This weekend saw a very successful weekend for the Women’s
teams.
The As made it four in a row in the T20 competition.
The Bs broke through for their first win.
Kylie Rattray earned her first state game on Sunday – making
the second player to make the Scorpion team from Southern.
The As lost the toss and were sent in. (We have now batted first in all five games
this season.)
Rachael got us off to the perfect start with twos off the
first two balls off state rep Keira Stockley, however when running off the 3rd
ball for a leg bye she was given out lbw, as was Dayna next ball.
Marg Hay 22 off 39 and Jess O’Reilly 35 (37) stabilised the
innings and later scored at better than a run a ball against their first and second
change bowlers to take us to 2/70 in the 12th.
Kylie Rattray (fresh from her state debut) came out and
blasted 40 off 26 with 5 fours and 2 sixes to take us to 125 at better than a
run a ball.
We had them in early trouble with two wickets to Donna in
her first two overs. A further wicket to
Dayna in her second over had them 3/7.
They rebuilt their innings
through state players Cara Fiebig and Neesha Iles – but Jess took Neesha’s
wicket and we had them 4/39 at the end of 7th. The Fiebig sisters (who had troubled
us in previous seasons) looked like they may take the game away from us as they
put on 15 in three overs – but Dayna’s return to the crease saw the dismissal
of Jess. They were 5/56 in the 10th
with one recognised batter remaining (needing 70 off 60 balls). We were able to keep the pressure on with the
last two wickets being run outs as they tried to score the runs.
Brandi bowled economically early to finish with 0/5, but it
was Kayla McGrath bowling at the death who cleaned up the tail (2/10). Captain Nicole Baker chimed in mid innings
with 2/9.
Our reply was set up by Brandi (12) and Nuggett 30 no – who put
on 37 for the first wicket in seven overs.
We thank TTG-Northern for allowing us to bat on after the
official end of the game with Chloe, Emily, Kayla McGrath and Sam Walton all
having valuable “in the middle practice” in match conditions.
Thanks to the Armstrong family
who organised the all day BBQ extravaganza which included egg and bacon for
breakfast for the SAPSASA practice before our games.
Kylie Rattray made her Scorpions debut on Sunday.
On Friday and Saturday she had 13th person duties (50 over)
but was called into the side on Sunday
for the T20 with the injury to Amanda Wellington.
She made 7 off 11 balls with one
4 and fielded for the last five overs of the ACT innings.
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