Match Details
It’s the Sixers who emerge victorious in this clash of the titans and tell you what, we’ve witnessed a topsy-turvy curve in the stakes of this encounter.
Earlier in the game, Sydney Sixers have won the bat flip and elected to bowl first. Georgia Voll and Danny Wyatt gave a flying start to the side, especially Wyatt who took few of the bowlers for big hits. The first wicket fell on 4.5 when the score was just 47. It was Gardner with the scalp and later it was all up to Kate Peterson, the 19-year-old with the prized scalps. Voll looked struggling on this day and later was taken aback by the youngster.
Wickets kept on tumbling on regular occasions, and it was onto Amelia Kerr and Jess Jonassen to take the innings deep at one point. Soon after the 18th over, Jonassen switched her gears and accelerated at the top gear itself. She tore apart the bowlers at the toe end to propel the score past the 160 runs mark. Amelia Kerr also played a handy knock of 15 runs off 20 balls and Jonassen was unbridled on 38 off 21 balls.
Arriving for the chase, the Heats lost a wicket early in the form of Alysa Healy. Elyse Perry too walked back in haste, without scoring a single run. Suzie Bates glued a 43 runs stand with Ashleigh Gardner and the latter was dismissed at the halfway of the 9th over.
The pressure was back on the Sixers after they lost a couple of wickets again and were put short to 72-5 after the 12th over.
A few loose deliveries from the bowling side then, and the duo of Burns and Ecclestone was tremendous in easing the gaps and playing with the field. They tinkered around and found the boundaries on regular occasions.
Burns steadily accelerated with calculative risk and narrowed the margins with assistance from Sophie Ecclestone.
With 12 runs needed from 6 balls, the veteran took the control of the game in her own hands and eased off the pressure in the next two deliveries. A six and a four were all needed to turn the tide completely in the favor of the Sixers. Ecclestone hit the finishing runs and ended things in their favor with five wickets and three balls to spare.
With this, the Sixers maintain their crown position at the points table.