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Australia's female version of champion leg-spinner Shane Warne, Olivia Magno, produced her own pieces of magic as the visitors beat New Zealand by 11 runs in a one-day cricket international at Lancaster Park yesterday.

Magno bowled leading New Zealand batsman Debbie Hockley with her first delivery and later deceived captain Maia Lewis in flight and gleefully accepted a return catch.

Magno teased the batsman with her looping deliveries and though she could not extract the degree of turn Warne is renowned for, her line would have done him proud. Her final figures of two wickets for 27 off 10 overs was fitting reward for the 26-year-old from Sutherland, New South Wales.

New Zealand's chase for 191 for victory gradually gained momentum, but it was unable to match Australia's effort in the last 10 overs.

Though the scoring rates were comparable through the first 40 overs New Zealand could not accelerate to the same degree under the full pitched bowling of medium pacers Cathryn Fitzpatrick and Charmaine Mason.

With Hockley and Lewis dismissed cheaply it was left to Karen le Comber to first resurrect the innings which at one point slumped to 101 for five wickets, and later stake a claim for victory. Le Comber collected the bulk of her runs in ones and twos and briefly raised hopes of victory with a 60-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Katrina Withers.

New Zealand required 68 runs off the final 10 overs and 41 from the final five, but Withers was run out with the score on 161 and New Zealand's chances diminished when le Comber went six runs later. Le Comber was bowled by Mason for 48 when she swung across the line for the first time in her 78-ball innings.

Clare Nicholson, Julie Harris and Catherine Campbell tried to perform some heroics in the final two overs, but they could not prevent Australia taking a 2-1 lead into this weekend's double-header in Wellington.

Australia's total was based around an 87-run partnership for the third wicket between Zoe Goss and Karen Rolton. Both finished with 53, though Rolton's knock came from 77 balls compared with her more illustrious team-mate who required 121 deliveries.

Slow bowlers Nicholson and Hockley eased a crisis in the field after attacking spearheads Withers and Harris had proved unusually expensive. Nicholson and Hockley both conceded less than two runs an over with the latter also snaring the key wicket of Australian captain Belinda Clark.

AUSTRALIA

B Clark c Lewis b Hockley 24 L Keightley c Lewis b Withers 8 Z Goss c Fruin b Harris 53 K Rolton run out (Harris) 53 M Jones b Campbell 4 B Calver run out (Campbell) 19 C Mason c Anderson b Harris 8 J Broadbent c Hockley b Campbell 8 J Price not out 0 Extras (8lb, 5w) 13 Total (for 8 wkts, 50 overs) 190

Fall: 18, 43, 130, 138, 165, 173, 184, 190.

Bowling: Clare Nicholson 10-2-17-0, Debbie Hockley 10-3-16-1, Julie Harris 10-1-42-2 (4w), Katrina Withers 9-0-48-1 (w), Catherine Campbell 7-0-37-2, Justine Fryer 4-0-22-0.

NEW ZEALAND

S Fruin c Price b Mason 2 D Hockley b Magno 19 T Anderson c Mason b Goss 33 M Lewis c & b Magno 16 K le Comber b Mason 48 R Rolls run out (Mason) 1 K Withers run out (Fitzpatrick) 18 C Nicholson not out 7 J Harris lbw Fitzpatrick 2 C Campbell not out 2 Extras (11lb, 3b, 16w, 1nb) 31 Total (for 8 wkts, 50 overs) 179

Fall: 6, 38, 64, 91, 101, 161, 168, 173.

Bowling: Bronwyn Calver 10-1-24-0 (3w), Olivia Magno 10-2-27-2, Cathryn Fitzpatrick 10-0-36-1 (3w), Charmaine Mason 10-2-29-2 (1w), Joanne Broadbent 5-0-27-0 (4w), Karen Rolton 1-0-7-0 (1w, nb), Zoe Goss 4-0-15-1 (4w).