Captain Hayley Matthews registered her third straight single-digit rating as Melbourne Renegades prolonged their wretched run with a chastening 10-wicket defeat to Perth Scorchers.
Renegades rallied to 133 for five off their 20 overs after being despatched in to bat at Junction Oval. They then watched helplessly as Scorchers raced to their goal within the twelfth over, with captain and opener Sophie Devine placing an unbeaten 70 off 36 deliveries.
The defeat was their seventh straight in 9 outings and eighth of the marketing campaign, leaving them on the backside of the Ladies’s Massive Bash League on two factors.
Matthews managed solely eight and now has 107 runs from 9 innings, at a median of slightly below 12.
Her highest rating this season was 31 within the first conflict with Scorchers earlier this month however the knock stays the one time she has handed 20.
Georgia Wareham top-scored with an unbeaten 57 off 46 deliveries hitting 5 fours and a six, anchoring a 62-run, unbroken sixth wicket stand with Josephine Dooley-14 not out to tug Renegades round from 71 for 5 within the thirteenth over.
Matthews, the main wicket-taker for her aspect, got here up empty-handed as Devine and Beth Mooney, struck 47 not out off 32 balls. Devine counted two fours and eight sixes whereas Mooney struck 9 fours.