Left-arm seamer Lucy Hamilton, astatine the property of 18, has go the youngest to get a five-for successful the Big Bash League. (PHOTO: @HeatBBL via X)
Until Sunday morning, left-arm seamer Lucy Hamilton had not grabbed a azygous wicket successful 7 Big Bash League games. But the 18-year-old struck with her 2nd shot of the day, erstwhile the Brisbane Heats bowler castled Melbourne Stars’s batter Yastika Bhatia. The penultimate shot of the over, she snared her wicket, that of Annabel Sutherland.
The evening turned brighter arsenic she dismissed her idol Meg Lanning caught down with the archetypal shot of her 2nd over, Tess Flintoff and Deepti Sharma to instrumentality with stellar figures of 4-1-8-5, frankincense becoming the youngest to prime up a five-for successful the league astatine 18 years and 193 days. Her effort restricted Stars to 138, a people the Heats overcame successful 17.3 overs. Her trade was simple. She bowled a bully magnitude connected stumps and moved the shot some ways.
The left-arm quick, which itself is simply a rarity successful women’s cricket, from Bundaberg was drafted into the BBL erstwhile she was lone 16, aft her show successful the Under-19 World Cup squad successful 2022, wherever she picked up 5 wickets astatine an mean of 10.5. But opportunities arrived fewer and acold between.
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She, though, said the wicket drought was not playing successful her mind. “I wasn’t truly reasoning about, ‘Oh, I haven’t taken a wicket yet,’ oregon whatnot,” Hamilton told reporters aft the match. “It was much conscionable a consciousness of backing what I bash and I cognize it’ll come. I had to beryllium patient, evidently I’ve played a just fewer games. But it yet came and it was truly thrilling.”
In betwixt games, though, she has to negociate her academics too. “My parents person conscionable been driving maine backmost and forth, which is simply a batch for them,” Hamilton said. What does she bash connected agelong journeys? “I similar watching movies successful the car,” she says. Sunday mightiness person been consecutive retired of a movie publication for her.