WBBL wrap: Healy dominates for Sixers | Strikers see off Scorchers | Heat still on fire
Alyssa Healy blasted an incredible hundred against the Stars but it wasn’t enough to get the Sixers into finals. Full Big Bash wrap here.
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A remarkable 48-ball century to Sydney Sixers star opener Alyssa Healy has led her side to a five-wicket win over the top-of-the-table Melbourne Stars at North Sydney Oval.
But not even the victory, nor Healy’s stunning innings – the equal third-fastest century in WBBL history – could save the Sixers from ending what was otherwise a dismal WBBL06 campaign by missing finals for a second consecutive year.
Healy’s 111 (51) – the fourth hundred in her 87-game WBBL career – was built off 15 fours and six sixes, before she was caught by Nat Sciver off the boundary rope.
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HEALY HUNDRED!
— Rebel Women's Big Bash League (@WBBL) November 22, 2020
She brings up a superb century off just 48 balls. What a legend #WBBL06 pic.twitter.com/ftTQwCcpIq
To put her incredible innings into context, at the beginning of the 15th over when Healy was on 109, her opening partner Ellyse Perry was at the other end, on 31 (35).
At this point, the 184 (DLS) needed for victory looked well in reach, but when Perry was out for 31, it began a flurry of wickets that saw the Sixers lose four batters, including Healy, for only six runs and the Stars looked to wrestle back control.
Earlier, Stars’ skipper Meg Lanning also put on an electric display with the bat: in the 16th over, hitting consecutive sixes before rain stopped play. When play resumed, so did the big hits, Lanning marching on her merry way to 77 (59 balls).
The Stars finished with 4-178 (from a reduced 19 overs), with English import Nat Sciver chipping in with 32 off a remarkable 13 balls.
The chase was a difficult task, but Healy’s Player of the Match performance meant the Sixers needed seven runs off the final over, reached with two balls to spare.
THE MOMENT
Stars young bowler Tess Flintoff came into the attack for the sixth over and it was expensive: three wides (including one that headed for a five-run boundary) added to the pain, with Perry and Healy both finding the boundary. The 22 runs from the over brought the run rate back to a more reasonable (for the Healy/Perry combo) 10 runs an over.
THE KNOCK
Yea, Healy’s innings was the standout, but Stars opener Elyse Villani put in a brave turn at the crease. She twinged a hamstring early on, so instead of running she decided to stand back and whack the balls as hard as she could. She hit nine boundaries before she was caught off the bowling of Marizanne Kapp for a well-made 45 (28 balls).
HEALY HUNDRED!
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THE SPELL
Having been taken for 22 in the sixth over, Flintoff came back into the attack for the 16th and it was a game-changing one, starting with the run out of Dane van Niekerk for 3 (4), followed by the dismissal of Healy, and then two balls later bowled new batter Kapp for a golden duck. Flintoff finished with 3-32 off three overs, but it wasn’t quite enough to get the Stars the win.
STRIKERS SEE OFF SCORCHERS
Adelaide Strikers have pulled off a stunning three-run win over the fancied Perth Scorchers at North Sydney Oval.
Having made 159 after being sent into bat, a Strikers win seemed completely off the table at the 14-over mark of the Scorchers’ run chase, with Perth’s openers Sophie Devine and Beth Mooney piling on a quick-fire 118-run partnership.
The duo looked to have the match in the bag, until Devine was caught behind after notching up her fourth half-century of the tournament, sparking a batting collapse, with Perth losing 5-20 inside five overs.
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With the Scorchers needing nine runs from the final over, Sarah Coyte – who is known for her level head under pressure – was handed the ball and she lived up to the hype, bowling straight at the stumps, restricting Perth to five runs in six balls (helped also by two run outs).
The Strikers went into the match at North Sydney Oval already ruled out of finals, but their batting line-up seemed to click better than it has all season, putting in an all-round effort to lead Adelaide to 6-159, their highest total of their entire WBBL06 campaign.
Without their big-hitting internationals in Suzie Bates and Stafanie Taylor, the load was spread between Katie Mack 32 (20), Laura Wolvaardt 37 (32) and Maddie Penna 27 (28), but it was legspinner Amanda-Jade Wellington who came in at No. 5 and smacked the Strikers above the 150-mark with her 48 (25), including five fours and two sixes and taking home the Player of the Match accolade.
“To come back like that, I’m really proud of the team,” Wellington said.
“I thought our team this year was fairly strong, but with the likes of Bates … I thought the younger players and more experienced players really stepped up and we saw Maddie Penna and Tegan McPharlin and myself able to contribute with the bat when we needed to and seeing those young players is very exciting for the future of cricket.”
