slower ball lands full on middle and clipped through midwicket for the winning run. Adelaide win by six wickets with eight balls to spare.
Thunder vs Strikers, 9th Match at Adelaide, BBL, Dec 20 2022 - Ball by Ball Commentary
Strikers won by 6 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)
9.49 pm Strikers canter to their third win in three matches. Thunder put in a far more respectable showing than the 15 all out that happened when these teams met the first time this season in Sydney, but they still finish on the losing side and now have just one win out of four matches to start their 2022-23 campaign.
Matthew Short is the Player of the Match for his half-century: "I think over the last couple of years we're definitely used to batting first and bowling second. The smaller chases are normally the hard ones. It was just sticking to our game. We play here really well, keeping it nice and simple. It was a bit of a slow start with the bat but having the experience of Lynny and Colin at the end, it's awesome to have the older heads and got us through. I did a lot of work with [Cameron White] over the last couple of years. Getting off to flyers early on and giving my wicket away after 30 runs, but Whitey has helped guide me through my innings, toning it down and just batting, taking the ones and twos and the odd boundary here and there. I know he's at the Sixers now but just learning from last year and building an innings. Using the short square boundaries here at Adelaide really helps me and some of my shots."
That's all for today's live coverage. Come back tomorrow for more BBL action. Until then, I'm Peter Della Penna. Take care!
goes for yorker and instead sends down a shin high full toss on fourth stump that Hose reverse scoops over short third man and it bounces away to the rope.
slower good length ball follows him backing away from leg, tapped gently into midwicket for an easy two.
yorker on off, jammed out to long-on for one.
Sandhu to bowl the 19th. 8 off 12 balls to win.
full on sixth stump, driven to the cover sweeper for one.
full and wide on the guideline, slices this to the sweeper for what should be a simple one but they try to come back for a dicey second and the relay from Sams to the keeper is in time to get the bails off with de Grandhomme four inches short.
yorker on off, jammed out to long-on for one.
full on seventh stump, goes to reverse scoop this over third man but misses.
full on off, tapped into the covers for one.
knee high full toss on leg stump, simple flick goes sky high before landing in the third row over backward square leg.
full and follows Hose backing away from leg stump, tapped to mid-on for one.
yorker on middle stump, flicked out to deep backward square leg for one.
goes for yorker on off stump, Hose shuffles across to scoop and it winds up as a cue shot dribbling through square leg for one.
Equation under a run a ball for the first time now. 20 off 21 to win.
short on the legs, pulled behind square leg and beats the boundary rider to the rope.
yorker on fifth stump, jammed out to mid-on for one.
yorker on leg stump, walks across and misses a flick but it grazes off the pads and goes wide of the keeper to the fine leg rope for four leg byes. McAndrew let out a massive appeal for lbw but is denied and now Green has taken too long to try to refer this to DRS.
in the slot on seventh stump, Hose blasts a cover drive through the ring to the rope. Just barely missed the length going for yorker and pays the price.
wide yorker lands inside the guideline but out of reach of Hose trying to stab it out through point.
yorker on fourth stump jammed out to mid-off for one.
yorker on fifth stump, jammed out back to Farooqi.
Over 19 • AS 151/4
Strikers won by 6 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)