on the pads, clipped away fine past the diving keeper. Adelaide Strikers are in the finals
Thunder vs Strikers, 37th Match at Canberra, BBL 2023, Jan 14 2024 - Match Result
Strikers won by 9 wickets (with 23 balls remaining)
Adelaide Strikers win by nine wickets and that was an outstanding performance, led by their captain, along with Lloyd Pope (named player of the match), Cameron Boyce and Jamie Overton. While Jake Weatherald was in the runs again. Sydney Thunder looked like a team whose season was already over. And that result also ends the hopes of Melbourne Stars. So we know our four finalists now. The final thing to decide is who finishes second and plays Brisbane Heat in the Qualifier. Can Strikers go all the way from fourth spot? They are certainly finding form at the right time. Some questions over the middle order, perhaps, but things are clicking for them.
Sowmya: "Very very tough to discount the strikers, especially in top gear. The top teams are in the playoffs and it is going to be a cracking time."
I'll wrap things up there tonight, but we'll back tomorrow to see Stars and Hurricanes wrap up their seasons before the big one in Perth on Tuesday to decide who gets the second-chance final. Until then, from Gnasher, it's goodbye.
wide outside leg stump
gives himself a touch of room and skews a drive over backward point
plays back and nudges off the pads to midwicket
cuts and misses outside off
full outside leg, called wide
driven down the ground to long off
driven inside out over backward point, Hatcher gets around the rope and flicks it back
uses his feet and works down the ground
hoicked through midwicket off the front foot
length outside off, drives to deep cover
very full at off stump, driven straight down the ground
tucked off the pads backward of square
a slower short ball, pulled into the gap at deep midwicket, good work around the rope by Davies
full on the pads, worked to deep square leg
pushed into the pads, worked to midwicket
drops this a fraction short, Weatherald rocks back and pulls another over deep midwicket. He'll have a good wagon wheel
back round the wicket, wider outside off, gets this out to the cover sweeper
over the wicket now, again he finds cover with a drive
full at the stumps from round the wicket, drives to cover on the edge of the ring
2W | 2W | |||
1W | ||||
1W | ||||
1W | ||||
Manuka Oval, Canberra | |
Toss | Sydney Thunder, elected to bat first |
Series | |
Season | 2023/24 |
Player Of The Match | |
Match days | 14 January 2024 - night (20-over match) |
Umpires | |
TV Umpire | |
Reserve Umpire | |
Match Referee | |
Points | Adelaide Strikers 2, Sydney Thunder 0 |
Over 17 • AS 141/1
Strikers won by 9 wickets (with 23 balls remaining)