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“No easy points for anyone,” vows Batty after Essex make the champions work

Alan Gardner07-May-2023There are drawn matches, and there are drawn matches. Stalemate was always the likeliest outcome to this game after only 6.4 overs were possible on day three but Surrey, the LV= Insurance Championship defending champions, were forced to man the barricades deep into the final hour at Chelmsford as Essex pushed for the three wickets they required to secure a statement win.Talk around the circuit this season has been of playing more attacking cricket, in the mould of Ben Stokes’ England team, and Essex did their darnedest to conjure a result by donating all ten wickets in a session-and-a-bit of giddy thrashing. Set 273 in 54 overs, Surrey’s tilt was given impetus by Ollie Pope’s crisp 47 from 57 balls but, after Simon Harmer struck twice in his first three deliveries following a belated introduction, the visitors were forced to retrench.Harmer ended the day with eight men around the bat as Jamie Smith, who finished unbeaten on 39 from 126 balls, showed commendable fortitude to shut the game down. Gareth Batty, Surrey’s head coach, was able to proclaim satisfaction afterwards with a hard-fought draw. “We definitely play every game to win, right up until that last 25 overs we were still playing to win,” he said. “But whilst I can still breathe we are not going to give people easy points.”Matters of succession in the County Championship are usually more Roy family than royal family, and Surrey will know that the candidates are queuing up to mount a hostile takeover this season. Essex had the better of this game, and would surely have won by a convincing margin but for time lost to the weather, while Warwickshire’s dramatic rissoling of Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl means that Rory Burns’ side have company at the top of Division One.(As it happens, there was some Roy family involvement at Chelmsford – Shane Snater, Essex’s Zimbabwe-born Dutch allrounder, is a cousin of Surrey’s Jason Roy, although his dismissal of Pope provided evidence that he is a far more capable operator than ‘s hapless cousin Greg).Needing to score at almost exactly five an over, Surrey were keen to show intent despite losing Dom Sibley to a low catch at second slip from the eighth ball of the innings. Harmer made his first significant intervention with a flying, one-handed grab to dismiss Burns on the brink of tea, but the presence of Pope – whose incendiary 122 from 102 balls propelled a chase of similar magnitude against Hampshire three weeks ago – kept followers of an Essex stripe on guard.Few players were able to transcend a Chelmsford surface that offered something for bowlers throughout – there were only three half-centuries in the match, all in Essex’s first innings – but Pope has a knack for the sublime and more than enough “Bazball” pedigree to have Tom Westley nervously eyeing the required rate. A skip down the pitch to dispatch Doug Bracewell into the scaffolding holding up the temporary sightscreen for next week’s ODIs between Ireland and Bangladesh appeared to herald a cavalry charge, only for England’s No. 3 to miscue Snater to cover a few overs later.At 73 for 3, Surrey needed exactly 200 from 33.5 overs. Will Jacks maintained the front by swatting his third ball for six but then chipped tamely to midwicket. Surrey sent out Shaun Abbott as a last roll of the dice – or throw of the bat – but he greeted Harmer, held back until the 29th over with Essex wary of the short boundary towards the pavilion, by skying the spinner’s first ball to long-on, and when Harmer won a decision against Ben Foakes in the same over, Surrey were 103 for 6 with more than 25 overs left to be bowled.Only one more wicket went down, however, as Cameron Steel – who survived a loud lbw appeal against Harmer first ball and later saw Nick Browne put down a tough chance at short leg – set himself for an hour’s worth of blocking alongside Smith. Steel did eventually miss a full toss from Bracewell but Jordan Clark played sensibly to help ensure Surrey got over the line.The fourth day began with Alastair Cook being dismissed from the second ball of the morning, though the fact he was bowled attempting to drive a Kemar Roach inswinger perhaps told of an adventurous mindset in the home dressing room. Browne and Westley shepherded the innings along, adding 38 in 15 overs before the latter fell to a catch at the wicket – and the arrival of Dan Lawrence changed the tenor of the afternoon.Lawrence’s fifth ball was dispatched out of the ground over long-off, potentially causing trouble for anyone hosting a coronation garden party in Hayes Close, and his intentions were crystal as he thrashed his way to 28 from 24 balls before being bowled behind his legs from the next, exposing his stumps to attempt an extravagant flick. The third wicket had yielded 54 in 10 overs but Essex then seemed to get a little carried away with the bank holiday mood, conspiring to lose 8 for 82 either side of lunch in a flurry of ill-conceived shots.”We talked around having 60-ish overs [to bowl at Surrey],” Essex’s head coach, Anthony McGrath, said. “We wanted to try and dangle a carrot so that they’d go for it, so there were opportunities – because we knew that if you just batted out it was going to be tough to bowl them out. It kind of went where we wanted to but we just ran out of time in the end.”

