BBL|11 - Derp's Megathread + General Discussions

[ddrap14]

6.4: Flashed away to the fence by Wells! This pair have been productive with an eye on minimising dots, and while that's their first boundary, they were doing their job.
6.5: Four more! Dwarshuis goes too straight and Wells just glances it past Lenton to the fence.

9.6: Close shout! Dwarshuis hits Cockbain in front but the umpire says it's sliding down.
3/62 from 10.

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Lucky! I'm alright - just enjoy the game.

 

[ddrap14]

10.4: Wells finds the rope again! Pulls away a short one from Kerr, and it nearly clears the rope.
10.6: Cockbain finally! Goes inside out over cover and gets enough to clear the man in the deep to get six! Big over.

Steve O'Keeffe has left the field after completing his four overs with a calf tweak.
12.1: Hook from Cockbain! He sends it over the fielder at deep square leg and for six. Christian displeased.
12.3: Now over the man in the ring at mid off! Four more added to total. A big over coming?

Surge taken to start the 15th. Draws an over of Sean Abbott who's been head and shoulders above everyone else tonight.
14.2: WICKET! And it continues. A knuckleball slower ball is dragged back onto the stumps by Cockbain. A nice 48 ends. 4/104
14.6: Big appeal for Renshaw's dismissal. Pitched outside leg it appears. Great over from Abbott though, just four from it. 4/107 from 15. Strikers will take 150 but want 160

 

[ddrap14]

15.4: Nine struggle balls later, Renshaw middles one. It flies away to the fence with just one bounce.
15.6: This time he swings it away to he fence at square leg. Strong finish to the over and the power surge, although sixteen wasn't the optimal return for Adelaide.

Major Sydney Sixers news! Jordan Silk is off the field with a hamstring complaint. SOK still off but that's thought to be precautionary.
16.1: And one of the subs makes a meal of it! Todd Murphy at third man sees a slash from Wells bounce off his leg and into the rope. To be fair, Murphy is on for SOK who wouldn't have even made the ground...

17.1: Six for Renshaw! He slog sweeps Lyon (why is he back now?) over the fence.
17.3: Now beats point! Ben Dwarshuis gets to this flick through square on the off side but can't prevent it reaching the boundary.

Breaking news: Silk's hammy is a reaggravation of the prior injury which means that he will require a runner if permitted. The Sixers lineup gets weaker...
18.3: Wells gets all over that! Abbott's great day takes a hit as Wells gets all over one in the slot and sends it 90 metres into the crowd at mid wicket.
18.4**: NO BALL! Abbott oversteps! And it's the biggest of the summer - did his foot slip? There's nearly room for another foot behind it! Free hit goes just for two then.
18.6: Off the inside of the bat, but Wells finds another four, and the momentum and the total continues to build!

19.2: Renshaw goes even bigger! Caught... by a man in the second tier, with one hand by the looks of things! 109 metres, thank you for coming Ben Dwarshuis! That wasn't PC's own @Till Valhalla was it?
19.4: Wells pinches a bye, but has he made it at the non-striker's? (Lenton lobbed it as he couldn't make the throw in time thanks to Renshaw's backing up). Wells' bat appears to be in the air, and Ricky Ponting sees it, but does the umpire? NO! Run added.
Adelaide finish on 4/167 from the twenty overs. A great total from 3/21 in the powerplay, and with the Sixers weakened, there's a very good chance they make the Final. S Abbott with a great bowling innings baring that final over, but everyone else struggled a bit.

HUGE CLARIFICATION! The Sydney Sixers can only use a runner when they are nine down, and they have two players who need one! That is HUGE and it takes Jordan Silk out of the lineup! Anything could happen now.

 

[Till Valhalla]

15.4: Nine struggle balls later, Renshaw middles one. It flies away to the fence with just one bounce.
15.6: This time he swings it away to he fence at square leg. Strong finish to the over and the power surge, although sixteen wasn't the optimal return for Adelaide.

Major Sydney Sixers news! Jordan Silk is off the field with a hamstring complaint. SOK still off but that's thought to be precautionary.
16.1: And one of the subs makes a meal of it! Todd Murphy at third man sees a slash from Wells bounce off his leg and into the rope. To be fair, Murphy is on for SOK who wouldn't have even made the ground...

17.1: Six for Renshaw! He slog sweeps Lyon (why is he back now?) over the fence.
17.3: Now beats point! Ben Dwarshuis gets to this flick through square on the off side but can't prevent it reaching the boundary.

Breaking news: Silk's hammy is a reaggravation of the prior injury which means that he will require a runner if permitted. The Sixers lineup gets weaker...
18.3: Wells gets all over that! Abbott's great day takes a hit as Wells gets all over one in the slot and sends it 90 metres into the crowd at mid wicket.
18.4**: NO BALL! Abbott oversteps! And it's the biggest of the summer - did his foot slip? There's nearly room for another foot behind it! Free hit goes just for two then.
18.6: Off the inside of the bat, but Wells finds another four, and the momentum and the total continues to build!

19.2: Renshaw goes even bigger! Caught... by a man in the second tier, with one hand by the looks of things! 109 metres, thank you for coming Ben Dwarshuis! That wasn't PC's own @Till Valhalla was it?
19.4: Wells pinches a bye, but has he made it at the non-striker's? (Lenton lobbed it as he couldn't make the throw in time thanks to Renshaw's backing up). Wells' bat appears to be in the air, and Ricky Ponting sees it, but does the umpire? NO! Run added.
Adelaide finish on 4/167 from the twenty overs. A great total from 3/21 in the powerplay, and with the Sixers weakened, there's a very good chance they make the Final. S Abbott with a great bowling innings baring that final over, but everyone else struggled a bit.

