Rhianna Southby and bowlers script Brave win to go atop the factors desk
Southern Brave 102 for five (Bouchier 31, Wyatt 20, Smith 2-11) beat Northern Superchargers 100 for 8 (Kelly 39, Armitage 21, Adams 3-21, Shrubsole 2-13)
Rhianna Southby placed on a sensational wicketkeeping clinic as Southern Brave returned to successful methods with a thumping five-wicket victory over Northern Superchargers.
Southby affected a report 4 dismissals – two catches and two stumpings – in her second Hundred recreation in entrance of a powerful Ageas Bowl crowd of 9813.
Maia Bouchier took management of the chase with 31 as Brave eased to the entire to make it two wins from three, whereas Superchargers’ away day blues continued.
Shrubsole received the toss, selected to bowl, and continued her farewell tour together with her biggest hits to dismiss the abroad duo of Jemimah Rodrigues and Pheobe Litchfield. The former with a textbook extravagant inswinger, the latter brilliantly caught on the rise by Southby.
Marie Kelly and Hollie Armitage collaborated with a 43-run stand earlier than Southby stooped to have an effect on a stumping off a low bouncing ball to see off Armitage earlier than taking an underneath edge from Alice Davidson-Richards on evaluate.
Southby, who did not play within the Southern Vipers’ profitable T20 Charlotte Edwards Cup marketing campaign, continued her good work behind the stumps to stump Kelly – who top-scored with an anchoring 39.
A sticky pitch assisted flip for Adams, Kalea Moore and Chloe Tryon, who bowled the majority of the center balls, nevertheless it was Lauren Bell and Shrubsole who went at underneath a run-a-ball at both finish of the innings.
Bess Heath chipped to mid-off, Leah Dobson was caught and bowled by Adams and Kate Cross was deceived by a crafty Bell slower ball.
In reply, Danni Wyatt initially appeared the freest flowing batter on show with 5 sweetly-struck boundaries however got here unstuck when she drilled Cross to level. Smriti Mandhana ticked by means of the runs with a l’aise au fait type, whereas Bouchier accelerated after a sluggish begin.
Bouchier had been 8 off her first 14 balls however exploded with a pair of boundaries and a six in three successive balls. Mandhana and Adams swung to deep midwicket, whereas Bouchier rolled on with a trendy reduce shot earlier than she was caught and bowled by Linsey Smith’s full toss with 14 nonetheless required.
Smith and Georgia Wareham had each taken two wickets for 11 and 15 respectively to scare the Brave, with Freya Kemp bowled by Wareham to place the hosts 5 down. But Tryon pulled a boundary and despatched Brave to the highest with 13 balls to spare, with Superchargers nonetheless solely successful two video games away from Headingley of their third season.