Marie Kelly’s unbeaten 69 units stage for Superchargers win
Northern Superchargers 144 for 4 (Kelly 69*, Litchfield 40) beat Welsh Fire 128 for 8 (Harris 37, Cross 2-19, Ballinger 2-28, Davidson-Richards 2-29) by 16 runs
Northern Superchargers defeated Welsh Fire by 16 runs to make sure they ready for this weekend’s Hundred playoffs in high quality kind.
Marie Kelly‘s unbeaten 69 set the stage for the house facet’s 144 for 4 and the Fire struggled in pursuit after shedding the important thing wickets of Tammy Beaumont and Hayley Matthews earlier than they’d scored.
Laura Harris and Sophia Dunkley put up a powerful battle, serving to Fire to 128 for 8, however the Superchargers have been relentless of their wicket-taking to present them an out of doors probability of progressing straight by to Sunday’s Women’s ultimate.
The Superchargers will want leaders Southern Brave to undergo a wide-margin defeat at Manchester Originals tomorrow to open the door for them to go straight to Lord’s, with a re-match Eliminator in opposition to Fire the almost definitely state of affairs on the Kia Oval on Saturday.
Superchargers acquired off to an aggressive begin as Kelly placed on an exquisite efficiency to make sure a powerful powerplay. She was supported by Phoebe Litchfield‘s stylish and revolutionary 40 off 26 balls, the Australian highlighting her hitting with a reverse slog over cowl for six.
The retiring Alex Hartley, Freya Davies, Dunkley and Claire Nicholas – who took a superb catch to dismiss Litchfield – all claimed a wicket apiece.
Dunkley gave Fire their breakthrough wicket by taking a shocking catch off her personal bowling when Jemimah Rodrigues tried to tackle the legspinner however knocked the ball straight again.
Although Fire had already made scores of 165, 144, 181 and 161 within the competitors to this point – these had all come from having batted first – and their activity grew to become extra sophisticated when the Superchargers struck gold with two early wickets. Most notably the in-form Beaumont was caught by Kate Cross off Lucy Higham. In the following set Matthews was then caught by Litchfield off Cross.
Welsh Fire gained floor as Australian batter Harris placed on a hanging efficiency with a gradual 37, edging the guests in direction of that 145 whole wanted to win.
However, one other breakthrough wicket was swiftly taken once more as Cross bowled Harris and Dunkley adopted not far behind, going for 29 runs off 22 balls, when Kelly held on to a catch off Alice Davidson-Richards.
Sarah Ballinger additionally put in a powerful efficiency as she took the wickets of Sarah Bryce and Alex Griffiths because the hosts ensured they’d head to London with successful kind.