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7:18 PM local time (1:48 PM IST): That high-scoring contest ended in Sydney Thunder's favour as Georgia Voll dominated against Perth Scorchers throughout the innings. With that, I, Keshav, on behalf of my co-commentator Lavil, bid you a goodbye. Stay tuned to Sportskeeda for interesting sports content.
With this win, Sydney Thunder have moved on top of the table with 10 points from seven games, hence, inching closer to a playoff spot.
Georgia Voll (Player of the Match, Sydney Thunder): I knew from the last couple of games that we had to go hard early on. I took some time and then went hard. It has been a bit up and down but I have been working to make myself consistent. The last game was pretty disappointing so feel good. Chasing a big total is kind of difficult. If I back up this I will be very happy and 150 is very safe at the moment
Sydney Thunder win against Perth Scorchers by seven wickets with an over remaining
Georgia Voll’s fiery innings was the highlight of the innings as she chased down 171 runs with crucial contribution from Heather Knight. She smacked runs all across the park, replicating the innings from Beth Mooney, the opposition opener. However, Voll’s innings was a notch better than Mooney as she covered up for her team’s lapses in the first innings. With massive gaps on the mega MCG, Voll pierced through, blistering 13 fours and a six.
Voll, epitomised the Thunder blazing shots from the word go while chasing a big target. In the second innings, Voll and Athapaththu ticked the first box by not losing a wicket in the first six overs. Following Athapaththu's wicket, Phoebe Litchfield also lost her wicket a couple of overs later but did not let scoreboard pressure affect the team.
Following this, all Voll needed was a partner to attack the bowlers from both the ends and Heather Knight rightly did that, with the two batters adding 64 runs from 41 balls for the third-wicket. This left Voll with a doable task of taking the team across the line and she did it in some style, scoring 15 runs off Sophie Divine's over.
For Scorchers, Amy Edgar and Sophie Divine picked a wicket each on a track that had little for bowlers.
In the first innings, Sydney Thunder missed a total of seven chances in the entire game—three ordinary catches and four half-chances. If a team misses as many chances, they let the game slip away from them by giving the batters free license, something that Mooney found today. She was dropped thrice--on the scores of 9, 11 and 14.
With those many chances and fortune on her side, Mooney capitalised it, smacking 97 runs off 64 deliveries that included 11 boundaries. She would be gutted to have missed out on the opportunity to hit a century. Later in the game, Voll's innings overshadowed Mooney's innings by not letting the bowlers get back in the match and sailing her side to a win and covered-up for slip-ups from her teammates in the first innings. In doing that, she also avenged her team for the defeat it suffered against the team in orange, earlier in the week.
Georgia Voll 's sublime perfomance took her team across the line with an over remaining. She overshadowed Beth Mooney's 97 runs with her own.
19
overs
173/3score
1
3
1
4
2
4
runs
Georgia Voll*
97(56)
Anika Learoyd
9(9)
Sophie Devine
1/34
18.6 Sophie Devine to Georgia Voll, FOUR! VOLL WINS IT FOR THE THUNDER! Length delivery on the line of the middle stump, Voll plays it towards deep square leg and the ball races away to the fence for a boundary to end the over. That's that for this contest as Sydney Thunder beat Perth Scorchers by 7 wickets
18.5 Sophie Devine to Georgia Voll, full and on the middle and leg stump. Voll plays it towards deep midwicket for a brace
18.4 Sophie Devine to Georgia Voll, FOUR! Length delivery outside the off stump, Voll makes room and slaps it past mid-off to the fence for a boundary
18.3 Sophie Devine to Anika Learoyd, length delivery on the middle and leg stump. Learoyd plays it towards midwicket and picks up a single