Big Bash League 2023: Hobart Hurricanes vs Perth Scorchers Match Preview, Big Bash League 2023

9th T20 • Perth Stadium • Perth

Hobart Hurricanes

172/8 (20)

Perth Scorchers

173/1 (16.1)

PS won by 9 wickets

Info

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Scorecard

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Playing XI

Table

Date & Time

20 Dec, 01:45 PM IST

Venue

Perth Stadium

Match

9th T20,

Umpires

Michael Graham-Smith (Australia), Paul Wilson (Australia), Donovan Koch (Australia, TV)

Referee

Simon Fry (Australia)

Toss

Hobart Hurricanes elected to bat

Pitch Report

PitchFast & Bounce

Pace BowlingPace & Bounce

Batting ConditionAverage

Spin BowlingAverage

1st Innings

162Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

136.01Avg SR

2nd Innings

143Avg Runs

6Avg Wkts

131.55Avg SR

Playing XILineups Out

Points Table

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

6- 4

HUR

Team Form (Recent 5 Matches, Latest First)

Perth Scorchers

Hobart Hurricanes

Players to Watch

Top Batters

Caleb Jewell

HUR . BAT

42 Runs

1 Match

Aaron Hardie

PS . ALL

40 Runs

2 Matches

Cooper Connolly

PS . ALL

26 Runs

2 Matches

Top Bowlers

Jason Behrendorff

PS . BOWL

3 Wkts

2 Matches

Jhye Richardson

PS . BOWL

2 Wkts

2 Matches

Corey Anderson

HUR . ALL

2 Wkts

1 Match

Player of the Match Jason Behrendorff

4/25

HUR

Info

Hobart Hurricanes

172/8 (20)

Batters

Caleb Jewell

109.09

c AJ Turner b L Morris

Ben McDermott

133.33

c JA Richardson b JP Behrendorff

Sam Hain

0.00

lbw b JP Behrendorff

Tim David

150.00

c L Morris b JP Behrendorff

Corey Anderson

50.00

c LJ Evans b A Tye

Nikhil Chaudhary

129.03

b JP Behrendorff

Mitchell Owen

127.27

c AM Hardie b A Agar

Chris Jordan

295.00

c A Agar b A Tye

Patrick Dooley

37.50

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 0, W: 5)

TOTAL

(20 Ov, RR: 8.6)

172/8

Did not Bat

Nathan Ellis, Billy Stanlake

Bowlers

EXT

10.50

6.25

6.75

12.25

5.00

0.1

6.00

Cooper Connolly

0.5

14.40

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Ben McDermott

c JA Richardson b JP Behrendorff

1-8

1.3

Sam Hain

lbw b JP Behrendorff

2-8

1.4

Tim David

c L Morris b JP Behrendorff

3-28

3.4

Caleb Jewell

c AJ Turner b L Morris

4-28

4.1

Corey Anderson

c LJ Evans b A Tye

5-47

7.4

Nikhil Chaudhary

b JP Behrendorff

6-103

14.6

Mitchell Owen

c AM Hardie b A Agar

7-107

15.2

Chris Jordan

c A Agar b A Tye

8-172

19.6

Perth Scorchers

173/1 (16.1)

Batters

Zak Crawley

141.30

Not out

Cooper Connolly

71.43

c N Chaudhary b C Jordan

Aaron Hardie *

188.89

Not out

Extras

(B: 2, LB: 7, NB: 1, W: 8)

TOTAL

(16.1 Ov, RR: 10.59)

173/1

Did not Bat

Josh Inglis, Ashton Turner, Laurie Evans, Ashton Agar, Jhye Richardson, Andrew Tye, Jason Behrendorff, Lance Morris

Bowlers

EXT

Billy Stanlake

9.67

Patrick Dooley

11.00

Chris Jordan

8.33

Nathan Ellis

3.1

11.05

Mitchell Owen

12.00

Corey Anderson

14.00

Nikhil Chaudhary

5.00

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Cooper Connolly

c N Chaudhary b C Jordan

1-16

2.2

Match Info

Date & Time

20 Dec, 01:45 PM IST

Venue

Perth Stadium

Match

9th T20,

Umpires

Michael Graham-Smith (Australia), Paul Wilson (Australia), Donovan Koch (Australia, TV)

Referee

Simon Fry (Australia)

Toss

Hobart Hurricanes elected to bat

1lb 3 1wd 2 1lb 1 1

Over 14

Runs: 10

2 0 4 2 1 2

Over 15

Runs: 11

0 1 0 2 0 0

Over 16

Runs: 3

4 1wd 1

Over 17

Runs: 6

All Overs

Player of the Match Jason Behrendorff

4/25

Commentary

So, that will be all from this, the first game of the season at the Perth Stadium. Join us again tomorrow as we bring you all the action from yet another cracker of a game taking place in Melbourne! For now, this is the pair of Rudransh and Bidipto taking your leave. Keep following Sportskeeda!

