After winning the toss and opting to field, Meg Lanning\u2019s Super Giants held Sunrisers to 142\/4, powered by enterprising scores from Bryony Smith (26 runs off 22 balls), Phoebe Litchfield (31 runs off 26 balls) and Annabel Sutherland (35 runs off 24 balls). Smriti was involved in Litchfield and Sutherland\u2019s dismissals, taking two sleek catches.<\/p>\n
Star India allrounder, Deepti Sharma, did not get a chance to bat.<\/p>\n
Chasing 143 for a win, Lanning set the tone with a four and a six off the first set. While Smriti took a set to get a sense of a surface that looked tricky in the first innings. When Cassidy McCarthy dismissed Lanning after Sutherland and Co. squeezed the run flow, Smriti stepped on the gas to keep the chase alive.<\/p>\n
When Paige Scholfield fell, Richa Ghosh joined Smriti but only lasted six balls, with a single boundary to her name. But Smriti carried on unfazed.<\/p>\n
Jess Jonassen, who has a reputation for infusing chaos in opponent innings, triggered a runout that saw Maitlan Brown fall for a duck. She nearly had Smriti off the very next ball, but Litchfield dropped a sitter at deep midwicket.<\/p>\n
She made Sunrisers pay for the lifeline and in the firing line was her India teammate Deepti.<\/p>\n
Smriti smacked the offie for two lovely boundaries through cover to get momentum back in MSG\u2019s favour. She also punished her for a gorgeous six over long on in her final set later on, to bring the equation down to 33 needed from 20 balls. Sutherland\u2019s control meant the ask came down to a tight but doable 16 off 10.<\/p>\n
Smriti and Kathryn Bryce hacked off 14 runs from the penultimate set before Smriti finished things off with another six over Sutherland\u2019s head to seal a hard-fought win.<\/p>\n