline Sounds Air is dropping some routes as it sells off part of its fleet amid rising costs. Sounds Air chief executive Andrew Crawford told Newstalk ZB it was just another blow to regions in this country. 'We just can't keep going with the ever-increasing costs that are being imposed on the business. 'In particular, because everything we buy is in US dollars, the currency is so weak, and costs have gone up so much since Covid, it's just no longer viable to fly some of our fleets. 'We've had over half a million of costs imposed in the last three months that we've really got no way of getting back except for passing onto customers.'
Otago Daily Times
4 days ago
- Otago Daily Times
Woman avoids conviction for on-sharing image of partly naked woman
By Tracy Neal, Open Justice multimedia journalist A woman ended up in court for on-sharing an image of a partly naked woman which had been sent to a social media chat group she was part of. The action of sharing the image resulted in the 52-year-old woman being charged, but ultimately she avoided a conviction because of her lesser involvement in the reposting 'equation'. For that reason her name was also permanently suppressed. 'She did little to add to a problem created by someone else,' a judge found. The charge of posting an intimate visual recording carried a maximum two-year prison term or a $50,000 fine. It was a 'salutary lesson' in how easy it was to end up facing criminal charges by sending digital material that could harm someone, police told NZME outside the Nelson District Court this week. 'This really was a perfect storm of factors that led to the offending,' defence lawyer Amanda Godwin said inside the court at the woman's hearing. The defendant was charged after the victim complained to the police. Judge Stephen Harrop said it was a serious charge, and the court recognised the serious harm caused to people by the posting of such material, but the defendant had since suffered 'serious abuse' online, making her a victim of harmful social media too. She had suffered other consequences, including the loss of a contract linked to her business. The court heard that in January this year, the defendant met on TikTok an Australian man, who had received the intimate image from the complainant via Snapchat. He shared the image to a Messenger group of about 13 people, to which the defendant belonged. Another member of the group 'doctored' the image to make it animated and shared it with the defendant, who sent it to the TikTok acquaintance to 'double check' that he had seen it. The person who doctored the image and shared it has been charged and will be sentenced in a South Island court next month. Judge Harrop said the 'real culprit' was the man who shared it initially, but he acknowledged that the victim was concerned about it having been reposted. He said the circumstances were 'very different' to someone surreptitiously taking an image and posting it, and that the woman who had taken the image and sent it was part of the equation. 'We have a situation where the victim put it out in the first place, which was intended for one person but was then published to a group of 13,' Judge Harrop said. 'It does mean the seriousness of the offending is less than what appeared.' He said the defendant had afterwards suffered a 'sustained campaign of harassment and abuse' online and that she too had become a victim. She had since been diagnosed with a mental health condition that was likely to make her act impulsively, which was recognised by a psychologist in the pre-sentence report writing process. The consequences of a conviction were therefore likely to be greater than they might be for someone more resilient, Judge Harrop said in granting a discharge without conviction. The defendant was ordered to make a $200 emotional harm payment to the victim. The judge also granted permanent name suppression. He said the public 'may well conclude' that the woman should have been convicted and that it was unfair to discharge her and then allow her name to be published, even though that did not automatically follow. 'I'm satisfied for the reasons you were granted interim name suppression, and a discharge without conviction, the test for final suppression has been met,' Judge Harrop said.
Otago Daily Times
4 days ago
- Otago Daily Times
52-year-old in court for sharing image of partly naked woman
By Tracy Neal, Open Justice multimedia journalist A woman ended up in court for on-sharing an image of a partly naked woman which had been sent to a social media chat group she was part of. The action of sharing the image resulted in the 52-year-old woman being charged, but ultimately she avoided a conviction because of her lesser involvement in the reposting 'equation'. For that reason her name was also permanently suppressed. 'She did little to add to a problem created by someone else,' a judge found. The charge of posting an intimate visual recording carried a maximum two-year prison term or a $50,000 fine. It was a 'salutary lesson' in how easy it was to end up facing criminal charges by sending digital material that could harm someone, police told NZME outside the Nelson District Court this week. 'This really was a perfect storm of factors that led to the offending,' defence lawyer Amanda Godwin said inside the court at the woman's hearing. The defendant was charged after the victim complained to the police. Judge Stephen Harrop said it was a serious charge, and the court recognised the serious harm caused to people by the posting of such material, but the defendant had since suffered 'serious abuse' online, making her a victim of harmful social media too. She had suffered other consequences, including the loss of a contract linked to her business. The court heard that in January this year, the defendant met on TikTok an Australian man, who had received the intimate image from the complainant via Snapchat. He shared the image to a Messenger group of about 13 people, to which the defendant belonged. Another member of the group 'doctored' the image to make it animated and shared it with the defendant, who sent it to the TikTok acquaintance to 'double check' that he had seen it. The person who doctored the image and shared it has been charged and will be sentenced in a South Island court next month. Judge Harrop said the 'real culprit' was the man who shared it initially, but he acknowledged that the victim was concerned about it having been reposted. He said the circumstances were 'very different' to someone surreptitiously taking an image and posting it, and that the woman who had taken the image and sent it was part of the equation. 'We have a situation where the victim put it out in the first place, which was intended for one person but was then published to a group of 13,' Judge Harrop said. 'It does mean the seriousness of the offending is less than what appeared.' He said the defendant had afterwards suffered a 'sustained campaign of harassment and abuse' online and that she too had become a victim. She had since been diagnosed with a mental health condition that was likely to make her act impulsively, which was recognised by a psychologist in the pre-sentence report writing process. The consequences of a conviction were therefore likely to be greater than they might be for someone more resilient, Judge Harrop said in granting a discharge without conviction. The defendant was ordered to make a $200 emotional harm payment to the victim. The judge also granted permanent name suppression. He said the public 'may well conclude' that the woman should have been convicted and that it was unfair to discharge her and then allow her name to be published, even though that did not automatically follow. 'I'm satisfied for the reasons you were granted interim name suppression, and a discharge without conviction, the test for final suppression has been met,' Judge Harrop said.
