The cricket fans are ready to witness yet another big battle of the Women’s Big Bash League. The 5th Match of WBBL T20 is scheduled to play between Melbourne Stars Women and Sydney Thunder Women on Tuesday, 26th October 2020 at North Sydney Oval, Sydney. We are posting safe, accurate, and 100% secure today match prediction for all matches of WBBL T20 free.

The first match of Melbourne Stars Women was ended with no result any against their city fellow team, Melbourne Renegades Women. They lost the toss and were asked to bat first. The performance of their batting order was average in that match. They could manage to score 127 runs in their 17 overs inning when the match was stopped. The way how their skipper, Meg Lanning performed in that match was just outstanding. She scored 51(50) runs with the help of six boundaries and also remained not out till the end of their inning. Mignon du Preez scored 32(22) runs and smashed four boundaries and one six. Annabel Sutherland was the other batswoman from their side who scored 31(23) runs and smashed one boundary and two sixes.

We had observed in the first match that the batting order of Melbourne Stars Women is strong and has the capacity of competing against other teams of this tournament. They had shown their batting strength in the shape of a trailer. The bowling unit of Melbourne Stars Women also looks strong at least on papers and we are hoping for interesting upcoming matches.

Sydney Thunder Women is the other team whose first match was ended without any result. Their first match was abandoned without a ball being bowled (with toss) due to rain against their city fellow team, Sydney Sixers Women. The squad of this team had been reshuffled for this season of the WBBL. Naomi Stalenburg and Rachel Priest, who were part of this team for a long time, they had lifted the team who Heather Knight, Sammy-Jo Johnson, Lauren Smith, and Tammy Beaumont are the new addition in the squad.

Sammy –Jo Johnson is known as the best bowler when it comes to the shorter format of cricket and her addition in the final squad had made the bowling unit of STW very strong. Tammy Beaumont and Heather Knight are famous English players and have a decent record while playing together. Phoebe Litchfield and Rachel Haynes are known as the best depth over batters.

Melbourne Stars Women is also overall a strong team as compared to the Sydney Thunder Women at least on papers and also had much experience. According to our WBBL T20 Prediction, Melbourne Stars Women is the favorite team who will win this match. There are many factors that make Melbourne Stars Women a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• Melbourne Stars Women is an experienced side
• The bowling and batting order of Melbourne Stars Women is strong
• Melbourne Stars Women have depth in the batting and bowling

Melbourne Stars Women is full of experienced and young players of the t20 format. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitter of the t20 format is the part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today match for Melbourne Stars Women have been increased. The equation of who will win today’s cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

Melbourne Stars Women have 51% chances to win this match
Sydney Thunder Women has 49% chances to win this match

The toss is going to play an important in the result of each and every match of WBBL T20. According to our toss prediction, the team who will win the toss will elect to bat first as chasing had been difficult in most matches of WBBL.

The 5th Match of Women’s Big Bash League is going to be held at the North Sydney Oval, Sydney. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting. The track is slower than the others we have seen and helps the spinners quite a bit. We are hoping that the surface is bound to get slower and be a bit more difficult for batting in this match. A score of 160 is going to be tough to chase.

Dream11 fantasy team lineup prediction for Melbourne Stars Women vs Sydney Thunder Women 5th Match WBBL 2020. After checking the latest players’ availability, which players will be part of both teams, he possible tactics that the two teams might use as we had leaned from previous seasons of Women’s Big Bash League to make the best possible Dream11 team.

Date: Monday, 26th October 2020
Time: 10:30 PM GMT (Oct 25) / 09:30 AM LOCAL / 04:00 AM IST

Stadium: North Sydney Oval
Location: Sydney, Australia
Opened: 1894
Capacity: 20,000
Ends: Fig Tree End, Scoreboard End
Time Zone: UTC +11:00
Home to: New South Wales, North Sydney
Other Sports: it is home to Rugby League (North Sydney Bears), Rugby Union (Northern Suburbs, Sydney Fleet), Soccer (Northern Spirit 1998-2004)
Floodlights: Yes

Total matches: 4
Matches won batting first: 2
Matches won bowling first: 2
Average 1st Inns scores: 172
Average 2nd Inns scores: 130
Highest total recorded: 226/2 (20 Ov) by AUSW vs SLW
Highest score chased: 164/4 (17.4 Ov) by AUSW vs NZW
Lowest score defended: 217/4 (20 Ov) by AUSW vs SLW

Meg Lanning (c), Elyse Villani, Mignon du Preez, Natalie Sciver, Annabel Sutherland, Erin Osborne, Tess Flintoff, Nicole Faltum (wk), Sophie Day, Holly Ferling, Rosemary Mair, Katherine Brunt, Bhavi M Devchand, Alana King, Lucy Cripps, Georgia Gall.