South Australia fell 52 runs short against Western Australia at the WACA in their opening WNCL clash of 2026.<\/p>\n
Darcie Brown\u2019s brilliant new-ball spell helped restrict WA to 243, but a challenging period in the middle-overs saw SA bowled out for 191.<\/p>\n
Having won the toss and electing to bowl, Brown ripped through the WA top-order with the new ball. She bowled eight overs on the bounce, conceding just 30 runs, while dismissing three of WA’s top four. Tahlia McGrath chipped in with 2-40 as well, and at one stage the hosts were teetering at 4\/52.<\/p>\n
Captain Jemma Barsby was the pick of the bowlers with her 3\/28, stifling the batting side late in the innings, after WA fought back in the middle-overs.<\/p>\n
Chasing 244 to win, SA lost a few early wickets but Courtney Webb and Tahlia McGrath combined for a 59-run partnership to help their side. Webb batted beautifully for her better-than run-a-ball 58 as she found the fence on ten occasions.<\/p>\n
Hollie Armitage joined McGrath but the Australian vice-captain fell soon after for 28.<\/p>\n
Barsby and Armitage then added 42 but once the skipper was dismissed, SA were soon all out, 52 runs short and with the overseas star stranded on 39*.<\/p>\n
South Australia will meet WA again on January 10, aiming to square the ledger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australia fell 52 runs short against Western Australia at the WACA in their opening WNCL clash of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,83],"class_list":["post-400112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400112","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=400112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}