New on my blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/01/18/bbl-2024-5s-big-cull/
A look at today's BBL matches and how they reduced five potential qualifiers to two. Also a large photo gallery.
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Two successive sixes see Scorchers to victory with 3.4 overs to spare, giving them a qualifying slot for the moment - if Stars beat Hurricanes (already through as confirmed champions of the League stage) they will take that qualifying slot themselves.
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Four wides, which take Scorchers on to 147 and in the process ensure the elimination of the Strikers. Two more runs off the next ball and Scorchers need 13 off 2.3 overs to take a qualifying slot.
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Buckingham having a nightmare - two of the four deliveries he has bowled in this over so far have been wides. The next one is a third wide in the space of five deliveries. A legal ball then gets hit for six. The last three ball are better for Strikers, but Scorchers end the 14th over on 132-4, needing 31 from six overs to win, and 31 from four to take a qualifying slot on net RR.
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Horrible high full toss, duly called no-ball, hits keeper Carey. The bonus ball yields only a single. Scorchers 115-4, need 47 from seven overs to win, and from five to take a qualifying position. The first surge over has yielded 13 runs and one wicket.
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Turner holes out to Ollie Pope off D'Arcy Short to make it 113-4 with one ball left in the 13th. Current surge score 12-1 with Nick Hobson joining the fray.
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Power Surge taken for the 13th and 14th overs, with Scorchers needing 61 from six overs to take a qualifying position. Good move by them to go early in view of the net RR equation.
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Connolly goes LBW for 6. He sends it upstairs. Replays confirm pad only but ball tracking shows it pitching outside leg which forces the overturn. Scorchers 80-3 after nine overs, need 82 from 11 overs to win, but need those runs in nine overs to move into fourth with only Stars then able to dislodge them.
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A stupid run out (Fanning) and an even stupider stumping (Hardie) and both set batters have gone in the space of three balls. Scorchers 70-3 in the eighth over, still well ahead of the rate, but Strikers are back in the hunt without having done anything to earn those two wickets.
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The Strikers got off to a racing start but fell away badly in the later stages of their innings, ending up with 161 all out from 19.1 overs, which seems well under par for the pitch.
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