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Wareham's career-best books Renegades a finals berth
Renegades remain in the running to host a home grand final after an impressive performance
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21-Nov-2024
Melbourne Renegades 150 for 5 (Wareham 69, Stalenberg 36*, Carey 3-26) beat Hobart Hurricanes 128 for 8 (Villani 36) by 22 runs
Melbourne Renegades locked in a WBBL finals berth and left Hobart Hurricane's top-four hopes hanging in the balance after comfortably beating them by 22 runs.
Georgia Wareham's career-best 69 helped the Renegades to 150 for 5 and the home side never threatened.
Full postScorchers and Sixers tie Super Over thriller in race for finals
The result left Sixers on the brink despite the best efforts of captain Ellyse Perry
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21-Nov-2024
Perth Scorchers 126 (Mooney 44, Halliday 41, Gardner 4-21) tied with Sydney Sixers 126 for 7 (Perry 67, King 3-21)
Super over Sydney Sixers 15 for 0 tied with Perth Scorchers 15 for 1
Super over Sydney Sixers 15 for 0 tied with Perth Scorchers 15 for 1
Perth Scorchers edged into the WBBL finals frame with a dramatic Super Over tie against Sydney Sixers with Mikayla Hinkley hitting Ashleigh Gardner's last ball for four to again tie scores
Gardner had taken four wickets as Scorchers stumbled to 126 all out from 19.2 overs. Sixers then fell one run short of a regulation win despite Ellyse Perry's fine 67 from 53 balls.
Full postThunder hold nerve in tricky conditions to close in on home grand final
Marizanne Kapp rocked the top order with three wickets Tahlia Wilson and Anika Learoyd steadied the chase
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20-Nov-2024
Sydney Thunder 112 for 6 (Wilson 33, Learoyd 31*, Kapp 3-20) beat Melbourne Stars 108 for 9 (Darlington 3-26) by four wickets
Sydney Thunder are one win away from their third WBBL grand final, after scratching home to a tense final-over victory against Melbourne Stars.
After Hannah Darlington starred with the ball to keep the last-placed Stars to 108 for 9, she was forced to hit the winning runs late with two balls and four wickets to spare.
Full postSchutt stars as Strikers dent Scorchers' finals hopes
Laura Wolvaardt, Smitri Mandhana, and Katie Mack all play important innings to set up a good total
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19-Nov-2024
Adelaide Strikers 169 for 6 (Wolvaardt, Mandhana 41, Mack 41, King 3-29) beat Perth Scorchers 139 (Halliday 47, Schutt 3-19) by 30 runs
Adelaide Strikers put a severe dent in the WBBL finals hopes of the Perth Scorchers with a 30-run victory as Megan Schutt put on a masterclass.
Strikers posted 169 for 6, with Laura Wolvaardt, Smriti Mandhana, and Katie Mack the chief contributors at Karen Rolton Oval. Scorchers slumped to 17 for 4 as Schutt ran through the top order, leaving their finals chances hanging precariously.
Full postSri Lanka clinch series 2-0 after rain washes out third ODI
New Zealand were 112 for 1 in 21 overs when rain arrived
Madushka Balasuriya
19-Nov-2024
No Result New Zealand 112 for 1 (Young 56*, Nicholls 46*) vs Sri Lanka
Persistent rain in Pallekele meant the final ODI between Sri Lanka and New Zealand was washed out, with Sri Lanka, who had won the first two games, taking the series 2-0. This is Sri Lanka's fifth ODI series win this year.
It was an anti-climactic end to a game that had begun with much promise, courtesy a fresh pitch that was expected to suit the batters as opposed to the more sluggish surfaces served up in the first two games.
Full postHasan Murad hat-trick headlines Bangladesh's warm-up game on West Indies tour
Litton Das, who had missed the second Test against SA last month due to fever, also returned to action
Mohammad Isam
19-Nov-2024
Bangladesh 253 for 7 dec (Jaker 48, Mahidul 41, Litton 31, Holder 2-48) drew with West Indies Select XI 87 for 9 (Melius 23, Murad 3-1, Mahmud 2-15)
Rain couldn't completely dent Bangladesh's only practice match on their tour of the West Indies, as the visitors had a pretty good outing against the West Indies Select XI in Coolidge.
