Grace Harris and her broken bat thrashes new WBBL record 136 not out
Written by I Dig SportsBrisbane Heat 229 for 7 (G Harris 136*, Edgar 3-31) beat Perth Scorchers 179 for 8 (Mooney 60, Sippel 4-27) by 50 runs
One of those sixes came during an extraordinary passage of play where she had called for a new bat, but carried on using the one she wanted replaced then crunched the next ball for six as the handle ripped off from the blade. Having replaced the bat, for good measure she also sent the next delivery from Piepa Cleary over the ropes.
To add to the context of Harris' ferocious display, she had been 9 off eight balls at the end of the four-over powerplay before she took the attack to Australia team-mate Alana King with three sixes in her first two overs.
Heat's eventual total was the second highest in WBBL history.
Devine, who came in at No. 3, couldn't quite get going before picking out deep square leg and Sippel made it three wickets in the 10th to all-but end the contest when she claimed a return catch to remove Maddy Darke and had then had Mooney slicing to short third.