So the Heat are teetering on the edge of elimination from playoff contention. They have two games remaining and one of them is against the last place and already eliminated Renegades. If they can claim full points there, they'll be in with a remote chance of making the playoffs taking on the red hot Scorchers in their season finale. The Strikers play back-to-back games against the Sydney Thunder and will have a handy home field advantage in both. A sweep of those and they're guaranteed to be in the playoffs. That's all from us today. Come back tomorrow for a BBL doubleheader. Take care!

Alex Carey is Player of the Match: "Very happy with the result. We knew it was a big game and every game down the stretch is a big game. Hopefully we can get some momentum going into the last few games. Jake again tonight was outstanding at the top. We went back to that [combo] and it worked out. It's great to have [Neser] as well. It's good to have him in the group and he's a great fielder so no surprise what he did there. Heady has done such a great job with this BBL team so it was nice to just go out there and take the gloves. It was a really good opportunity to go to the IPL in the first place so we'll see if I can get back there."

9.50 pm An absolute thumping from the Strikers. Heat's playoff chances have effectively been dashed. Meanwhile the Strikers not only collect full points to move up into a tie for second on 24 points with the Stars and Scorchers, but get a desperately needed boost to their net run rate when tournament tiebreak calculations come into play.

17.3
W
Siddle to Swepson, OUT, stupendous catch ends the match by Neser lunging one-handed on the ring at wide mid-off! Length ball and tried to carve this away over the off side, miscues this and it flutters in the air wide of Neser, who tracks 15 yards and slides reaching out left-handed to pluck the ball and sticks the landing. A tidy bow-tie on a ruthless team performance.

MJ Swepson c Neser b Siddle 4 (6b 0x4 0x6) SR: 66.66

17.2
1
Siddle to Bartlett, 1 run, good length ball tapped out for a single.

Witness: "Bryant out for 25 - was that really worth it? Should've just kept Morne " He's second high score in this innings. Where was the rest of the batting? If they keep Morkel in, they hold them to 185 or 190 instead of 197. They'd lose the game by 50 runs instead of 70. The top and middle order lost the game for the Heat, not the Morkel for Bryant swap.

17.1
0
Siddle to Bartlett, no run, yorker dug out through the off side.

END OF OVER:
17 | 9 Runs 1 Wkt | BH: 114/9 (84 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 6.70, RRR: 28.00)

  • Mitchell Swepson4 (5b)
  • Wes Agar4-0-27-4
  • Danny Briggs4-0-28-1
16.6
W
Agar to Bryant, OUT, full on the legs, tries to whip this over deep midwicket, middles this but gets it too flat and a simple catch a yard in from the rope by Salt taken at head height. A fraction more elevation and that sails 10 rows back for six.

M Bryant c Salt b Agar 25 (16b 0x4 2x6) SR: 156.25

16.5
1
Agar to Swepson, 1 run, ankle high full toss on middle, doesn't get the yorker right and slaps it out toward extra cover, misfield allows the single.
16.4
1
Agar to Bryant, 1 run, knee high full toss tailing down leg, flicked away along the ground to deep backward square for one.

Heat 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st23CA LynnM Labuschagne
2nd39JL DenlyM Labuschagne
3rd2JL DenlyJA Burns
4th4JA BurnsL Gregory
5th0JA BurnsM Bryant
6th21JJ PeirsonM Bryant
7th3JD WildermuthM Bryant
8th7MT SteketeeM Bryant
9th15MJ SwepsonM Bryant
10th1MJ SwepsonXC Bartlett

Big Bash League

TeamMWLPTNRR
SS1495360.257
PS1485320.851
ST1486310.949
BH147729-0.286
AS1477280.105
HH147728-0.187
MS1458240.14
MR1441016-1.727