WBBL | Twitter laughs as Moloney gives her best ginger cat impression to produce drop of the season

Gantavya Adukia

ByGantavya Adukia,SportsCafe Editor

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For an outdoor sport, cricket bodes embarrassingly poor against the elements, with too much sun and too much rain both creating problems more often than not. It was the former for Sasha Moloney in the WBBL Knockout fixture at the WACA as she was left looking silly by the sun's glare on Tuesday.

Sasha Moloney found herself with nowhere to hide after making a meal out of a sitter for Melbourne Stars against Perth Scorchers in the WBBL Knockout fixture

Perth Scorchers rode on the back of a 107-run opening stand between Katie Mack (52 off 39) and Beth Mooney (45 off 38) to set the Melbourne Stars a stiff target of 174, after opting to bat first at home in the must-win Knockout fixture. Freya Kemp provided impetus in the second-half with a blistering 19-all 35 while the Stars tried to seize back control with quick wickets, before Maddy Darke provided the final flourish with an unbeaten 16 in just five deliveries courtesy of three boundaries. The Stars could have perhaps saved themselves one of those if Sasha Moloney didn't gaffe up in the penultimate over, albeit it would have cost the tournament an an all-time blooper and a Hall of Shame moment.

Darke smashed boundaries off her first ball in the 18th over before coming up against Sophie Day on the second delivery of the 19th, which she promptly put away for another four. The left-arm orthodox responded poorly with a short ball on her hips from around the wicket, but the ball seemed to stay just a tad low that denied Darke from getting a proper connection. The Kookaburra seemed to be headedg straight down bacward square leg's throat, but Moloney had the sun right in her eyes and instinctively ran in from the ropes. To her horror, Moloney discovered she had done too much, at which point she cartoonishly put on the brakes and turned right around. However, she was far too late to recover, and was nowhere close to even making an attempt as she simply chased the ball to the boundary.

The Stars were gutted, but Twitterati showed little sympathy.

Lol!

Good fielding effort!

🙌

Consistent!

10th time!

History!

Eliminator!

Congrats!

Good effort!

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