Scotland vs Australia, 1st T20I at Edinburgh, SCO vs AUS, Sep 04 2024 - Match Result

4.50pm And that is that from me, Gnasher and Ranjith, who get an early finish thanks to Travis Head and his buddies. We hope you enjoyed our coverage, and do stick around for more post-match content. Until next time, goodbye!

Richie Berrington: "That's what you expect when you're up against one of the best teams in the world. We started well with the bat, had a decent powerplay, a few of us got in but didn't kick on, but also credit to the Australian bowlers for that. We're disapppointed with how things ended up today, but it's a great experience especially for the younger guys who've come in. We want to keep improving all the time, getting exposure against teams like Australia is only going to make us better. We've got to learn from every experience, and keep our belief and come back strong for the next one."

Mitchell Marsh: "Always nice to start a tour with a win, especially in a three-match series. I thought the bowlers were all really good, it was about being really clear on what they wanted to do, and we judge the execution. A lot of energy, we fielded well, that's all you ask for. You can see the Scottish people are extremely proud of their country and their cricket and we're privileged to come here and play."

Travis Head is the Player of the Match. "Nice way to get underway, we've loved our time here so far and I was a bit nervous coming in. Nice to get some runs with the captain today. It's been a nice couple of years, I've been enjoying the environment under this coaching staff, loving the atmosphere with the youngsters coming in. After losing Jake, not sure what the wicket was going to do, but nice to get into my groove quickly. Once I get away, I guess that's my role, maximising the powerplay."

4.44pm By the dead ball laws, it's pretty clear the umpires got it right today: "20.4.2.5 the striker is not ready for the delivery of the ball and, if the ball is delivered, makes no attempt to play it. Provided the umpire is satisfied that the striker had adequate reason for not being ready, the ball shall not count as one of the over."

4.36pm Phew. A bruising display from Australia. They've chased down 155 with more than half their innings remaining. The kind of performance that makes you wonder how much they could have scored had they batted first. Conditions seemed to get better and better to bat in, but don't let that distract you from an absolutely powerhouse display. Travis Head made 80 off 25, Mitchell Marsh went even quicker while scoring 39, and Inglis and Stoinis continued the fireworks after Watt dismissed those two in one over.

Afeef: "I see Australia are going about their business the SRH way, thanks to the common link Travis Head.

kirky: ""Wow, another dead ball with Stoinis pulling away from his stance. Again he seemed to have his head up, with his eyes on the bowler."You've got this all wrong. Watt is starting his run up before the batsman is looking up, and then releasing it early. I hate bowlers that do this, their only plan is to have the batsmen playing a shot when they clearly aren't ready and make the mistake of not pulling out.Watt should be yellow carded for unsportsman like behaviour." -- Don't know about unsportsmanlike, but you're right, it's a fairly grey area.

Jarvis returns.

MikeB: "Watt bowled Oman's Khalid Kail in the T20WC with exactly the same thing, and it was also called dead ball." -- Yup. Matt Roller wrote about it here.

Wow, another dead ball with Stoinis pulling away from his stance. Again he seemed to have his head up, with his eyes on the bowler.

Calcu20: "Not that it matters in the context of this game, but Inglis should have been adjudged out according to the laws. He pulled way after the ball was released and he wasn't disrupted by any incident outside his control (like a bird passing by in front of the ball or something)."

Back now, and Watt continues.

A bit of a hold-up as Stoinis gets some attention from the physio.

jim: "14 consecutive boundaries. that must be some sort of record!" -- Our stats team is no doubt busy working out if this is indeed the case.

ShahSafeer: "That should've been called out as batters have no right to move away that late without having any legal issue with bowlers. That ball was perfectly legal according to cricket rules, I saw it's replay, did they actually appeal for it?" -- Yeah, a tight call. It looked like Inglis was looking up at the bowler at the point where he pulled away.

Marcus Stoinis walks in with 32 required.