‘As rare as it gets’: Five wickets fall in final over in Australian girls’s home league closing

Five wickets fell in a closing over for the ages as Tasmania pulled off an unimaginable victory over South Australia to say the Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL) title right here.

Tasmania received the summit conflict by one run below the Duckworth-Lewis methodology.

South Australia required 4 runs from the ultimate six deliveries with 5 wickets in hand below a revised goal within the 50-over day/night time match at Blundstone Arena on Saturday night time.

One of the wildest finishes to a cricket match condensed right down to a minute.

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But two run outs and three wickets — all by pacer Sarah Coyte — within the final over turned the match the wrong way up. Coyte was additionally concerned in one of many two run-outs.

In the dramatic closing over, Coyte bowled Annie O’Neil (28 off 20) off the primary ball earlier than getting South Australia skipper Jemma Barsby (28 from 17) stumped two balls later.

South Australia had been nonetheless within the scorching seat, needing three runs from three deliveries when Coyte ran out Amanda-Jade Wellington (1) by knocking the ball onto the stumps in her follow-through.

Coyte, who completed with 4 for 30, then trapped Ella Wilson (0) lbw with the penultimate ball. South Australia wanted three runs off the ultimate supply however may handle only one.

Tasmania turn into solely the second workforce to safe back-to-back WNCL titles, leaving South Australia runners-up for the second yr in a row.

Captain Elyse Villani had earlier spearheaded Tasmania to 264 all out from their 50 overs with 110 from 126 balls, her third century within the final 4 innings.

The covers got here on and off throughout South Australia’s chase, which was headlined by a formidable 83 from teenager Courtney Webb.

South Australia had been 220 for 5 earlier than rain stopped play with six overs to go. They had been then 5 runs forward of the DLS goal.

On resumption, South Australia’s goal was revised to 243 in 47 overs as the sport misplaced three overs. They had been 239 for 5 earlier than the final over.