Player of the Match for a reason 🌟
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The unexpected loss meant the Scorchers squandered their chance to book a finals berth in their own right and instead had to wait for the Melbourne Stars/Sydney Sixers game to finish and rely on their superior runrate, to jump the Sixers into finals.
THE MOMENT
Devine and Mooney piled on the runs and looked to be cruising to a big win, before Striker Tahlia McGrath came into the attack and had Devine caught behind for 57 (42). This sparked a flurry of wickets: Amy Jones out for 4 (4), Mooney out for 60 (48), Chloe Piparo for 2(3), Mathilda Carmichael for 1 (1), those five wickets falling in five consecutive overs, making it more and more difficult for the Scorchers.
Run out! What a throw from Bridget Patterson on the boundary!
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THE KNOCK
The opening 118-run partnership between Mooney and Devine was spectacular to watch, hitting 15 fours between them. It was the second consecutive 100-run opening partnership (after their 10-wicket defeat of Hobart Hurricanes on Saturday), and they are sitting as the competition’s top two leading run scorers with 524 and 448 to their names respectively.
THE SPELL
The Scorchers’ English import Sarah Glenn made an impact from the start: running out Strikers opener Tahlia McGrath in the second over. She went on to take momentum-changing wickets, including trapping Mack leg before for 32 (20) and bowling Wellington in the final over for 48 (25). Glenn finished with 4-18.
THREE-PEAT ALIVE FOR HEAT
The Heat’s quest for a three-peat is well and truly on, with the Brisbane side romping to a statement win ahead of the WBBL finals.
Georgia Prestwidge (4-12) led a clinical bowling performance from the two-time defending champions as they beat the Melbourne Renegades by 43 runs in a rain-affected match at Drummoyne Oval.
The Heat will take winning momentum into the finals, while the crushing defeat for the Renegades – bowled out for just 76 – ends a massively disappointing season.
The struggling side never got anywhere near the revised 120-run target, with the Heat’s bowlers picking up regular wickets.
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And it began with the very first ball of their chase, when Delissa Kimmince bowled Lizelle Lee for a golden duck. The ball was a beauty, forcing Lee to edge it behind to Georgia Redmayne.
But it was Prestwidge who struck the crucial blows with the wickets of Rebecca Carter (2), Josie Dooley (4), Carly Leeson (12) and Lea Tahuhu (9).
Heat skipper Jess Jonassen rotated her attack to perfection and put on a spin masterclass herself, claiming two wickets for just six runs.
Amelia Kerr chipped in with two wickets and the New Zealand all-rounder also impressed with the bat earlier in the day. She navigated a tricky end to the Heat’s innings, hitting an unbeaten 35 off 26 balls.
The Brisbane side were 4-82 after 14 overs when a light shower passed over the ground. A short rain delay followed, but it meant the Heat lost three overs when they returned to the field.
Despite a couple of wickets falling around her as Carly Leeson and Lea Tahuhu found a bit of movement with the ball, Kerr managed a late flurry of runs to take the Heat to 6-114.
It had been a stuttering start to their innings with the dangerous Grace Harris and Georgia Redmayne gone early.
Tahuhu was the pick of the Renegades’ bowlers, taking two wickets for just 16 runs in her four overs.
The Heat’s score was adjusted after the delay, leaving the Renegades 120 to win in 17 overs. In the end, it was well beyond them.
Delissa Kimmince gets Lizelle Lee first ball!
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MOMENT OF THE MATCH
The Renegades would have had some hope of chasing down the Heat’s revised target of 120; the side batting second after a rain delay has the advantage of timing their chase. But that hope was swiftly ended when Lizelle Lee was dismissed by Delissa Kimmince with the very first ball of the innings. That wicket set the tone, with the Renegades going on to collapse like a team in a hurry to put a forgettable campaign behind them.
KNOCK OF THE MATCH
She usually stars with the ball, but Amelia Kerr was just as impressive with the bat against the Renegades. The 20-year-old Kiwi was the reason the Heat had a defendable total, with a late burst of runs that took her team to 6-114 at the end of their 17 overs. The Brisbane side lost three overs during the rain delay but Kerr adjusted when the teams returned to the field, going on to hit an unbeaten 35 off 26 balls.
BOWLING SPELL OF THE MATCH
While Delissa Kimmince started the carnage with the first ball of the innings, getting rid of Lizelle Lee, it was Georgia Prestwidge who finished the job. The 22-year-old claimed her best figures of the tournament, taking four wickets for just 12 runs. Her scalps in her opening spell were key ones; Rebecca Carter (2) and Josie Dooley (4). She then returned to dismiss Carly Leeson (12) and capped off the win by taking the final wicket of Lea Tahuhu (9). She ended with figures of 4-12.
