Sophie Devine came out all guns blazing on Sunday as the first player ever to score a half-century and take five sticks in a Women’s Big Bash League match.
Women’s Big Bash League
Devine scored 95 off 60 balls (8×4, 5×6) to guide her side to 172-3 before taking 5-41 to limit the Melbourne Stars to 153-9 off their 20 overs, with Mignon du Preez (33) and Lizelle Lee (25) getting among the runs.
Dane van Niekerk and Marizanne Kapp’s Sydney Sixers suffered only their second defeat of WBBL 2018 as they lost to the Brisbane Heat by 66 runs. Both took a wicket in the Heat’s innings and the pair notched up the two highest scores of the Sixers innings (Niekerk 25, Kapp 14) as they were humbled for 88 all out off their 18 overs.
Adelaide Strikers 172-3 (SFM Devine 95, BE Patterson 51 not out; A Sutherland 1-17, NM Hancock 1-24, EA Osborne 1-30)
Melbourne Stars 153-9 (M du Preez 33, L Lee 25, A Sutherland 23 not out; SFM Devine 5-41, TM McGrath 2-15)
Strikers won by 19 runs
Brisbane Heat 154-7 (SJ Johnson 51, JL Jonassen 40, GM Harris 20; EA Burns 3-20, EA Perry 1-19, LG Smith 1-22)
Sydney Sixers 88 (D van Niekerk 25; SJ Johnson 3-23, DM Kimmince 2-12, JL Barsby 2-17)
Brisbane Heat won by 66 runs
Perth Scorchers 172-2 (MM Lanning (75, EJ Villani 62; M Strano 1-29, S Molineux 1-30)
Melbourne Renegades 157-6 (DN Wyatt 42, JE Cameron 35, AE Satterthwaite 34 not out, S Molineux 22; H Graham 2-32, KL Cross 1-18, EL King 1-22, T Peschel 1-24)
Scorchers won by 15 runs
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Adelaide Strikers 174-5 (MW Short 65, JW Wells 42, J Weatherald 32, CA Ingram 21; KW Richardson 2-39, Mohammad Nabi 1-21, CJ Boyce 1-38)
Melbourne Renegades 176-5 (DT Christian 49 not out, Mohammad Nabi 48 not out, CL White 32, SB Harper 28; Rashid Khan 2-13, B Stanlake 2-43, C Valente 1-23)
Melbourne Renegades won by 5 wickets with 5 balls in hand
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