Adam Voges (Perth Scorchers coach): We were pretty good all around, barring that Chris Jordan spectacle! But, as we know over here, if we keep wickets in hand and build a partnership, batting gets pretty easy. Jason Behrendorff bowled a beautiful length and got it to swing. And, he did that consistently. I'm not surprised that returned with such good figures. Ashton Turner has aggravated the injury to his knee. Not sure when he will be able to return but we are hopeful that he will continue to play for us sometime later this season. Zak Crawley and his style of batting will enjoy these conditions, I'm sure about that! He is really confident of playing his shots and that helps. We leaked 63 runs off the last 5 overs, so, that needs some fixing, all be it that we lost our captain at that stage. We are really thankful that we can play around this time of the year at home! The crowd does get involved here and love our players, which is just fantastic!

Jason Behrendorff is the Player of the Match and here's what he has to say: We love playing here. It's a good wicket. You bowl well, you get wickets and if you swing across, you get some runs too. He (Jordan) was full of confidence, credit to him. We found it a bit difficult to bowl to him. Crawley did well for the title of the 'King of Bazball', it's generally difficult for overseas players to come in and bat here with the bounce but he did well. The World Cup is in the back of my mind but I am just focussing on my strengths.

Perth Scorchers win by 9 wickets with 22 balls to spare!

Aaron Hardie 86* (45) | Jason Behrendorff - 4/25 (4)
Chris Jordan - 59 (20) and 1/25 (3)

Chris Jordan's flurry towards the end of the first innings gave Hobart Hurricanes the much needed impetus, as well as, runs, to compete in the second innings. Chasing anything over 170 in these conditions was not going to be easy. The first wicket of Cooper Connolly suggested that too. But, the rest was well taken care of by the unbeaten 157-run second wicket partnership!

Zak Crawley, on Perth Scorchers debut, and Aaron Hardie, put on an absolute show in front of an exuberant home crowd and knocked the runs off in the 17th over itself!

While Crawley played some really confident shots in front of the wicket off the front foot and on the up, Hardie was severe on anything ever so slightly short on either side of the wicket, off the back foot!

The Englishman struck 6 fours and 1 six while the Western Australian smashed 4 fours and 5 sixes along the way, to reach their respective half-centuries.

For the Hurricanes, the left-arm spin of Patrick Dooley worked for his first three overs, but, the final one cost his side as many as 26 runs to very much seal the deal! Hardie got stuck into him and tore him apart with four sixes.

Otherwise, it was a sorry-looking bowling card for the visitors who found it slightly confusing to figure out the right length to bowl in this wicket which should have assisted them.

As a result, the Scorchers pick up their second straight win of the season while the Hurricanes waste a Chris Jordan-epic with the bat and suffer their second consecutive loss.

16.2 Nathan Ellis to Aaron Hardie, THAT'S IT! Good length ball on the middle, Hardie pulls it to deep square leg for one. Perth Scorchers' dominance continues with a massive nine-wicket win over the Hurricanes!

Scores are level.

16.2 Nathan Ellis to Aaron Hardie, WIDE! Good length ball, keeps going down the leg. Hardie is dissapointed to miss the pull.

16.1 Nathan Ellis to Aaron Hardie, FOUR! ALMOST THE PERFECT FINISH! Full outside off, Hardie stays still and goes inside out over covers but the ball falls just short of the boundary!

So, the Hurricanes manage to take this game to the next over! But, with only 6 runs left, it should not go into another one, going by the way things have gone with the bat up to now.

overs

167 /1 score

runs

Aaron Hardie *

81 (43)

Zak Crawley

65 (46)

Chris Jordan

1 /25

15.6 Chris Jordan to Aaron Hardie, good length slower one outside the off-stump, Hardie looks to cut it but gets a bottom edge. They still steal a single from the keeper though!

15.5 Chris Jordan to Aaron Hardie, full outside the off-stump, Hardie crunches the drive to covers

The 150-partnership is up between Hardie and Crawley!

15.4 Chris Jordan to Aaron Hardie, short on the middle, Hardie pulls it to deep square leg for another couple. 150-run partnership for these two! The first time it has happened in this stadium in the BBL.

Where were these yorkers hiding? This one has come too late, from a Hurricanes point of view.

15.3 Chris Jordan to Aaron Hardie, full on middle, Hardie gets a thin edge on the flick onto his pad

15.2 Chris Jordan to Zak Crawley, short of a length ball on the middle, Crawley pulls it to deep square leg for one

15.1 Chris Jordan to Zak Crawley, OH WHAT HAPPENED THERE? Crawley shuffled to once again scoop this ball which was angling down the leg, he missed it and the ball apparently took a bit of the front pad on its way to the keeper

Chris Jordan [2.0-0-21-1] comes back into the attack.

The way things are going, the match may finish in this upcoming over itself! Both these batters have made this run chase look ridiculously easy!

overs

163 /1 score