BRUTAL ISMAIL SPELL SECURES FINALS FOR THUNDER
A brutal bowling display by Shabnim Ismail secured a WBBL finals berth for the Sydney Thunder as they beat the Hobart Hurricanes by six wickets at Drummoyne Oval.
In the end it was a nervier finish than they would have liked against the wooden spooners, but teenager Phoebe Litchfield (24 not out) and Sammy-Jo Johnson (16 not out) eventually saw the Thunder home.
The win was set up in the field with what was truly one of the great spells of the tournament from Ismail.
The experienced South African quick steamrolled through the Hurricanes top order with four overs of pure pace and terror.
She removed Nicola Carey and Hayley Matthews in the opening over and returned in the third to dismiss Chloe Tryon.
Ismail bowled a spell of relentless pace and line and once she had bowled through, ended with figures of 3-10.
It made for brilliant entertainment, though the Hurricanes would have had a vastly different view.
After the carnage it was Rachel Priest (32) and Sasha Moloney (39) who staged a rescue mission, with Moloney at times putting her body on the line.
Already without the injured Belinda Vakarewa and with nothing but pride left to play for, the Hurricanes eventually limped to 9-115 at the end of their innings.
It left the Thunder to chase a modest target, but the Hurricanes did make things interesting. Rachael Haynes (4) followed openers Tammy Beaumont (22) Rachel Trenaman (16) back to the sheds, with the Thunder doing to their best to ensure a nervy finish.
But they will take confidence from the win, particularly with Litchfield and Johnson peaking at just the right time.
MOMENT OF THE MATCH
The opening over broke the back of the match and it’s hard to look past it as the defining moment of the game. The Thunder’s Shabnim Ismail dismissed Nicola Carey with her second ball and the dangerous Hayley Matthews with her last, both batters gone for ducks. With confidence already down in the Hurricanes camp, it was an over they struggled to bounce back from.
KNOCK OF THE MATCH
There were precious few standout knocks, but the nerve of schoolgirl Phoebe Litchfield again impressed. For the second match in as many days, the 17-year-old kept a cool head in the closing stages as she guided the Thunder to victory with unbeaten 24 off 25 balls. It’s a modest knock on paper, but it was just the knock the Thunder needed as the Hurricanes did their best to keep things interesting.
BOWLING SPELL OF THE MATCH
Not just the spell of the match, but one of the great spells of the tournament. Shabnim Ismail terrorised the Hurricanes top order, claiming the scalps of Nicola Carey and Hayley Matthews in the opening over, before returning to remove Chloe Tryon in the third. The South Africa quick left the Hurricanes reeling with her relentless pace and line and they simply couldn’t recover from it.
SIXERS SUCCUMB TO RENEGADES
The Sixers’ finals chances are effectively over as the side faces a reprimand for a paperwork mix-up that blighted their six-wicket loss to the Melbourne Renegades.
Sixers youngster Hayley Silver-Holmes was brought back into the squad for the game against the out-of-contention Renegades but, because she’d been replaced on their list, she wasn’t eligible.
A fast-bowling all-rounder, Silver-Holmes didn’t bat and the Sixers self-reported their mistake with her not taking the field for the second dig.
The Sixers could be hit with a breach by the WBBL but it was unclear on Saturday night what the sanctions might be, with the league saying an update would be provided “in due course”.
Her absence was felt during the Renegades innings, with Sydney having to find four extra overs as the Renegades took advantage of a poor fielding effort to chase home the 4/166 total.
South Arfrican Renegade Lizelle Lee was brilliant, scoring 79 (45), ably supported by cameos from Amy Satterthwaite 17 (17) and Courtney Webb 46* (28).
Silver-Holmes was saved from having to bat by an opening stand of 104 runs by Alyssa Healy and Ellyse Perry which laid the foundations for Sydney to set a massive score, before two Molly Strano wickets in three balls ended their partnership.
THE QUOTE
“The WBBL is aware of an administrative error pertaining to player selection in the Sydney Sixers-Melbourne Renegades match on Saturday,” the WBBL said in a statement late Saturday night.
“The Sixers self-reported an issue relating to Hayley Silver-Holmes’ paperwork shortly after the Sixers-Renegades game had commenced. Silver-Holmes did not bat nor take the field for the Renegades’ run-chase.
“The WBBL will provide an update on the matter in due course.”
