MOONEY NAMED WORLD’S PREMIER T20 PLAYER
HEAT wicketkeeper Beth Mooney has been crowned the world’s best Twenty20 player.
Mooney took out the honour, along with the emerging player of the year, in the International Cricket Council’s annual awards.
Mooney was the player of the tournament in last summer’s Women’s Big Bash League and continued her hot form for Australia in the recent Ashes series, posting unbeaten scores of 86 and 117 during the Twenty20 contests. The Heat’s West Indies import Deandra Dottin was also named in the ICC Women’s T20 International team of the year while Ellyse Perry was crowned cricketer of the year.
The Heat will take on the Renegades in Melbourne today in the first of back-toback matches in the next two days. Brisbane have made a solid start to the WBBL season, splitting the first round clashes against the highly rated Perth Scorchers.
The structure of the WBBL draw has teams play the same opposition twice, usually within a few days, before moving on to the next opponent.
Few teams lodged two victories against the same opponent last summer but that is something the Heat want to change.
“The difficult thing last year was getting back-toback wins,” coach Peter McGiffin said.
“The way the draw is structured, you play the same team two games in a row. So if you get a win in the first game it makes it very difficult to get a win in the second game.”