The allrounder took 4 for 16, the best figures of the tournament so far, to leave Bangladesh winless

Report by Alex Malcolm at Junction Oval02-Mar-2020Shashikala Siriwardene held her own retirement party on her final day in international cricket taking a tournament-best 4 for 16 to help Sri Lanka to a consolation nine-wicket win over Bangladesh at the Junction Oval.Bangladesh suffocated against Sri Lanka’s disciplined and skilful attack, which was led by the crafty off-spin of Siriwardene and the wily left-arm seam of Udeshika Prabodhani. The pair delivered 26 dot balls between them in eight overs, with Sirwardene picking up the spoils and Player of the Match honours. Kavisha Dilhari was equally as frugal while Achini Kulasuriya’s extra pace picked up two wickets in the powerplay. Nigar Sultana played a lone hand for Bangladesh making a classy 39 as they struggled to 91 for 8 from their 20 overs having won the toss and chosen to bat.Bangladesh failed to apply any pressure in the chase fluffing two straight-forward chances in the opening two overs. Both Chamari Atapattu and Hasini Perera made their most of their luck blasting a 51-run opening stand before Anushka Sanjeewani joined Perara to finish the job with 27 balls to spare.Siriwardene sent off in styleSirwardene received a retirement gift the day before the game from the India team in the form of a signed shirt. Bangladesh joined the Sri Lanka team in giving her a guard of honour as she walked onto an international ground for the final time. They then gifted her the second-best T20I figures of her career through a lack of intent and some odd shot choices with Murshida Khatun falling sweeping to an offspinner in the powerplay for the second successive match. Prabodhani continued her impressive tournament bowling with unwavering accuracy which allowed Siriwardene and Kulasuriya to attack from the other end. Kulasuriya’s extra pace and bounce picked up two wickets in the last over of the powerplay to leave Bangladesh reeling at 26 for 3. Prabodhani bowled her four overs straight with 0 for 13 including 12 dots. Her tournament economy rate was just 3.68 from four games.Sultana solo effortSultana held the innings together with an excellent 39. But it was a strange innings from her. At one stage she had faced 10 dot balls, including leaves and defensive shots to be just 6 off 16, before she unleashed two of the best inside-out lofted cover drives of the tournament. One came off Sugandika Kumari who was bowling left-arm orthodox from over the wicket, the other was from the offspin of Dilhari at the other end. But thereafter Bangladesh went a full 36 deliveries without finding the boundary. It was left to Sultana again in the 18th to club back-to-back boundaries down the ground using the pace of Kulasuriya. Siriwardene returned to pick up two more wickets in the 19th over and finish her career with 4 for 16. Sultana was unjustly run out off the last ball of the innings trying to selflessly run for a second while her captain Salma Khatun was oddly content with one.Disastrous dropsBangladesh’s only chance of winning the game was to remove Atapattu cheaply. They had their chance to get both openers in the first two overs, and like so many catches in this tournament, spilled them. Hasini Perera was dropped by Sultana off Salma Khatun in the opening over attempting a flashing cut shot. Such catches are never easy up to the stumps but it wasn’t a major deflection. Worse was yet to come. Two balls into the second over Atapattu gifted a simple head high chance to mid-off where Fargana Hoque watched it go into her hands and then out. Some of her team-mates slumped to their knees as the ball hit the turf. Perera and Atapattu struck four fours and a six in the next 14 balls to rub salt into the wounds. Atapattu struck a second massive six over long-off in the ninth over to bring up the fifty partnership as Sri Lanka looked on track for a 10-wicket win.Support acts finish the setSri Lanka’s only challenge came when Atapattu departed. Sultana made up for her earlier drop with a sharp piece of work to have the star opener stumped off Nahida Akter. Atapattu was beaten by a nicely flighted off-break and had no part of her heel grounded behind the popping crease as the keeper whipped the bails off. Akter became the youngest to take 50 T20I wickets in the women’s game surpassing Sophie Ecclestone’s day-old record. It left Sri Lanka still needing 40 from 60 balls with every remaining player in the line-up having scored less than 50 runs for the tournament, but Perera and Sanjeewani made light work of the challenge. Both found the boundary regularly with skilful sweeps and classical footwork. The cruised to victory in a risk-free fashion with more than four overs to spare.

