They won just one match a year ago, but the Thunder now sit on top of the WBBL ladder after they smashed their highest ever score to sneak past the Heat by eight runs after the visitors threatened to pull off the biggest chase in competition history.
The Heat almost produced the highest ever run chase in WBBL history as the Thunder stormed to the top of the table after they smashed another record with the bat.
Recruitment has been the key to their incredible turnaround, with the undrafted Chamari Athapaththu proving to be the best buy possible after she hit her fourth half-century of the season to stand tall as the competition’s leading run-scorer. The runs continued to flow with skipper Heather Knight blasting 38 off 19 as she and Wilson smashed 32 runs in the power surge, with Wilson finishing unbeaten on 83 off 54.
Jess Jonassen had already whacked Marizanne Kapp over the fence twice in the final over, but the Heat skipper couldn’t repeat the heroics as her side fell agonisingly short.
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