Strikers vs Heat, 12th Match at Adelaide, Dec 31 2017 - Ball by Ball Commentary

taken at deep midwicket and Strikers win on New Year's Eve for a fifth year running! They are also top of the table in the BBL! The Adelaide Oval roars in approval. This is how they wanted 2017 to end and Laughlin obliges with a slower ball that takes out Swepson

full on middle, slogs it out to deep midwicket

does him! That's gorgeous work from Rashid - tossing it up to draw the big slog out and then the wrong 'un exploits the gap between bat and pad and rattles the stumps

big turn off the googly. Gannon somehow manages an inside edge on a ball that pitches way outside off and swerves in at leg stump

angles it into middle and leg, and so Gannon swings towards midwicket. The ball turns just enough to take the leading edge to short third man

looks to flat-bat a slow, good length delivery outside off. But he's done in for lack of pace

works a full delivery to deep midwicket

goes for the big heave to the long-on boundary. The ball barely crosses the cut strip because Stanlake keeps getting extra bounce off a length

141kph, heaves a full delivery on leg stump to the right of midwicket

blocks a good length ball on off stump

full and down leg at 147 kph. Yasir's flick shot doesn't connect

gets forward to a good length ball at 144 kph and skews it out to point

smacks a back of a length delivery down to long-on

bouncer wanders a bit too far down leg

smacks a full delivery on middle to the straight boundary. That takes them past their lowest score of 80 in BBL 4

there's the big dipping slower ball again. And Yasir, hanging deep in his crease, gets up as the ball starts above his eyeline, then crouches desperately in an effort to adjust. All to no avail

top pace yorker - 138 kph - nails the off stump before the batsman knows what's going on. Too good. Too much

change of pace again and the 112 kph rascal beats both batsman and keeper. Carey with the gloves has been briliant all season. But this ball bounces on the half-volley, spins away from his hands and through his legs