BBL 2016/17: 5 key moments from the Brisbane Heat vs Perth Scorchers

#1 Tye cleans up the tail with a hat-trick

Tye finished with 4 wickets in his 3.2 overs

Andrew Tye’s brand of T20 bowling has been a key component in Scorchers’ successful defence of targets in the BBL. Mixing up his pace and surprising the batsmen with his knuckleball, Tye had played a key role in some of their earlier victories. Today, he became only the second bowler in the tournament’s history to complete a hat-trick.

He achieved the feat when he picked the last wicket of the match in the final over of the innings. The first to go was Jack Wildermuth, who edged a fuller length delivery to wicketkeeper Cameron Bancroft off the last ball of the 18th over.

Tye returned to pick Swepson and Steketee off the first two deliveries of the final over to complete the feat across two overs. Swepson was deceived into mishitting a slower one while Steketee’s stumps were cleaned up by Tye’s special knuckleball. As revealed by Tye later, he was unaware of the feat at that time.