Heat vs Thunder, 17th Match at Sydney, BBL, Dec 27 2022 - Match Result

heaved off the hips, through fine leg, and that's that!

banged in short. Well, why not

sits back and ... is that it... no, inches short! One bounce, six inches short of the boundary at long-on... Another shot needed to seal it

down the track, a huge wipe off the length ball, a fat snick past the keeper, and that's his fifty!

a third six in the over! Another skip to the pitch, launched straighter and flatter than the others, but the identical result!

skids through, into a back-foot chop into the covers

fired past the legs

blatted high into the stands once more! Up comes his fifty, the hundred stand too, with a wonderful strike. Looks like he's taken out a spectator at wide long-on, right on the schnozz! Not the greatest crowd catch, but a memorable attempt! Claret everywhere, but a thumbs-up!

drags the length back, Gilkes rocks back and hammers his cut through the covers!

down the track and monstered! Up, up and over the long-on boundary, good footwork, straight to the pitch

first ball after drinks, flicked to the leg-side with the spin

it's gathering pace now! Hales kneels into a classical drive, through long-off. I give this five overs, tops

raw power! Full length, and belted back through the bowler's followthrough, clean to the long-off boundary

right up on the toes, and flogged back through the on-side

chopped to the off-side for another single

spanged over short mid-on! Bouncer, Hales doesn't get any sort of hold on it, but scuffs it off the splice, over the fielder's head and away to the rope

sweetly timed off the pads, through backward square. Whiteley mops up with a slide

delicate from Hales, tapping the ball at the top of the bounce down to deep backward point

blatted off the back foot, at the top of the bounce, out to deep cover, acres of space to come back for two

cramped on the legs, another swivel-pull down to fine leg