Hobart Hurricanes defeated Sydney Thunder by 7 wickets in 1st Match of the BBL 2023-24.
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The 21st Match of the Big Bash League 2023-24 was played today between Hobart Hurricanes vs Sydney Thunder at Bellerive Oval, Hobart. In which Hobart Hurricanes defeated Sydney Thunder by 7 wickets.
TOSS- Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and opted to bowl.
Sydney Thunder Innings-Sydney Thunder batted first and started the inning very poorly, scored just 150 runs after losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Chris Green played a brilliant quick unbeaten inning of 33 runs with the help of 1 six and 3 boundaries in just 17 balls, Daniel Sams scored 25 runs in 21 balls, Oliver Davies 20 runs in 17 balls, Cameron Bancroft 21 runs in 20 balls, apart from this, Gurinder Sandhu 13 runs in 12 balls, Alex Ross 14 runs in 20 balls, Nathan McAndrew 7 runs in 5 balls, Alex Hales 3 runs in 4 balls, Kohler-Cadmore dismissed without scoring, and Liam Hatcher remains unbeaten for 6 runs in 5 balls. In this way, Sydney Thunder scored just 150 runs for loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs and set a target of 151 runs in front of Hobart Hurricanes.
Hobart Hurricanes bowlers- Chris Jordan took 2 wickets just for 20 runs in his spell, Nikhil Chaudhary 2 wickets just for 26 runs in his spell, Patrick Dooley 2 wickets for 33 runs in his spell, Nathan Ellis 1 wicket for 39 runs in his spell, and Riley Meredith was wicketless for 31 runs in his spell.
Hobart Hurricanes inning- Hobart Hurricanes chasing 151 runs in the second inning achieved the target very easily for losing just 3 wickets in the first ball of the 19th over and won the match by 7 wickets. Hobart Hurricanes started the inning very brilliantly, Matthew Wade and Caleb Jewell came to start the inning and gave a good start with a partnership of 47 runs for the first wicket, the first wicket has dismissed for 47 runs in 6.5 overs, Matthew Wade dismissed for 15 runs in 22 balls, next batsman Macalister Wright came to bat, meanwhile, the second wicket also dismissed for 47 runs in first ball of the 8th over, Caleb Jewell dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 31 runs with the help of 1 six and 4 boundaries in just 20 balls, followed by Ben McDermott came to bat handled the inning and played a very brilliant half-century partnership of 85 runs with Macalister Wright, the third wicket dismissed for 132 runs in the first ball of the 17th over, Macalister Wright dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 34 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 1 boundary in just 25 balls, next batsman Corey Anderson came to bat and played an unbeaten inning of 12 runs in 8 balls with Ben McDermott, and Ben McDermott played a very brilliant unbeaten half-century and a victory inning of 53 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 6 boundaries in just 34 balls. In this way, Hobart Hurricanes chased the target very easily for the loss of just 3 wickets in just 18.1 overs and won the match by 7 wickets.
Sydney Thunder bowlers- Tanveer Sangha got 1 wicket for 22 runs in his spell, Nathan McAndrew 1 wicket for 21 runs in 3.1 overs, Daniel Sams 1 wicket for 37 runs in his spell, Liam Hatcher was wicketless for 29 runs in 3 overs, Chris Green wicketless for 32 runs in 3 overs, and Gurinder Sandhu also wicketless for 9 runs in 1 over.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH- Hobart Hurricanes bowler Chris Jordan was selected as the player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling took 2 wickets just for 20 runs in his spell.
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