Big Bash Twenty20: Dan Christian guides SA to comfortable win over Victoria
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Victoria-c859 by five wickets with four balls remaining in the Big Bash Twenty20 tournament at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Friday.
Victoria scored 144 runs after their Captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Aaron-Finch-c881 wasn’t having any problems as he scored fluently.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brad-Hodge-c1184 joined Finch at the crease and the pair took the score to 60 with a solid 44-run partnership. Finch got out after scoring 34 runs off 26 balls. Hodge also failed to capitalise on the start he got and was out after a struggling innings of 22 runs in 23 balls.
The team was in a spot of bother at that stage, but McDonald and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Matthew-Wade-c1933 took the team out of trouble with a 48-run partnership. McDonald scored 26 runs off 24 balls before getting out.
The wicket of the Victorian captain didn’t affect Wade’s batting as he exploded in the last three overs to take his team’s total closer to 150. Wade amassed an unbeaten 52 off just 31 balls in his brilliant innings.
Dan Christian took two wickets for his team but gave away too many runs in his spell. The English spinner, Adil http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rashid-c84058 was difficult to play and took one wicket for 22 runs in his four overs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Daniel-Harris-c1310 provided SA with the start they were looking for. He scored a well-constructed 41 runs off 35 balls, and his innings included two fours and the same number of sixes.
A few quick wickets did cause some trouble for the SA team but http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Cameron-Borgas-c1212 held the innings together and played a steady knock of 41 runs from 42 balls. The platform laid by Borgas and Harris was utilised fully by Christian, as he smashed 28 runs off just 17 balls to guide his team to victory in the final over of the match. Christian hit three fours in his unbeaten innings.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jon-Holland-c1724 was exceptional for Victoria as he troubled the batsmen throughout his spell and took two wickets in the match for just 23 runs. Although SA won the match, Matthew Wade was named as the man-of-the-match, considering his quick fire half-century in conditions where other batsmen found it difficult to score quick runs.
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