Knight, Bates shine to keep Sydney Thunder on top of the table

After Heather Knight's 59* off 34 conveyances, left-arm spinner Samantha Bates picked four wickets to make ready for Sydney Thunder's 19-run triumph over Brisbane Intensity in Perth. This is Thunder's third success in fourth excursion, keeping them on the WBBL focuses table, while Intensity have now lost three out of five games. Before Bates could twirl her web around the pursuing side, Thunder partook in a viable appearance from the main four. Chamari Athapaththu (33 off 25) and Georgia Voll (22 off 22) gave the group a decent beginning before Phoebe Litchfield (40 off 25) and Heather Knight (59* off 34) changed gears in a 57-run stand, off 37 conveyances. Between them, the two hit 17 fours. Litchfield was excused in the sixteenth over yet Thunder got a demise overs support from Knight, who trucked Beauty Parsons for four limits in the eighteenth over. Thunder took 34 runs from the last three overs to wrap up with a sum of 170/5. Hannah Darlington and Taneale Peschel made early advances to leave the pursuing side on 35/2 in the fifth over. Opener Elegance Harris and Charlie Knott sewed a speedy organization trying to up the scoring rate. That undertaking notwithstanding, endured possibly till the midway imprint when Peschel excused Harris on 41. Athapaththu (2-33) and Bates (4-25) then, at that point, went through the center and lower-request where six hitters succumbed to single-digit scores. In the last finished, Shabnim Ismail excused Parsons to wrap up Intensity's riposte on 151, 19 shy of the objective.