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Sydney Sixers chase down 151 with 2 overs to spare and 7 wickets in hand! Josh Philippe (41 off 24) kept the Sixers well ahead of the run rate with his cameo at the top of the order! He even rubbed off his spell on his opening partner Jack Edwards a bit, before both of them were bowled over by the master spinner Rashid Khan!
It was that man who stopped the run-flow for the Strikers as the Sixers found it difficult for a few overs to get the two new batsmen to keep up with the run-rate. James Vince brought in his experience into play and scored a match winning unbeaten knock of 45 runs off 33 balls with 3 fours and a six! Rashid Khan picked 3 wickets in his first 3 overs and was really the only hope for the Strikers to get an advantage over the boys in Magenta. Jordan Silk too hit a flurry of boundaries in the end to end up 38 not out off 28 balls to take the Sixers over the line!
No other Strikers bowler picked a wicket or bowled at an economy of less than 8 and that was the story of the day for the Strikers. The Sydney Strikers now earn the top-most spot on the points table pushing Thunder down to No. 2!
That was that from me (Sameer Deodhar) and my colleague Prashanth Satish from the BBL! Stay tuned at SportsKeeda to follow the rest of the matches!
18
overs
151/3score
2
1
2
1
0
4
runs
Ryan Gibson
17.6 Ryan Gibson to Jordan Silk, FOUR! SIXERS WIN! Short and wide and Silk cuts it away to the boundary to help Sixers win the contest by 7 wickets
17.5 Ryan Gibson to Jordan Silk, full and outside off-stump and Silk has driven this one straight to the fielder.
17.4 Ryan Gibson to James Vince, short and wide of off-stump and Vince has cut this one away off the back foot for another single
17.3 Ryan Gibson to James Vince, fuller and outside off-stump and Vince drills this one past covers for a couple of runs
17.2 Ryan Gibson to Jordan Silk, shorter this time on stump line and Silk pulls this one away to the deep for a single
17.1 Ryan Gibson to Jordan Silk, short and wide outside off-stump and Silk cuts this one away to sweeper covers for a single
Just 10 more runs needed for the Strikers to seal the game off! Vince needs 8 more runs to get to his fifty here! Ryan Gibson into the attack!
17
overs
141/3score
1
4
4
0
0
1
runs
Danny Briggs
16.6 Danny Briggs to Jordan Silk, tossed up on stump line and Silk comes down the track and plays it to long-on for a single
16.5 Danny Briggs to Jordan Silk, full again and Silk misses out as he plays it back to the bowler.
16.4 Danny Briggs to Jordan Silk, fuller on off-stump and Silk has played this one back to the bowler
16.3 Danny Briggs to Jordan Silk, shorter this time on off-stump and Silk has pulled this one with brute power to pick up another boundary.
16.2 Danny Briggs to Jordan Silk, CRASHED! Full and on stump line and Silk clears his front-leg and creams this drive past the bowler for a boundary.
16.1 Danny Briggs to James Vince, length ball on stump line and Vince turns this one over to the leg side for a single
This should be the final blow for the Strikers! Silk has finished the over with a couple of boundaries and brought down the target to just 20 runs!
16
overs
131/3score
1
1
0
0
4
4
runs
Peter Siddle
15.6 Peter Siddle to Jordan Silk, FOUR! Full and in the block hole and Silk has driven this one straight back past the bowler to pick up back to back boundaries.
15.5 Peter Siddle to Jordan Silk, FOUR! INSDIE EDGE! Good-length ball on stump line and Silk gets an inside edge past the keeper at short fine-leg to the fine-leg boundary this time. Four runs to Jordan Silk!
Total Score
Bowlers
Fall of Wickets
Ryan Gibson
