South African opener Lizelle Lee has kept Hobart Hurricanes’ WBBL finals hopes alive with a powerful century in a record effort against Melbourne Renegades.

Sparked by Lee’s 101 not out off 53 balls, Hobart piled up 3-212 in Thursday’s match, eclipsing its previous highest WBBL innings score by 16 runs.

The Renegades scored 23 off their first two overs but then lost 3-7 and collapsed again at the end, losing 4-3 to be dismissed for 119 off 16.2 overs.

The 93-run victory margin was.Hobart’s biggest WBBL win by runs and lifted it from sixth to fifth and within a point of the fourth-placed Brisbane Heat.

All three teams have one more game.

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Lee pounded the Renegades attack, striking 12 fours and four sixes, peppering the legside boundaries with her powerful strokes.

She featured in partnerships of 55 with Elyse Villani (22 off 14) and Nicola Carey (24 off 23) and a match-tilting fourth-wicket stand of 104 off just 46 balls with Heather Graham (55 not out off 28).

Renowned big-hitter Lee brought up her third WBBL ton and her first for the Hurricanes in the final over while Graham smashed a six off the penultimate ball of the innings to notch her first half century of the WBBL season.

Georgia Wareham briefly dragged the Renegades into the game with two wickets from her first three balls of her spell In the sixth over.

Hobart regained the initiative, when it took its power surge straight after the mid-innings drinks break.

It plundered 14 off each of the two overs and continued its onslaught for the remainder of the innings despite the sluggish outfield depriving the Hurericanes of several more runs.

South African pacer Shabnim Ismail (2-21) broke through the Renegades’ top order and spinners Maisy Gibson (4-25) and Amy Smith (3-17) cleaned up the rest.

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Smith took all of her wickets in one over on her way to registering her best WBBL figures.

Wicket-keeper Lee supplemented her batting heroics with a great legside catch to dismiss Indian star Harmanpreet Kaur for a third-ball duck.

Emma de Broughe (40 not out off 19) was the only Renegades batter to impress, playing several sumptuous offside drives among her eight boundaries.