Georgia Voll sets up Brisbane Heat win over Melbourne Renegades

Teenager Voll made her highest Women's Big Bash score, passing fifty for the first time

Adelaide: Brisbane Heat 163-8, Melbourne Renegades 137 - Brisbane Heat win by 27 runs

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Teenagers Georgia Voll and Charli Knott starred as Brisbane Heat beat Melbourne Renegades to go second in the Women's Big Bash table.

Voll made a half century before Knott took three wickets in a doomed response that never looked like ending in a Renegades victory.

Nineteen-year-old Voll made 52 – her maiden WBBL fifty – after coming to the crease at 31 for 2 and, remarkably, ran out her partner Grace Harris immediately – albeit inadvertently – as a straight drive deflected off bowler Hayley Matthews and onto the stumps at the non-striker's end.

Thereafter, though, the teenager built meaningful partnerships with Amelia Kerr (27) and Laura Harris (13). At 117 for 6 after 15 overs, the Heat looked like falling short of a winning total, but Voll – who eventually fell to Shabnim Ismail – and a late cameo from debutant Pooja Vastrakar (13) helped Brisbane to a competitive total of 163.

^{Charli Knott took three wickets for Brisbane Heat (Sarah Reed/Getty Images)}

In reply, Melbourne found themselves 15 for 3 after 3.4 overs, needing something special from the middle order.

Matthews and Eve Jones both departed without scoring, while Sophie Molineux made four as off-spinner Knott and seamers Nicola Hancock and Courtney Sippel wreaked havoc. The arrival of Chamari Athapaththu, the Sri Lanka captain, as a replacement for Harmanpreet Kaur cannot come soon enough.

Josie Dooley (40) and Courtney Webb (47) did at least offer some resistance, keeping the Renegades in the game. But once Dooley went to Sippel and Ellie Falconer departed after a quickfire 27, the house of cards tumbled and Webb ran out of partners, with Amelia Kerr chipping in with three wickets.

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