WBBL star’s redemption after beautiful ‘hanger’

‘Can’t imagine it’: WBBL star’s redemption after beautiful ‘hanger’

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David Gavin from NewswireOctober thirty first, 2026 7:12 pm

In a game that received’t be remembered for the fielding, Sophie Ecclestone has taken an early contender for the WBBL’s catch of the season.

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With Melbourne Stars at 1-79 chasing 186 for victory, the Strikers wanted a wicket, and after spilling a catch earlier, the English spinner leapt into the sky to take a ‘hanger’, as described by English cricketer Lauren Winfield-Hill on Fox Cricket.

One-handed, with her dominant left, launching off one foot and off-balance, Ecclestone (2-25) claimed the beautiful snare to remove England teammate, Amy Jones (2), on the ultimate ball of the ninth over in the chase. The Stars dropping one other 5 wickets to complete, 7/164.

“Dropped one earlier, she probably might have taken, but she’s made up for it with this hanger,” Winfield-Hill said after an virtually bashful Ecclestone claimed one of many season’s finest to this point.

Ecclestone had dropped a catch in the second over of the chase, shifting forward, giving the powerful Rhys McKenna (40 from 31 balls) a life on one. McKenna was later dropped once more, by Ellie Johnston on 38, with the Strikers continuing the sloppy fielding in Adelaide.

In her a hundredth WBBL match, Laura Wolvaardt’s 70 from 50 provided the platform for Maddie Penna’s clean hitting late, which took the Strikers to 2/185, with 36 not out from 13 in the final three overs of the innings.

Leg-spinner Amanda-Jade Wellington (3-28) claiming the essential wickets of Meg Lanning (32) and Annabel Sutherland (29).

DEAN BELOW PAR AFTER STAR DEBUT

Following a pivotal 1-13 off her 4 overs on debut for the Stars in a season opening win towards the reigning champion Hobart Hurricanes, one of many world’s finest allrounders price her crew on Saturday.

English star Charlie Dean put down a regulation catch, low to her proper, in the fourth over of the match, giving Wolvaardt a life on nine and costing Sutherland (1-40) her first wicket.

In distinction to Thursday night time, Dean (0-25) had conceded 17 with no wicket after two overs with the ball. And the day got worse for the spinner when a regulation misfield gave Wolvaardt a freebie 4 early in the eighth over after which a second ball duck.

Dean wasn’t alone in the discipline. Fellow Englishwoman Dani Gibson spilt McGrath at deep mid-wicket with the score 1/106.

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