WFW vs SBW 17th Match Prediction

WFW vs SBW Team Previews

Welsh Fire Women

As far as the Welsh Fire batting department is concerned, the side will depend on their top-order trio of Tammy Beaumont, Sophia Dunkley, and Hayley Matthews for scoring most of the runs. In their last game, the skipper Tammy Beaumont was the standout performer with the bat for Welsh Fire women. She scored a useful hand of 59 runs from 40 balls. Apart from Beaumont, Hayley Matthews managed to gather 23 runs from 23 balls with a couple of boundaries. Sophia Dunkley also chipped in with a score of 25 runs from 19 balls.

As far as the Welsh Fire bowling attack is concerned, the team will rely on bowlers such as Shabnim Ismail, Georgia Elwiss, Claire Nicholas, Alex Griffiths, and Freya Davies to get the team some well-timed breakthroughs. In her last game of the competition, the former South African seamer Shabnim Ismail was the peak of the bowlers for Welsh Fire women. She also picked up a hat trick that allowed her team to pull off a win in a closely-fought game. The Welsh Fire women played their last match in the competition against Birmingham Phoenix.

Batting first, the Welsh Fire team put together 137 runs from their 100 balls for the loss of 7 wickets. The Phoenix side got within 3 runs of this score and the Shabnim Ismail hat-trick sealed an unlikely win for Welsh Fire. Ismail bowled a sensational last over and picked up 3 wickets in her last 3 deliveries of the game to secure an otherwise impossible-sounding victory for Welsh Fire women. This ice-cold last-over bowling by Shabnim Ismail thwarted all the hopes of a win for Phoenix.  

Southern Brave Women

As far as the Southern Brave women's batting line-up is concerned, the team will depend on the players such as Danielle Wyatt, Smriti Mandhana, Freyas Kemp, Chloe Tryon, Georgia Adams, and Maia Bouchier to score most of the runs for Brave. In her last appearance for Southern Brave Women, Maia Bouchier was an outstanding performer with the bat. She hammered 63 runs from 42 balls and hit 10 fours in the process. Apart from Bouchier, Maitlan Brown also hit 15 runs not out from just 9 deliveries with 3 fours.

As far as the Southern Brave bowling attack is concerned, the team will rely on bowlers such as Anya Shrubsole, Chloe Tryon, Georgia Adams, Kalea Moore, and Lauren Bell. In an earlier game, the medium-pace bowler Georgia Adams was the pick of the bowling attack for Southern Brave women. She picked up 4 wickets in the process. The Southern Brave team was involved in a tight thriller in their last game. Batting first, the London Spirit women scored 104 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. The Southern Brave team chased down the total successfully on the last ball of their quota of overs.

It was left to Maia Bouchier to do the honors of reaching the target with a classy half-century. The Southern Brave women were finally able to play in a full game after rain interruptions in a couple of earlier games. There were gloomy and dark conditions over the Lord's cricket ground even for this game. However, this drizzle cleared up just in time for the game to get underway. The match was reduced to 85 balls per side game. There was a partisan crowd of more than 13000 present for this game.