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[Watch] Yastika Bhatia's Desperate Dive Goes In Vain As Matthews Pulls Off Fielding Brilliance 

Aashay Chopade

Yastika Bhatia's run out in WBBL 2024 (Source:@WBBL/X.com)Yastika Bhatia's run out in WBBL 2024 (Source:@WBBL/X.com)

Yastika Bhatia is highly rated in Indian cricket and is expected to take the baton forward in the upcoming years. She is one of the few Indian players involved in WBBL 2024 and is playing for Melbourne Stars Women. In the four matches so far, she has hit one fifty and in the recent game against Renegades Women, she scored 22 off 26 balls.

Yastika Bhatia lost her wicket on the first delivery of the 8th over and it was a run out. Bekker tossed up a delivery on off and Lanning pushed it towards the extra cover region. She hit it right of Hayley Matthews and the batters tried to steal a single. Matthews though was quick to get off the blocks, ran to her right, dived and fired a quick throw at the batter's end.

Melbourne Stars Fail To Chase Competitive Target

Yastika Bhatia was running towards that end and made a desperate dive to get inside the crease. She did not succeed though as the wicketkeeper Nicole Faltum whipped the bails off in flash. After her wicket, Melbourne Stars kept losing wickets at regular intervals as Lanning could also manage just 22 runs and ended up losing the game by 15 runs.

In the first half, Renegades posted 146 on the board with likes of Alice Capsey, Nicola Stalenberg and Faltum playing handy cameos. Renegades after the win are now at the third position on the points table with three wins and three losses in six games while Melbourne Stars are fifth with two wins in five matches.