Perth Scorchers defeated Melbourne Stars by 7 wickets in 7th Match of the BBL 2023-24.
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The 7th Match of the Big Bash League 2023-24 was played today between Melbourne Stars vs Perth Scorchers at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne. In which Perth Scorchers defeated Melbourne Stars by 7 wickets.
TOSS- Perth Scorchers won the toss and opted to bowl.
Melbourne Stars Innings-Melbourne Stars batted first and started the inning very poorly, Liam Dawson played an unbeaten inning of 22 runs with the help of 1 six and 2 boundaries in 22 balls, and Hilton Cartwright scored 24 runs with the help of 2 sixes in just 18 balls, Thomas Rogers scored 22 runs in 17 balls, Marcus Stoinis 13 runs in 20 balls, Sam Harper dismissed just for 1 run in 2 balls, Beau Webster 4 runs in 6 balls, Jonathan Merlo 5 runs in 6 balls, Haris Rauf 8 runs in 16 balls, Nick Larkin, Usama Mir, and Joel Paris dismissed without scoring. In this way, the entire team dismissed just for 101 runs in the first ball of the final overs and set a target of 102 runs in front of Perth Scorchers.
Perth Scorchers bowlers- Jason Behrendorff took 3 wickets just for 28 runs in his spell, Hamish McKenzie 2 wickets just for 12 runs in his spell, Jhye Richardson 2 wickets just for 20 runs in his spell, Andrew Tye 1 wicket for 24 runs in his spell, Cooper Connolly 1 wicket for 11 runs in 2 overs, and Aaron Hardie also got 1 wicket for 5 runs in 1.1 over.
Perth Scorchers Inning- Perth Scorchers chasing 102 runs in the second inning achieved the target very easily for the loss of just 3 wickets fifth ball of the 14th over, Perth Scorchers started the inning very brilliantly, Stephen Eskinazi and Cooper Connolly came to start the inning and gave a good start, the first wicket has dismissed for 35 runs in 3.2 overs, Cooper Connolly dismissed after playing a quick inning of 20 runs with the help of 1 six and 1 boundary in just 9 balls, next batsman Aaron Hardie came to bat and handled the inning, the second wicket has dismissed for 60 runs in 7.4 overs, Stephen Eskinazi dismissed after scoring 25 runs with the help of 1 six and 1 boundary in 25 balls, followed by Josh Inglis came to bat, after a few moments the third wicket also dismissed for 66 runs in 8.3 overs, Aaron Hardie dismissed after scoring 20 runs with the help of 1 six and 1 boundary in just 15 balls, next batsman Ashton Turner came to bat handled the inning and took the match to the victory with Josh Inglis, Josh Inglis played an unbeaten inning of 19 runs with the help of 1 six and 1 boundary in just 17 balls, and Josh Inglis played an unbeaten inning of 17 runs with the help of 2 boundary in just 17 balls. In this way, Perth Scorchers chased the target very easily for the loss of just 3 wickets in 13.5 overs and won the match by 7 wickets.
Melbourne Stars bowlers- Usama Mir 1 wicket for 22 runs in his spell, Liam Dawson 1 wicket for 30 runs in 3.5 overs, Joel Paris 1 wicket for 17 runs in 2 overs, Haris Rauf was wicketless for 14 runs in 2 overs, and Marcus Stoinis also wicketless for 19 runs in 2 overs.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH- Perth Scorchers bowler Hamish McKenzie was selected as the player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling and took 2 wickets just for 12 runs in his spell.
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