MEL­BOURNE – West In­dies skip­per Hay­ley Matthews pro­duced a fine all-around show­ing to help her Mel­bourne Rene­gades to their first win of the Women’s Big Bash League (WB­BL) in Aus­tralia Fri­day.

Led by a Play­er-of-the-Match per­for­mance by Matthews, who took two wick­ets and al­so scored 41 runs, the Rene­gades de­feat­ed the Perth Scorchers by six wick­ets at the Junc­tion Oval.

Af­ter win­ning the toss and elect­ing to bat, the Scorchers were dis­missed for 140 in 19.4 overs, with Beth Mooney hit­ting the top score of 36.

So­phie Mo­lineux was the main de­stroy­er with 4-17, while Matthews (2-21), Al­ice Capsey and Geor­gia Ware­ham took two wick­ets apiece.

Matthews, who faced 27 balls and struck sev­en fours and one six, then re­turned to share a 102-run open­ing stand with Court­ney Webb, who made 61 from 40 balls, to give the Rene­gades the per­fect launch­ing pad.

With the Rene­gades in full con­trol, De­an­dra Dot­tin hit a mas­sive six to seal the vic­to­ry with 14 balls re­main­ing.

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