THE MOMENT
Just one run after the dismissal of Healy, Perry skied one from Strano towards cover. Enter the Renegades’ Courtney Webb, who ran back with the flight of the ball to take a grab Nick Riewoldt would be proud of over her right shoulder. Webb, a former Carlton AFLW player, showed her poise under the lights but undid her great work just a few balls later when spilling a much easier catch at deep long-off.
THE KNOCK
Lizelle Lee dragged her team to close to the finish line with a sublime nine fours and four sixes in her 45-ball 79. The South African kept her lowly side in a contest few would have expected when Sixers Healy and Perry rocketed the Sixers out of the blocks. By the time Lee headed for the bunker, the Renegades needed just a run a ball to secure a win that well and truly sets a cat among the pigeons in WBBL10.
DEVINE’S DEVASTATING KNOCK ON SCORCHERS RETURN
Perth remains well and truly in the hunt for a WBBL finals position after dispatching the floundering Hobart Hurricanes at North Sydney Oval.
Perth openers Beth Mooney and the returning Sophie Devine made short work of the Hurricanes total of 6/134, reaching the target with more than five overs to spare.
Devine smoked the last ball of the innings to reach 87 not out off 53 deliveries, supported ably by Mooney, unbeaten on 48 (36).
“We just wanted to win,” Devine said.
“Sometimes you forget your first job out there is to win the game.”
The mind-bending maths for the finals series would make Messrs Duckworth and Lewis blush but the Scorchers did their cause no harm with a handy win and boost to the net run rate.
The ‘Canes, officially out of contention, lost leading runscorer this season Rachel Priest (8) early but rebuilt through a 50-run partnership between Nicola Carey and Chloe Tryon.
Hobart hit the drinks break off the back of an 18-run over from Heather Graham but any hope of a decent Hurricanes score was diffused by Sam Betts in the 12th over, with two brilliant catches by keeper Beth Mooney and Sarah Glenn to remove both.
THE KNOCK
Fighting off a back injury, Scorchers skipper Devine returned in devastating form ahead of finals with a dominant 87 not out. The contrast was clearest when the experienced Kiwi dispatched two rank full tosses from young Hurricanes leggie Amy Smith for 10 in the eighth over. Her innings featured five sixes and eight fours.
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THE MOMENT
Scorcher Betts effectively won the game for her side with her sublime over in the 12th. In the three overs prior, the ‘Canes had racked up 34 runs. Betts removed Carey by chasing her when she backed away, with an inside edge expertly caught by Mooney. Glenn then took hold of a high ball to remove Tryon to snuff out the Hurricanes’ chances of setting a big target.
THE SPELL
Taneale Peschel was impossible to get away, going for just 13 runs in her four overs. A sharp catch from Chloe Piparo removed Rachel Priest, the Canes’ leading runscorer this season with the score on just nine. From there, Peschel bowled at all the crucial junctures to restrict the Hurricanes’ efforts like a python choking its prey.
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HEAT ROLLS ON
– Emma Greenwood
The Brisbane Heat have notched a sixth successive win to beat competition leaders Melbourne Stars and stake a claim for a third consecutive WBBL title.
After Stars young gun Tess Flintoff restricted the Heat to just two runs in the penultimate over, Laura Kimmince iced the game with consecutive boundaries to hand the Heat a three-wicket victory in one of the highest-quality games of the season.
It was the third consecutive starring performance at the death from Kimmince, who pummelled 19 runs from just five balls to seal the win.
The Stars posted a strong total of 151 in the top-of-the-table clash at Drummoyne Oval despite losing Australian captain Meg Lanning for a duck after just three balls.
But the Stars are loaded with talent and internationals and South African Mignon du Preez (51 off 38) and Englishwoman Natalie Sciver (33 off 27) stepped up to lead them to a more-than-competitive total.
“In the past I’ve always got going but I haven’t converted those starts,” du Preez said.
“Now I’m converting them into 50s but hopefully there’s one big score coming in the near future.”
The Heat also lost an early wicket, with Grace Harris dismissed in the third over but Jess Jonassen and Georgia Redmayne steadied the ship with a 49-run partnership before Redmayne and Georgia Voll combined for another 44 runs.
Redmayne was sensationally run out by Katherine Brunt, though, with the Heat’s run chase slowing in the next four-and-a-half overs until Kimmince strode to the crease.
Laura Kimmince just keeps on getting it done for the @HeatBBL!
— Rebel Women's Big Bash League (@WBBL) November 21, 2020
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The victory cements the Heat’s position in second place on the ladder and maintains their momentum in the back half of the season, marking them as genuine title contenders following several off-season changes.
After just their second loss of the season, the Stars will hold their position at the top of the table, regardless of the result of their final fixture against the Sydney Sixers on Sunday.
