{"id":93212,"date":"2025-08-24T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93212\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:58:08","slug":"originals-botched-chase-keeps-rockets-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93212\/","title":{"rendered":"Originals&#8217; botched chase keeps Rockets alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> WOMEN&#8217;S HUNDRED &#8211; 2025 <\/p>\n<p>           <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cursor-pointer\" height=\"396\" width=\"595\" alt=\"Perry hit 55 not out.\" title=\"Perry hit 55 not out.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/perry-hit-55-not-out.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Perry hit 55 not out. \u00a9 Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Manchester Originals botched a routine run-chase at home, falling to a 16-run defeat against Birmingham Phoenix and slipping to the fourth spot. The result keeps Trent Rockets, who beat Welsh Fire earlier in the evening, alive in the playoffs race. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Chasing 112, the Originals collapsed to 15\/4 inside the powerplay and never recovered. Their innings was further derailed by four run-outs before they were eventually bowled out for 99 off the final ball. Seren Smale top-scored with 29 off 34 but found no support as the top-four batters managed only single-digit scores. Megan Schutt starred with the ball for Phoenix, taking three wickets including that of Beth Mooney at the top. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Earlier, Phoenix were themselves jolted early, losing both openers inside the powerplay. From 15\/2, they slipped further to 17\/3 when Deandra Dottin removed Amy Jones. But Sterre Kalis (43 off 39) and Ellyse Perry (55* off 48) turned the innings around with an unbroken 94-run partnership, lifting Phoenix to 111\/3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Perry struck five fours and two sixes en route to her half-century while Kalis added four fours and a six, with both batters enjoying a reprieve along the way. Mahika Gaur impressed with the new ball, bowling three tidy sets for figures of 1 for 5. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Brief Scores: Birmingham Phoenix 111\/3 (Perry 55*, Kalis 43*) beat Manchester Originals 95 all out (Smale 29; Schutt 3-14) by 16 runs <\/p>\n<p> \u00a9 Cricbuzz <\/p>\n<p>     RELATED STORIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WOMEN&#8217;S HUNDRED &#8211; 2025 Perry hit 55 not out. \u00a9 Getty Manchester Originals botched a routine run-chase at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-93212","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\/93212","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=93212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}