{"id":272976,"date":"2025-11-09T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272976\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:50:09","slug":"wbbl-2025-26-results-melbourne-renegades-beat-brisbane-heat-in-rain-affected-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272976\/","title":{"rendered":"WBBL 2025-26 results: Melbourne Renegades beat Brisbane Heat in rain-affected opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Davina Perrin was out for a first-ball duck on her Women&#8217;s Big Bash debut but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229175\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne Renegades beat Brisbane Heat by seven wickets<\/a> in a rain-affected opening game of the new season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Perrin, 19, was signed last week as an injury replacement for West Indies all-rounder Hayley Matthews but was caught behind from the first ball of Renegades DLS-adjusted chase of 66 from eight overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Alice Capsey and West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin were dismissed in the next over for five and eight respectively, but Courtney Webb (34 not out off 22 balls) and Georgia Wareham (16* off 13) got defending champions Renegades over the line with three balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Heat were bowled out for 133 from the final ball of their innings after being asked to bat first. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa&#8217;s Nadine de Klerk made 40 at the top of the order but seven batters were dismissed for single figures, including India&#8217;s Jemimah Rodrigues (six) and Australia&#8217;s Jess Jonassen (eight). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wareham was the pick of the Renegades&#8217; bowlers, claiming 3-12, while Capsey impressed with 3-20, including the wickets of De Klerk and Rodrigues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s Davina Perrin was out for a first-ball duck on her Women&#8217;s Big Bash debut but Melbourne Renegades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-272976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}