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New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/01/12/womens-ashes-underway/
A look at the opening match of the 2025 #WAshes and also at a Melbourne Derby in the BBL that was turned upside down by the ultimate Big Show from Maxwell. Also a very large photo gallery.
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O'Neill falls to the penultimate ball of the match and Renegades are 123 all out, beaten by 42 runs. Stars have now won four in a row, and may have a chance to qualify when their tenth and last group match comes round after starting with five straight losses.
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Renegades need 51 off the last over to win. Stars just need to bowl six legal deliveries.
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54 needed off eight - so now all Stars need to do is avoid wides or no-balls.
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Renegades 109-9 after 18, need 57 from the last two overs at 28.50, current RR 6.06.
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Steketee finishes with 4-0-17-5. It won't alter Player of the Match (Maxwell) but it is a splendid performance from him. Renegades 104-9 after 17, need 62 from the last three at 20.67, current RR 6.12.
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First baller for Zampa, gifting Steketee his fifth scalp of the innings. Renegades 101-9.
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End of the 16th and Renegades are 101-7, needing 65 from the last four overs at 16.25, current RR 6.31.
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A six and a four to end the 15th over. Renegades 94-7, need 72 from the last five overs at 14.40 per over, current RR 6.27.
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One ball to go of what is surely the worst Power Surge in BBL history. A single ends it, with the two overs yielding 7-2. Renegades 81-7 after 14 overs, need 85 more from the last six overs at 14.17 per over, current RR 6.07.
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Tom Rogers hits a two and then gives Duckett another catch off Paris. Renegades 80-7, needing 86 more to win.
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Seifert goes to the first ball of the 14th over to give Joel Paris his second wicket of the innings, hitting one straight to Duckett to go for 26 and that looks like the game - Renegades now 78-6 and all the top six gone, needing 88 more to win.
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Siddle bowls Sutherland and Renegades are 76-5 in the 13th, needing another 90 to win.
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Halfway in the chase and Renegades are 54-4, needing 112 from the last 10 overs at 11.20, current RR 5.40.
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Renegades 49-4 after nine overs, need 117 more from the last 11 at 10.63 per over, current RR 5.44
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Fraser-McGurk holes out to deep midwicket off Steketee and it is 44-4 in the eight over.
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A much needed big over for the Renegades, with a six off the final ball by Fraser-McGurk making it 16 off it in total. Renegades 43-3 after seven overs, need 123 more off the last 13 at 9.56, current RR 6.14.
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Six overs gone and Renegades are 27-3, needing 139 from the last 14 overs at 9.93, current RR 4.50.
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The fifth over ends with the score still 22-3. Renegades need 144 more to win off 15 overs at 9.60 per over, current RR 4.40.
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Renegades in a right mess in the chase - Paris has just bowled Bethell to make it 22-3 in the fifth over.
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Siddle is out to the last ball of the innings, caught in the deep off Richardson and Stars have 165 to defend. Probably not too far from a par score, but definitely achieved in a very non-par fashion!
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Richardson bowls Maxwell for 90 and it is 158-9 with five balls to go in the innings. That dismissal has probably saved Renegades a double digit number of runs for all that this is the final over.
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A duck for Mir, but he has been part of a stand of 81 for the eighth wicket. Single for Steketee and another for Maxwell to end the over. Stars 158-8 after 19 overs.
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22 off the over, but Sutherland saves something from the wreckage by ensuring that Usama Mir will be on strike for the start of the 19th over. Stars 156-7, Maxwell 89*.
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Three successive sixes to start the 18th over and 150 comes up for the Stars, with Maxwell 85*, of which 60 have come in sixes.
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Extraordinary scenes in Melbourne - the eight wicket stand for the Stars is now worth 50, and number nine Usama Mir is 0* - Maxwell is putting on a Big Show tonight.
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Renegades now need to win three of their remaining four games to have a chance of qualifying. Stars have three games remaining and will be needing a bit of luck even if they win all three.
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Stars win by five wickets with two balls to spare. They started this campaign so appallingly that this win will almost certainly not help them, but it certainly damages their neighbours the Renegades.
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Hilton Cartwright virtually settles the issue in favour of the Stars by smashing Tom Rogers for six to reduce the ask to two runs off three balls.
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50 for Ben Duckett, off 35 balls with three sixes and two fours. This keeps a pattern going for him this tournament - it his his fifth knock and he now has three 50+ scores and two ducks - feast or famine only for the diminutive opener.
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