{"id":254515,"date":"2025-11-10T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254515\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:00:18","slug":"wbbl-2025-results-ash-gardner-sophia-dunkley-star-as-sixers-thrash-scorchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254515\/","title":{"rendered":"WBBL 2025 results: Ash Gardner &#038; Sophia Dunkley star as Sixers thrash Scorchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Sophia Dunkley and Australia&#8217;s Ash Gardner starred as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229177\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Sixers thrashed Perth Scorchers by 10 wickets<\/a> in their opening Women&#8217;s Big Bash League game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chasing 110 to win, Dunkley smashed an unbeaten 61 from 40 balls, with four fours and five sixes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia great Ellyse Perry was happy to play second fiddle at the other end, making 47 not out off 37 balls as Sixers won with 43 balls to spare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Gardner, who was announced as Sixers&#8217; new captain on Friday, took 5-15 as Scorchers were bowled out for 109 in 19.3 overs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gardner removed New Zealand&#8217;s Sophie Devine (three) and England&#8217;s Paige Scholfield in successive balls in the eighth over, before returning later in the innings to take three more wickets, including England&#8217;s Freya Kemp. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Perry also took two wickets, including Mikayla Hinkley, who top-scored with 31.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s Sophia Dunkley and Australia&#8217;s Ash Gardner starred as Sydney Sixers thrashed Perth Scorchers by 10 wickets in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-254515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}