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Scorchers vs Heat, 21st Match at Perth, BBL, Jan 05 2019 - Ball by Ball Commentary

RESULT
21st Match (N), Perth, January 05, 2019, Big Bash League
(18.2/20 ov, T:136) 139/5

Heat won by 5 wickets (with 10 balls remaining)

Player Of The Match
2/10
mujeeb-ur-rahman
Cricinfo's MVP
89.22 ptsImpact List
nathan-coulter-nile
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BH
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9.40pm That is that. Brisbane Heat break their duck with his five-wicket win. Smiles in the Heat camp. They lost their openers early to Coulter-Nile, but a series of contributions from the middle order carried the Heat past the line. Lynn scrapped his way to 33 off 34 balls on a two-paced pitch while Cutting and Burns made contrasting cameos to finish the chase. A day after being dropped from Australia's ODI squad, Nathan Coulter-Nile ran in hard, hit 140ks, and came away with three wickets. There were reports that he'd been left out because of a back complaint. Coulter-Nile later clarified to ABC Radio that he was okay and suggested that there might have been a miscommunication between the selectors and the medical staff.

Hope you enjoyed our coverage as much as we did bringing it to you. Alex Malcolm's report will be up shortly. Until next time, this is Deivarayan Muthu signing off on the behalf of P Ranjith. Cheers

Mujeeb is the Player of the Match for his outstanding spell of 4-0-10-2: I am excited. This is my first Player of the Match award in Big Bash.

Mujeeb, indeed, is a man of few words but he lets it rip with the ball

McCullum: It's a huge relief. To travel all the way to Perth and get the win is an exceptional show of courage. I lost the ball a bit under the lights but threw my hands up at the ball and stopped it. Mujeeb is really quiet off the field but he's courageous and the performances he is putting up is great. He doesn't say a lot but the boys enjoy his company.

18.2
4lb
Tye to Burns, 4 leg byes

Top-edged onto the helmet and the ball ricochets away to the third man boundary. Short and angling into Burns, he looks away, hooks, and the ball deflects away past short third man

18.1
Tye to Burns, no run

short and flies through to the keeper, Burns gives himself room but can't lay bat on ball

The Heat need just one run for their first win of the season

end of over 1820 runs
BH: 135/5CRR: 7.50 RRR: 0.50
Ben Cutting26 (16b 2x4 2x6)
Joe Burns20 (23b 1x4 1x6)
Jhye Richardson 4-0-50-1
Ashton Agar 3-0-19-0
17.6
6
Jhye Richardson to Cutting, SIX runs

Thumped flat and hard over Richardson's head. Make it 20 runs off the over. Attempted yorker, comes out as a full-toss, smoked away

17.5
4
Jhye Richardson to Cutting, FOUR runs

Richardson loses his length again. Serves up a full-toss outside off, which is cracked away through the covers for back-to-back boundaries

17.4
4
Jhye Richardson to Cutting, FOUR runs

overpitched and outside off, Cutting clears his front leg and smears it over extra-cover

17.3
Jhye Richardson to Cutting, no run

Richardson responds with a top yorker just outside off, Cutting clears his front leg and squeezes it back to the bowler

17.2
6
Jhye Richardson to Cutting, SIX runs

Mowed over square leg for a masssssssive six! He jumps across off, meets a length ball, and lustily clubs it into the second tier. What a strike from Cutting

17.1
Jhye Richardson to Cutting, no run

back of a length and outside off, knocked to midwicket. Cutting loses his balance and falls again. Whats up with Cutting?

Richardson

end of over 178 runs
BH: 115/5CRR: 6.76 RRR: 7.00
Ben Cutting6 (10b)
Joe Burns20 (23b 1x4 1x6)
Ashton Agar 3-0-19-0
Andrew Tye 3-0-11-0
16.6
1
Agar to Cutting, 1 run

Cutting jumps across off, flicks towards long-on, falls. But gets up and recovers to complete the single

16.5
1
Agar to Burns, 1 run

flatter and shorter outside off, flashed off the back foot to point

16.4
6
Agar to Burns, SIX runs

Agar tosses it slower and wider outside off, Burns lays into it. He smites a slog-sweep over midwicket for six. Nearly ran himself out off the last ball, then goes big now

16.3
Agar to Burns, no run

Burns stays leg-side of this shortish ball outside off and punches to the covers. There's a mix-up between the wickets but no harm done in the end for the Heat

16.2
Agar to Burns, no run

arm ball, snakes back in, chopped to point off the back foot

16.1
Agar to Burns, no run

tossed up on middle and leg, flipped to square leg for one

end of over 163 runs
BH: 107/5CRR: 6.68 RRR: 7.25
Ben Cutting5 (9b)
Joe Burns13 (18b 1x4)
Andrew Tye 3-0-11-0
Nathan Coulter-Nile 4-0-25-3
15.6
Tye to Cutting, no run

Cutting nips down the track, Tye drags his length back and gets it to sail through to the keeper. Cutting quietly ducks under the ball

15.5
1
Tye to Burns, 1 run

lifter outside off, swatted away to the right of Cartwright at deep square leg

15.4
1
Tye to Cutting, 1 run

Cutting shuffles a fair way across off stump, knuckle ball from Tye. He gets inside the line and clips it square. Cutting slips at the non-striker's end and they have to settle for one

15.3
Tye to Cutting, no run

Cutting gets behind the line of this shorter ball outside off and fends it right back to Tye

15.2
Tye to Cutting, no run

short, angling in, bursts off the pitch, strikes the glove and rolls back to Tye. Cross-seamer from AJ Tye

15.1
1
Tye to Burns, 1 run

seam-up. Full on the pads, eased to fine leg with the wrists

AJ Tye's back into the attack

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Over 19 • BH 139/5

Heat won by 5 wickets (with 10 balls remaining)
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PS144108-0.502