“Obviously we would have liked to keep the momentum going but even though we’ve lost two games, we still managed to take it all the way to the end,” du Preez said.
“The Renegades was a super over, and then today with four balls to spare, so there’s something that we’ve done really well this season is to keep on fighting all the way to the end.”
THE MOMENT
The Heat may have eventually conceded 151 runs but they were on the front foot after dismissing Aussie captain Meg Lanning in the opening over of the match. In sensational form, Lanning has not been out for a duck this season and her scalp was key to the Heat’s win.
THE KNOCK
Mignon du Preez blasted 51 off 37 balls to set up the Stars’ innings with a sensational knock after the early dismissal of captain Meg Lanning. Du Preez hit eight fours and a magnificent six in her innings, and was only dismissed by a catch from Grace Harris not far inside the long-on boundary as she tried to push the pace.
THE SPELL
Grace Harris finished with just two wickets for the Heat but it was the double breakthrough in the 17th over that earns her the bowling spell of the match. With the Stars looking set to post a mammoth total, Harris dismissed internationals Annabel Sutherland (three off six balls) and Natalie Sciver 33 off 28), conceding just one run in a pivotal moment in the match.
THE QUOTE
“We want to finish the tournament on a high and get some momentum going into finals weekend, so hopefully we can pull off another fabulous team performance (against the Sydney Sixers) tomorrow.” – Mignon du Preez
THUNDER STORM INTO FINALS
– Emma Greenwood
Teen star Phoebe Litchfield has showed maturity beyond her years to lead the Thunder to a five-wicket win over the Adelaide Strikers that all but seals Sydney’s place in the WBBL finals.
Litchfield made just 16 runs (14 balls) but kept a cool head after the late loss of Australian vice-captain Rachael Haynes (30 off 23) to help the Thunder eclipse the Strikers’ total of 133 at Drummoyne Oval with just two balls remaining.
It was the second successive match in which Litchfield played a key role after her 46 off 36 deliveries in the Sydney derby earlier in the week almost led to an unlikely victory.
The Thunder remain in third place on the competition ladder after the win while the Strikers drop out of finals contention following the loss.
Haynes looked set to guide the Thunder home after an opening partnership of 44 between Tammy Beaumont (23 off 20) and Rachel Trenaman (38 off 40) set their innings up.
But she was stumped with one ball remaining in the penultimate over, leaving Litchfield and fellow young gun, Tahlia Wilson, 21, to get them home.
Thunder all-rounder Sammy-Jo Johnson said the team had full faith in the youngers to get Sydney home.
“After the way that Phoebe performed in our last game against the Sixers, you’d back her in any day of the week,” Johnson said.
The Strikers’ total seemed achievable, thanks in large part to the bowling of Johnson, whose spell of 3-25 – including the wicket of Katie Mack – helped pin down the Adelaide side.
With Mack (58 off 52 balls) having just brought up her half-century and Stafanie Taylor on 33 (29), the Strikers seemed poised to explode in the final overs.
But a mix-up led to Taylor being run out in the 17th over and the Strikers made just 24 runs in the final 3.2 overs, with the Thunder taking another three wickets down the stretch.
“It would have been nice to put a few more (runs) on the board and then they had a really good power play,” Mack said, lamenting early-season losses that cost the Strikers their finals chance.
Having watched the Melbourne Stars and Brisbane both passed 150 runs in Saturday’s early game at Drummoyne, Johnson believed the Strikers’ target was achievable.
“We knew that we’d bowled well, it was just about playing smart cricket shots and that would get us over the line,” Johnson said.
THE MOMENT
With Mack and Taylor putting together a promising partnership for the Strikers, a mix-up in the 17th over led to Taylor being run out just as she was set and looking to ramp up the tempo. Having reached 33 off 29 balls, the West Indian looked ready to explode in the final overs but ended up back in the pavilion.
THE KNOCK
She ultimately finished on the losing side but Mack’s 58 off 52 balls, which included five fours and a six, helped the Strikers post a competitive total. But trying to force the pace against Sammy-Jo Johnson, she scooped the ball to short fine leg and was caught by Sam Bates.
THE SPELL
Sammy-Jo Johnson finished with 3-25 from her four overs, picking up the key wickets of openers Tahlia McGrath and Mack. The wicket of Mack was key after she reached her half-century and Johnson followed it up with the scalp of Madeline Penna for a duck in the same over to slow the Strikers in the final overs.
THE QUOTE
“I wouldn’t look just at this game, I’d look at a few games where we were pretty close and should have won earlier (in the season) and not left it to the last two games.” – Strikers opener Katie Mack laments her team’s missed semi-final opportunity.
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