Adelaide Strikers beats Hobart Hurricanes by 22 runs in Eliminator Match of the BBL 2021-22
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The Eliminator Match of the Big Bash League 2021-22 was played today between Adelaide Strikers and Hobart Hurricanes at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne. In which Adelaide Strikers beats Hobart Hurricanes by 22 runs.
Adelaide Strikers batted first after winning the toss, started the inning brilliantly, Alex Carey and Matthew Short came to start the inning and gave a very brilliant start with century partnership of 145 runs for the first, the first wicket has gone for 145 runs in second ball of the 15th over, Alex Carey dismissed after playing a very brilliant half-century inning of 67 runs with the help of 8 boundaries in just 67 balls, next batsman Travis Head came to bat, after few moments the second has also gone for 164 runs in last ball of the 16th over, Matthew Short dismissed after playing a very brilliant quick half-century inning of 89 runs with the help of 6 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 48 balls, after that wicket fallen started, the third wicket has gone for 169 runs in second ball of the 18th over, Travis Head dismissed just for 5 runs, the fourth wicket has also gone for 169 runs in fouth ball of the 18th over, Ian Cockbain dismissed just for 3 runs, the fifth wicket has gone for 179 runs in first ball of the final over, Matt Renshaw dismissed just for 7 runs, sixth wicket has gone for 184 runs in fifth ball of the final over, Thomas Kelly dismissed without scoring, Thornton remains unbeaten without playing a ball with Jonathan Wells, and Jonathan Wells also remains unbeaten for 12 runs in 8 balls. In this way, Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elect the bat first, scored 188 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in stipulated 20 overs, and set a target of 189 in front of Hobart Hurricanes.
Hobart Hurricanes bowlers Riley Meredith and Thomas Rogers took 2-2 wickets, Scott Boland and Wil Parker got 1-1 wicket.
Hobart Hurricanes chasing 189 runs, the entire team dismissed just for 166 runs in the fourth ball of the final over, Hobart Hurricanes started the inning not very well, D Arcy Short played a brilliant half-century inning of 56 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 34 balls, Caleb Jewell scored 35 runs in 31 balls, Tim David 21 runs in 11 balls, Peter Handscomb 15 runs in 13 balls, apart from this no batsman could play well, Matthew Wade scored 7 runs, Riley Meredith 10 runs, Ben McDermott 6 runs, Scott Boland remains unbeaten for 5 runs, Wil Parker 4 runs, Jordan Thompson 3 runs and Thomas Rogers 1 run, in this way wickets keep falling one after another and end of the result the entire team all-out just for 166 runs in 19.4 overs, and lost the match by 22 runs.
Adelaide Strikers bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Peter Siddle took 4 wickets for 32 runs, Henry Thornton took 22 wickets for 25 runs, Harry Conway took 2 wickets for 32 runs, Matthew Short and Fawad Ahmed got 1-1 wicket.
Adelaide Strikers all-rounder batsman Matthew Short was selected as the best player of the match, he performed very brilliant batting as well as also in bowling, played a very brilliant quick half-century inning of 89 runs with the help of 6 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 48 balls, and got 1 wicket for 33 runs.
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