Sydney Thunder are one win away from their third WBBL grand final, after scratching home to a tense final-over victory against Melbourne Stars. After Hannah Darlington featured with the ball to hold the last-set Stars to 108 for 9, she had to raise a ruckus around town arrives later than expected with two balls and four wickets in excess. The success implies in the event that Thunder beat the second-set Melbourne Mavericks in their last round match on Saturday, they will complete first. That would naturally qualify them for the last on December 1, and giving them facilitating freedoms as the highest level group. A misfortune to Rebels would probably mean they finish second or third, and need to go through no less than one knockout match to arrive at the last. Wednesday's outcome proceeded with a repulsiveness season for Stars, who have won just two of eight matches and sit keep going on the stepping stool. Yet, the match was not generally so natural as it originally seemed it would be for Roar on a troublesome Drummoyne Oval wicket. They drooped to 15 for 3 in the third over of their pursuit with Marizanne Kapp stowing every one of the three wickets to leave Roar in hot water Thunder then, at that point, tumbled to 38 for 4 after eight overs, before Tahlia Wilson and Anika Learoyd steadied the boat. The pair got the condition down to 23 off 20 balls, before Wilson got excessively forceful and was discovered attempting to take on Kim Garth on 33. Stars then, at that point, had opportunities to run Learoyd out and have her gotten on the limit, however missed both and eight runs were ultimately expected off the last finished. Learoyd hit the principal ball for two and the following for four, preceding a solitary permitted Darlington to complete the task for the hosts. Darlington had before guaranteed figures of 3 for 26 from her four overs, with four of those runs coming from a defeat. She squeezed a cutting Meg Lanning and bowled her with a savvy off-shaper for 12, and furthermore had Kapp sky a ball to cover next finished. Athapaththu was likewise stingy with her 2 for 12 from four overs and furthermore created an immediate hit run out in the field to eliminate Tess Flintoff. At last that assisted set up the success as Roar with surrounding their most memorable great last since their 2020 title achievement. Sydney Thunder 112 for 6 (Wilson 33, Learoyd 31*, Kapp 3-20) beat Melbourne Stars 108 for 9 (Darlington 3-26) by four wickets