Rain-hit Melbourne derby goes to Stars as both sides end lacklustre WBBL campaigns

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Wet weather conditions stopped dull WBBL crusades from both Melbourne sides in Stars' downpour impacted derby succeed at the MCG on Saturday night.

Annabel Sutherland top-scored as Stars were bowled out for 118, and Kim Garth's initial wickets in Mavericks' run pursue gave Stars, the hosts for the game, the upper hand.

Garth diminished Mavericks to 12 for 2 inside three overs before downpour briefly constrained players off the field and sent most fans in a horde of 5933 heading for cover. Play returned for just one more nine balls as Hayley Matthews (17 not out off ten balls) attempted bravely to place Mavericks in front on the DLS chart.

However, Rebels' 27 for 2 from 5.3 overs was as yet eight runs shy of a standard score when downpour finished the counterpart for good.

The outcome left Stars (six dominates in 14 matches) and Rebels (two successes in 14) filling the last two puts on the table. It was Stars' fourth success from their last five matches, providing them with a thought of what could have been had they begun the season in better form.

Garth, who returned figures of 2 for 2 in her two overs, excused Rebels openers Tammy Beaumont and Emma de Broughe inside three balls in the third over of the innings after substitute chief Sutherland (36) lifted Stars to a good all out batting first.

Sutherland smacked six limits in her 36 off 28 balls and put on a club-record fourth-wicket stand of 45 with Tess Flintoff (22 off 23 balls).

Both Sutherland and de Broughe were out gotten off Harmanpreet Kaur, who returned 2 for 13. Matthews (2 for 20), Georgia Prestwidge (2 for 27) and Georgia Wareham (2 for 18) were the other fundamental wicket-takers.

The downpour impacted match was a frustrating finish to previous Australian global Jess Duffin's expert vocation after the cross-code competitor reported her retirement before the match. Duffin didn't bat or bowl however guaranteed he get that excused Alice Capsey briefly ball duck off Georgia Prestwidge's bowling.

Stars were again without normal skipper Meg Lanning, who passed on the last three rounds of the time for individual reasons. Lanning reported her retirement from global cricket recently, saying she had lost the appetite to perform at the worldwide level.

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