Super Smash 2022: Otago Volts vs Auckland Aces Match Preview, Super Smash 2022

Match 10, Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland

Otago Volts

174/8 (20)

Auckland Aces

174/8 (20)

Match tied

Info

Fantasy

Live

Scorecard

Playing XI

Date & Time

02 Jan, 06:10 AM IST

Venue

Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland

Toss

Auckland Aces elected to bowl

Playing XI

AUK vs OV

Ben Horne

Bat & Wk

Cole Briggs

Bat

Bat

Bat

Bat

All

All

All

Louis Delport

Bowl

Adithya Ashok

Bowl

Ben Lister

Bowl

Dale Phillips

Bat & Wk

Hamish Rutherford

Bat

Llew Johnson

Bat

Josh Finnie

Bat

Thorn Parkes

Bat

Dean Foxcroft

All

Jake Gibson

All

Bowl

Bowl

Bowl

Bowl

Bench

Quinn Sunde

Martin Guptill

Max O'Dowd

Ryan Harrison

Ross ter Braak

Simon Keene

Matthew Gibson

Jacob Cumming

Travis Muller

Poll: Which team will win?

Auckland Aces

Otago Volts

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

6- 4

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Auckland Aces

Otago Volts

Players to Watch

Top Runs Scorers

Dean Foxcroft

OV . ALL

129 Runs

3 Matches

Ben Horne

AA . WK

75 Runs

2 Matches

Llew Johnson

OV . BAT

44 Runs

3 Matches

Top Wicket Takers

Dean Foxcroft

OV . ALL

8 Wkts

3 Matches

Michael Rae

OV . BOWL

6 Wkts

3 Matches

Ben Lister

AA . BOWL

4 Wkts

2 Matches

Otago Volts Inns

174/8 (20)

Auckland Inns

174/8 (20)

Batters

George Worker

166.67

b MD Rae

Cole Briggs

141.18

c Thorn Parkes b BNJ Lockrose

Mark Chapman

108.70

b D Foxcroft

Robert O'Donnell

133.33

c D Foxcroft b MB Bacon

Sean Solia

134.48

lbw b MB Bacon

Ben Horne

135.29

c LC Johnson b JA Duffy

William O'Donnell *

200.00

runout (LC Johnson / JA Duffy)

Louis Delport

66.67

c Jake Gibson b JA Duffy

Lockie Ferguson

200.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 1, LB: 6, NB: 1, W: 4)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.7)

174/8

Did not Bat

Adithya Ashok , Ben Lister

Bowlers

EXT

6.75

14.00

9.33

11.50

5.00

Jake Gibson

6.00

Fall Of Wickets

Score

Over

George Worker

b MD Rae

1-12

1.2

Cole Briggs

c Thorn Parkes b BNJ Lockrose

2-35

3.6

Mark Chapman

b D Foxcroft

3-68

8.6

Robert O'Donnell

c D Foxcroft b MB Bacon

4-97

12.2

Sean Solia

lbw b MB Bacon

5-153

17.6

Ben Horne

c LC Johnson b JA Duffy

6-153

18.1

Louis Delport

c Jake Gibson b JA Duffy

7-157

18.6

William O'Donnell

runout (LC Johnson / JA Duffy)

8-174

19.6

Commentary

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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.

overs

174 /8 score

1lb

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.

overs

157 /7 score

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!

William O'Donnell, RHB, is at the crease.

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