Amanda-Jade Wellington commentated on fellow Australians starring in The Hundred but has now roared back to business on the pitch in the county game<\/p>\n
After a spell in the commentary box watching other Australian cricketers shining, evergreen international Amanda-Jade Wellington has got back to her day job in impressive fashion.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old Adelaide luminary, who so often thrives in white-ball tournaments, went unsold, rather surprisingly, in the auction for the recent edition of The Hundred, despite being one of the event’s all-time leading wicket-takers.<\/p>\n
Instead, the leg-spinner took up the chance to sideline as a TV commentator for the BBC during the event, while admitting it all felt a little bit odd to be commenting on colleagues like title-winning Trent Rockets stars Beth Mooney and Ashleigh Gardner.<\/p>\n
But the woman who’s taken 52 scalps in The Hundred was itching to get back into action following her enjoyable broadcasting spell and on Wednesday, Wellington returned with a brilliant match-winning display for Hampshire in England’s Women’s One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n
Wellington took a season’s-best 4-37 off her 10 overs after Hampshire’s in-form captain Georgia Adams won the toss and put Surrey in to bat at Guildford, ripping out the hosts’ middle-order.<\/p>\n
Wellington spins through Fire to claim five-fa<\/p>\n
Adams, fresh from her match-winning display in Sunday’s Hundred final at Lord’s, chipped in with three wickets as Surrey were bowled out for 228 and then dominated Hampshire’s chase with a brilliant 115 off 103 balls, including 15 fours and two sixes.<\/p>\n
Wellington fell cheaply for eight off 12 balls as she came in to try to finish the job but Hampshire still eased to a four-wicket win.<\/p>\n
It was their fourth-straight group win in the competition to keep their hopes alive of an automatic spot in the final on their home Southampton turf.<\/p>\n
The pacesetters in the tournament remain the Nottingham-based Blaze, who rattled up a huge 4-356 total in their 59-run (D\/L method) victory over Durham Women at Trent Bridge thanks to centuries from Kathryn Bryce (136) and Georgia Elwiss (134no).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda-Jade Wellington commentated on fellow Australians starring in The Hundred but has now roared back to business on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":["post-590289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}