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Match 11: Sixers vs Strikers
After a positive start from Philippe and Smith, the Sixers innings stalled after Philippe's dismissal as Henriques and Christian struggled to hit the spinners and Siddle. Rashid bowling the final over resulted in 15 runs and a wicket, an odd return, which boosted the Sixers score to a still seemingly subpar 7/143.
With the exception of Ben Manenti who was tight against the middle order, nobody could even try and defend the total. Tom Curran was caned, Mitch Starc was hammered, Nathan Lyon was carved up (although he did get the wicket of Weatherald) and Sean Abbot's one over was pulverised for 20. Alex Carey finished on 64 not out and the score was chased down with ease.
Sixers 7/143 (Philippe 38, Agar 3/39, Rashid 2/24) lost to Strikers 3/144 (Carey 64*, Manenti 2/24)
MOTM: Alex Carey
GoldenBat: Josh Philippe (205 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (9 wickets)
After a positive start from Philippe and Smith, the Sixers innings stalled after Philippe's dismissal as Henriques and Christian struggled to hit the spinners and Siddle. Rashid bowling the final over resulted in 15 runs and a wicket, an odd return, which boosted the Sixers score to a still seemingly subpar 7/143.
With the exception of Ben Manenti who was tight against the middle order, nobody could even try and defend the total. Tom Curran was caned, Mitch Starc was hammered, Nathan Lyon was carved up (although he did get the wicket of Weatherald) and Sean Abbot's one over was pulverised for 20. Alex Carey finished on 64 not out and the score was chased down with ease.
Sixers 7/143 (Philippe 38, Agar 3/39, Rashid 2/24) lost to Strikers 3/144 (Carey 64*, Manenti 2/24)
MOTM: Alex Carey
GoldenBat: Josh Philippe (205 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (9 wickets)
Match 12: Strikers vs Renegades
The Renegades really got going. Finch was again the star (I'm sensing an Aaron Finch vs Josh Philippe for the golden bat here) but all of the batsmen chipped in to an extent. It should be noted that the Strikers only had one out and out swing bowler, Dan Worrall, and he was wayward.
Indeed that proved to be the difference in the game. Lalor and Richardson can both swing the ball and both were on point. They left the Strikers 5 down in the powerplay and 9/77 before a big rally from the surviving Stokes and Danny Briggs got the total to 120.
Renegades 3/192 (Finch 69, Dhawan 46, Siddle 1/21) beat Strikers 120 ao (Stokes 42, Lalor 5/33, K Richardson 3/29)
Renegades win by 72 runs
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (205) Finchy is 204
Golden Arm: Kane Richardson (11 wickets)
The Renegades really got going. Finch was again the star (I'm sensing an Aaron Finch vs Josh Philippe for the golden bat here) but all of the batsmen chipped in to an extent. It should be noted that the Strikers only had one out and out swing bowler, Dan Worrall, and he was wayward.
Indeed that proved to be the difference in the game. Lalor and Richardson can both swing the ball and both were on point. They left the Strikers 5 down in the powerplay and 9/77 before a big rally from the surviving Stokes and Danny Briggs got the total to 120.
Renegades 3/192 (Finch 69, Dhawan 46, Siddle 1/21) beat Strikers 120 ao (Stokes 42, Lalor 5/33, K Richardson 3/29)
Renegades win by 72 runs
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (205) Finchy is 204
Golden Arm: Kane Richardson (11 wickets)
Match 13: Stars vs Sixers
The Stars shot themselves in the foot when they ran out two set batsmen just after the powerplay. They did well to get to 170 from there, Glenn Maxwell played a good role in that.
However, they then played a blinder by bowling Stanlake for four straight. Big Billy blasted out three batsmen including the in form Philippe early, then got the dangerous Hughes in his last. Henriques and Christian played good knocks and Curran and Starc nearly hit the Sixers to victory but it was too little too late, with Abbott run out off the final ball of the innings looking for the single to tie the game.
Stars 9/168 (Babar 38, Christian 2/17) beat Sixers (Christian 51, Stanlake 4/39)
MOTM: Billy Stanlake
Trivia: This is the second match of the competition where the individual high score has come from the losing side. The first? The very first game, also involving the Stars.
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Kane Richardson (11 wickets)
The Stars shot themselves in the foot when they ran out two set batsmen just after the powerplay. They did well to get to 170 from there, Glenn Maxwell played a good role in that.
However, they then played a blinder by bowling Stanlake for four straight. Big Billy blasted out three batsmen including the in form Philippe early, then got the dangerous Hughes in his last. Henriques and Christian played good knocks and Curran and Starc nearly hit the Sixers to victory but it was too little too late, with Abbott run out off the final ball of the innings looking for the single to tie the game.
