The Adelaide Strikers Women were the more polished side on the field and they hammered a listless Hobart Hurricanes Women by 48 runs to go to the fourth on the points table. Conversely, a struggling Hurricanes slide slipped to seventh on the table with just 7 points from their 12 matches.
Chasing a competitive score of 143 runs, the Hurricanes Women were blown away for a mere 94 runs as Darcie Brown and Megan Schutt ran riot among them. The former was the more successful bowler, picking up both openers Naomi Stalenberg and Rachel Priest to give the Hurricanes Women the worst possible start.
The duo of Mignon du Preez and Nicola Carey tried to steady the ship but once du Preez was gone there was no one to hold the Strikers Women from taking a giant leap and the Hurricanes Women slipped into another mini-collapse.
India’s Richa Ghosh failed with the bat in the middle order and the Hurricanes Women were bowled out with 10 balls remaining.
Earlier, the Hurricanes Women skipper Rachel Priest elected to bowl first after winning the toss and they were ecstatic to send Katie Mack back to the pavilion off the bowling of Tayla Vlaeminck.
However, Dane van Niekerk and Laura Wolvaardt held their ground strong to give the Strikers a solid platform. But, they could not provide acceleration to the batting and neither did the skipper Tahlia McGrath could change the course of the game.
The acceleration came from the bat of Bridget Patterson, who smashed a 17-ball 25 to take the Strikers to a defendable total.
It was the fifth win of the season for the Strikers Women out of the 10 games they played while the Hurricanes Women have been going through a tough season and have won only three games out of the 12 played so far.