White Ferns hammered as record-breaking Australia complete Rose Bowl sweep

New Zealand's White Ferns have imploded at the final hurdle to hand Australia a Rose Bowl clean sweep in a record-breaking 232 run victory.

The White Ferns head back to New Zealand with just one T20 win from three T20's and the same number of ODI's.

Australia's victory was set up by classy batting that was aided by woeful fielding and inconsistent bowling from the White Ferns who were then bowled out in 27 overs for just 93 in response to Australia's 325-5 – their highest ever 50 over score against New Zealand.

No fewer than four simple and costly catches went to ground in a fielding performance that lacked spark, aggression and accuracy from the White Ferns.

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The second half of the third ODI wasn't much better and Australia easily dismissed the White Ferns to equal the record of most consecutive ODI wins of 21, set by Ricky Ponting's 2003 Australian side.

Bob Carter's White Ferns team weren't at full strength with strike bowling weapon Leah Tahuhu and senior bat Suzie Bates missing with injury, but he must be concerned with how little his bowling attack offered, the lack of concentration in the field and the limited fight shown with the bat.

Maybe living in the restrictive bubble, including two weeks of quarantine and the thought of two more to come on their arrival back to New Zealand – for those not staying on for the WBBL – has caught up with a team who have been away from home for six weeks?

But Australia had their injury issues too with star bat and captain Meg Lanning plus all-rounder Ellyse Perry out with hamstring injuries.

In a surprising move, White Ferns skipper Sophie Devine sent Australia in to bat on a tired and lifeless pitch being used for the third time at Allan Border Field in Brisbane.

Such was the dominance of openers Alyssa Healy and Rachael Haynes, who took on the captaincy duties in Lanning's absence, it took 65 balls for the first appeal of any note – an lbw shout from Amelia Kerr that was clearly missing off stump.

The partnership of Healy and Haynes was untroubled through 15 overs to set a strong platform at 68-0 – at which point you could comfortably count the number of times the ball had beaten the bat on one hand.

After being hit for a six then a four, Hayley Jensen looked to finally have the prized wicket of Healy – on 61 – who mistimed a wild swing to midwicket but Katie Perkins and Amelia Kerr somehow managed a major communication blunder.

Neither outfielder had a crack at the ball that landed in a two-metre gap between them.

If that wasn't bad enough, Rosemary Mair then dropped a sitter on the boundary off Kerr's bowling when Healy was on 67.

Finally, in the 26th over with Australia at 144, Hannah Rowe held onto an outfield catch to dismiss Healy, for a brilliant run a ball 87, off the bowling of Kerr.

Amy Satterthwaite then dropped yet another sitter in the outfield to go give Haynes a life on 81.

Annabel Sutherland was promoted up the order to take Lanning's No. 3 sport and made a promising start before a loose sweep shot saw her bowled – after a deflection from her elbow – by Kerr for 35.

Kerr got her third breakthrough by trapping Haynes in front just four runs short of what would have been her second ODI century.

Kerr should have got a fourth but yet another shocking drop, this time from Natalie Dodd, gave Ashleigh Gardner a second chance on 13.

Gardner went on to smash 34 from 20, including three big sixes and two fours, before Kerr held an outfield catch at deep midwicket to hand Holly Huddleston a wicket.

Huddleston then got a second with a simple Devine catch at mid-off to remove Sophie Molineux.

In response, Devine was caught at midwicket for a first-ball duck on the third ball of the run chase.

Fellow opener Dodd was caught on the hook for five in the sixth over before Kerr joined her skipper in the dugout with a first-ball duck.

With run rate pressure mounting, Katey Martin was next to go for three in the 12th over with the score at 42-4.

When Satterthwaite went for a well-made 41 in the 16th over, the game was as good as gone at 54-5.

When Perkins was stumped for six the White Ferns were reduced to 73-6 and Maddy Green's lbw soon after reduced the score to 85-7 and the final three wickets didn’t last much longer.

Australia 325-5 (Rachael Haynes 96, Alyssa Healy 87, Annabel Sutherland 35, Ashleigh Gardner 34; Amelia Kerr 3-50, Holly Huddleston 2-62 beat New Zealand 93 (Amy Satterthwaite 41, Maddy Green 22; Ashleigh Gardner 2-11, Jess Jonassen 2-16, Megan Schutt 2-25).