Cricket world stunned by 'ridiculous' collapse

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Tasmania has claimed backmost to backmost WNCL titles aft 1 of the astir chaotic finishes to a cricket crippled successful the past of the sport.

Coming into the past implicit of a stop-start rainfall affected last astatine Blundstone Arena successful Hobart, South Australia needed conscionable 4 runs to win.

But what followed was a disastrous show of panicked batting combined with immoderate crisp glovework sprinkled with immoderate bully luck, which saw the Scorpions crumble to suffer 5 wickets successful six balls to suffer the rubric by 1 run.

Thrown the shot to vessel the past over, Sarah Coyte cleanable bowled Annie O'Neill erstwhile she danced down the wicket and tried to extremity the crippled with the archetypal shot of the over.

The brought Amanda-Jade Wellington to the crease, who worked the shot to 3rd antheral for a azygous disconnected the 2nd ball.

With the third, Jemma Barsby besides came down the wicket, and erstwhile she missed, immoderate astute glovework from Emma Manix-Geeves saw the bails whipped disconnected and the equation present 3 from three.

If the stumping was skill, the 3rd wicket to autumn for the implicit was astir apt luck. New batter Ella Wilson crunched Coyte backmost down the wicket, but Coyte managed to get a manus connected the shot successful her follow-through, which ricocheted onto the stumps and near Wellington run-out.

Wilson was adjacent to autumn with the 5th shot of the over, retired lbw erstwhile she tried to play crossed the enactment to a consecutive shot and missed.

Still needing 3 to triumph - oregon 2 to necktie - disconnected the past ball, Anesu Mushangwe deed it to mid disconnected and managed to get a single, but was tally retired looking to unit the contented and nonstop the crippled to a ace over.

In commentary, Peter Newlinds said it was a "freakish" show from Coyte.

"This is extraordinary," helium said.

"Can you judge that? They person gone back-to-back successful the astir melodramatic circumstances. Look astatine the scenes retired successful the middle.

"They person pulled that retired of the occurrence - and I conscionable bash not cognize what has happened to the Scorpions.

"It's a crippled that volition spell down successful cricket folklore."

Earlier, a beardown concern betwixt Emma de Broughe and Courtney Webb had the Scorpions cruising astatine 2-153 erstwhile Coyte found herself successful the heavy of the action, taking a bully drawback to region de Broughe for 68 disconnected the bowling of Maisy Gibson (1-37).

But with Webb inactive astatine the crease, South Australia remained beardown favourite

Despite the evident scoreboard pressure, Coyte said she was calm going into the last over.

"You are ever up until they walk you, and we knew we had to make a fewer dot balls but the unit was ever going to beryllium connected them," she said.

"If I executed what I wanted to bowl, we were ever going to beryllium a accidental and I'm gladsome it came off.

"I was really beauteous calm … I'd spoken to [Tasmania coach] Jude Coleman earlier I went retired and was truly wide with wherever I was going to bowl.

"It was a truly bizarre game, it was stop-start wherever we were perpetually looking astatine Duckworth-Lewis. The crippled ebbed and flowed a lot.

"This is the champion crippled I've been a portion of without a doubt. You can't ever replicate a crippled similar that."

Batting first, a period to Elyse Villani and beardown performances from Naomi Stalenberg and Lizelle Lee saw the Scorpions acceptable the Tigers 265 to triumph from their 50 overs.

Two little rainfall interruptions saw the Tigers people revised down to 242 from 47 overs.

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