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Best performances - Batsmen

CT Bancroft
CT Bancroft
70(52) 5x4 - 3x6
Control %86%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 16 runs
  • 2x4 - 1x6
5 4 10 7 6 2 21 15
O Davies
47(34) 1x4 - 3x6
Control %88%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 20 runs
  • 0x4 - 3x6
0 0 2 2 6 10 22 5

Best performances - Bowlers

AJ Hosein
AJ Hosein
O4
M0
R23
W2
Eco5.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
BJ Dwarshuis
O4
M0
R26
W2
Eco6.50
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Commentator: Shashwat Kumar

END OF OVER:
20 | 15 Runs | SS: 164/5 | RR: 8.20

  • Ben Dwarshuis20 (8b)
  • Jordan Silk36 (25b)
  • Chris Green4-0-46-0
  • Lockie Ferguson4-0-32-2

10:45pm That will be all from us for this game. A proper rollercoaster that, until the last moment, had everyone hooked. The Sixers, like they do often, found a way and that has taken them to the top of the table (for now). We will be back with more BBL action soon, and until then, this is goodbye from all of us here at ESPNcricinfo!

Ben Dwarshuis, Player of the Match: You play the game to be in those moments. Silk and I were there, we wanted to enjoy it and do our best. That was one of our better (wins). I was mis-hitting them well into the gaps (laughs). Credit to Green for the way he bowled the last over, he made us wait until the end. Just wanted to stay still, watch and react, and trust my hands to get the job done. Got a really nice bat, and just trying to swing hard after staying still. Nice to connect a few. (On his bowling) Bit disappointed with my first two overs but nice to bounce back (later in the innings). To pick up two wickets during the Surge was nice. Spoken about a lot - the rivalry between the two teams and it was nice to be able to win on their home turf.

10:39pm Phew. What a game of cricket. It ebbed and flowed until the last two balls. Seven were needed off two, and then, Dwarshuis played the shot of his dreams. A clean strike (albeit off a low full toss) that sailed over the fence and leveled the scores, further illustrating just how fine the margins can be in the BBL. Take no credit away from Silk either, who walked in when the chase was flagging and found the fence just when his team needed him to. Prior to that, Philippe and Edwards produced useful cameos to keep the chase ticking.

The Thunder left everything out on the field as well. They made the Sixers scrap for every run and effected two run-outs that, on another day, may have proved pivotal. The one thing they gamble on (and probably got wrong) was to hold one of Green's overs back and that came back to haunt them, especially with the game still on the line in the 20th over. Lots of positives to take, though, even if they have handed bragging rights over to their cross-town rivals.

19.6
1
Green to Dwarshuis, 1 run, smart, smart batting by Dwarshuis, and he is delighted! The Sixers pull another win out of the fire and this team somehow keeps finding ways to triumph under pressure! Back of a length on middle and leg. Dwarshuis does not try anything fancy and plays the old-fashioned nurdle into the on side. Silk knew that was on the cards and hurtles across to complete the run, with Dwarshuis doing so soon after. Spare a thought for the Thunder and Green, but just when push came to shove, they cracked, and Dwarshuis was adept enough to capitalize!

Scores level. A dot or a wicket and we go into...you know it. Anything else, and the Sixers are home and dry. Almost everyone up in the ring. Deep mid wicket the sole fielder out

19.5
6
Green to Dwarshuis, SIX, Dwarshuis finds the fence, and he finds the moon too! That is a massive, massive shot under pressure! Green blinks first and bowls a full toss outside off. Dwarshuis cannot believe his luck and smears it high and long over the wide long on fence!

7 off 2. Can Dwarshuis find the fence now, under this sort of pressure?

19.4
1
Green to Silk, 1 run, full and wide outside off. Would have been a wide had Silk not made contact but he does make contact, getting a thick outside edge to short third. Just a single

8 off 3

19.4
1w
Green to Silk, 1 wide, nails the wide yorker this time, and Silk swishes and misses. But hang on. The umpire calls it a wide. Seemed to be touch-and-go, and the umpire went the other way. On second glance, that was perhaps just outside the tramlines

9 off 3

19.4
1w
Green to Silk, 1 wide, goes for the wide yorker and bowls it beyond the tramlines. Silk holds his nerve and lets it go. Called a wide

Silk on strike. 10 off 3. Can he line up the off-spinner? Pretty sure this will be another dart from Green and possibly into the blockhole. Over the wicket

19.3
1
Green to Dwarshuis, 1 run, into the blockhole outside off. Dwarshuis digs it out towards deep cover and this time, the Sixers cannot come back for the second

11 off 4. Sixers need to find the fence, right about now

Sixers 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st34JM VinceJR Philippe
2nd25J EdwardsJR Philippe
3rd28MC HenriquesJ Edwards
4th21MC HenriquesJC Silk
5th32JC SilkL Shaw
6th24JC SilkBJ Dwarshuis