Mooney's injury hands Devine the Scorchers captaincy for the Thunder rematch at the WACA

Perth Scorchers will put an unbeaten record on the line without captain Beth Mooney on Wednesday, with Sophie Devine named to lead them against the Sydney Thunder side they beat six days ago

The Scorchers named a 13-player squad for the 18th match of WBBL|12 with Mooney listed as out through injury, and the experienced seamer Taneale Peschel brought in. The club gave no detail of the injury and did not say how long she would be unavailable.

Devine is marked as captain on the squad sheet, taking back a job she handed to Mooney before this season. The match starts at 4.10pm AWST at the W.A.C.A. Ground.

Perth have won all four of their matches and are level on eight points with the Sydney Sixers at the top of the table. The Thunder have two wins from four and have lost their past two.

What Perth lose without Mooney

Mooney has been the Scorchers' most productive batter of the season. She made 80 not out from 55 balls against the Thunder at Drummoyne Oval last week, her 49th half-century in the competition, and 58 not out in the opening win over the Melbourne Renegades.

She also keeps wicket, and it was her stumping that removed Heather Knight in that match in Sydney.

Her most recent innings was a quieter 28 from 24 balls as Perth chased down the Melbourne Stars on Sunday.

Devine takes the job back

Devine led the Scorchers before handing the captaincy to Mooney for this season, and she comes into the game in the best form of her summer. She hit 55 from 24 balls against the Stars on Sunday, reaching fifty in 21 deliveries, and took 2-18.

Against the Thunder she retired out on 42 from 39 to bring Freya Kemp to the crease, then took 2-31 with the ball.

"Sometimes when you're batting, no matter how hard you try, it just doesn't come off, and Soph recognised that," Mooney said of that decision. "It's hard watching a six-hitter walk off the field, but Freya came out and absolutely whacked it."

Peschel in line to face her old club

Peschel spent the first part of her career at Perth before joining the Thunder on a two-year deal ahead of WBBL|10, following her former Western Australia coach Lisa Keightley east.

She is back in Scorchers colours and in the squad for Wednesday, which would put her against the club she left and the coach she followed there.

Thunder bring in a leg-spinner

Keightley has made one change to the side beaten in Sydney, with leg-spinner Hasrat Gill replacing Lucy Finn. "Hasrat has been bowling extremely well at training," Keightley said.

The Thunder, led by Phoebe Litchfield, lost to the Sydney Sixers by nine runs on the DLS method at North Sydney Oval on Sunday. Keightley has pointed to her side's habit of passing 160 while asking for better partnerships and a batter set for the closing overs.

Litchfield's squad is otherwise unchanged and includes Heather Knight, Nadine de Klerk, Georgia Voll, Laura Harris and Tahlia Wilson.

A scoreline to answer

Perth made 183 for 3 at Drummoyne Oval on 5 November, taking 47 from the last three overs after Devine stood down, with Kemp making 30 from 10 balls.

The Thunder were bowled out for 166 in 19 overs. Litchfield made 34, Chloe Ainsworth took 2-24 and Alana King returned to remove the lower order and finish with 4-35.

Harris made 29 and Tahlia Wilson 25, the pair adding 35 in the two-over power surge, before King came back to end the innings.

The clubs have met 25 times in the competition, Perth winning 13, the Thunder 11, with one no result.

Perth stay at the W.A.C.A. Ground for their next match, against the Adelaide Strikers on Saturday.