India Women’s player and one of the finest batters in the women’s game, Smriti Mandhana hit a comprehensive 45 in Sydney Thunder Women’s chase of 95 against cross-town rivals Sixers Women. This was the second Sydney Derby of the Women’s Big Bash League 2021 with the first one being abandoned due to rain.
Firstly the Thunder bowlers reduced the Ellyse Perry-led side to only 94-6 even as Perry herself remained unbeaten on 40. Isabelle Wong and Hannah Darlington took two wickets each for the Thunder side. In the chase, Mandhana played anchor and scored 39-ball 45 to guide her team to only their third victory this season which made them move up from the bottom of the table to seventh place.
For Sixers, it was their seventh loss of the season and they are placed at the sixth position, only one point ahead of the Thunder.
In another game, Adelaide Strikers Women beat Brisbane Heat Women by eight wickets to stop their three-match winning run and continue their winning streak which has been stretched up to four at the moment.
Courtesy of Amanda-Jade Wellington and co.’s bowling effort, Strikers reduced Heat to only 94-7 in their 20 overs and then, even after losing their foreign imports Dane van Niekerk and Laura Wolvaardt early, Katie Mack and Tahlia McGrath finished the game with their unbeaten 88 run partnership. Mack with her fifty was the top scorer.