Annabel Sutherland turned the eighth double centurion in ladies’s Check cricket at present (February 16), scoring 210 in opposition to South Africa on the WACA.
It was the second time Annabel Sutherland handed three figures in a Check match, after she had scored a century on Check debut in opposition to England at Trent Bridge final summer time. She turned the ninth participant to attain a couple of century for Australia in ladies’s Assessments, whereas her common of 70.50 is now the fourth-highest amongst all Australiana.
Having taken three wickets within the first innings as South Africa had been bowled out for 76, their lowest whole in ladies’s Assessments, Australia had slipped to 12-3 earlier than Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney placed on a 155-run partnership to take them into a primary innings lead. Sutherland got here to the crease when Mooney was out for 75, and placed on 82-run partnership with Healy, earlier than she was out on 99 – the fifth participant out one in need of a century in ladies’s Assessments.
Having been on 54 when Healy received out, Sutherland reached her hundred with back-to-back fours off 149 balls – yet one more than she had taken to deliver up her first Check hundred. She now holds the third and fourth positions on the checklist of quickest tons of in ladies’s Assessments.
After going into the tea break on day two on 113, she introduced her double-hundred up in the identical session off 248 balls – the quickest double century within the historical past of girls’s Check cricket. The earlier document was 306 balls by Karen Rolton in 2001.
210 – The fourth highest particular person rating in ladies’s Check cricket.
An unimaginable effort from Annabel Sutherland.#AUSvSA pic.twitter.com/x5CjEI5Uf1
— Wisden (@WisdenCricket) February 16, 2024
At 22, Sutherland is the second-youngest participant to attain 200 in a ladies’s Check. Former India captain Mithali Raj is the one youthful participant to attain a double hundred, having finished so at 19. Sutherland is, nonetheless, the primary ladies to attain two Check tons of batting at No.6 or decrease, and the third-youngest to succeed in a second century in ladies’s Assessments. Sandhya Agarwal and Emily Drumm each achieved the feat at 21.
Sutherland was closing in on the very best rating in ladies’s Assessments for Australia (Ellyse Perry’s 213 not out) when she was caught at slip making an attempt a scoop shot off Chloe Tryon. She completed her innings with 210 runs off 256 balls, with 27 fours and two sixes. 210 is the fourth-highest particular person rating in a ladies’s Check.
Australia declared on 575-9, 575 is essentially the most runs scored within the second innings of a ladies’s Check, surpassing Australia’s earlier document of 569 in opposition to England at Guildford in 1998. They led by 499, the most important first-innings lead a aspect has ever inbuilt a ladies’s Check, the earlier document relationship again to 1934/35. Throughout each males’s and ladies’s Assessments, 499 is the seventh-highest first-innings lead in historical past.
Extra data might be set to tumble within the one-off Check – the primary contested between the 2 sides – with South Africa in bother once more early of their second innings. They misplaced their high three batters inside the primary eight overs of the innings.
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