Alyssa Healy has hit the first six of the women’s Hundred, England’s latest short-format domestic competition, but also became the first wicket as her franchise team lost heavily at The Oval.
Key points:
- Alyssa Healy cracked the second ball of the second women’s Hundred season for six
- She was quickly dismissed for 15 after hitting two more boundaries
- Her Northern Superchargers lost to defending champions, the Oval Invincibles
Healy made 15 off seven balls as Northern Superchargers reached 5-143 from their 100 balls, with India’s Jemimah Rodrigues hitting 51 off 32 balls and South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt 49 off 39.
Oval Invincibles, the defending champions, made short work of the target, with Lauren Winfield-Hill, who played for Superchargers last year, cracking an unbeaten 74 off 42 balls and putting on 104 for the first wicket with New Zealand’s Suzie Bates (46 off 3. 4).
English tyro Alice Capsey, on her 18th birthday, then came in to smash 25 off eight balls to clinch a nine-wicket victory with 16 balls to spare.
Healy is one of the biggest overseas players in the tournament’s second season — the debut year featured few Australians because of COVID-19.
This year’s women’s competition began later than the men’s due to the Commonwealth Games, in which Australia won the women’s cricket gold, but began in style with top billing at The Oval after the men’s fixture between the same teams.
The approximately 16,000 fans who stayed for the second match were treated to Healy dancing down the wicket to drive Mady Villiers over the top for six off the second ball of the innings.
Two balls later Healy was dropped at mid-on by Shabnim Ismail, with the ball going for four. It looked as if it would provide an expensive miss when Healy swept the next ball for four.
But she ran out of luck when she tried to drive over the top again and was caught by Bates at mid-off off Sophia Smale (1-25 off 20 balls).
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