Strikers vs Renegades, 6th Match at Adelaide, BBL, Dec 09 2021 - Ball by Ball Commentary

off-stump knocked out. Full and angled into off stump, he's backing away and looking to drive through cover, but nowhere near ball as it cannons into the stumps.

slower ball, length and into him, backing away again, has to wait for it and mis-times his pull, as the ball trickles through midwicket

back of a length outside off again. Swing and a miss again

back of a length outside off, backs away to swing at it, only connects with air

keeps it outside off angling across, he swings the bat more in hope than with conviction and can't connect

backs away, looks to carve it over cover, but can't connect as the ball passes outside edge. There was a noise as it went past actually but neither keeper nor bowler appealed so maybe bat hitting ground

down the track, ends up convering it to a highish full toss, it's angled into him so there's no room either, and he can only slice an attempted swat straight to mid-off

nails the yorker again, this time the batter gets a thin bottom edge off his attempted swing that rolls in front of the keeper to his left, he runs in to field it but there's enough time to sneak a single

yorker on leg stump, goes under his bat as he makes room and looks to swing it over long-on

misses the yorker, low full toss on leg stump, batter's making room to try and whack it, ends up slapping it back to Siddle

fullish, goes for the slog sweep again, bottom half of the bat, rolls to square leg. Rashid ends an excellent spell - which is his default setting - with a dot ball

topspinner skids onto him, he's hurried into the pull, again gets it much straighter than he wanted, hits the stumps and rolls to midwicket. They sprint the single and Richardson puts in a full-length dive at the striker's end to beat the throw to the stumps. Fairly long time to adjudicate that, even though he seemed to be well in to me

googly again, was backing away, don't think he read it at all, just thumped it with a flat bat and because he hadn't read it, went much straighter, bisected bowler and mid-off and into the boundary

manages to connect with the sweep, and hits it fairly well, but there's a fielder at deep midwicket to clean up

another googly, he didn't read it at all, was looking to thrash it through cover, comes off the high part of the bat towards mid-off

googly on a length, looking to pull it, gets it off the bottom half and the ball rolls towards square leg

back of a length going across him, slapped through cover

swing and a miss. Hard length going across him on the stumps, clears front leg to pull, can't connect

length ball on off, swiped across the line to deep midwicket

clears his front leg to try and smash it out of the stadium, can only get a top edge that flies straight to deep midwicket. Didn't have much option except to try and keep looking for boundaries, but it didn't come off.