Blaze win HBJ Shield!

The Spotlight Reporting Wellington Blaze won the HBJ Shield for the first time since 1990, ending a long drought for the shield in Wellington.

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A wonderful run-a-ball century from Maddy Green set up the affairs in Queenstown before a tight bowling effort, headlined by captain Leigh Kasperek and Nicole Baird, saw the Blaze home in the last over of a thrilling match.

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Wellington Blaze captain Leigh Kasperek paid tribute to "a major team effort" from her Hallyburton Johnstone Shield-winning squad, as well as paying tribute to retiring Cantabrian and WHITE FERNS legend Amy Satterthwaite, after a hard-fought national final went down to the wire in Queenstown.