Perth Scorchers have strengthened their WBBL finals claims after walloping Sydney Sixers by 52 runs at Lilac Hill.
Nat Sciver scored 52 off 37 balls to help the Scorchers post 5-152 from their 20 overs.
Perth's bowlers then restricted the Sixers to 9-100 in reply, with Sciver taking 1-27 from her four overs to round out her player-of-the-match performance.
The landslide victory on Saturday allowed the Scorchers to leapfrog the Sixers into third position on the ladder.
After losing Alyssa Healy fell to a superbly judged catch from Perth captain Meg Lanning off the fourth ball of their innings, the Sixers were never in the hunt as they slumped to their third successive defeat.
Clearly feeling the absence of superstar captain Ellyse Perry (shoulder injury), the Sixers crashed to 5-35 in the ninth over.
No.7 Lauren Smith produced a career-best and unbeaten 36 to help avert a complete whitewash but, led by Kim Garth (2-15), the damage was already done and no Sixers batter was able to replicate Sciver's knock.
The 27-year-old hit seven boundaries in her 37-ball dig before holing out in the last over.
Lanning (28) was stoic at the top before Heather Graham (25 not out) produced a late flurry.
Australian Associated Press
