Best performances at Under-16 Female National Cricket Championships

Australia’s best young female cricketers are competing at the national titles in Ballarat and for one of the favourites it has not been a good start to the tournament. See who has shone on the first two days.

Shiloh Julien has been impressive for NSW Metro on day one and day two of the tournament. Picture: Cricket NSW.

Victoria Metro’s defence of the Under-16 National Cricket Championships is on shaky ground after suffering their first loss in more than a year in Ballarat.

While it was despair for one team it was jubilation for another team who won their first match in almost two years.

Here is a wrap of day two at the event.

Day Two

Victoria Metro will need to win almost all of its remaining matches to qualify for the final after losing to NSW Metro by 128 runs.

Playing their first game of the tournament, after having a washout in the first game, Vic Metro was bowled out for 110 in reply to NSW Metro’s 7/238 from it’s 50 overs.

After making 56 on the opening day, NSW Metro opener Shiloh Julien continued her good form, making 50, with Aditi Shidore (70) and Aurora Mavros (69) also contributing.

Julien and Aanya Siingh then took two wickets each to help the team to win.

Victoria Metro is now one and a half games behind the top two, which is where the team needs to be to make the final after the round robin matches, so wins are needed on the final few days to stay alive.

ACT is celebrating their first win in more than a year after beating the Northern Territory by three wickets in Maryborough.

A vital 35-run stand for the eighth wicket between Dhruti Patel (20*) and Saranya Chanduri (8*) guided the team to the win.

The game of the day was Queensland beating NSW Country by one wicket at Buninyong.

Queensland chased down the 199 made by NSW Country to win with seven balls to spare.

The game looked over for the Maroons when the team lost its ninth wicket, still requiring 15 runs to win.

But Ayaka Stafford (29*) and Jessica Cremin (8*) helped the team to win with a vital last wicket stand.

Astrid Muniandy set up the win with a valuable 70 for the Maroons through the first part of the innings.

In other results, South Australia defeated Tasmania by seven wickets to move to the top of the standings with two wins in the tournament.

Victoria Country joined them with two wins after beating Western Australia by five wickets, chasing WA’s total of 166 with more than 10 overs to spare.

Wednesday will see the teams have a day off before play resumes on Thursday.

Day One

Western Australia and NSW Metro played out the game of the day to start the tournament with the rain shortened game going down to the final ball.

Needing three runs, the NSW side could only manage a sing off the bowling of Liv Tedeschi as WA held on for a one-run win.

WA had posted 6-147 from its 19 overs as Alyssa Dermody top scored with an unbeaten 63 off 55 with Kaya Punter and Shiloh Julien taking two wickets apiece.

Despite valiant opening efforts from Julien (56 off 50) and Aanya Singh (65 not out off 56), Metro was unable to get across the line.

Tasmania claimed a six-wicket win over the Northern Territory in the final over chasing down their opponent’s 4-122 in the 21-over game.

Trisha Bajaj top scored for the NT with 56 off 56 before Tassie skipper Mia Barwick pushed her side across the line with an unbeaten 38.

Vic Country held on by eight rounds against Queensland in a game which was reduced to 29 overs a side.

Indigo Noble led the way with the bat, scoring 41 not out, as the tournament hosts posted 4-151.

Queensland reached 9-143 in response with Madhumika Dinesh’s unbeaten 32 the best score.

South Australia recorded a comfortable win, prevailing by 41 runs against the ACT.

Ivy Hobbs posted a half-century in the win.

The game between Vic Metro and NSW Country was abandoned.

Originally published as Best performances at Under-16 Female National Cricket Championships