Sixers stay unbeaten in BBL with big win over Heat

[Pelican Press 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Sixers stay unbeaten in BBL with big win over Heat

Sydney Sixers have maintained their unbeaten start to the BBL with an eight-wicket demolition of Brisbane Heat.

With the Gabba a sell-out for the rematch of last year’s final, the 30,122 mostly home fans were kept quiet for most of the Heat innings as the Sixers bowlers turned the screws to restrict the hosts to 9-138.

The Sixers made short work of the chase with opener Josh Philippe (66no) and No.3 Kurtis Patterson (32 off 20 deliveries) severe on the Heat bowlers, who were mostly too short.

Philippe was all class in his 17th BBL half-century and was the rock on which the run chase was built as the Sixers reached their target off the first ball of the 17th over.

Sixers skipper Moises Henriques (29no) became the fourth player in BBL history to score 3000 runs.

Left-armer Ben Dwarshuis (4-32) earlier continued his outstanding form for the Sixers and is now the leading wicket taker in this summer’s BBL with 10 wickets.

Dwarshuis was on a hat-trick in the final over when Matthew Kuhnemann smashed a return catch low and to his right but the ball burst through his outstretched hand.

Heat opener Tom Banton (19 off 12) launched spinner Akeal Hosein for six off the second delivery of the match with an audacious reverse sweep but the Sixers kept the hosts to just 24 runs in the powerplay.

Brisbane skipper Colin Munro is yet to reach double figures in this BBL campaign and was out of sorts again (9 off 17) before being brilliantly caught at deep midwicket by Jordan Silk, who sprinted to his right before diving to complete the dismissal.

It was Silk’s 81st catch in the BBL but his 82nd was from another planet when he sprinted and dived full length to snare the ball in his right hand millimetres from the turf to dismiss Jimmy Peirson (24), also at midwicket.

Nathan McSweeney (34 off 29) top scored for the Heat but lacked support.

Victory took the Sixers to eight points after four matches, four clear of five other sides including the defending champion Heat, who have now lost two in a row.

The Sixers were far superior in the field where Silk set the bar high and his teammates all lifted.

Brisbane bumbled in the field. Munro and Paul Walter were left looking at each other as the ball bounce between them when Philippe skied a swipe early in his innings.

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

#Sixers #stay #unbeaten #BBL #big #win #Heat

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up