Kamboj’s performance was among his most impactful yet in a nascent first-class career

ESPNcricinfo staff15-Sep-2024Haryana seamer Anshul Kamboj’s career-best haul of 8 for 69 and Ruturaj Gaikwad’s second half-century of the match were the major highlights on a dull fourth day in Anantapur, as India C’s second Duleep Trophy 2024-25 fixture petered to a tame draw.Having begun the day on 309 for 7, India B were bowled out for 332 with Kamboj picking up all three wickets to fall. Abhimanyu Easwaran, the India B captain, carried his bat through and was unbeaten on 157 as his side conceded a 193-run lead early on the final day.At this point, it seemed certain only India C could force a victory if they wished to. They instead decided to settle for the first-innings honours and were at 128 for 4 after 37 overs when both captains decided to shake hands.Kamboj’s performance was among his most impactful yet in a nascent first-class career. Coming into his 15th game, Kamboj hadn’t taken more than three wickets in a single innings previously. His eight-for in Anantapur brought him the second-best figures by a fast bowler in Duleep Trophy history, behind Debasis Mohanty (10 for 46).India C lost B Sai Sudharsan early when Mukesh Kumar had him bowled for 11. Gaikwad and Rajat Patidar put on 96 for the second wicket, Patidar hitting 42 to go with his first innings 40, before falling to Musheer Khan’s left-arm spin.Rahul Chahar, the legspinner, then had first-innings centurion Ishan Kishan for 1, followed by Gaikwad’s scalp in his very next over. The only blip for India C in this game was a leg injury to pacer Sandeep Warrier, which led to him hobbling off after just 1.1 overs.Manav Suthar, who picked up a match-winning seven-for in the first round of matches, went wicketless in this game. His figures read: 33-4-85-0. Musheer, the player of the match last week for his 181, managed just 1 while Sarfaraz Khan, asked to play in this fixture before linking up with the Indian Test squad in Chennai, managed 16.

Haris Sohail suffered a left shoulder injury when he landed awkwardly during a fielding drill

ESPNcricinfo staff29-Apr-2023Pakistan allrounder Iftikhar Ahmed will replace batter Haris Sohail for the final three ODIs of the ongoing series against New Zealand. Sohail suffered a shoulder injury on the eve of the first ODI, and while the PCB announced initial scans were satisfactory, he did not take part in the second game on Sunday.Sohail, 34, returned to Pakistan’s ODI squad for the first time in three years for a previous series against New Zealand in January. He was retained for this one as well but landed awkwardly on his left shoulder during a fielding drill, causing the injury that has necessitated his absence.The injury is a significant blow to Sohail’s World Cup chances. Pakistan play three more ODIs against Afghanistan in August and then they have the Asia Cup, but its logistics are still only being worked out. Sohail has played 45 ODIs, and was a part of Pakistan’s World Cup campaigns in 2015 and 2019.Iftikhar, 32, has played just 10 ODIs, and none for over a year. His record with the bat has not been especially encouraging, with 132 runs in nine innings and a highest score of 32 not out. But there is a spot in Pakistan’s middle order up for grabs with Sohail’s absence, and Shan Masood’s recent struggles. Masood was omitted from the starting XI of the second ODI, and replaced by debutant Abdullah Shafique.

Suryakumar Yadav’s blistering 79 and Bumrah’s four-for pushed Mumbai to top of the table

Deivarayan Muthu06-Oct-20202:19

Should Bumrah start to take the new ball again?

