Sydney Sixers batters comfortably overpower Melbourne Renegades

Suzie Bates and Alyssa Healy shared an opening stand worth 151 as Sixers made the highest score of this year's tournament so far

Ballarat: Sydney Sixers 188-3, Melbourne Renegades 151-9 - Sydney Sixers win by 37 runs

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Sydney Sixers flexed their batting muscle to register the highest total of the WBBL season as they beat Melbourne Renegades comfortably by 37 runs.

Sixers' opening partnership of Suzie Bates (66 off 47) and Alyssa Healy (78 off 54) were central to the mammoth total, a chase the Renegades merely threatened to track down.

Sixers' bowlers, headed by Sophie Ecclestone, immediately took the sting out of Renegades' reply to reduce them to 38 for 5 in the eight over.

The seventh-wicket partnership was worth 81 runs as Carly Leeson, with 52 off 32, and 32 off 26 from Rhiann O'Donnell recused an air of respectability on the eventual margin of defeat.

Sophie Molineux won the bat flip and put Sixers into bat, a decision she may have regretted as Bates and Healy racked up 151 for their opening stand.

^{Sixers were comfortable winners over Renegades (Graham Denholm/Getty Images)}

Shabnim Ismail went for just 26 in her four overs with the wicket of Ash Gardner, but Sixers were particularly damaging to the three overs of Sarah Coyte, who went wicketless for 33.

After the platform was set, Gardener, Erin Burns, and Ellyse Perry hit seven boundaries off the 19 balls they collectively faced to push the score up to almost 190.

Maitlan Brown ensured the game was put to bed as she took 3 for 16 and crucially broke the significant middle-order partnership, which included taking an over from Perry for 24, after one legitimate delivery of which she had conceded 13 runs.

When Gardner removed Leeson the game was out of reach for the Renegades as they survived the 20 overs with one wicket intact but 37 runs short.

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