After today’s WBBL match between Hobart Hurricanes and Sydney Sixers the WBBL10 table is more congested than London during rush hour. This post looks both at today’s match and at the competition as a whole.
THE TABLE
Women’s Big Bash League
| Team | M | W | L | PT | NRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST-W | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1.158 |
| MS-W | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0.775 |
| PS-W | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0.352 |
| BH-W | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.133 |
| MR-W | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -0.156 |
| HH-W | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -0.227 |
| SS-W | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -0.407 |
| AS-W | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -0.900 |
The above table is courtesy of cricinfo, and a more detailed version can be viewed here.
With the exception of the Strikers, with one win and three losses, every team has four points, and only the Hurricanes, having played a game more than all their rivals are noticeably worse off, while the Scorchers, with a game in hand on everyone and two in hand on the Hurricanes are probably best placed of the sides to progress. Each side plays ten group matches, and at the moment it looks like most, if not all, will have some sort of qualification chance as the competition reaches its business end.
TODAY’S MATCH
Today’s game was largely dominated by one single performance. In a match in no other batter got past 30 (two Englishwomen, Hollie Armitage for the Sixers and Danni Wyatt-Hodge for the Hurricanes scored exactly this number) Ellyse Perry, already the tournament’s leading run scorer heading into this match, scored 86 off 62 balls. Sixers 155-7 proved enough to win by six runs. Perry cemented an already fairly undeniable claim to the POTM award by adding two catches to her 86 runs. Most notable among the Sixers bowlers were Ecclestone, approaching her best form for the first time in this tournament, with 4-0-22-2, and the youngster Caoimhe Bray with 3-0-13-2. Bray has more in common with her idol, Perry, than merely being a pace bowling all rounder: Perry scored a world cup goal for the Matildas, and although Bray has not yet featured in a full squad for the football side, she has played age group internationals in that sport. As is often the case when she is at or near peak form no opposition batter ever looked remotely comfortable facing Ecclestone. The Hurricanes best bowler on the day was leg spinner Amy Smith, with 1-20 from three overs.
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