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Wyatt, Britt ensure Renegades’ derby win
- Updated: January 7, 2017
Melboune Renegades 5 for 128 (Wyatt 40, Britt 35) beat Melbourne Stars 7 for 127 (Sciver 37, Strano 2-20) by five wicketsScorecard
Melbourne Renegades, languishing at the bottom of the WBBL table, upset the finals aspirations of their crosstown rivals Melbourne Stars, for the second-successive Saturday in the WBBL.
Renegades victory – their third on the spin – was built on a tight bowling performance, led by Lea Tahuhu and Molly Strano, and finished with a calm chase, in which Danielle Wyatt made 40 and Kris Britt 35 as they shared 75 for the third wicket before both fell with victory in sight.
Stars’ missed opportunity The Stars were left to rue their middling total of 127 for seven. All of their top four got in, looked settled and ready to go big, but failed to kick on.
Meg Lanning may have inside-edged Tahuhu past her stumps for four off the match’s first ball, but she and Emma Inglis were just beginning to get going when they fell in consecutive balls at the end of the powerplay. The excellent Strano bowled Inglis, then Tahuhu – bowling her fourth over in the seventh of the innings – found a pearler to dismiss Lanning. It pitched on off, then nipped away, beating Lanning’s outside edge and taking the off peg. Stars were 35 for two.
Still, Natalie Sciver joined Jess Cameron and together they shared 56, with Sciver raiding Nicole …
