Tasmania take five SA wickets off six balls in ‘unbelievable’ final WNCL over

Sarah Coyte has taken three wickets and conjured a run out in a final over for the ages to help Tasmania clinch back-to-back WNCL titles with a one-run win.

South Australia required four runs from the final six deliveries with five wickets in hand under an adjusted Duckworth-Lewis-Stern target at Hobart’s Blundstone Arena on Saturday night. Enter Coyte, who bowled Annie O’Neil (28 from 20) off ball one before getting South Australia skipper Jemma Barsby (28 from 17) stumped two balls later.

South Australia were still in the box seat, needing three from three deliveries, when Coyte ran out Amanda-Jade Wellington (one) knocking the ball onto the stumps in her follow through. Coyte, who finished with 4-30 and was named player of the match, then trapped Ella Wilson lbw on the second-to-last ball.

One of the wildest finishes to a cricket match condensed down to a minute. You're welcome #WNCLFinal pic.twitter.com/97hUMPcuxE

South Australia needed three runs off the final delivery but could manage just one as No 11 Anesu Mushangwe stood dumbfounded out of her ground and was run out to put an exclamation point on Tasmania’s celebrations.. The dramatic last over capped a thrilling final in which both sides navigated rain delays and had their noses in front at different stages under DLS.

“It was really bizarre. I don’t think I’ve ever come off [for rain] that much in one game before,” Coyte said. “Easily the best game I’ve been a part of. The ebbs and flows. You can’t even replicate a game like that.”

Coyte said she was calm at the start of the last over, describing the reflex run out as an accident.

“I actually didn’t mean to hit it on to the stumps. I just wanted to stop it,” she said. “It’s an ongoing joke that I don’t field