As lose to Northern

Our second T20 game was highlighted with the return of Tahlia McGrath.

Northern made an above par 2/160 - losing their first wicket in the 15th over for 123.
State rep Tegan McFarline got away from us with 79 off 61.

We had moments we were able to stem the run rate and our fielding in the second part of the innings were good.

Our openers Rachael (24 off 36) and Tahlia 47 off 42 gave us a great start with 20 off the first two overs, but the introduction of state spinner H Perry stemmed the run rate as did the loss of wickets.
We finished 32 runs short.

Rachael continued her good form (23 last week) and at one stage was scoring at better than a run a ball (18 off 17.)

Chloe Lyons scored her first of many runs at A grade.

We have our first 50 over game at Christies High next Sunday.

correction to last week

from Bearders of BBC

A friend and I were wondering if a bowler were to take two wickets in successive deliveries, bowl a wide and then take a third wicket, would this be classified as a hat-trick?

No, Saad, a hat-trick is only gained by taking three wickets with successive deliveries and a wide or no-ball would break such a sequence. Bowling for England against Pakistan at Edgbaston in 1978, Chris Old narrowly missed becoming the first bowler to take four wickets in four balls in a Test when he interrupted a potential sequence by over-stepping and being no-balled (WWnbWW).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/sports_talk/stump_bearders/4906060.stm

from bbc

Dayna has a day out with hat trick!

The Women’s team opened the season with a very good win over Port in their first T20.

Captain Dayna Cox had a "day out" scoring 30 runs and taking a hat trick.

Winning the toss we lost an early wicket but captain Dayna Cox 30 (off 43) and Rachael Greenshields 23no gave us an excellent base with a 72 run stand – batting well into the 15^th over.

Kylie Rattray played a match winning cameo with 28 (16 balls) with one four and three sixes to see us finish with 117 off 20 overs. 

Rachael’s innings was very valuable as she pushed singles, ran well and gave fantastic support to Dayna and Kylie.

117 looked to be just over par as the slowish ground made scoring boundaries difficult.  (We hit two and 3 sixes from Kylie.)

Dayna Cox gave us the early breakthrough with wickets a hat trick punctuated by a no ball! (Her wickets included state rep Amanda Wellington.) This had Port 3/15 in the 4^th over. She was bowling when we scored a run out in the six over and took a catch in the eighth to have Port 5/30.

They batted out the overs to end up with 82.