Breakers, Scorpions through to WNCL final

Scorecard: Victoria v NSW

Scorecard: Queensland v South Australia

Dual international Ellyse Perry produced a player-of-the-match performance as the NSW Lend Lease Breakers kept their dynasty alive, defeating minor premiers Commonwealth Bank VicSpirit to reach Sunday's Women's National Cricket League final.

Only fourth in the regular season, the Breakers downed the Spirit by seven wickets in their semi-final of the limited overs competition at Sydney's Blacktown International SportsPark on Friday.

The win means they will play for a 17th title in 19 seasons and their 10th straight in the final at the same ground, where they'll meet the BreezairSA Scorpions, who beat the Konica Minolta Queensland Fire by three wickets in a bizarre semi-final.

Allrounder Perry claimed the key wicket of Victorian captain Meg Lanning before hitting a superb 61 as part of a 113-run third wicket partnership with national teammate Alex Blackwell.

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Chasing 176 for victory, Perry came to the crease at 2-29 following the cheap dismissal of openers Alyssa Healy and Rachael Haynes and showed great patience and technique as NSW slowly gained the upper hand.

Breakers skipper Alex Blackwell had struggled to score before Perry arrived but found her groove to complete a composed 73 not out and, fittingly, hit the winning runs with 21 balls to spare.

Earlier, Victoria appeared to be in the box seat as they cruised to 3-131 before losing their last seven wickets for just 45 runs.

It was a disappointing end to a strong season for the minor premiers, who were confident of ending their decade-long title drought.

Awaiting the Breakers are South Australia who won a low-scoring affair at Sydney's Bankstown Oval.

Queensland were in desperate straits at 8-39 before captain and top-scorer Jodie Fields (29) and Haide Birkett put on 34 for the ninth wicket, helping steer them to 90.

A South Australian victory appeared a foregone conclusion but nervous batting and some terrific work with the ball by Queensland quick Holly Ferling saw them staring defeat in the face when reduced to 7-50.

But the steadying hand of English import Sarah Taylor steered the Scorpions through the treacherous middle overs as she top-scored with 21 not out.

Tailender Megan Schutt, who had earlier claimed 4-20, held up the other end and finished with nine not out from 46 balls.

Queensland will rue their sloppiness with the ball as they finished with 28 extras, 23 of which were wides.

Entry to Sunday’s final at Blacktown International Sports Park is free, with play starting at 10am local time.

The match will be streamed live on cricket.com.au and you can follow twitter updates via: @SoutherStars, @ScorpionsSA or @CricNSWBreakers.

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