After the four-and-a-half-hour delay on the second day, Bangladesh reduced the hosts to 87 for 9, with rookie left-arm spinner Hasan Murad bagging a hat-trick. Murad removed Daniel Beckford, Navin Bidaisee and Chaim Holder back-to-back in the 28th over, after which Bangladesh coach Phil Simmons immediately signaled the end of the match.
Full postZampa, Stoinis trounce Pakistan to seal clean sweep
Stoinis' 27-ball 61* allowed Australia to race to a modest target with nearly nine overs left
Danyal Rasool
18-Nov-2024
Australia 118 for 3 (Stoinis 61*, Inglis 27, Afridi 1-14) beat Pakistan 117 all out (Babar 41, Hardie 3-21, Zampa 2-11) by 7 wickets
Australia signed off their T20I series against Pakistan as they played the rest of it: with a decisive seven-wicket win that also sealed the series 3-0. Pakistan limped to 117 before being bowled out in 18.1 overs, losing their last nine wickets for 56 runs. Adam Zampa ran rings around them after the Powerplay, his 2-11 in four overs the catalyst for their collapse. Babar Azam - who top-scored with 41 off 28, had led Pakistan to a good position in the first six overs; by that time, the visitors sat relatively pretty at 58 for 1.
Marcus Stoinis put any jeopardy out of the contest in the chase when he smashed Haris Rauf for 22 in an over. His 27-ball 61 meant Australia got to the target with almost nine overs to spare after Pakistan had made a respectable start in their attempt to defend a below-par target. Jake Fraser-McGurk and Matthew Short fell early, while Jahandad Khan's variations made life tricky for Australia in the powerplay. But, as Stoinis later guaranteed, the visitors were merely delaying the inevitable.
Full postOne-arm Agar and Rocchiccioli's rare hat-trick can't stop Victoria racing top
Wicketkeeper Joel Curtis struck a maiden first-class hundred but Western Australia didn't have enough to defend
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18-Nov-2024
Victoria 373 (Rogers 76, Crone 62, Handscomb 56) and 122 for 2 (Harris 56*, Handscomb 56*) beat Western Australia 167 (Murphy 4-37) and 325 (Curtis 119*, Cartwright 78, Elliott 4-47)
Victoria raced to a crushing eight-wicket Sheffield Shield win despite a rare hat-trick to Western Australia spinner Corey Rocchiccioli.
With the hosts chasing 120 for victory on the final day at Junction Oval, Marcus Harris and Peter Handscomb went on the attack in an unbroken 103-run third-wicket stand after an early scare.
Full postWashout in St Lucia after five overs as England take series 3-1
No further play possible as heavy rains curtail contest in series finale
Valkerie Baynes
17-Nov-2024
Match abandoned West Indies 44 for 0 (Lewis 29*, Hope 14*) vs England
England leave West Indies with a 3-1 T20I series victory after the final match of their Caribbean tour was washed out.
Play was abandoned after just five overs in the fifth and final T20I with Evin Lewis and Shai Hope steering the hosts to 44 without loss before a heavy storm set in at Darren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia.
Full postKusal Mendis, spinners seal series win for Sri Lanka
It was Sri Lanka's first ODI series win against New Zealand since 2012
Madushka Balasuriya
17-Nov-2024
Sri Lanka 210 for 7 (Mendis 74*, Theekshana 27*, Bracewell 4-36) beat New Zealand 209 all out (Chapman 76, Hay 49, Theekshana 3-31) by three wickets (47 overs a side)
Kusal Mendis' unbeaten 73 trumped Mark Chapman's 76, as Sri Lanka secured a narrow three-wicket win in the second ODI in Pallekele, and with it seal the series with an unassailable 2-0 lead. It was their first ODI series win against New Zealand since 2012.
Having been set a subpar target of 210 in a rain-truncated 47-over game, Sri Lanka were made to work hard on a sluggish surface as New Zealand's array of spin options kept chipping away. But a string of mini-partnerships was enough to see the hosts through, culminating in an unbeaten eighth wicket stand of 47 off 59 - the best of the innings - between Kusal and Maheesh Theekshana.
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