Perry and Brown help Sydney Sixers clinch first win of the season

Ellyse Perry made a half-century before seamer Maitlan Brown inspired a stirring fightback, as Sydney Sixers revived their WBBL season with a tense win over Melbourne Renegades at the Junction Oval. Shielding 164, the winless Sixers were gazing intently at the barrel of their fourth consecutive loss when Rebels openers Tammy Beaumont and Hayley Matthews bursted a fast 50 years stand. Beaumont was feeling bellicose as she crushed three limits off seamer Jess Kerr in the first finished. Matthews was determined to taking care of Beaumont the strike, yet it prompted her excusal after she hit a more slow ball from Brown to midwicket subsequent to attempting to jab onto the leg-side. Earthy colored then, at that point, excused Beaumont in the game-changing seventh over with a short-pitched conveyance as Sixers' certainty developed and they tore through Rebels' center request. Be that as it may, there was a late wind when Georgia Wareham and Sarah Coyte clubbed 26 gets off the eighteenth over and it boiled down to the last done with Mavericks requiring 13 runs for an exceptional triumph. In any case, offspinner Ashleigh Gardner stayed calm and composed at the demise and Sixers, last season's finalists, ought to feel better having been the last group in the opposition to enroll a triumph. With three successive losses, Sixers' misfortunes have been intensified by a season-finishing finger injury to star wicketkeeper-player Alyssa Healy after she was unintentionally chomped by her canine. Without the imposing Healy, Sixers' top-request have battled in the powerplay and they hoped to out of shape opener Suzie Bates to turn their fortunes around in the wake of choosing for bat. Bates began well and hit an appealing cover drive to the limit off seamer Georgia Prestwidge as she arrived at twofold figures interestingly this season. Yet, Bates frustratingly fell in the following over when she couldn't clear the in-field and hit offspinner Matthews to mid-off. Shackled by Matthews' precision, Sixers indeed didn't take full advantage of the powerplay however not at all like past games they had the greater part of their wickets unblemished. Perry and Gardner joined for a 68-run organization to lay a stage for Sixers. Gardner utilized her feet really against legspinner Wareham, while Perry proceeded with areas of strength for her to the season by focusing on midwicket overwhelming everything in the vicinity as she scored 50 years. Mavericks didn't assist their objective with a worn out exertion in the field set apart by messy handling in the profound prompting a few limits. Be that as it may, they pawed back with the wickets of Gardner and Perry as Sixers were at risk for a less than impressive score on a batting well disposed surface. Rebels were passed on to mourn a missed baffling by wicketkeeper Josie Dooley when Chloe Tryon was on 12 and she made them pay promptly with a six off Wareham. Releasing baseball-style clubbing, Tryon gave Sixers a frantically required late prod with a triplet of sixes in the last over to cover her windy 41 off 16 balls. It lifted Sixers to a strong all out which they eventually shielded to guarantee a confidence supporting win.