Super Smash (women's cricket)

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Women's Super Smash
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Countries Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand
Administrator New Zealand Cricket
Format Twenty20
First edition 2007–08
Latest edition 2024–25
Tournament format Double round-robin, preliminary final and final
Number of teams6
Current champion Wellington Blaze (8th title)
Most successful Wellington Blaze (8 titles)
TV TVNZ (New Zealand)
ESPN+ (US)
Website Super Smash
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The Women's Super Smash, known for sponsorship reasons as the Dream11 Super Smash, is a women's Twenty20 competition organised by New Zealand Cricket.

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The competition began in 2007–08 and features six teams, who play each other twice in a double round-robin format. The winner of the group advances to the final, and the second and third placed teams play in an elimination final. The competition runs alongside the 50-over Hallyburton Johnstone Shield.

The current champions are Wellington Blaze, who won the 2023-24 competition and are the most successful team in the history of the competition with eight title wins.

History

The tournament began in 2007–08, as the State League Twenty20. Teams played each other once, with the winner of the group being crowned champions: Canterbury Magicians were the inaugural winners. [1] The following season had a final, in which Wellington Blaze beat defending champions Canterbury. [2]

The following season kept the same format, but was known as the New Zealand Cricket Women's Twenty20, with the Central Hinds winning their first title. [3] For the following two seasons, the tournament was known as the Action Cricket Twenty20, before becoming simply the New Zealand Women's Twenty20 Competition until the 2017–18 season. In this period, Wellington and Canterbury won three titles apiece, and one each for Auckland Hearts and Otago Sparks. [4]

In 2018–19, the tournament was renamed the Burger King Women's Super Smash, in line with the men's competition. [5] In 2019–20, Dream11 became the sponsors, and an elimination final, a match between the second and third placed teams to advance to the final, was introduced. [6] Wellington Blaze won three titles in a row between 2017–18 and 2019–20, but Canterbury beat them in the final in 2020–21. [4] Wellington regained their title in 2021–22, going unbeaten in the group stage before beating Otago in the final. [7] Canterbury won their sixth title in 2022–23, beating Wellington in the final after finishing third in the group stage. [8] Wellington Blaze claimed their eighth title after defeating Central Hinds in the 2023–24 final. [9]

Tournament names

PeriodName
2007–08 to 2008–09State League Twenty20
2009–10New Zealand Cricket Women's Twenty20
2010–11 to 2011–12Action Cricket Twenty20
2012–13 to 2017–18New Zealand Women's Twenty20 Competition
2018–19 to presentSuper Smash

Teams

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Location of teams in Super Smash
TeamWinsRunners-up
Auckland Hearts 14
Canterbury Magicians 65
Central Hinds 13
Northern Brave 00
Otago Sparks 12
Wellington Blaze 83

Roll of Honour

SeasonWinnerRunner-upLeading run-scorerLeading wicket-takerRef
2007–08 Canterbury Magicians Central Hinds Sara McGlashan (Hinds) 231 Paula Gruber (Hearts); Amanda Cooper (Blaze) 8 [1]
2008–09 Wellington Blaze Canterbury Magicians Lucy Doolan (Blaze) 212Amanda Cooper (Blaze) 9 [2]
2009–10 Central Hinds Auckland Hearts Nicola Browne (Hinds) 150 Sarah Tsukigawa (Sparks) 11 [3]
2010–11 Canterbury Magicians Wellington Blaze Suzie Bates (Sparks) 413 Natasha Miles (Sparks); Lucy Doolan (Blaze) 14 [10]
2011–12 Canterbury Magicians Auckland Hearts Sarah Taylor (Blaze) 306 Paula Gruber (Hearts); Rachel Candy (Magicians) 11 [11]
2012–13 Wellington Blaze Canterbury Magicians Sophie Devine (Blaze) 191Brooke Kirkbride (Hinds) 9 [12]
2013–14 Auckland Hearts Canterbury Magicians Sara McGlashan (Hearts) 243 Paula Gruber (Hearts); Megan Tremaine (Hearts) 7 [13]
2014–15 Wellington Blaze Otago Sparks Suzie Bates (Sparks) 237 Amelia Kerr (Blaze); Eimear Richardson (Blaze) 10 [14]
2015–16 Canterbury Magicians Central Hinds Frances Mackay (Magicians) 1905 bowlers [a] [15]
2016–17 Otago Sparks Canterbury Magicians Frances Mackay (Magicians) 223 Leigh Kasperek (Sparks) 8 [16]
2017–18 Wellington Blaze Auckland Hearts Bernadine Bezuidenhout (Hinds) 280 Lucy Doolan (Blaze); Anna Peterson (Hearts) 16 [17]
2018–19 Wellington Blaze Canterbury Magicians Frances Mackay (Magicians) 367 Amelia Kerr (Blaze) 19 [5]
2019–20 Wellington Blaze Auckland Hearts Katie Perkins (Hearts) 485 Jess Kerr (Blaze) 20 [6]
2020–21 Canterbury Magicians Wellington Blaze Sophie Devine (Blaze) 434 Frances Mackay (Magicians) 20 [18]
2021–22 Wellington Blaze Otago Sparks Suzie Bates (Sparks) 504 Leigh Kasperek (Blaze) 20 [7]
2022–23 Canterbury Magicians Wellington Blaze Kate Anderson (Magicians) 536 Gabby Sullivan (Magicians) 21 [8]
2023–24 Wellington Blaze Central Hinds Amelia Kerr (Blaze) 437 Amelia Kerr (Blaze) 20 [9]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Deanna Doughty (Blaze), Frances Mackay (Magicians), Anna Peterson (Hearts), Amy Satterthwaite (Magicians) and Lea Tahuhu (Magicians) all took 7 wickets.

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