Queensland is the premier female under-18 T20 cricket state after it won Friday night’s national grand final at the QEO.
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The Queenslanders bounced back from a round two loss to South Australia to win six-straight matches and claim the title in emphatic style.
After sending grand final opponent ACT/NSW Country into bat, the Queensland bowlers did a great job to restrict their opponents to 8-95 off 20 overs.
Lilly Mills (4-16) produced her best bowling performance of the carnival and she was well backed-up in the field.
Anita Handono top-scored for ACT/NSW Country with 21 off 18 balls.
ACT/NSW Country needed multiple early wickets to put the pressure on Queensland, but the Maroons leading batters stood up when it mattered most.
Courtney Sippel, one of the players of the carnival, made 31 not out off 33 balls, while opener Charli Knott (22) and skipper Annie Wikman (19 not out) played their role as Queensland cruised to victory with 22 balls and seven wickets to spare.
Sippel and Wikman added an unbeaten stand of 50 runs for the fourth wicket.
ACT/NSW Country’s Jessica Davidson took two of the three wickets to fall.
Victoria Country finished the Twenty20 section of the titles in fourth place.
Victoria Country went down to Queensland in Friday morning’s semi-final and then lost the third versus fourth play-off to New South Wales Metro in the afternoon.
Queensland scored a four-wicket win over Victoria Country in the semi-final at the QEO.
Queensland dismissed Vic Country for 95, with Charli Knott taking 3-12.
Lucy Cripps top-scored for Vic Country with 28, while Lily Tassell made 22.
Bendigo duo Jasmine Nevins and Letesha Bawden scored two runs each.
Queensland’s Courtney Sippel continued her outstanding carnival by making 44 of her side’s score of 6-96.
NSW Metro suffered a shock semi-final loss to ACT/NSW Country.
NSW Metro was bowled out for just 75 thanks to some great bowling from Jessica Davidson (3-10), Abby Taylor (2-6) and Anika Learoyd (2-12). ACT/NSW Country lost five wickets in the run chase, with Learoyd (30 not out) capping a fine all-round game.
In the third versus fourth play-off at Weeroona Oval, Victoria Country battled with the bat against tight bowling and fielding.
Victoria Country made 7-85, Merinda Hale top-scoring with 23.
Nevins made two for Victoria Country, while Bawden was five not out.
Isabella Malgioglio (2-17) was the most successful NSW Metro bowler.
A fine opening spell from Lucy Cripps (3-13) gave Vic Country a fighting chance, but the NSW Metro middle-order dug in.
Five players reached double figures with Olivia Porter making 21.
NSW Metro scored the winning runs in the 19th over with five wickets in hand.
In consolation matches played on Friday, Vic Metro suffered two defeats to Western Australia and Tasmania.
South Australia, which narrowly missed out on making the semi-finals, bounced back to score victoris over the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
The young guns from the Cricket Australia XI continued their good form by defeating Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
After a big week of Twenty20 cricket in Bendigo, the carnival now moves to Ballarat for one-day matches.
Preliminary rounds will be played on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday, with finals played on Thursday.
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