Brisbane Heat spinner Jess Jonassen has ridden her luck to assist her WBBL staff ebook its place within the match finals.
In a match towards the Sydney Thunder with the winner reserving its place within the finals, a late eight-ball 18 from Georgia Voll lifted the Heat to eight/160 after shedding common wickets all through.
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The Thunder began rapidly within the chase, shedding its first wicket within the seventh over with the rating on 54 however the wickets fell in clumps because the aspect stumbled to 9/138 and a 22-run loss.
It imply the ultimate match day on Sunday — a double header on the SCG — will lastly determine the finalists, with the Hobart Hurricanes probably in a position to leapfrog the Thunder relying on outcomes.
But it was a match for Jonassen with the Australian veteran profitable participant of the match after taking 4/26.
However, she additionally raised eyebrows after scoring an eventful nine-ball 9.
With the second ball of the nineteenth over, Jonassen appeared to have been clear bowled by Chamari Athapaththu because the ball cannoned into the stumps.
But the bails stayed on the stumps.
Commentator Alistair Nicholson was satisfied it was out.
“Bowled… what was that sound?” Nicholson stated.
Lisa Sthalekar stated: “No, it did hit the stumps.”
“If that has hit the stumps and not dislodged the bails, those bails are made of lead,” Nicholson replied, earlier than seeing a contemporary replay.
“Oh, come on. Come off it. Brisbane Heat, check their cricket bags for super glue.”
The commentators went right down to the miked up Thunder wicketkeeper Tahlia Wilson who laughed off the scenario.
Asked how the bail didn’t come off, Wilson stated: “I don’t know.
“I actually just said to JJ about it and she said the stump did get hit,” Wilson stated.
“We’ve actually had a few like that over the tournament so we’ve been a little unlucky.”
Sthalekar requested Wilson to take away the bail and see if it did truly come off, regardless of having modified ends on the finish of the over.
“Yep, it comes off, it’s flashing,” she stated.
“No chewing gum?” Nicholson requested.
After some extra banter, Wilson requested Jonassen about her tackle the incident.
While she appeared to not imagine it did truly hit the stump, Sthalekar informed Jonassen to go purchase a lottery ticket.
“I don’t often do so maybe,” Jonassen stated.
Callum Ferguson was nonetheless blown away by the scenes, saying: “It sounded so loud where we were Tahlia, I can’t believe they didn’t come off”.
Code Sports reporter Lachlan McKirdy believed the incident was one which “simply shouldn’t happen.”
Fans of Australian T20 cricket will know precisely why the bail didn’t fall off as simple as up to now — because of the late, nice Andrew Symonds.
Symonds weighed the bails when he was a commentator for Fox Sports, discovering the Zing bails had been twice as heavy as conventional picket bails due to the batteries used to gentle them up/
Luckily for the Thunder, Jonassen’s luck with the bat didn’t final an excessive amount of longer as she was out within the closing over.
Unluckily for the Thunder, Jonassen spun her magic to information her aspect dwelling with the ball.
Along the best way, she grew to become the very best wicket-taker in both WBBL or BBL historical past, transferring to 158, forward of Sean Abbott, who has 154 wickets within the males’s competitors.
Source: www.news.com.au
