Wellington Blaze Team: Squad, Results, Stats & Schedule

Wellington Blaze are Cricket Wellington's women's representative team. They compete in the Women's Super Smash and the 50-over Hallyburton Johnstone Shield, with the Cello Basin Reserve as their principal home venue.

The Blaze topped the 2025/26 Super Smash league table with seven wins, two losses, one no-result, three bonus points and 33 points. They advanced directly to the Grand Final and beat Auckland Hearts by five wickets at Hagley Oval, completing an eight-win, two-loss and one-no-result campaign.

That victory delivered a third straight title, a second three-peat and a record-extending tenth national women's T20 championship. In the same summer, Georgia Plimmer led the Blaze to the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield final, where Northern Districts won by 67 runs.

No. Cricket Wellington named 11 players in its first 2025/26 domestic contract round and said the twelfth and thirteenth places would follow. The completed T20 record adds five players with other status layers.

Melie Kerr, Jess Kerr and Georgia Plimmer were WHITE FERNS-level players, while Australians Maitlan Brown and Ellyse Perry joined the T20 campaign. That produces a 16-player season tracker without relabelling all five as Wellington domestic contractees.

The later domestic contract labels were not located, and the 2026/27 domestic list remains unpublished. Appearances establish who played; they do not establish an unannounced contract category or future squad.

Seven wins supplied 28 points and the rain no-result against Otago added two. Wellington's remaining three points were bonuses under the 2025/26 rule used only in the women's league stage.

The Blaze reached at least 150 three times in the league: 184 against Auckland, 154 against Northern and 165 in the Northern return match. Those three qualifying totals align with the three bonus points in the official table.

The full arithmetic is 28 + 2 + 3 = 33. Bonus points did not apply to the Grand Final, so Wellington's 149/5 title chase did not change the league total.

Wellington finished first after ten league fixtures and advanced directly to the Grand Final. The five-wicket win over Auckland became the 11th campaign result.

The Blaze did not play the 2v3 Eliminator. Auckland reached the final by beating second-placed Northern, so inserting a Wellington semifinal would add a match that never happened.

Hagley Oval was the published finals venue before the qualifiers were known. First place secured a direct route to the final, not a Basin Reserve home decider.

Auckland batted first and made 146/5. Wellington then reached 149/5 with one ball remaining, so the result was measured by the five wickets the chasing side still had available.

The three-run difference between the displayed totals is not the winning margin. Jess Kerr's two late sixes and final boundary took Wellington past the 147 target; a successful chase is recorded by wickets and balls remaining.

This is why the official result says five wickets even though both teams lost five wickets and the final totals sit only three runs apart.

No. Wellington's first three-peat covered 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20. The second covered 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26.

Canterbury won in 2020/21 and 2022/23, with Wellington adding another title in 2021/22 between those interruptions. The two three-peats are separate streaks, not one six-season run.

The broader record is even stronger than the slogan alone: Wellington won seven of the nine national women's T20 titles from 2017/18 through 2025/26, taking their overall total to ten.