The 8th edition of the Women’s Big Bash League (W-BBL) ended on a low note for the Sydney Sixers as the side lost their Final despite having had an exceedingly well league stage finish and long before the start of the 9th edition of the premium league in women’s cricket, the W-BBL, runners-up, Sydney Sixers have received a piece of unwanted news.
Sydney Sixers’ skipper, Ellyse Perry, will sit out of the first match of next year’s W-BBL after having copped a game suspension for slow over rates during the W-BBL 08 final and the same doesn’t turn out to be the first or the second, it was a third such for the Sydney Sixers’.
The Sixers were found to be one over behind the rate, after allowances, for the match at North Sydney Oval. In addition to Perry’s suspension, each Sixers player was fined $250 under the tournament’s playing conditions for the slow overrate. It also has been understood that the legendary all-rounder lead, Ellyse Perry and Sydney Sixers have opted against challenging the penalty.
Ellyse Perry will miss the opening game of WBBL09 after she accepted a one-match ban for repeated slow over rate throughout the season.#CricketTwitter #WBBL pic.twitter.com/HNeZ2PMQAG
— Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) December 6, 2022
The recently concluded, 8th edition of the W-BBL, turned out to be a re-launch pad for Ellyse Perry to get into the Twenty20 International (T20I) team after being benched following injuries and just okay run of form and this time around made the most of the launching pad available by finishing 2nd on the highest run-scorers list.
This summer’s W-BBL edition saw Sixers’ skipper, Ellyse Perry finish as the 2nd highest run scorer with 408 runs to her name off 13 innings and missed the top spot falling 26 short of Beth Mooney’s 434 run mark. Perry in the season averaged 40.80, recorded a strike rate of 119.64, and with 4 fifties to her name registered the highest score of 69*.
Ellyse Perry after long was seen with the ball and as one would expect, wasn’t at her absolute best having bagged just 6 wickets in 6 innings (33.0 overs) with the best figures of 2/16 at an economy rate of 8.00.
In international cricket, in the format, Ellyse Perry with the bat in 76 innings has scored 1253 runs at an average of 27.84, a strike rate of 105.47, and with 4 fifties to her name, has got the highest score of 60*. With the ball, in 119 innings, she’s bagged 115 wickets at an economy rate of 5.87 and has got the best figures of 4/12.
Ellyse Perry has not played a T20I for Australia since last October, having missed out on selection in last summer’s Ashes and the Commonwealth Games, but with Australia’s away tour of India, now only days away from its curtain raiser, Ellyse Perry will be hopeful of finding a spot in the XI following an impressive W-BBL run.