| Adelaide Strikers 177-3 (20 overs): Mack 86 (50); Day 3-24 |
| Melbourne Stars 29 (9.3 overs): Schutt 3-3, Wellington 3-4 |
| Adelaide Strikers won by 148 runs |
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Melbourne Stars were bowled out for just 29 as they suffered a record 148-run defeat by Adelaide Strikers in the Women’s Big Bash League.
It is the lowest team total in the history of the competition.
Strikers’ triumph is the WBBL’s biggest margin of victory in terms of runs.
It is also believed to be the lowest total in a professional women’s T20 league, eclipsing the 47 all out by Velocity against Trailblazers in India’s T20 challenge in 2020.
Seamer Megan Schutt and leg-spinner Amanda-Jade Wellington finished with figures of 3-3 and 3-4 respectively to finish the Stars innings in 9.3 overs.
Defending champions Strikers started their campaign by posting an imposing 177-3 batting first.
The total was set up by a 135-run opening stand between South Africa international Laura Wolvaardt and Katie Mack, who top-scored with 86 from just 50 balls.
Captain Tahlia McGrath chipped in with a valuable 34 from 19 balls as spinner Sophie Day took the only three wickets that Stars could manage.
Stars and Australia captain Meg Lanning was dismissed by Schutt in the second over of the reply for just one, before England duo Sophia Dunkley and Alice Capsey both fell in the third over.
Dunkley’s nine was Stars’ highest score as Schutt, Wellington and leg-spinner Anesu Mushangwe ripped through the line-up, with England’s Maia Bouchier falling for a first-ball duck.
The previous lowest WBBL total was Brisbane Heat’s 66 against Melbourne Renegades in 2017, while the margin of victory eclipses Perth Scorchers’ 104-run win over Renegades in 2022.
