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White Ferns contracted players: Suzie Bates, Eden Carson, Sophie Devine, Lauren Down, Izzy Gaze, Maddy Green, Brooke Halliday, Hayley Jensen, Fran Jonas, Jess Kerr, Melie Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Jess McFadyen, Nensi Patel, Molly Penfold, Georgia Plimmer, Hannah Rowe.

been a shock. The White Ferns have a busy schedule of T20 cricket looming over the next 12 months with July’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and the Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa in February.

‘‘It’s really disappointing from my point of view, especially around the T20 line and the heavy diet [of matches]. I’ve worked extremely hard over the last 12 months to improve my batting and my power game for T20 cricket and felt I had a good Super Smash [domestic] series.

‘‘The most recent T20 game for the White Ferns [against India in Queenstown in February] I was player of the match. To be sat there and told, it’s hard to take. You respect what they’re doing and they’ve decided a change is needed and a different direction is going to be taken.’’

Tahuhu had bounced back from setbacks throughout her career and believed she still had a lot to contribute to the White Ferns. Her hunger and desire to play cricket at the elite level remained strong.

She was looking at possible T20 franchise opportunities overseas and would be concentrating on off-season training with Canterbury.

‘‘I’ve come back before from numerous setbacks and this is just another one I’ll be looking to tackle and hopefully get back out there and play again for my country.’’

Tahuhu was saddened by the way Satterthwaite, a New Zealand women’s cricket great, had been treated and believed it could have been handled far better.

After 15 years of international cricket, it was upsetting Satterthwaite had simply been told she wouldn’t be receiving a national contract and wasn’t in the White Ferns’ future plans.

‘‘I think that’s probably one of the things for her and for us as a family that has been hard to come to terms with is that she wasn’t even given the respect of a conversation of asking what her plans are for the next six-to-12 to-18 months ...

‘‘You’d expect a bit of a conversation to have occurred, a two-way street, instead of being sat down and informed.’’

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