An inventive 79 not out off 47 balls from Suryakumar Yadav – his highest score in the IPL – carried the Mumbai Indians to 193 for 4, setting up their fourth victory in six matches this IPL. In pursuit of a tall target, the Rajasthan Royals lost three wickets in the powerplay, including that of their captain Steven Smith and Sanju Samson. Jos Buttler then slugged a 44-ball 70, threatening a comeback, but the Royals were ultimately dismissed for 136 in 18.1 overs.The 57-run victory – which also featured a fearsome Jasprit Bumrah spell (4-20) – meant Mumbai climbed to the top of the points table followed by the Delhi Capitals, who have played one match fewer, at No.2.After Quinton de Kock and Rohit Sharma sped away to 49-run opening stand, Yadav, in contrast, got off to a slow start – he was on 12 off 11 balls at one point. He watched Sharma and Ishan Kishan hole out off successive balls. He then watched Krunal Pandya, who was promoted to No.5 ahead of his younger brother Hardik and Kieron Pollard, struggle to 12 off 17 balls. However, Yadav’s wide range of strokes ensured Mumbai still took 68 from their last five overs and finished very strongly.Sharma, de Kock quick off the blocks
De Kock, who regained form with 67 against the Sunrisers Hyderabad in Sharjah, set the tone in Abu Dhabi, too, with a crisp four off the first delivery from Ankit Rajpoot, who was picked ahead of left-arm seamer Jaydev Unadkat. The ball slid onto the bat in the early exchanges, with Sharma also using the extra pace of Rajpoot to his advantage. After launching him into the Royals dug out over the long-off fence, he sat back, waiting for the short ball and cracked it away to the left of sweeper cover.Smith used as many as five bowlers in the powerplay, but it was 19-year old debutant Kartik Tyagi who produced the breakthrough when he bounced out de Kock for 23. Sharma progressed to 35 before legspinner Shreyas Gopal had him caught at long-on with a wrong’un. His first delivery to Kishan, too was a wrong’un, which he spliced to extra-cover. Mumbai were 88 for 3 in the 10th over. A scoopful of Surya
After using his long reach to get to a pitch of a Gopal legbreak and pump it over extra-cover, Yadav hung back and placed Tyagi either side of third man for fours. Another great piece of placement – late-cut between the keeper and short third man for four brought him a fifty off 33 balls.The Royals had reserved two overs of Jorfra Archer for Pollard and Hardik at the death, but in the end Pollard wasn’t needed at all. While Hardik forced Archer down the ground for four, Yadav unfurled his ramps and scoops to pepper the ‘V’ behind the wicket. Thirty seven of his 79 runs came in that region. It was quite fitting that he helped finish the innings with a ramped four. Hardik did his bit in the unbroken 76-run stand with Yadav off six overs, contributing 30 off 19 balls.Buttler or nothing for Royals
Trent Boult found swing with the new ball once again, removing Yashasvi Jaiswal for a duck in the first over of the chase. Then, in the next over as Bumrah opened the bowling for the first time this season, Smith fell swiping wildly for the third time in three matches. When Boult drew a top-edged pull from Samson to mid-on, the Royals were 12 for 3 in the third over.Buttler played himself in, getting to a run-a-ball 24 before exploding against the slower bowlers. He claimed 49 off 24 balls from Krunal, Rahul Chahar and Pollard.It needed a spectacular catch at the long-on boundary from Pollard – another special from the specialist T20 outfielder that will likely break YouTube – to get rid of Buttler in the 14th over. Royals lost their last five wickets for 38 runs and their third game in a row. The punches weren’t done yet. Long after the game was done, the IPL fined Smith INR 12 lakh for slow over-rate.

Sunrisers never recover after leaking 81 runs in wicketless powerplay

ECB Reporters Network05-Jun-2022Bryony Smith struck a belligerent half-century as defending champions South East Stars headed into Charlotte Edwards Cup Finals Day on Saturday with a comfortable 56-run win over Sunrisers at Guildford.Smith pummelled exactly 50 from just 30 balls, sharing an opening stand of 87 with Aylish Cranstone as the hosts rattled up 183 for 9, their best score in the competition and just short of the overall record of 186 set by Thunder last season.The Stars’ skipper then returned 2 for 17 while Kalea Moore took 2 for 16 as Sunrisers were bowled out for 127 in reply despite 31 from Amara Carr for the visitors.Victory means Stars top the group ahead of Central Sparks who they will meet in the playoff game to start final’s day at Wantage Road.
Smith chose to bat on winning the toss and the allrounder and the tournament’s leading run-scorer Cranstone gorged on some loose powerplay bowling from Sunrisers.Related

