Ellyse Perry has led the way again for WBBL champions the Sydney Sixers who have continued their strong early-season form with a confident 17-run win over the Hobart Hurricanes.
The Hurricanes were always behind the required run rate in pursuit of the Sixers' 3-158 and were eventually dismissed for 141 after 19.1 overs on Sunday at Bellerive Oval.
Opener Perry batted throughout Sixers' innings for an unbeaten 72 off 55 balls, and shared a 104-run stand for the third wicket with Erin Burns (44 off 40).
Despite the Sixers' dominance on the scoreboard, the Hurricanes did themselves few favours and incredibly dropped Burns six times.
Alyssa Healy helped to get the Sixers off to a flyer with a typically hard-hitting 30 (21 balls).
But it was the competition's leading run-scorer Perry who was the mainstay of the innings, despite not consistently finding her usual fluid form.
Perry, who topped last-season's WBBL run aggregate, has 316 runs from five matches, having been dismissed just twice.
In reply, the home side slipped to 4-41 in the fifth over as they sought quick early runs.
Opener Smriti Mandhana (21) smashed three sixes in a whirlwind 11-ball cameo, and key run-getter Heather Knight added 23.
Marizanne Kapp (4-27) did the early damage with three top-order wickets.
Georgia Redmayne top-scored down the order with an impressive 47no, sharing a WBBL-record ninth-wicket stand of 55 with Brooke Hepburn (15).
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