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The Sixers marching onto the second spot as they will look to face the Scorchers in the play offs! A victory will get them to go straight to the finals on Saturday but for now they have surely demolished the Brisbane Heat with quite a margin! The Brisbane Heat from ball one were looking uncomfortable in this match up as Kerr started off with some wickets from Kerr and the Heat were under some pressure.
It was Max Bryant who was holding on to his end when the Brisbane Heat were 4-43 and it looked like the match could end in no time. But after the drinks break it was the batters who took the power surge and all thanks to to bad spell of Ben Dwarshuis, they managed to make 38 runs off the power surge! For a while it felt like the batters were close to getting the team an amazing start.
The skipper and Bryant were looking like they could turn things around but the GOAT, Nathan Lyon stepped in as he slowed things down for the Brisbane and it was not long after that until their dismissal which lead to much of the conclusion and it was the Sydney Sixers who were marching on towards the victory as they beat the Heat by quite a margin as they managed to take 3 wickets in the last 3 overs.
Sydney Sixers won by 27 runs
The only phase where Heat looked like chasing this target was around 10-15 where they smacked 68 runs, thanks to 38 runs off the 2 power surge overs. Before and after that phase, it was all gloom and doom for the Heat as they struggled for momentum and lost wickets at regular intervals, evetually falling 27 short of the target. Spinner Steve OKeefe was the pick of the bowlers and didn't concede a single boundary in his 4-over spell. "I thought 180 was a good score, but our bowlers did a good job with the ball in the back end. Nice and calm, stay in the present and we did that really well today. He (Henriques) is a great person and a great leader, looks after everyone and instills confidence. It's just another game of cricket and just stay really calm is the mantra," reckons Daniel Hughes, the Player of the Match.
20
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151/8score
4
1lb
W
1
2
1
runs
James Bazley*
12(8)
Mitchell Swepson
1(1)
Hayden Kerr
3/23
19.6 Hayden Kerr to James Bazley, another low full toss around off, Bazley walks across and whips it powerfully to wide long on to draw the curtains on the contest. Yet another professional display from the defending champions who have all but sealed a spot in the top two with this. Sydney Sixers beat Brisbane Heat by 27 runs!
He gets away with that one there does Swepson - not going to make a difference to the end result though!
19.5 Hayden Kerr to James Bazley, RUN OUT! NOWHERE IN THE FRAME AGAIN! Low full toss around off, Bazley hangs deep in his crease and powers it towards long on before tearing back for the second. The throw is at the bowler's end and Kerr dislodges the bails although he isn't sure if it was clean, which is why it has been referred upstairs.
He knocks it off his elbow before the ball comes into his palms in fact! And with the stumps remaining intact thereafter even as he knocks them with the ball in his palms, it won't count. NOT OUT IT IS!
19.4 Hayden Kerr to Mitchell Swepson, nailed into the blockhole on off, Swepson hangs deep and whips it out with a helicopter towards short extra cover. He's nowhere in the frame as the fielder fires an errant throw at the stumps - should have been gone for all money there!
Swepson, RHB, is the new batter in.
19.3 Hayden Kerr to Mark Steketee, OUT! GIVEN THIS TIME! Right on the money on the leg-stump as he sends down a toe-crusher, Steketee hangs deep and fails to dig it out and is pinned right on his toe. An even simpler one and this time, the umpire raises the finger.
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