Rahul Tiwari
khelja|17-11-2024
The Test series between India and Australia starts from 22nd November. But, the havoc of Australian bowlers has started becoming visible in Australia even before that. No, here we are definitely not talking about those Australian bowlers who will be a part of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. We mean that player whose terror has been seen in the Women's Big Bash League. 18 year old Australian all-rounder Lucy Hamilton targeted 5 batsmen giving just 8 runs, out of which 2 were Indian batsmen.
The match in WBBL was between Melbourne Stars and Brisbane Heats. Melbourne women's cricket team, who came to bat first in this match, did not have a good start. Indian batsman Yastika Bhatia, who came to open with captain Annabel Sutherland, was out after scoring 8 runs. Lucy Hamilton made her her first victim by clean bowling her. Just one run later, Hamilton also uprooted the wicket of Melbourne's captain.
After taking both the wickets in the same over, Lucy Hamilton's condition became like getting blood in the mouth of a lion. She took the third wicket by dismissing Meg Lanning. After taking the top 3 wickets, Hamilton did not spare even Tess Flintoff, who came to bat at number 5. Whereas the 5th and last wicket of Indian batsman Deepti Sharma was taken by Lucy Hamilton.
It is clear that the sequence of wickets which was started by the Australian all-rounder by dismissing India's Yastika Bhatia, was also ended with the wicket of an Indian batsman. 5 wickets for 8 runs is Lucy Hamilton's best figure in T20.
Melbourne Stars, batting first, scored 138 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs despite the blows given by Lucy Hamilton. In this, Kim Grath's contribution of 31 runs off 20 balls was important. Talking about 2 Indian batsmen, Yastika scored 8 runs while Deepti scored 6 runs. Meaning, both the Indian batsmen could not touch double figures.