Sophie Devine performed magic with the bat twice on Tuesday, scoring an undefeated 99 off 53 balls to earn the Adelaide Strikers a Super Over shootout, during which she smashed 6-6-4 to claim victory over the Hobart Hurricanes with three balls to spare.
WOMEN’S BIG BASH LEAGUE
Melbourne Renegades 139-4 (DN Wyatt 59, S Molineux 27, JE Cameron 25; NJ Carey 2-25, 2-25, R Trenaman 1-15, SR Taylor 1-22)
Sydney Thunder 141-4 (AJ Blackwell 66 not out, RH Priest 22; LMM Tahuhu 1-23, S Molineux 1-23, M Brown 1-29)
Sydney Thunder won by 6 wickets with 5 balls in hand
Sophie Devine was the #WBBL04 @Dream11 MVP of the Day thanks to her 99 runs plus another 16 in the Super Over!
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Adelaide Strikers 189-5 (SFM Devine 99 not out, TM McGrath 63; B Hepburn 2-28, SK Maloney 1-32, SK Maloney 1-32, HC Knight 1-49)
Hobart Hurricanes 189-8 (G Redmayne 54 not out, S Mandhana 52, SK Maloney 23, CL Hall 21; SJ Coyte 3-32, A Wellington 1-26, D Hazell 1-31)
Match tied – Adelaide Strikers won the one-over eliminator
BIG BASH LEAGUE
Brisbane Heat 186-8 (BB McCullum 56, CA Lynn 54, M Bryant 36; JD Cook 4 0 27 3, Fawad Ahmed 2-36, GS Sandhu 1-23, CJ Green 1-27, DR Sams 1-38)
Sydney Thunder 34-2, 5.3 overs, target 50 (CJ Ferguson 16, SR Watson 13 not out; JL Pattinson 1-6, B Doggett 1-8)
Brisbane Heat won by 15 runs (D/L method)
BANGLADESH PREMIER LEAGUE
Dhaka Dynamites 192-6 (Hazratullah Zazai 57, Rony Talukdar 28, KA Pollard 27, AD Russell 25; PR Stirling 2-2, D Wiese 2-24, Ali Khan 1-26, Mahmudullah 1-26)
Khulna Titans 87 (Junaid Siddique 31; Shakib Al Hasan 3-18, SP Narine 2-20, Shuvagata Hom 1-4, Mohor Sheikh 1-13)
Dynamites won by 105 runs
Comilla Victorians 63 (Shahid Afridi 25, Mashrafe Mortaza 4-11, Nazmul Islam 3-20, Shafiul Islam 2-8, Farhad Reza 1-11)
Rangpur Riders 67-1 (Mehedi Maruf 36 not out, RR Rossouw 20 not out; Abu Hider 1-11)
Rangpur Riders won by 9 wickets with 48 balls in hand
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