WBBL Challenger: Melbourne Renegades v Adelaide Strikers @ Adelaide Oval Thu 25 Nov 2021 @ 6.40pm local (7.10pm AEDT)

[Toe Poke]

Scorecard here:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/1269112.html
or
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...s-women-challenger-1269112/live-cricket-score

Tournament stats for both teams:

Melbourne Renegades
https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/e..._team.html?id=14033;team=5645;type=tournament

Adelaide Strikers
https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/e..._team.html?id=14033;team=5647;type=tournament

Squads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–22_Melbourne_Renegades_WBBL_season#Squad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021–22_Adelaide_Strikers_WBBL_season#Squad

Melbourne Renegades possible team:

Rodrigues
Jones
Webb
Kaur
Duffin
Molineux (capt)
+ Dooley
Leeson
Falconer
Hayward
Ferling

(also in squad: O'Donnell, Blows, Gardner, Wareham)

Adelaide Strikers possible team:

Mack
Van Niekerk
Wolvaardt
McGrath (capt)
Penna
Patterson
+ McPharlin
Wellington
Coyte
Schutt
D Brown

(also in squad: Barsby, O'Neil, Dixon, Bryson-Smith)

 

[Toe Poke]

Harmanpreet Kaur did not bat in the Renegades most recent match.

The scorecard (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...gades-women-54th-match-1269108/full-scorecard) says "absent hurt", although I see that she did bowl 3 overs in the first innings of the same match.

Also Carly Leeson missed the most recent Renegades match. Not sure if that was due to injury/illness or just rotation?

 

[DEVO]

Strikers are on a roll at the moment and will be hard to beat. Katie Mack is in the form of her life, McGrath, Wolvaardt and van Niekerk are also contributing with the bat consistently (all four are in the top 15 run scorers for WBBL07), while the bowling line up is probably the best in the league. I think they will beat the Renegades tomorrow and then beat the Scorchers on the weekend.

 

[The Victorian]

Katie Mack would be pushing the door on the Australian team atm given her form. She’s so underrated

 

[Teen Wolf]

The Strikers' losses this season:

• Heat by 4 runs
• Scorchers via super over
• Renegades with 2 balls rem.
• Stars by 37 runs
• Scorchers by 12 runs
• Stars with 3 balls rem.

Only one poor performance, very stiff to be 7-6 in the H&A. They'll be one of the best teams in 7 years to miss the final... if they miss the final.

I was thinking about who leads that pack, and it must be the Thunder in WBBL|04. Their five losses were:

• Sixers by 36 runs
• Scorchers by 3 runs
• Scorchers with 1 ball rem. (a then record run chase of 180)
• Heat with 3 balls rem. (Mooney century)
• Heat by 4 runs in the semis (Birkett last ball catch)

On their best days, the Thunder weren't quite as ruthless as this year's Strikers who have won 5 matches while chasing, all by 8 wickets.

 

[Toe Poke]

Melbourne Renegades team:

Rodrigues, Jones, Leeson, Kaur, Duffin, Webb,
Molineux (c), Dooley (wk), Hayward, Ferling, O'Donnell

Change from most recent match:
Leeson replaces Falconer

Adelaide Strikers team:

van Niekerk, Mack, Wolvaardt, McGrath (c), Patterson, Penna,
Wellington, McPharlin (wk), Coyte, Schutt, Brown

unchanged from last night

 

[Teen Wolf]

Bit of a comedown for Falconer, with this article published mere hours earlier:

Falconer flying high ahead of big final on 'home' turf | cricket.com.au

After switching from the Adelaide Strikers in the off-season, the Melbourne Renegades fast bowler…

www.cricket.com.au

 

[Moonwatcher]

Boom

 

[Cleavy]

so usual consensus is lose 3 wickets in the powerplay and you're cooked?

 

[Moonwatcher]

Very aggressive game plan.

 

[Crashy]

Get Kaur early and could be repeat of last night

 

[Moonwatcher]

Get Kaur early and could be repeat of last night

BOOM

 

[Moonwatcher]

Such a harsh way to be dismissed.

 

[Crashy]

I've got out that way, absolutely sucks

 

[Aussie_boy]

Surely Molineux is better than a #10

 

[Teen Wolf]

10-20 short of par?

Saturday night's match is going to be a ripper. I feel like that's an unwritten rule, bad prelims = good grand final, and vice versa.

 

[Crashy]

Surely Molineux is better than a #10

Injured but still playing?

 

[corbies]

Surely Molineux is better than a #10

Can't run at all apparently. Has been in a moon boot most of the week. Is being picked so she can bowl 4 overs off 3 steps.

 

[Aussie_boy]

Can't run at all apparently. Has been in a moon boot most of the week. Is being picked so she can bowl 4 overs off 3 steps.

You'd want to hope her bowling isn't affected otherwise it's very odd.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Can't run at all apparently. Has been in a moon boot most of the week. Is being picked so she can bowl 4 overs off 3 steps.

Do they really not have another bowler?

 

[corbies]

Do they really not have another bowler?

Not one as good as Molineux.

 

[Moonwatcher]

You just walk surely.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Much closer than I thought.

 

[DEVO]

Adelaide did that in a canter.

Katie Mack is on an unbelievable run at the moment, I think she up to 350 runs in the last seven innings and has only been dismissed once. Incredible.