Alyssa Healy has roared to the very best rating within the new Women’s Premier League whereas profitable her heavyweight duel with fellow Australian nice Ellyse Perry.
Neither Healy, skipper of the Lucknow-based UP Warriorz, nor Royal Challengers Bangalore’s allround ace Perry had set the match alight, but each discovered their A video games with half-centuries in Friday’s conflict at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
But whereas Perry unfurled a 39-ball 52, top-scoring in RCB’s 138 all out, it proved no match for a well-recognized Healy particular on the high of the Warriorz order as she smashed an unbeaten 96 off simply 47 balls to hurry them to a 10-wicket win.
With the scores degree on the finish of the thirteenth over, Healy wanted a six to maneuver to the primary three-figure rating within the new match however miscued her slog to deep midwicket and needed to accept a profitable single as a substitute.
She had dominated her matchwinning opening stand with Devika Vaidya (36no off 31 balls), cracking 78 of her runs in boundaries, with 18 fours and a six.
And her knock surpassed that of Australian teammate, world No.1 T20 batter Tahlia McGrath, who had scored an unbeaten 90 for the Warriorz towards Delhi Capitals earlier within the week.
It was such a scientific, clean-striking knock that English teammate Sophie Ecclestone was reminded of when Healy had hammered her bowling in one of many all-time nice white-ball knocks in final 12 months’s World Cup closing in Christchurch.
“Midge (Healy’s nickname) just showed just how good she can be. Took me back to that World Cup final in New Zealand – and I’m just glad I’m on the same team now,” mentioned spinner Ecclestone, the world’s No.1 T20 bowler who performed her personal half within the win by taking a masterful 4-13.
In the unbroken 139 stand with Vaidya, Healy will probably have taken quiet satisfaction at profitable her head-to-head with fellow luminary Perry.
First, Healy edged a supply from her outdated buddy, audaciously and intentionally, simply previous the diving wicketkeeper for 4 and later in the identical over clouted Perry straight again over her head for an additional one.
Asked how she managed to up the speed so dramatically after reaching 50 off 29 balls after which taking 46 off the following 18, Healy shrugged: “I’m not too sure … we had discussed about not dragging it out until the final over.
“Sometimes it comes off, typically it does not. Today it did and I’m actually pleased about that.”
The win places the Warriorz third within the five-team desk, simply behind Meg Lanning’s Delhi Capitals, who’re additionally on 4 factors however have a superior web run-rate. RCB look to be out of the race, with out a win of their 4 matches as unbeaten Mumbai Indians set the tempo on the high.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
