2057dThe Report by Sam Perry at Docklands

Cameron Boyce's whirwind fifty downs the Thunder

On a slow, grippy pitch where hardly anyone else got going, the allrounder smashed an unbeaten 51 off 22 to infuse life into a stuttering Renegades innings

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

CJ Boyce
51(22) 4x4 - 5x6
Control %63%
  • Productive Shot
  • square drive
  • 16 runs
  • 1x4 - 2x6
8 0 0 16 5 1 1 20
BJ Holt
37(28) 1x4 - 3x6
Control %75%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 19 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
1 0 16 7 1 1 1 10

Best performances - Bowlers

KW Richardson
KW Richardson
O4
M0
R27
W3
Eco6.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
CJ Boyce
O3.1
M0
R17
W2
Eco5.36
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

Melbourne Renegades , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

19.15 start, First Session 19.15-20.35, Interval 20.35-20.55, Second Session 20.55- 22.15

Match days

30 January 2019 - night match (20-over match)

Twenty20 debut

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Melbourne Renegades 2, Sydney Thunder 0

Commentator: Karthik Krishnaswamy

END OF OVER:
20 | (wicket maiden) | ST: 113/10 (28 runs required from 5 balls, RR: 5.89, RRR: 33.60)

  • Gurinder Sandhu4 (7b)
  • Cameron Boyce3.1-1-17-2
  • Harry Gurney4-0-21-1

10.27pm This was the ninth meeting between these two sides, and the eighth victory for the Renegades. For the first 18 overs of this game the Thunder were utterly dominant, but that man Cameron Boyce played a sensational match-turning innings, an unbeaten 51 off 22, and suddenly the Renegades had a more than decent total to defend. Pretty disappointing chase from the Thunder, apart from their debutant keeper Baxter Holt, in batting conditions that actually seemed to have improved.

So the Renegades move up to 16 points, solidifying their bid for a semi-finals spot. They have just one league match to go now, against the table-topping Hobart Hurricanes. Lots of twists and turns left in this season, and we'll bring you all of them. Do keep tuning in. Until next time, good night!

19.1
W
Boyce to Fawad Ahmed, OUT, and, appropriately enough, he's the man to end it. Fawad steps out, and he fires it wide. Beats the desperate reach-out drive, and Harper does the rest

Fawad Ahmed st †Harper b Boyce 1 (3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 33.33

The Renegades made 39 off their last two overs. The Thunder now need 28 off their last over. Here's Boyce, appropriately enough

END OF OVER:
19 | 4 Runs 1 Wkt | ST: 113/9 (28 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 5.94, RRR: 28.00)

  • Fawad Ahmed1 (2b)
  • Gurinder Sandhu4 (7b)
  • Harry Gurney4-0-21-1
  • Dan Christian4-0-9-1
18.6
1
Gurney to Fawad Ahmed, 1 run, back of a length outside off. Looks to dab it behind point, only manages an inside edge into the leg side

Round the wicket to Fawad.

18.5
1
Gurney to Sandhu, 1 run, another slower ball, slapped down to long-off
18.4
1lb
Gurney to Fawad Ahmed, 1 leg bye, slower ball, back of a length, looks for the lap-sweep and only manages to get his thigh pad on it. Rolls away into the backward square leg region
18.3
W
Gurney to Sandhu, OUT, slower length ball, leg-stumpish. Looks to flick, and only manages to edge into his pad. And that's followed by a collision and a run-out. Both batsmen were converging on the same side of the pitch, and Gurney was also moving in that direction to get to the ball. He manages to sneak between the two batsmen, and ends up unsighting both of them. They collide, leaving Cook sprawled on the pitch, and he picks up the ball and completes the run out at the keeper's end

JD Cook run out 2 (4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50.00

18.2
1
Gurney to Cook, 1 run, slower ball, quite full, on off stump, swiped away through square leg

Thunder 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st4SR WatsonJJS Sangha
2nd11CJ FergusonJJS Sangha
3rd29CJ FergusonAP Devcich
4th1CJ FergusonCJ Green
5th23CJ FergusonBJ Holt
6th28DR SamsBJ Holt
7th6CJ JordanDR Sams
8th6GS SandhuDR Sams
9th2GS SandhuJD Cook
10th3Fawad AhmedGS Sandhu

Big Bash League

TeamMWLPTNRR
HH14104200.603
MR1486160.173
SS1486160.047
MS147714-0.062
BH1467130.249
ST1467130
AS146812-0.473
PS144108-0.502