MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – West Indies captain Hayley Matthews is hoping for a strong end to the Girls’s Massive Bash League after failing to get among the many runs for Melbourne Renegades within the first ten video games of the season.
The appropriate-hander, who can be main Renegades for the marketing campaign, has gathered solely 139 runs from ten innings at a median of just below 13, with a highest rating of 32 – approaching Sunday in a painful four-run loss to cross-town rivals Melbourne Stars.
Within the outing at Junction Oval, Matthews slipped the order to quantity 4 from her normal opening place and now hopes the transfer may also pay dividends.
“It was good to get on the market and have a little bit of house and time in the midst of the innings,” mentioned the 26-year-old.
“It could’ve been nice if I’d been in a position to take it dwelling in the long run, however on the identical time, it’s an excellent begin for me late on within the match.
“Hopefully, I can kick on from right here and produce much more to the Renegades all through the tip of the season.”
Matthews’ struggles have mirrored these of the Renegades, the franchise having now misplaced eight straight video games and 9 of ten for the season.
They lie all-time low of the eight-team league with two factors, and with solely 4 video games remaining of their marketing campaign, have already been eradicated from qualifying for the championship sport.
With their newest defeat coming by the hands of the Stars, Matthews mentioned that end result had been harrowing.
“Taking part in with the Renegades for 2 years, enjoying in opposition to the Stars is an enormous rivalry, and it’s a bit disappointing to not recover from the [line] in a detailed sport,” she mentioned.
“However on the identical time, we’ve bought one other alternative in a week-and-a-half or so to take a look at what we didn’t achieve this effectively and are available again actually good in opposition to them.
“We’ve sort of bought to maneuver on rapidly, get into our different spherical of video games, and simply put together our greatest for that final one.”
The Stars defeat got here simply 24 hours following a chastening ten-wicket drubbing by the hands of Perth Scorchers, and Matthews mentioned she was happy with how her group had responded.
“Taking part in [on Saturday] in opposition to the Scorchers, they’d’ve had fairly a convincing win with bat and ball, and clearly [it was] not our greatest sport,” she mentioned.
“However to have the ability to come again and bounce again rather well – for the bowlers to bowl the best way they did and limit them to beneath 150 was nice.
“I might’ve cherished to chase it (goal), however on the identical time, [it was] excellent to see contributions from everywhere in the group.”
Renegades play their subsequent sport on Friday in opposition to Brisbane Warmth.
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