Melbourne Renegades 6 for 128 beat Adelaide Strikers 7 for 126 (Molineux 4-32) by four wickets

It came after Molineux had starred with bat and ball with returns of 4 for 23 and 32 as she continues her comeback from a 10-month long injury. Ruled out of the Ashes, ODI World Cup and Commonwealth Games, Molineux is one of several players vying to fight their way back into a changing Australian team. She has done herself plenty of favours in the past month. She hit scores of 56 and 113 for Victoria on return from injury in the WNCL, before being the Renegades' best in their WBBL season opener on Sunday. The left-arm finger-spinner took two wickets in two balls early when she removed Laura Woolvardt and Bridget Patterson, both to smart catches from Josie Dooley and Eve Jones.

Molineux returned to get the key wicket of Tahlia McGrath on 35 when she took her off-stump, before also getting Maddie Penna late for 36. And after spilling two catches of her own in the field, Molineux then rode her luck with the bat. She should have been run out on 16 and 22 and also stumped on 19 when she skipped past a Jemma Barsby ball.