Stars 9/168 (Babar 38, Christian 2/17) beat Sixers (Christian 51, Stanlake 4/39)
MOTM: Billy Stanlake
Trivia: This is the second match of the competition where the individual high score has come from the losing side. The first? The very first game, also involving the Stars.
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Kane Richardson (11 wickets)
I have a bit of time today so
Match 14: Heat vs Stars
The Stars batted first for the second time in two days and made a bit of a mess of it. Everyone in the Heat got wickets, and a number of Stars (really everyone from 1 to 8 barring Babar) got starts but couldn't carry on.
The Heat seemed to have paced their chase well after a couple of early wickets, with Cooper and Peirson batting steadily but finding the boundary when they needed to, particularily off Zampa. Then Stoinis bowled an incisive spell and Haris' death skills came to the fore. This was a win less about the failings of the Heat then about the death bowling skill of the Stars.
Stars 154 (Laughin 3/39, Mujeeb 2/20) beat Heat 8/150 (Cooper 53, Rauf 3/30)
MOTM: Haris Rauf
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (12 wickets)
Match 14: Heat vs Stars
The Stars batted first for the second time in two days and made a bit of a mess of it. Everyone in the Heat got wickets, and a number of Stars (really everyone from 1 to 8 barring Babar) got starts but couldn't carry on.
The Heat seemed to have paced their chase well after a couple of early wickets, with Cooper and Peirson batting steadily but finding the boundary when they needed to, particularily off Zampa. Then Stoinis bowled an incisive spell and Haris' death skills came to the fore. This was a win less about the failings of the Heat then about the death bowling skill of the Stars.
Stars 154 (Laughin 3/39, Mujeeb 2/20) beat Heat 8/150 (Cooper 53, Rauf 3/30)
MOTM: Haris Rauf
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (12 wickets)
Match 15: Scorchers vs Hurricanes
After a lightning start by Roy who was particularily severe on Riley Meredith, the innings slowed right down due to some crafty spin bowling restricting Marsh, and particularily Turner. Late hitting by Agar set a target of 155.
The pitch proved to be just as difficult to the Canes. Jhye Richardson and Tye ripped through the order to give the Scorchers a win differentiated by Jason Roy.
Scorchers 5/154 (Roy 46, Sandeep 1/12) beat Hurricanes 129 (Richardson 4/22, Tye 3/15)
MOTM: Jason Roy
Trivia: This is only the second match this year not to have a fifty. Indeed the only batsman to score over 30 got man of the match...
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (12 wickets)
After a lightning start by Roy who was particularily severe on Riley Meredith, the innings slowed right down due to some crafty spin bowling restricting Marsh, and particularily Turner. Late hitting by Agar set a target of 155.
The pitch proved to be just as difficult to the Canes. Jhye Richardson and Tye ripped through the order to give the Scorchers a win differentiated by Jason Roy.
Scorchers 5/154 (Roy 46, Sandeep 1/12) beat Hurricanes 129 (Richardson 4/22, Tye 3/15)
MOTM: Jason Roy
Trivia: This is only the second match this year not to have a fifty. Indeed the only batsman to score over 30 got man of the match...
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (12 wickets)
Na Maloom Afraad
Man of Tomorrow
Can we please get this Rauf in the national team? We kinda need him right now. 
To be fair, the way the Stars have used him has been as instrumental. He's been given a couple of overs at the front with big Billy to crack the opposition's order in half, then rested if he hasn't and brought back to demolish the lower order. Those late order wickets in Game 1 are the difference between him and the Laughlin and Kane Richardson group a wicket behind. I sense the Pakistan NT isn't quite set up that way.Can we please get this Rauf in the national team? We kinda need him right now.
It's teams that have used their resources tactically that have done best here. Scorchers have used Jason Roy as a pinch hitter and he's won MOTM twice by pasting opening bowlers, Riley Meredith and Jack Wildermuth significant victims. Meanwhile, the Sixers have struggled when Philippe fails as they haven't used their resources to the right effect (Christian is a good player but he's not a good gritter, which was the role he was given vs the Stars).
Sorry if this is a long post to a simple question, I was thinking about this ever since I noticed Roy's SR and MOTM earlier this morning and I think I've cracked it/
Match 16: Thunder vs Scorchers
On the slowest pitch of the tournament, no Scorcher could get going except, again, Jason Roy. Marsh's innings was decent through the middle as Cutting and Sams put on the brakes (Sams' first over went for 15, his next three just 14).
The dropping of Jono Cook certainly looked much better given how expensive Fawad Ahmed was. It proved to be the difference despite economical bowling from Jhye Richardson and Fawad Ahmed. Warner played the winning hand for the Thunder.
