Sports Saturdays- Adelaide Strikers beats Perth Scorchers by a big margin of 50 runs.
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The Knockout Match of the Big Bash League 2023-24 was played today between Perth Scorchers vs Adelaide Strikers at Perth Stadium, Perth. In which Adelaide Strikers beats Perth Scorchers by a big margin of 50 runs.
TOSS- Perth Scorchers won the toss and opted to bowl.
Adelaide Strikers Innings- Adelaide Strikers batted first and started the inning not very well, Jake Weatherald played a very brilliant half-century inning of 56 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 8 boundaries in just 32 balls, Henry Thornton played an unbeaten inning of 28 runs with the help of 1 six and 2 boundaries in just 21 balls, Ben Manenti scored 23 runs in 20 balls, David Payne played an unbeaten inning of 14 runs in 18 balls, apart from this, Matthew Short 13 runs in 13 balls, D Arcy Short 6 runs in 4 balls, Harry Nielsen 1 run in 3 balls, and James Bazley 4 runs in 3 balls. In this way, Adelaide Strikers scored 155 runs after losing 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs and set a target of 156 runs in front of Perth Scorchers.
Perth Scorchers bowlers- Cooper Connolly took 2 wickets for 17 runs in 3 overs, Aaron Hardie 2 wickets for 24 runs in 3 overs, Andrew Tye 1 wicket for 25 runs in his spell, Jason Behrendorff 1 wicket for 27 runs in his spell, Lance Morris was wicketless for 33 runs in his spell, and Ashton Agar also wicketless for 28 runs in 2 overs.
Perth Scorchers inning- Perth Scorchers chasing 156 runs in the second inning the entire team dismissed just for 105 runs in the second ball of the 17th over and lost the match by 50 runs. Perth Scorchers started the inning very poorly, Sam Fanning scored 31 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 3 boundaries in just 20 balls, Cooper Connolly 31 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 1 boundary in 22 balls, apart from this no batsman could play well and stay in the crease, Marcus Harris dismissed just for 8 runs in 11 balls, Aaron Hardie 6 runs in 8 balls, Sam Whiteman 2 runs in 7 balls, Nick Hobson 4 runs in 6 balls, Andrew Tye 8 runs in 8 balls, Ashton Agar and Jason Behrendorff dismissed without scoring, and Lance Morris remains unbeaten without playing any ball. In this way, the entire team all-out just for 105 runs in 16.2 overs and lost the match by a big margin of 50 runs.
Adelaide Strikers bowlers- Lloyd Pope and Cameron Boyce performed very brilliant bowling, Lloyd Pope took 4 wickets just for 24 runs in his spell, Cameron Boyce took 3 wickets just for 20 runs in 3.2 overs, Matthew Short 1 wicket for 31 runs in his spell, David Payne 1 wicket for 19 runs in 3 overs, Henry Thornton 1 wicket for 6 runs in 1 over, and Ben Manenti was wicketless for 5 runs in 1 over.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH- Adelaide Strikers bowler Lloyd Pope was selected as the player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling took 4 wickets just for 28 runs in his spell.
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