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Match Report: Spinners and McAndrew take Thunder past the Hurricanes at Perth

Sydney Thunder consolidated their position at the top of teh Big Bash League 2020 points table after they beat Hobart Hurricanes by a handsome margin of 39 runs at the Perth Stadium. With this win, the Thunder bounced back to winning ways, having been beaten by the Heat comprehensively in their last game. On the other hand, Hurricanes tasted their second defeat in a row, this one a bit sour than a fighting loss against the Stars at home. Callum Ferguson led side is now at the top of the table with six wins in eight games and 22 points in their kitty, one more than crosstown neighbors Sixers, who are at 21 points, having been romped by Scorchers in their last game. Hurricanes though got a boost point and pushed the tally of their points to 19 in nine games with five wins and four losses. Dawid Malan's dismissal the turning point Hurricanes were going nicely after the dismissals of the openers D’Arcy Short and Ben McDermott as Dawid Malan and skipper Handscomb threaded a 40 ball 48 runs partnership. However, just as they were looking to accelerate, Chris Green yorker got the better of Malan. The score was 91 and the Hurricanes’ downfall began from thereon. After the fall of that wicket, within a span of 25 runs, the Hobart side lost five crucial wickets and could never recover back to challenge the Thunder. Sangha, Green, and Nair spin a web Though it all started with the Malan wicket, even before he lost his wicket, Malan wasn’t looking like himself in the middle as he had struggled to 20 from 23 balls. This was because of the fact that he was not able to read either Green or Sangha. Soon after Malan’s dismissal, Sangha flighted Handscomb, the Hurricanes’ skipper back to the pavilion as he was stumped by Sam Billings after coming out of the crease on the first delivery of a fresh spell from the 19-year-old. Just a while afterward, a soft dismissal on a wayward delivery from Arjun Nair got out dangerman Tim David and the bandwagon followed as one after the other Colin Ingram, Macalister Wright, and Nick Winter were dismissed. Ingram, became Snagha’s 15th BBL 10 scalp taking him to the top of the 'most wickets' tally for this season. He got past Strikers’ main paceman Wes Agar, who has 14 scalps. McAndrew the breakthrough man Into the chase, the Hurricanes had got off to a solid start by their openers McDermott and Short. They had added 36 for the first wicket in just four overs and were looking to loosen up. It was at that time that Nathan McAndrew threw in a short ball that hurried on to Short, getting him caught at short midwicket. Soon after, McAndrew also got McDermott out and hindered the flow of runs of the Hurricanes, resulting in building pressure over the new batters like Malan and Handscomb. It was these two wickets by McAndrew at the right moment which got him the Man of the Match Award. He finished with figures of 2/25 from his four overs. Ross and Cutting: The pair that got Thunder back into the attack Earlier in the day, Hurricanes after winning the toss, put Thunder to bat first and did well to get wickets at quick intervals, especially after a brisk start by Hales and Khawaja. From 59 for none to 110/5, the Hurricanes brought themselves back into the game courtesy of their spinners Sandeep Lammichhane and Short, who in the period of 7-15 overs went for just 49 runs and got four wickets. But after their spell was done, comeback man Alex Ross along with all-rounder and big hitter Ben Cutting got into the act, scoring 56 of the last five overs and taking the score to a competitive 167, which eventually turned out to be a winning score. Ross made 44 off 33 while Cutting smoked 31 off just 14 balls, which included four boundaries and a six. What's Next? In the next game at Perth itself, the Thunder would be up against a 'rejuvenated and on a winning trail' Perth Scorchers on Saturday, 09th January. Hurricanes on the other hand have a long four-day rest, which is actually needed after back-to-back losses. They would come back to play Scorchers at the Docklands in Melbourne on the 12th of January.

Mayank Kumar ∙ 26 Dec 2020

BBL 10 | Thunder vs Renegades: Sydney's power-packed performances blow off Melbourne

The Sydney Thunder made light work of the batting lineup of the Melbourne Renegades and handed a massive defeat by 129 runs in the 14th match of the Big Bash League. The Thunders were in supreme form in Canberra and put out complete team performances in all the departments of the game, and left the Renegades toothless in chase of a big score. For the Thunder, the stars of the show were leg spinner Tanveer Sangha, who took four wickets for only 14 runs in his 3.2 over bowling efforts and Oliver Davies who blasted 48 runs off 23 balls to keep the momentum going for the Thunder. The Renegades were given a steep target of 209 runs to chase, and the experienced opener Shaun Marsh and Aaron Finch could not get going against the opening bowling pair of Adam Milne and Daniel Sams. But, the opening big wicket of Shaun Warsh was scalped by Nathan McAndrew, who is keeping his stocks shining with every game. The next man in, Sam Harper started to get the Renegades back into the game as the duo took 13 runs off Adam Milne in the first five balls of Milne, but the Kiwi got the better of Harper on the last ball to clog back the momentum. After the end of the powerplay, Callum Fergusson introduced Tanveer Sangha and he was at the short cover to catch one of the best batsmen in the Renegades batting line up—Aaron Finch when he tried to power one shortish delivery of Sangha through the off side. Next set of batsmen Beau Webster and Rilee Rossouw tried to take the game into the Thunder camp, but it wasn’t the Renegades' night at the Manuka Oval as Sangha accounted for Webster in his next over. The problem got deeper when Chris Green got Rossouw caught slog sweeping in pursuit of a higher required run rate. The jolts were too much to handle for the Renegades and when Sangha came back to dismiss Mohammad Nabi and Green accounted for Imad Wasim, the night was set to be longer for the Renegades, who now have lost three of their four matches in the campaign this year. The men in red and black could sustain only 12.2 overs while the Thunder plundered 209 runs and it emphasized the kind of routing the team suffered in both the departments and it might have left Renegades skipper Aaron Finch booking back on his decision to field first. The Thunder were off to a splendid start as the opening pair of Alex Hales and Usman Khwaja took full toll of the listless bowling from the new ball bowlers of the Renegades. Khwaja was particularly severe on Peter Hatzoglou and took him for 6 runs to provide a rollick platform for the Thunder. Finch tried to slow down the pace of the game by introducing Imad Wasim but Hales was up to the task and sent the left-arm spinner for long journeys over the fence. By the end of the powerplay, the Thunder were already at 50/0 and both Hales and Khwaja were looking in devastating form. By the time Khwaja was sent back to the pavilion courtesy a screamer by Zak Evans at the end of the sixth over, the Thunder were already at a dictating position of 71/1. Hales quickly followed Khwaja to the dugout but the next man in, Oliver Davies was looking in menacing form and treated all Renegades bowlers with disdain. He smashed four sixes off Mohammad Nabi and when Finch brought Will Sutherland to check his hitting, he too was greeted with a big hit over the midwicket fence. However, the right armer got the better of Davies on the third ball of his third over with a searing yorker. On the other end, Callum Ferguson struggled to get going and could only score at a strike rate of 100 runs per balls, but Daile Sams and Nathan McAndrew made sure that the Thunder finished strongly with the bat. Kane Richardson tried to bring momentum in Renegades' favour as three wickets fell in the 19th over, but McAndrew came hard at Zak Evans to slog him for three sixes to lead the Thunder past 200-mark which ultimately proved too steep for the Renegades to reach. On the back of this one-sided win, the Thunder has surged to the top of the points table with three wins out of four games while the Renegades have been relegated to the bottom half of the points table.

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