Scorchers 7/127 (Roy 36, Cutting 3/11) lost to Thunder 7/130 (Warner 53, Ross 40, J Richardson 3/21)
MOTM: David Warner
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (12 wickets)
On the slowest pitch of the tournament, no Scorcher could get going except, again, Jason Roy. Marsh's innings was decent through the middle as Cutting and Sams put on the brakes (Sams' first over went for 15, his next three just 14).
The dropping of Jono Cook certainly looked much better given how expensive Fawad Ahmed was. It proved to be the difference despite economical bowling from Jhye Richardson and Fawad Ahmed. Warner played the winning hand for the Thunder.
Scorchers 7/127 (Roy 36, Cutting 3/11) lost to Thunder 7/130 (Warner 53, Ross 40, J Richardson 3/21)
MOTM: David Warner
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (12 wickets)
Match 17: Strikers vs Hurricanes
The first parts of the Strikers innings were steady rather than spectacular. Then Scott Boland bowled the 15th over and was deposited for 21. Two more sixed by Wells in the final over boosted the score to 150.
On a pitch that had offered a lot for Hurricanes bowlers, the Strikers found even more. Wes Agar confirmed his talent taking 4.12 while the spinners took care of the tail.
Strikers 8/150 (Wells 48*, Carey 40, Archer 2/22) beat Hurricanes 65 (Agar 4/12, Briggs 3/23)
MOTM: Wes Agar
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf and Wes Agar (12 wickets)
The first parts of the Strikers innings were steady rather than spectacular. Then Scott Boland bowled the 15th over and was deposited for 21. Two more sixed by Wells in the final over boosted the score to 150.
On a pitch that had offered a lot for Hurricanes bowlers, the Strikers found even more. Wes Agar confirmed his talent taking 4.12 while the spinners took care of the tail.
Strikers 8/150 (Wells 48*, Carey 40, Archer 2/22) beat Hurricanes 65 (Agar 4/12, Briggs 3/23)
MOTM: Wes Agar
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf and Wes Agar (12 wickets)
Match 18: Renegades vs Stars
After a fast start, the internationals slowed down the Stars' scoring rate through the middle. However, Prestwidge still had to bowl one at the death, and he leaked 15 runs to give the Stars a hard total of 182.
The Renegades lost two of their inform batsmen early which really hurt their chase. Despite accomplished innings from Fraser-McGurk and Perera, the Renegades didn't show a lot of fight apart from those two after that. Xavier Crone finished off the game with his first ever BBL wicket on his second ball.
Stars 5/182 (Stoinis 55, Thisara 2/27) beat Renegades 129 (Fraser McGurk 37, Stoinis 3/20)
MOTM: Marcus Stoinis
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (14 wickets)
After a fast start, the internationals slowed down the Stars' scoring rate through the middle. However, Prestwidge still had to bowl one at the death, and he leaked 15 runs to give the Stars a hard total of 182.
The Renegades lost two of their inform batsmen early which really hurt their chase. Despite accomplished innings from Fraser-McGurk and Perera, the Renegades didn't show a lot of fight apart from those two after that. Xavier Crone finished off the game with his first ever BBL wicket on his second ball.
Stars 5/182 (Stoinis 55, Thisara 2/27) beat Renegades 129 (Fraser McGurk 37, Stoinis 3/20)
MOTM: Marcus Stoinis
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (220 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (14 wickets)
Match 19: Sixers vs Renegades
After an expensive start, Sutherland taking three wickets in an over slowed the Sixers' charge dramatically. Sound innings from Philippe, Henriques and Christian gave them a total of 156.
Even I'm confused. At one end Jake Fraser McGurk is slamming Abbott and Christian to all parts, 10 fours in a quickfire 50. At the other, Dwarshius and running incompetence are ripping through the renegades. What happened here?
Sixers 5/156 (Philippe 55, Sutherland 3/32) beat Renegades 141 (Fraser McGurk 51*, Dwarshuis 6/37)
MOTM: Ben Dwarshuis
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (275 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (14 wickets)
After an expensive start, Sutherland taking three wickets in an over slowed the Sixers' charge dramatically. Sound innings from Philippe, Henriques and Christian gave them a total of 156.
Even I'm confused. At one end Jake Fraser McGurk is slamming Abbott and Christian to all parts, 10 fours in a quickfire 50. At the other, Dwarshius and running incompetence are ripping through the renegades. What happened here?
Sixers 5/156 (Philippe 55, Sutherland 3/32) beat Renegades 141 (Fraser McGurk 51*, Dwarshuis 6/37)
MOTM: Ben Dwarshuis
Golden Bat: Josh Philippe (275 runs)
Golden Arm: Haris Rauf (14 wickets)
Na Maloom Afraad
Man of Tomorrow
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