Northern Superchargers 146 for 4 (Sutherland 63*, Litchfield 44) beat Oval Invincibles 64 (Sutherland 4-11) by 82 runs
The highly effective Australian made 63 from 40 balls to take her staff to an imposing whole of 146 for 4, earlier than taking 4 for 11 with the ball to wrap up the win. Her 4 wickets have been all clear bowled, and got here from the final six balls of the match to make sure it was a sport very a lot outlined by her talents.
After a loss and a tie, Sutherland’s heroics offered Hollie Armitage’s staff with their first win of the marketing campaign and additional opened up the desk in a 12 months that has seeing each staff lose not less than as soon as.
“It’s so good to get a win on the board,” Sutherland. “I do not suppose we have been that far off final sport with the tie. We have felt fairly good as a gaggle. We have bowled very nicely, we simply have not fairly put it along with the bat, so it was good to do it on the market.”
Needing a win, Davina Perrin set the tone for the Superchargers with two early boundaries – and although her keep was a brief one, caught beautifully by Amanda-Jade Wellington off the bowling of Rachel Slater, her aggression gave a sign of what was to return from the guests.
Oval Invincibles’ 100 per cent document within the competitors up to now would have given them hope of chasing down Superchargers’ 146, and so too would the introduction of Chamari Athapaththu, the Sri Lankan skipper making her first look on this 12 months’s competitors after her nation’s Asia Cup success.
However Athapaththu wasn’t to final lengthy, dismissed on the twentieth ball of the innings, caught well by Kate Cross off the bowling off Linsey Smith. Two balls later, Invincibles have been 5 down when Cross bowled Mady Villiers, the second of her two wickets having earlier trapped Winfield-Hill in entrance.
Smith additionally accounted for Alice Capsey, with Marizanne Kapp undone by a run-out, and at 23 for five the competition was pretty much as good as performed.
Paige Scholfield and Wellington re-built for Invincibles, with out ever threatening Superchargers’ whole, after which Sutherland returned to take 4 in six and put Superchargers on the board.
