BHW vs MLRW 9th Match Prediction

BHW vs MLRW Team Previews

Brisbane Heat Women

Brisbane Heat women lost their opening match of the WBBL to Sydney Sixers by a margin of 4 wickets. However, Brisbane Heat received the first victory of the season later against Melbourne Stars women on Saturday. Brisbane Heat posted a score of 179 for 3 before they took to the field to restrict the Melbourne Stars team to a score of 170 for 8. Georgia Redmayne was the top scorer with a score of 49 runs against Sydney Sixers women. She was also among the runs against the Melbourne Stars women when she scored 33 runs from 30 balls.

Georgia Redmayne was outscored in this match by Ellie Johnston who hit 54 not out and Georgia Voll also contributed a not-out 40 to the team's cause. The Voll effort came from 28 balls. It hasn’t taken too much time for the Brisbane Heat captain Jess Jonassen to re-discover her bowling form from the last edition of WBBL in 2021. On Thursday she picked up 2 wickets for 21 runs and on Saturday she followed this up with a 3 for 36. The 22-year-old kiwi leg spinner Amelia Kerr was also successful in picking up her first couple of wickets in the competition against Melbourne Stars women.

Before the victory on Sunday, the Brisbane Heat team has won just two games from their last five outings in the WBBL. Georgia Redmayne has been one of the top performers for Brisbane Heat with the bat. In the last ten games for Brisbane, she has scored 327 runs at an excellent average of 32.70 and a strike rate of 116.78. The Heat skipper Jess Jonassen has been the frontline bowler for the team. In her last ten outings, she has picked up 14 wickets at an economy rate of 7.19 and strike rate of 15.50.

Melbourne Renegades Women

In one of the extremely close matches on Sunday in Mackay, the Melbourne Renegades women's cricket team got their campaign off to a great start by beating the finalists of the 2021 Adelaide Strikers women. They defeated the Adelaide side by a margin of 4 wickets with one ball to go. The winning runs for Melbourne Renegades were hit by Sarah Coyote. The top 3 batters for Melbourne Renegades were Sophie Molineux, Hayley Matthews, and their wicket-keeper batter Josephine Dooley. They hit 32, 22, and 29 runs respectively from 35, 15, and 27 balls.

These contributions at the top of the order for Melbourne Renegades women got them off to a flier against the Adelaide Strikers women. Surprisingly in this game, none of the batters hit a sixer. Even though Hayley Matthews looked to be the most impressive bowler of the lot with one wicket from 17 runs from her quota of 4 overs, it was the Melbourne captain Sophie Molineux that led the bowling attack for Melbourne against Adelaide. She is a left-arm spinner and she dismissed the number 3, 4, 5, and 6 batters from the Adelaide side.

The Melbourne Renegades team has lost three out of their last five games in the women's Big Bash League for 2022. The Indian maestro Harmanpreet Kaur has been the top batter for Melbourne Renegades with 303 runs from her last 9 games. She has scored these runs at an incredible average of 60.60 and with a good strike rate of 137.10. Harmanpreet Kaur also leads the bowling attack for Melbourne Renegades with 10 wickets from 9 matches at a strike rate of 16.20. She is bowling at an economy rate of 7.78 at the moment.