Perth Scorchers beat Brisbane Heat in WBBL super over

Scorchers captain Sophie Devine made light work of her task, hitting Jess Jonassen’s left-arm spin for two sixes to win the game with two balls to spare

Hobart: Perth Scorchers 137-7, Brisbane Heat 137-9 - Perth Scorchers win in a super over (Brisbane Heat 12-2, Perth Scorchers 14-0)

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Sophie Devine led Perth Scorchers to a super over victory over Brisbane Heat in a remarkable opening game for both sides in the Women’s Big Bash.

Heat appeared to have the game in the bag at 87 for 1 in the 10th over, needing just 51 more runs to win. But they collapsed and needed 10 runs off the final over, managing just nine to take the game into its extra period.

Such was the chaos – Nadine de Klerk was run out when she wandered out of her crease with the ball back in the bowler’s hands – Scorchers missed two more clear runout opportunities in that final over that might have won them the game earlier than they eventually did, with off-spinner Lilly Mills twice dropping the ball when well placed to take the bails off.

When the super over began – bowled by South Africa’s Marizanne Kapp – Grace Harris was run out off the second ball and Anneke Bosch off the sixth, though she smote 11 runs off the four deliveries in between, setting up a chase of 13 in six balls.

💥 SUPER OVER IN BIG BASH! 💥

Perth Scorchers beat Brisbane Heat in overtime in #WBBL07, with Scorchers captain Sophie Devine striking the winning 6️⃣

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Scorchers captain Devine made light work of that task, however, hitting Jess Jonassen’s left-arm spin for two sixes to win the game with two balls to spare.

Earlier, Beth Mooney – against her former team – had top-scored for Scorchers, who were asked to bat first at Blundstone Arena, before an exciting middle order featuring Kapp and Chamari Atapattu was unable to cut loose, with spinners Jonassen and India’s Poonam Yadav sharing five wickets between them.

In reply, Harris, Jonassen and Georgia Redmayne provided a solid platform, before a fine fightback took place in the second half of the innings, led my Mills and Alana King. Once Harris was the third batter dismissed, six more followed for the addition of just 32 runs – a collapse that would prove costly once Devine had made her mark on the super over.