Big Bash League Update – Matches 11 & 12
Brisbane Heat’s poor run in the competition continued as they suffered their third defeat in a row, beaten by
Perth Scorchers, who emerged victorious by 10 runs at their home ground WACA – consequently moving into the top four.
Opting to bat first, the Perth franchise made a scorching start, courtesy of skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/HH-Gibbs-c1549. Both clobbered the bowling to all parts to put on an 80-run stand inside 8 overs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Robert-Cowdrey-c60631 der Merwe cleaned him up for
40.
That enabled the visitors to put the brakes on the scoring rate and despite http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mitchell-Marsh-c1974 adding 33, no other batsmen reached the double figure mark as the Scorchers ended their innings on 162 for 8.
In reply, the Heat lost opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Peter-Forrest-c2176 as the two added 43 for the second wicket.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-William-Robinson-c44640 than kept the chase on track, supporting the skipper, but with Forest falling , after making a half-century, the lower order of the Heat failed to keep up the scoring rate and fell short by 10 runs.
The other high profile clash was between Sydney Thunder and
Melbourne Renegades. In a low scoring encounter, the Renegades managed to register their first win of the competition after clinical bowling from Man of the Match, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482.
The Melbourne franchise made just 140 from their 20 overs despite the opening pairing of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Luke-Butterworth-c1850 in the crucial middle stages,
as the pair collected a brace each.
Thunder got off to a rollicking start courtesy of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SW-Tait-c2616 and
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shane-Harwood-c2497 all picked up key breakthroughs to help their team come up trumps by 6 runs.
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