The Australian allrounder Annabel Sutherland smashed her first Test double century during the One-Off Test in South Africa Women’s tour of Australia 2024.
Sutherland hits maiden Test double Century
Annabel Sutherland becomes the 10th woman to smash a Test Double Century. The allrounder was seen so intense during their innings after the South African women concluded their innings for 76 runs.
Despite suffering from early dismissals, Australia’s opener Beth Mooney had an impressive start with 78 runs. Alyssa Healy was the other run scorer for Australia who smashed 99 runs. She was dismissed by Delmari Tucker.
Sutherland came to bat after Beth Mooney’s dismissal. She scored 54 runs at the end of day 01.
Sutherland resumed on 54 runs on day 02 and resumed to score runs smashing century. South Africa took the new ball with Sutherland on 92 and did not rattle the right-hander, who struck back-to-back scoring 149 deliveries.
Sutherland is also the first woman to score two centuries batting at No.6. She smashed her first ton against England at last year’s Ashes at Trent Bridge.
Sutherland is the third Youngest woman to hit two or more centuries overall after India’s Sandhya Agarwal and New Zealand’s Emily Drumm who both achieved the feat at the age of 21.
She went past and smashed her first double-century and has the fifth-highest score in the list of batters having a double-century.
“I love batting … it’s pretty hard to get up the order at the moment in the white-ball stuff, so it’s nice to just get a chance to have a hit out there and it’s a very nice place to bat when you’re in and set,” said Sutherland.
“The first 20 to 30 balls (yesterday) were probably the most challenging, so (I was) trying to be really precise with what balls I was trying to score off.
“I felt like I left the ball alone well outside off stump to get me going.
“We spoke a little (this morning) that it’s like you’re starting your innings again … I thought they bowled quite well, Klaas has been challenging all day and Nadine de Klerk as well was just nibbling around,” she concluded.
Australia declared the innings after scoring 575 runs. South Africa started their second innings of the match and lost three wickets scoring 67 runs by the end of day 02 at WACA Ground.