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Smith swept viciously and played the pull shot to great effect to clear the ropes four times, while Cranstone hit four fours off the second over bowled by Naomi Dattani.The hosts reached 81 without loss in the powerplay and Smith raced to 50 before spooning a catch to Scarlett Hughes off the bowling of Kelly Castle.It was the beginning of a frugal spell from Castle of 2 for 14, during which she also caught and bowled Kira Chathli and Sunrisers’ skipper was sharp in the field too, running out Alice Capsey for nought with a direct hit from mid-off.Cranstone perished when she mishit an attempted scoop off Dattani to wicketkeeper Carr, but Emma Jones hit one six clean out the ground in a whirlwind 33 from 17, as, despite a late flurry of wickets, Stars posted a huge total.Sunrisers made the worst possible start when Hughes hit the first ball of their reply from Moore to Cranstone at cover and the spinner struck again in her next over, trapping Grace Scrivens lbw.The in-form Dattani also didn’t detain for long, skying a ball from Alexa Stonehouse to Capsey, leaving the visitors 23 for 3.Carr cleared the ropes to top score, but neither her enterprise or Mady Villiers’ cameo of 22 were enough to redress the balance and when Mia Rogers holed out in the deep off Phoebe Franklin the game was up for Sunrisers.

South Australia had been well-placed before a middle-order wobble but Ben Manenti ensured against a full collapse

AAP and ESPNcricinfo staff01-Mar-2024South Australia and NSW were both been left satisfied but not fully content following an even opening day of their Sheffield Shield clash in Sydney.South Australia were in control early at 128 for 2 as Nathan McSweeney and Thomas Kelly posted fighting knocks before Ben Manenti resisted later in the day with an unbeaten half-centuryBut NSW hit back to limit the damage, ensuring their hunt for a spot in the Shield final remains alive. McSweeney’s innings was ended by a superb running catch from Daniel Hughes.NSW sit fourth on the ladder, and need to beat both South Australia and Queensland to have a chance of snaring a top-two berth.Chris Tremain, Jack Edwards, Chris Green and Jack Nisbet shared the bowling success.”I think everyone bowled very well today, especially the way we started,” Nisbet said. “During the middle overs when there was a partnership, I like the way we really stuck at it. To have them eight down at the end of the day, I think we’ll all be happy with that.”Kelly was disappointed South Australia didn’t make the most of their promising start, but felt the day ended evenly.”It’s probably a pretty even day – to not get bowled out after being dobbed in,” he said. We were definitely in front there…so to lose a couple is disappointing. The game is definitely in the balance. Hopefully Benny and Spence can push on tomorrow and get us towards 300.”For 23-year-old Kelly, the day was special after he posted his maiden first-class half-century in what is his sixth appearance.”I’ve been in and out [of the side] over the last few years, so it’s nice to finally get a bit of a run of it, and get past that first fifty,” he said. “Hopefully it flows from there.”

Comilla continued to stay on top of the table, while Dhaka are now in second place

Mohammad Isam01-Feb-2022How the match played out
Minister Group Dhaka broke Comilla Victorians’ winning streak, beating them by 50 runs in Chattogram on Tuesday afternoon. Comilla lost their last eight wickets for 49 runs, collapsing from 82 for 2 to be bowled out for 131 in the 18th over, in response to Dhaka’s 181 for 6. Despite the loss, Comilla stayed top of the six-team table with three wins from four games, while Dhaka moved up to second place after their third win in six outings.Andre Russell changed the course of the match, which was in the balance, in the 11th over – his first – when he removed captain Imrul Kayes and the set Mahmudul Hasan Joy off the first and last balls.Cameron Delport was run-out in the next over, before Karim Janat, Ariful Haque and Nahidul Islam fell in the space of four balls. The last two wickets were mere formalities as Comilla fell well short.Big hit
Dhaka’s innings was built around a good start from Tamim Iqbal and an innings of controlled aggression from Mahmudullah, who top-scored with an unbeaten 70 off 41 balls. While Tamim missed his fourth 50-plus score of the tournament by just four runs, Mahmudullah got to his first in this BPL season, and his tenth overall fifty in the competition.Tamim got going in a style reminiscent of the time he scored a century against Sylhet Sunrisers, hitting a couple of sixes when he swung the ball over backward square-leg, a couple of fours through the covers, and a blast over long-off.Mahmudullah, too, hit his fours and sixes in his favoured zones, flicking two sixes over fine-leg, carving Nahidul Islam for a six over extra-cover, and another one over midwicket. Left-arm spinner Tanvir Islam took two wickets for Comilla, having Tamim caught at short midwicket, apart from clean bowling Russell.But Russell had a good outing with the ball, claiming three wickets. Legspinner Qais Ahmad and Ebadot Hossain took two each. Rubel Hossain, who bowled just the two overs, removed Litton Das in the first over to kick things off for Dhaka.Big miss
Not for the first time in the tournament, Comilla’s batters came up short, especially after Litton, Faf du Plessis and Delport fell cheaply. Even though captain Imrul got to 28, it was his wicket that triggered the batting collapse.

