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WBBL 2024/25, HH-W vs PS-W twenty first Match Match Report, November 10, 2024

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Hobart Hurricanes 203 for 3 (Lee 150*) beat Perth Scorchers 131 (Ainsworth 41, Graham 3-24) by 72 runs

Lee’s innings, which included a 51-ball century, contributed an astonishing 73% of Hurricanes’ complete and in addition included a world record 12 sixes. Each Lee’s rating and sixes tally eclipsed the earlier marks set by Grace Harris along with her 136 not out final season. General, it was the fifth-highest rating in all ladies’s T20s and the best performed in a Full Member nation.

Coming into the match, Lee had a excessive rating of 38 in 5 WBBL innings this season. “It is a type of days, I will not say every little thing got here off the center as a result of it did not, however issues simply went my method,” she mentioned. “Coming by way of a little bit dip like that, having the assist of the group and household was unimaginable.”

To additional emphasise Lee’s dominance, a stand of 114 off 65 balls for the third wicket included simply 14 off 19 balls from accomplice Elyse Villani. The innings was rounded out by an unbroken partnership of 73 off 39 balls alongside Heather Graham. All of it got here after Hurricanes had misplaced two wickets in consecutive deliveries towards Chloe Ainsworth to depart them 16 for two within the third over.

Lee was given a life on 63 when spilled at backward level as Ainsworth returned to the assault. The figures of the Scorchers fast, who had obtained by way of two overs earlier than Lee hit turbo cost, stood out amid the carnage with 2 for 17.

Lee opened her sixes rely with back-to-back blows off Ebony Hoskin within the fourth over and broke the file by sending the identical bowler for additional consecutive sixes within the final. For Hoskin, who completed with 0 for 53 from 4 overs, it was a fast comedown after her final-over heroics towards Melbourne Renegades.

Hurricanes’ 203 was their second-highest complete in WBBL. Scorchers by no means threatened to get shut after an terrible begin the place they misplaced Sophie Devine first ball and in addition noticed Chloe Piparo run out within the opening over.


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