After the Adelaide Strikers set 177 for the Stars to chase, Melbourne's batting line-up collapsed to an embarrassing new WBBL record.
Adelaide has made a record-breaking start to its WBBL title defence — and it came thanks to an embarrassingly bad performance from the Stars.Put in to bat, the Strikers smashed their way to 3-177, with openers Katie Mack and Laura Woolvardt blasting 135 off 14.1 overs.
Megan Schutt , Amanda-Jade Wellington and Zimbabwean legspinner Anesu Mushangwe ripped through the batting line-up to leave the visitors reeling at 8-18 in the seventh over. "We started unreal with the bat with Katie and Laura and then with the ball as well with Mushy and Shooter , so very happy," McGrath said.
Mack took 11 off the first Kim Garth over, slashing a couple of boundaries backward of point, and scored 49 of her team's first 55 runs.Left-arm finger spinner Sophie Day temporarily dragged her team back into the match.Day also had Bridget Patterson caught, but McGrath produced some powerful hitting in the closing overs.
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