Lizelle Lee’s Century Keeps Hurricanes Alive in WBBL Finals Race
Hobart Typhoons 212 for 3 (Lee 101, Graham 55, Wareham 2-30) beat Melbourne Mavericks 119 full scale (de Broughe 40, Gibson 4-25, Smith 3-17) by 93 runs
South African opener Lizelle Lee has kept the Hobart Typhoons’ expectations of making the Ladies’ Large Slam Association (WBBL) finals bursting at the seams with a strong hundred years in a record-breaking exertion by the hosts against the Melbourne Mavericks.
Started by Lizelle Lee’s 101 not out off 53 balls, Hobart stacked up 212 for 3 in Thursday’s match, overshadowing their past most elevated WBBL innings score by 16 runs. The Mavericks scored 23 off their initial two overs however at that point lost three wickets for seven runs and imploded again toward the end, losing 4 for 3 to be excused for 119 off 16.2 overs. The 93-run triumph edge was the Storms’ greatest WBBL win by runs and lifted them from 6th to fifth and inside a mark of the fourth-put Brisbane Intensity. Every one of the three groups has another game.
Lizelle Lee beat the Maverick’s assault, striking 12 fours and four sixes, peppering the legside limits with her strong strokes. She highlighted in organizations of 55 with Elyse Villani (22 off 14) and Nicola Carey (24 off 23) and a match-shifting fourth-wicket stand of 102 off only 46 balls with Heather Graham (55 not out off 28).
Prestigious enormous hitter Lee raised her third WBBL ton and her first for the Tropical storms in the last over while Graham crushed a six off the penultimate bundle of the innings to score her most memorable 50 years of the WBBL season.
Georgia Wareham momentarily hauled the Mavericks into the game with two wickets from her initial three wads of her spell In the 6th over. Be that as it may, Storms recaptured the drive, when they took their Power Flood straight after the mid-innings drinks break. They pillaged 14 off every one of the two overs and proceeded with their attack until the end of the innings notwithstanding the drowsy outfield denying them of a few additional runs.
South African pacer Shabnim Ismail (2-21) got through the Mavericks’ top request and spinners Maisy Gibson (4-25) and Amy Smith (3-17) tidied up the rest. Smith took every last bit of her wickets in one over while heading to enroll her best WBBL figures.
Wicketkeeper Lee enhanced her batting heroics with an incredible legside catch to excuse Indian star Harmanpreet Kaur for a third-ball duck. Emma de Broughe (40 not out of 19) was the main Rebels player to dazzle, playing a few extravagant offside drives among her eight limits.