Varun Chakravarthy also made the cut as India picked three spinners for their Asia Cup opener

ESPNcricinfo staff10-Sep-20252:34

Bangar: Samson deserves a slot in the top three

India won their first toss in 16 attempts across formats, and chose to bowl first in their Asia Cup opener against UAE. Suryakumar Yadav, the India captain, felt there was a chance of dew later in the match on a humid evening in Dubai.Muhammad Waseem, the UAE captain, said he would have preferred to bowl first too, and expected a bit of early help for the seamers.India sprang a few surprises with their selection. They retained Sanju Samson as wicketkeeper, despite the return of Shubman Gill to the top of the order displacing him into a middle-order role more familiar to Jitesh Sharma. They also picked both their wristspinners in Varun Chakravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav.This left the issue of whether they would prioritise depth in their batting or their seam attack. They went with the former, picking the allrounder Shivam Dube rather than a second frontline quick in Arshdeep Singh or Harshit Rana. Jasprit Bumrah starts as the only specialist quick, with Hardik Pandya expected to partner him with the new ball.Related

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UAE made one change to the XI that played their last match, the four-wicket loss to Afghanistan in the recent home tri-series, bringing in the offspin-bowling allrounder Dhruv Parashar for the legspinner Muhammad FarooqIndia: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Suryakumar Yadav (capt), 4 Tilak Varma, 5 Sanju Samson (wk), 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Hardik Pandya, 8 Axar Patel, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Jasprit BumrahUAE: 1 Muhammad Zohaib, 2 Muhammad Waseem (capt), 3 Asif Khan, 4 Alishan Sharafu, 5 Rahul Chopra (wk), 6 Dhruv Parashar, 7 Harshit Kaushik, 8 Haider Ali, 9 Muhammad Rohid, 10 Junaid Siddique, 11 Simranjeet Singh

Chasing 152, Hurricanes were bowled out for 114 to register a second successive loss

AAP26-Nov-2025South African Marizanne Kapp has again showed how big a loss she will be to the Melbourne Stars once she leaves the WBBL for international duties. Kapp starred in the field as the Stars easily beat Hobart Hurricanes by 37 runs on Thursday at Junction Oval.Their third-straight win left the Stars second on the ladder ahead of Saturday’s massive home derby against the third-placed Melbourne Renegades.While teammate Amy Jones was Player of the Match, Kapp bowled Lizelle Lee with the first delivery of the Hurricanes innings. She removed fellow opener Danni Wyatt-Hodge in the third over and took an outstanding catch to remove No.4 Nicola Carey.But Saturday’s match will be the last for Kapp before she returns to the South African team.”Obviously Kappy is going to be a massive loss – it seems like she’s playing her best cricket, now that she’s leaving us, which is a bit frustrating,” teammate Kim Garth said. “But I feel like we do have the depth to cover it.”Garth added they were worried about what damage Lee could do.”I was pretty relieved – she was hitting them pretty well,” Garth said. “We did a lot of planning for her and when Kappy comes in and knocks her over first ball, it’s quite nice.”After starting the season with five-straight wins, Hurricanes have lost their last two and are in danger of ceding top spot to either Melbourne team.Renegades will host Perth on Thursday ahead of Saturday’s clash against the Stars, who are only one point behind Hurricanes.After Hurricanes won the toss on Wednesday at Junction Oval, Jones and Danielle Gibson gave momentum to Stars’ stalled innings and the home side reached 151 for 6 from their 20 overs. Hurricanes were bundled out for 114 with 22 deliveries left.Jones top-scored with 59 from 40 balls, featuring six fours and a six. Jones and Gibson came together at 91 for 4 in the 14th over – not yet a crisis, but Hurricanes would have felt they had the momentum.Instead, Gibson belted 39 from 27 deliveries, with five fours and a six, as they put on a quickfire 44 for the fifth wicket. Carey took 2-29 from her four overs.After Hurricanes slumped to 59 for 6, captain Elyse Villani and Hayley Silver-Holmes gave them a glimmer of hope with their 40-run stand for the seventh wicket.Then Sophie Day bowled Silver-Holmes for 18 from 14 deliveries and Sutherland bowled Villani for 38 off 21 balls to kill off the late rally.Kapp took 2 for 29 from her four overs, while Sutherland also snared two and Day cleaned up the tail on the way to 4 for 17 from three overs.