KSL Match Notes - Lightning v Diamonds

Match Seven
Lightning v Diamonds
16th August 2017

* Start delayed by rain for 88 minutes & game reduced to 13 overs per side.

* Lightning win toss & field

* 4 over powerplay

* Diamonds manage 29/1 in the powerplay courtesy of Chamari Attapatu. Lauren Winfield the casualty caught at deep square for 9 off Odedra.

* Atapattu smashes a 6 and a 4 off Grundy and Diamonds are 42/1 after 6 overs

* Sophie Devine struggling while Atapattu marches on. Devine is bowled by Elwiss' first ball - 2 off 9 balls. 49/2

* Atapattu is dropped on 47 but goes on to get her 50 off 32 balls

* Joined by Brunt, Atapattu takes a back seat. Brunt hits 21 off 10 balls before Atapattu calls her through for a suicidal single. Gone run out. Diamonds 86/3 after 10.1 overs.

* Alice Davidson-Richards and Jenny Gunn perish to leave Diamonds on 95/5 with 16 balls left. Atapattu takes them to solid 110/5.

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* Lightning need a good start but Brunt bowls her housemate Amy Jones for 2 and gets Perry lbw - Lightning 13/2 after 2.1 overs.

* Lightning 24/2 at end of powerplay 4 overs. Behind the clock.

* Atapattu gets Villani lbw with her first ball. 24/3. Looking tough now.

* Thea Brookes goes for 4. 31/4.

* Georgia Elwiss 41 and Sonia Odedra 21* take Lightning to 79/5, but it takes to over 11.3, despite 18 off one Gunn over.

* A brief cameo from Sarah Glenn (11) gets Lightning past bonus point score and they finish on 93/5.

* Thunder win by 17 runs

Full scorecard here

MD
18/VIII/17