The Rose Bowl series is a series of Women's One-day International cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 matches between Australia

Australian women's cricket team

The Australian women's cricket team played their first Test match in 1934/5, when they lost to England two-nil in a three-Test series. Since then they have improved and are generally considered the best women's cricket team in the world...

 and New Zealand

New Zealand women's cricket team

The New Zealand women's cricket team played their first Test match in 1935, when they lost to England. Since then they have only won two Tests, once against Australia, and once against South Africa....

 that has been running since February 1985. It was originally known as the Shell Rose Bowl and the name was changed to the Rose Bowl Series as recently as 2001.

Until 2000, the tournament was an annual affair, with matches alternating between each country. However since then the format has changed regularly. The most recent series, held in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, took place in March 2010.

Australia have dominated the tournament, winning 18 series to New Zealand's three, and New Zealand have only won 4 of 36 matches in the 21st century. New Zealand's last series victory came in the 1998-99 cricket season, when they defeated Australia 2–1 over three matches in Palmerston North

Palmerston North

Palmerston North is the main city of the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is an inland city with a population of and is the country's seventh largest city and eighth largest urban area. Palmerston North is located in the eastern Manawatu Plains near the north bank...

 in New Zealand. Their only series victory in Australia was achieved in 1987 as they won two of the three matches in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

.

The next edition will be played in February 2011, In Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

 and Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

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Results Summary

	Played	Won by Australia	Won by New Zealand	Drawn
All ODIs	75	52	22	1
ODIs in Australia	40	30	10	0
ODIs in New Zealand	35	22	12	1
All Series	24	17	3	4
Series in Australia	11	10	1	0
Series in New Zealand	11	5	2	4

Series results

Series	Season	Played in	First Match	Winner	Series result	Notes
1	1984–85	Australia	7 February 1985
2	1985–86	New Zealand	20 January 1986	Drawn
3	1986–87	Australia	18 January 1987
4	1987–88	New Zealand	20 January 1988
5	1988–89	Australia	7 December 1988
6	1989–90	New Zealand	6 February 1990
7	1990–91	Australia	17 January 1991
8	1991–92	Australia	13 January 1993	Drawn
9	1992–93	Australia	13 January 1993
10	1993–94	New Zealand	18 January 1994
11	1994–95	New Zealand	14 January 1995	Drawn
12	1992–93	Australia	1 February 1996
13	1996–97	Australia	13 February 1997
14	1997–98	Australia	5 November 1997
15	1998–99	New Zealand	13 February 1997
16	1999–2000	Australia	6 February 2000

2001–02	Australia		Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	Australia won by 53 runs
			Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia	Australia won by 3 wickets (D/N)
			Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne Cricket Ground The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light... , Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...	Australia won by 57 runs
			Bert Sutcliffe Oval Bert Sutcliffe Oval The Bert Sutcliffe Oval is a cricket ground at Lincoln University in Lincoln, New Zealand that has staged first-class matches as well as international matches for both women's and under-19 level cricket... , Lincoln Lincoln, New Zealand Lincoln is a town in the Selwyn District of Canterbury, New Zealand. The town has a population of 2,727.-Location:It is located on the Canterbury Plains to the west of Banks Peninsula, 22 kilometres south of Christchurch.-History:... , New Zealand	New Zealand won by 22 runs
			Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln, New Zealand	Australia won by 17 runs
			Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln, New Zealand	Australia won by 6 wickets
2002–03	Australia		Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln, New Zealand	Australia won by 63 runs
			Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln, New Zealand	Australia won by 6 wickets
			Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln, New Zealand	Australia won by 109 runs
2003–04	Australia		Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland, New Zealand	Australia won by 78 runs
			Westpac Park, Hamilton Hamilton, New Zealand Hamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's fourth largest territorial authority. Hamilton is in the Waikato Region of the North Island, approximately south of Auckland... , New Zealand	Australia won by 8 wickets
			Westpac Park, Hamilton, New Zealand	Australia won by 83 runs
			Bankstown Oval, Sydney, Australia	New Zealand won by 20 runs
			Albert Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia	Australia won by 40 runs
			Bellerive Oval, Hobart, Australia	Australia won by 4 wickets
2004–05	Australia		Lilac Hill Park, Perth, Australia	Australia won by 87 runs
			Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth, Australia	Australia won by 7 runs
			Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth, Australia	Australia won by 3 wickets
2006–07 2006-07 Australian cricket season The 2006–07 Australian cricket season is made up of three domestic competitions for the men; the first-class Pura Cup, the List A Ford Ranger One Day Cup and the Twenty20 competition KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. The women compete in the Women's National League, although Tasmania does not have a...	Australia		Allan Border Field Allan Border Field Allan Border Field is a small cricket ground in the Brisbane suburb of Albion in Queensland. The Australian Cricket Academy has been based at the oval since 2004 using it as a base for the development of elite cricketers throughout Australia.... , Brisbane, Australia	Australia won by 1 run
			Allan Border Field, Brisbane, Australia	Australia won by 1 wicket
			Allan Border Field, Brisbane, Australia	Australia won by 5 runs
			Allan Border Field, Brisbane, Australia	Australia won by 85 runs
			Allan Border Field, Brisbane, Australia	Australia won by 4 wickets
2007	Australia		Gardens Oval Gardens Oval Gardens Oval is a cricket ground in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The first recorded match on the ground came in 2002 when Northern Territory played Queensland Academy of Sport. The ground held its only first-class match in 2006 when the touring Indians against New Zealand Whites... , Darwin Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities... , Australia	Australia won by 7 wickets
			Gardens Oval, Darwin, Australia	New Zealand won by 35 runs
			Gardens Oval, Darwin, Australia	Australia won by 6 wickets
			Gardens Oval, Darwin, Australia	Australia won by 2 runs
			Gardens Oval, Darwin, Australia	New Zealand won by 4 wickets
2007–08	Australia		Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln, New Zealand	Australia won by 63 runs
			Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln, New Zealand	New Zealand won by 82 runs
			Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln, New Zealand	New Zealand won by 5 wickets
			Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln, New Zealand	Australia won by 6 runs
			Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln, New Zealand	Australia won by 8 wickets
2008–09	Drawn		Cobham Oval Cobham Oval The Cobham Oval is a cricket ground in Whangarei, New Zealand that stages daytime only first-class matches. It is one of the home grounds for the Northern Districts Knights... , Whangarei Whangarei Whangarei, pronounced , is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the regional capital of Northland Region. Although commonly classified as a city, it is officially part of the Whangarei District, administered by the Whangarei District Council a local body created in 1989 to administer both the... , New Zealand	Australia won by 2 wickets
			Cobham Oval, Whangarei, New Zealand	New Zealand won by 4 runs
			Seddon Park Seddon Park Seddon Park is a cricket ground in Hamilton, 4th largest city in New Zealand and is renowned for its "village green" setting, affording a picnic atmosphere for spectators. It is the 4th largest proper Cricket Ground in New Zealand. The Stadium was named after the former New Zealand Prime Minister... Hamilton, New Zealand	Australia won by 104 runs (D/N)
			Seddon Park, Hamilton, New Zealand	Australia won by 44 runs
			Basin Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand	Match abandoned without a ball being bowled