Alyssa Healy has finished it once more.
The Australian vice-captain has steered the Sydney Sixers to an exciting last-ball victory over the Perth Scorchers at St Kilda’s Junction Oval, scoring an unbeaten 107 (64) on Sunday afternoon.
The women in pink chased down the imposing 177-run goal with zero balls to spare when Healy slapped the ultimate supply over cowl for 4, sealing a six-wicket victory in Melbourne.
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It was the 32-year-old’s fifth century within the Girls’s Huge Bash League – no one else within the males’s or ladies’s competitors has managed greater than three.
Healy struggled to seek out momentum early within the run chase, crawling in the direction of one from 10 deliveries earlier than mustering her first boundary within the fourth over.
The Sixers had been in early hassle at 1/30 after seven overs, with the required run charge already hovering above 11.
However Healy and Sixers captain Ellyse Perry mixed for a 154-run partnership for the second wicket, falling two runs wanting a WBBL document, to revive the innings.
Perry was dismissed within the penultimate over for 48 (40), and the Sixers all of the sudden wanted 14 runs from the ultimate six balls to clinch an unlikely victory.
Nonetheless, all-rounder Ash Gardner smacked two consecutive sixes over the sq. leg boundary, one in every of which landed on the rope, to make the equation two runs required from 4 deliveries.
In yet one more twist, Scorchers seamer Pippa Cleary eliminated Gardner and Erin Burns in back-to-back deliveries to ship a scare by means of the Sixers camp.
Nicole Bolton flicked her first supply by means of the leg facet for a single earlier than Healy sealed the victory with a trademark lofted cowl drive, roaring with delight because the Kookaburra sailed in the direction of the boundary.
“I didn’t wish to face that final ball, that’s for positive,” Healy laughed after the win.
“It’s simply wonderful to have somebody like Ash Gardner in your facet that may are available and hit two sixes and get us forward of the sport.
“That was wonderful.”
Healy had plundered 92 runs from her final 43 deliveries to assist the Sixers cement their spot on the prime of the WBBL ladder.
Earlier, Scorchers opener Beth Mooney (75 not out off 51 balls) and South African all-rounder Marizanne Kapp (68 off 37 balls) guided the Perth-based membership in the direction of an imposing complete of 4/176 from their 20 overs.
Gardner snared two wickets along with her correct off spin, whereas Sixers seamer Lauren Cheatle impressed with figures of 1/24 from 4 overs.
Scorchers captain Sophie Devine and Cleary each claimed two wickets in the course of the chase, with the latter conceding 52 from her 4 overs, making it the equal second costliest spell in WBBL historical past.
“When a participant like Alyssa Healy will get going like that, she’s bloody arduous to cease,” Devine confessed after the loss.
“It was an ideal recreation, however disappointing to come back out because the shedding facet.”
The Sixers will subsequent face the Brisbane Warmth at North Sydney Oval on Wednesday night, with the primary ball scheduled for 7.10pm AEDT.
