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WBBL 2024/25, PS-W vs SS-W thirty fourth Match Match Report, November 21, 2024

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Perth Scorchers 126 (Mooney 44, Halliday 41, Gardner 4-21) tied with Sydney Sixers 126 for 7 (Perry 67, King 3-21)
Tremendous over Sydney Sixers 15 for 0 tied with Perth Scorchers 15 for 1

Perth Scorchers edged into the WBBL finals body with a dramatic Tremendous Over tie in opposition to Sydney Sixers with Mikayla Hinkley hitting Ashleigh Gardner’s final ball for 4 to once more tie scores

Gardner had taken 4 wickets as Scorchers stumbled to 126 all out from 19.2 overs. Sixers then fell one run in need of a regulation win regardless of Ellyse Perry’s positive 67 from 53 balls.

Within the preliminary tremendous over, Perry smacked a six and a 4 as Sixers made 15 for 0 from Amy Edgar’s spin bowling. Gardner eliminated Beth Mooney with a pointy return catch within the reply, though replays recommended the ball might have been floor, earlier than Hinkley supplied the ultimate drama.

Each side acquired one level, which lifts Scorchers (9 factors) from fifth to fourth, whereas Sixers (eight factors) stay in sixth spot.

Perry starred with the bat and Gardner did likewise with the ball – she took 4 for 21 as Scorchers dramatically misplaced their final 9 for 31

After Gardner claimed her first wicket within the second over of the innings, Beth Mooney and Brooke Halliday produced a fruitful partnership.

The duo took the rating to a stable 72 for 1 after 10 overs, however 23 runs later Halliday turned Gardner’s second sufferer, ending an 85-run stand with Mooney. Halliday’s dismissal triggered the slide. Mooney adopted within the subsequent over, and from then solely Sophie Devine reached double figures.

Perry paced the chase, posting her half-century from 42 balls. However the skipper was caught on the long-off boundary from the bowling of Alana King within the 18th over, and the legspinner struck once more subsequent ball, trapping Maitlan Brown leg earlier than wicket.

That left Sixers needing 20 from 15 balls, and the equation was 12 runs to win from the final over delivered by Edgar, who conceded 11.

Edgar was summoned to bowl the tremendous over and Perry smashed a six and 4. Gardner then conceded the identical quantity, with Hinkley unbeaten on 14 from 4 balls – three of which she hit to the boundary.


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