Pulled, but it's along the ground to long-on.
N S-Chargers vs Spirit, 5th Match at Leeds, Women's Hundred, Aug 14 2022 - Ball by Ball Commentary
It's a busy day at the Hundred. So before this sinks in, Oval Invincibles and Southern Brave will be on. Sudarshanan's already there. The men's sides of these two franchises will face off as well, catch the action here. See you around.
Hollie Armitage, Northern Superchargers captain: I'm chuffled, proud of the girls with the way they held their nerve. The way they held their lengths was really good. (On the feeling at the beginning of the last set) Keep your foot behind the line and execute what you could, which she did. I was nervous after the ball but I trusted her and she trusted herself which got us through. ADR and Bess were great, Bess set the tone. She's outstanding. (On time-management and the field restriction) You've got to weigh it up, bowlers cannot execute when rushed. Luckily, it worked well in the end. (On the talent) We have fantastic players and look forward to see how we go ahead. The atmosphere here has been great.
Bess Heath: We're talking about building partnerships. We set a good innings, decided I'll go big. Thought I'll find boundaries or go for singles when that was not possible. I wanted to go down the ground, it was a batter's wicket. At halftime, it felt 15-20 under. So we went with intent. We do well under pressure, thrive on it.
The bowlers were great at cutting down runs. Higham, Langston came back well. Katie Levick got Kerr. Smith was good and ADR took two key wickets and finished off the game.
1:45 pm: Jumps, high-fives and hugs among the Superchargers camp. They've pulled a win off the pyre. They were short with the bat, Mooney and Scrivens started well. The latter was struck in front, but it was the Aussie opener's run out that opened the floodgates, she fell when the scoring rate was going a bit low. Her wicket, followed immediately by that of Danielle Gibson meant rebuilding could not be risky. Luff took up that role, got a few away. But Amelia fell, and she found very little support from the lower middle order. There were options to farm strike towards the end which weren't taken. But the turning point seemed to be that Mooney run out.
Six to tie, no super set in the group stages.
The non-striker runs from the get go but it don't matter as the full ball ballooned off the edge to cover point. Dean tried to slash it as hard as she could but got nowhere near enough.
A couple of conferences, one from each side.
Makes room, gets a full ball that follows her, she tries to whack it over long-on. But it's off the bottom To the fielder and it's only one.
Length on off, shuffles across and whacks a flick to long-on. Just one but Dean's done her job.
Slashes, tries to get it straight. But it goes over cover, no one in the deep. It cleared the infield and the outfield was too quick for cover and mid-off running back.
Extra fielder up as the Superchargers have gone past the cut off time.
Full ball swept to short fine. They take the run, Luff won't be on strike next ball!
Full but down leg, wide given.
Direct hit from deep square leg by Wolvaardt! It was worked there with limited timing, they went for two. It was sacrifice, the run was made to look more impossible by the accurate throw.
Swept to the gap at the left of short fine.
Comes down but yorks herself. Jams the ball off the bottom but it falls in front. They charge for one.
Misfield by short fine leg, it allows two. That's not too bat for the fielding team. It was full on the stumps, Monaghan tried to slog it but got it off the bottom to the left of short fine.
At this point, Spirit are 12 runs shorter and two wickets up on Superchargers. Wolvaardt's struggle doesn't seem as bad for now. Let's see if there's space for one more comeback.
Luff does not farm strike there. Higham gets some high-fives from her team-mates. With that, it's timeout time.
Wide and full, whipped along the ground to long-on.
Wide length ball keeps very low, it was slow. Monaghan tried to shuffle across and cut it but the grubber went right under.
Flighted full toss, flicked across the line... straight to deep midwicket! It was a filthy ball but Dattani could not get enough power to get it over Wolvaardt.
Full and wide, swipes it. Along the ground to long-off.
Drags a flighted, full ball with a powerful flick over cow corner. Six! She danced across, towards the line of the ball and swung through.
31 off 15. Higham from around the wicket.
Nails a wide yorker, Luff tries to down her bat to jam it in time. Gets beaten.
Slaps a length ball outside off to the right of mid-off for four.
Run out chance missed! It was a full ball that fell off the edge in front. Dattani was late on the single, Luff came across. She underarmed it at the striker's end, but it was at the other end where danger loomed larger.
Back of a length slower one on middle, waited for and clipped fine. It's straight to the fielder, so will only be one. Luff was setting up for two there.
Underedge off the slashy drive, hits the turf below and goes to the leg side. They take one. It was full outside off.
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