The Sydney Sixers are still perfect. In WBBL|12 on Thursday, 12 November 2026, at Junction Oval in Melbourne, the Sixers beat the Melbourne Renegades by 11 runs — Sixers 6-140, Renegades 129 all out in 20 overs — to make it five wins from five and join the Perth Scorchers as the season’s only unbeaten teams.
Melie Kerr set up the win with a half-century at the top of the order, scoring 53 as the Sixers posted 140 for 6 after batting first. Ellyse Perry added 30 in support, while Milly Illingworth took 2 for 24 for the Renegades.
Gardner’s three wickets seal it
The Renegades’ chase never quite got going. Tess Flintoff top-scored with 44 and Nicole Faltum made 21, but captain Ashleigh Gardner’s 3 for 13 ripped through the middle order and the home side was bowled out for 129, falling 11 runs short.
The win keeps the Sixers level with the Scorchers at the top of the WBBL table — both sides now 5-0 — while the Renegades slipped to their third defeat of the season.
A two-team race at the top
Earlier on Thursday, the Brisbane Heat also won, beating the Melbourne Stars by eight wickets at the same ground to make it three wins in a row and climb into the top four. But the standings story is increasingly about the two unbeaten sides: Perth and Sydney have now won ten games between them without a loss.
The Sixers’ balance has been the key — Kerr’s runs, Perry’s experience and Gardner’s wickets with the ball giving them a match-winner in every department. The Renegades, meanwhile, will rue a chase that stayed alive through Flintoff but never found the big partnership it needed.
With both unbeaten teams still to meet, the race for top spot is shaping up as the defining contest of the WBBL season so far. Australian cricket fans have had plenty to cheer this week — from the Perth Scorchers staying perfect at 5-0 against the Sydney Thunder to the off-field news that David Jones will close half its stores by Christmas — and the Sixers’ perfect start now gives the competition a genuine two-horse race at the top.
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