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Hamish Rutherford (Otago Volts captain): We would have liked a win to be honest, but our bowlers did well to hang in there, especially Matthew Bacon, who bowled the perfect ball to keep the run down off the last one. Our bowling at the death has to get better, and we also need to make sure that runs come at the top of the order.
Robert O'Donnell (Auckland Aces captain): I thought it was a really tight game, but Dean is playing incredibly well at the moment and we all are finding it tough to get him out at the moment. We are getting to where we want to be, not quite there yet, but definitely getting to full tilt and it should only get better for us.
Dean Foxcroft (Game Changer): It was a great game for me, great game for T20 cricket, down to the last ball, so yeah, this was good! I backed myself to keep going and play according to the merit of the ball. I thought that it would be better to keep the scoreboard moving and not get bogged down, it obviously helped with the way Llew played and that made my work easier. I stuck to the basic lines and lengths with the ball and that paid off.
Match Tied.
Auckland Aces finish on 174/8 in reply to Otago Volts' 174/8.
Sean Solia - 39 (29) and 2/28 Dean Foxcroft 69 (56) | Jacob Duffy - 2/27
It was an exhilarating contest in Auckland with the match going right down to the wire! In the end, with one run required off the last ball, Matthew Bacon held his nerve to bowl a fine yorker, which William O'Donnell could not get under, and that ended up in a run out to close the game out in another dramatic fashion! To be honest, the match see-sawed right through the innings and perhaps the best result did unfold in the end.
However, there were noteworthy contributions with the ball from the Volts. Dean Foxcroft was superb with his four overs of off-spin, costing only 20 runs for a wicket. He backed up his half-century in the first innings rather well. Jacob Duffy was good too, picking up a couple of wickets and going for only 27 runs in his spell.
Some of the fielding in the deep from Hamish Rutherford's side was top notch and reasons as to why this match did not slip away from them in the end.
On the other hand, Auckland Aces saw four fine knocks from opener Cole Briggs, all-rounder Sean Solia, wicketkeeper-batter Ben Horne and William O'Donnell towards the end, to almost seal victory. But one of the top order players needed to go on and get a bigger score.
The pitch at Eden Park Outer Oval played really well for everyone. Now, both teams are on 6 points with the Aces having a game in hand.
20
overs
174/8score
4
1w
6
1
4
1lb
W
runs
William O'Donnell
12(5)
Lockie Ferguson*
4(3)
Matthew Bacon
2/46
19.6 Matthew Bacon to William O'Donnell, THE MATCH IS TIED AND THE POINTS ARE SHARED! RUN OUT! Full outside off, drilled out to short cover from the crease, both batters run hard to get to the other ends, by then, short mid-wicket gets to the stumps, collects the throw from short cover, takes the bails off and by then, O'Donnell does not quite make his crease at the non-striker's end and the match ends in a tie!
19.5 Matthew Bacon to Lockie Ferguson, short over middle-and-leg, Ferguson misses the pull, gets hit on the thigh pad, it ricochets to point and they run through for a leg-bye! Scores are level.
19.4 Matthew Bacon to Lockie Ferguson, FOUR RUNS! THEY ALL COUNT! Full outside off, Ferguson goes for the big swing over mid-on, gets a thick outside edge past the right of the keeper and the left of short third man, for a boundary!
19.3 Matthew Bacon to William O'Donnell, full outside off, squirted out to deep square-leg from the front foot, for a single only this time.
19.2 Matthew Bacon to William O'Donnell, SIX! Full outside off, in the slot and O'Donnell just extends the full face of the bat over the bowler, off the front foot, for a MAXIMUM over long-on!
19.2 Matthew Bacon to William O'Donnell, full toss outside off, and this is a WIDE called by the umpire after the batter missed out on the connection!
19.1 Matthew Bacon to William O'Donnell, FOUR! Full and wide outside off and this is a fine drive on one knee off the front foot, through the covers, and in the gap!
Lockie Ferguson, RHB, is at the crease.
19
overs
157/7score
W
1
1b
1
1
W
runs
Louis Delport*
2(3)
William O'Donnell
1(2)
Jacob Duffy
2/27
18.6 Jacob Duffy to Louis Delport, OUT! Good length ball just outside off, Delport goes deep in his crease to hit it hard, over mid-on, gets a good piece of willow on it, but gets HOLED OUT at long-on just in front of the rope! Good catch!
18.5 Jacob Duffy to William O'Donnell, short over off, turned away off the back foot to deep mid-wicket, but for only a single.
18.4 Jacob Duffy to Louis Delport, good length ball outside off, slashed up high off the cue end of the bat from the crease, to the right of cover, for a single!
18.3 Jacob Duffy to William O'Donnell, short and slow over off, a big swing and a miss across the line on the charge, for a BYE after the miss of the collection by the keeper!
18.2 Jacob Duffy to Louis Delport, good length ball outside off, guided away to deep backward point from the crease, for a single.
18.1 Jacob Duffy to Ben Horne, over the wicket, GONE! Good length ball outside off, slapped straight down the throat of deep mid-wicket flat, and on the full, from the crease, for a big WICKET at this stage!
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