WBBL: Sydney Sixers star Alyssa Healy belts Scorchers all over Perth’s Lilac Hill

A devastating display of pure striking from Aussie superstar Alyssa Healy has led the Sydney Sixers to a marauding win over Perth Scorchers.

Alyssa Healy smashed the Scorchers’ bowlers all over Lilac Hill. Picture: Getty Images

Any time she is doubted, Alyssa Healy delivers like any champion would.

The Australian star had not passed fifty in her last four WBBL innings and answered with an unbeaten 94 from 57 balls in a dominant 44-run win over the Perth Scorchers on Sunday.

She fell narrowly short of a record fifth Big Bash century as her innings provided the platform to break a three-match losing streak for the Sixers.

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Meeting her old club for the first time, at a place she knew well in Lilac Hill, West Aussie Nicole Bolton claimed the standout figures of 3-11 from her two overs of off spin coupled with two catches in the outer.

Healy became the sixth woman to pass 2,500 WBBL runs on Sunday joining her opening partner and captain Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Elyse Villani, Meg Lanning and Scorcher’s captain Sophie Devine.

Alyssa Healy smashed the Scorchers’ bowlers all over Lilac Hill. Picture: Getty Images

At the peak of her innings, South African great fast bowler Morne Morkel joked in commentary that he would be bowling for “run outs” such was the form of Healy.

For a second consecutive match, the Sixers’ continued with a return to what had been so successful in the past with the seventh hundred partnership in the WBBL between Healy and Perry (31).

While the change failed against the Melbourne Renegades, it did not take long for the super star duo to renew those good vibes with 101 from 76 balls in a total of 3/161.

Perth is a happy hunting ground for the champion Australian duo setting a WBBL record partnership of 199 unbeaten at the WACA, in 2019.

Healy goes large during her matchwinning knock. Picture: Getty Images

“Look at the scoreboard”. Picture: Getty Images

The seven stands past 100 is another WBBL record which they now hold.

Bolton picked up two of her three wickets in her very first over to her sheer delight and the former Scorcher who she spent the first six seasons with.

“She took 41 wickets for the Scorchers, I reckon she’ll be pretty happy to be starting at the Sixers, especially two wickets (in her first over) against her former team,” journalist Mel Farrell commented.

Ellyse Perry has her pegs ripped out during the Sixers’ innings. Picture: Getty Images

Airborne Cheatle delivers Devine wicket

It was always going to need to something special, even spectacular, to remove Sophie Devine (6) whose power hitting has been the staple of Perth’s three wins leading into Sunday.

And an airborne Lauren Cheatle (2-13) delivered at mid-wicket, best described by Sixers’ all-rounder Erin Burns, who is stranded in Sydney due to the complexities of border restrictions.

“(She) just seemed to have go-go-gadget arms for a little bit there, got some nice height and hop, taking it with two hands,” Burns said.

It was one of her three catches on Sunday.

A celebration of culture

In a week when Black Lives Matter again made headlines surrounding the actions of Quinton de Kock at the Men’s T20 World Cup, the Sixers and Scorchers united to celebrate the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, each with specially designed Indigenous jerseys.

The Sixers wore a Jordan Adler-designed playing shirt for the first time in its history, something proud Muruwari woman Ashleigh Gardner had been longing for, for seven seasons.

Originally published as WBBL: Sydney Sixers star Alyssa Healy belts Scorchers all over Perth’s Lilac Hill