HUGE CLARIFICATION! The Sydney Sixers can only use a runner when they are nine down, and they have two players who need one! That is HUGE and it takes Jordan Silk out of the lineup! Anything could happen now.

Lol no. My seats are where the ball doesn't travel.

 

[ddrap14]

Avendano and Hayden Kerr to open. Interesting...
0.1: Chance missed first ball! Goes directly through Avendano, but Carey gets a edge on his gloves too. It really took off off the surface, so it's somewhat forgivable.

1.4: Didn't carry to slip! A ton of shape for Conway this over. The Sixers already floundering.

2.2: WICKET! Avendano has a huge premeditated swing at a ball on the wide line from Thornton, gets a thin bottom edge and straight to Carey. Out for one from eight balls. That innings has hurt the Sixers, 1/7
2.5: Kerr middles one finally! Just a flick away in front of third man. Four runs.

3.1: Kerr gets lucky! Edges one down to the fence at fine leg.
3.5: Dropped! Renshaw gets a high ball from Kerr and it goes through him like a dose of salts. Crowd won't shut up about it either.

4.4: Kerr with another delightful flick! Those two missed chances are beginning to inlict some pain on the Strikers.

1/32 from five

 

[Till Valhalla]

Audience is loving Renshaw.

 

[ddrap14]

5.3: Kerr with a lusty blow just over the mid wicket fence! He's having a go.
5.5: Flat and hard again! He's targeting SHort here. Just beat Renshaw at deep mid wicket by going a bit straighter.

7.1: WICKET! Carder's BBL debut ends early. Gets a thick edge and it balloons to mid on, almost a replica of Carey's dismissal but with pace rather than spin. 2/51
7.4: Well places from Kerr! Drives high and nearly clears the fence at long on. The drop is costing the Strikers.

Drinks taken at 2/69. 99 needed from 10.

 

[ddrap14]

11.2: Kerr brings up his fifty, and then Conway drops short and he drags him away to mid wicket for four!
11.5: Now with a ramp! Kerr is playing a gem here.

Now Henriques is beginning to hobble between the wickets. If the Sixers win, they may need to forfeit the final at this rate.
12.4: Four more whipped away through square leg by Kerr! Fielded by boundary reporter Simon Katich too.

Surge taken to start the 14th. Remember, Adelaide's was tepid until the last few balls.
13.2: WICKET! And Sydney's starts poorly! A brilliant yorker from Siddle knocks Henriques over. 3/96
13.6: Kerr finds another gap! Four through cover, but with just one other run in that over it's still a win for Adelaide

14.1: WICKET! Conway gets rid of Christian very quickly. A tame shot that balloons directly to forward point. Renshaw holds on to this one and treats it like he's holding a child. 4/101
4/110 from 15. Tight finish coming, but it's definitely advantage Strikers given the injury to Silk and the lower order starting at 6

 

[ddrap14]

15.5: Sixers needed to find the fence. Abbott bludgeons one from Thornton to mid wicket and lives up to the name of the franchise. Still some dangerous hitters in this Sixers lineup

Short bowling the one he has to. This is a big over.
16.6: They got through the over until the final ball. Speared in by Short and Abbott laps Short. 12 from the over, but a strong trio to finish off for Adelaide - and in fact for Sydney. Blockbuster finish coming

17.5: I don't normally cover dot balls, but Sean Abbott just middled a ramp... middled the cue end of the bat. Never seen that before.
17.6: Abbott middled that correctly! He annihilates it through cover. 27 needed from the final two overs, anything is still possible.

18.4: Head saves two! How crucial could that be?
18.5: After a wide, Abbott deals with a slower ball! Clipped hard and high into the stand! Abbott proving his worth as an all-rounder again, and Sydney move to become the favourites, unless someone is dismissed.
One bad ball costs Thornton there. 12 runs for the Sixers to get in the final over. Time for a ball by ball I think

 

[Till Valhalla]

Looks like BBL has finally hired some good writers.

 

[ddrap14]

19.1: WICKET! Abbott slices it and picks Travis Head in the deep. I suspect he was getting advice from the crowd as he tells them where Sean Abbott is going back to. 5/156. 12 needed from 5, with a new bat out but I suspect Kerr on strike.
Dwarshuis comes out. Will Silk come out should another wicket fall?

19.2: Flicked out into the deep and WICKET! Dwarshuis commits a severe amount of Seppuku! He tries to take two from one that is clearly one, gets sent back, and is run out. 6/157, 11 needed from 4 and SILK COMES OUT WITH NO RUNNER! Huge moment! He has to find the fence, because he's on strike. Carey was feeling his back after the runout too, but he's back behind the stumps.

19.3: Just the one. If it wasn't Silk running, Kerr would have come back for two. 10 needed from 3. Kerr is the one who will do it. Six and four, or three fours will do it - assuming they can't run twos, which would appear to be a given.

19.4: NEARLY A SUPERMAN EFFORT FROM WELLS! But it clears the fence anyway and any boundary works now! Kerr gets almost all of it over mid wicket and Wells gets his hand to the ball as it crosses the rope, but can't knock it back. Conway must execute now or hope Kerr does not.
Do you even take a single should the opportunity arise?

19.5: Blunted straight, and Silk comes back somehow! How's he done that?
Two to win. One for a super over. If Silk gets run out here...

Jordan Silk has retired hurt! Jay Lenton comes in as an assistant coach, wicketkeeper and pinch runner. This is possibly the greatest game in Big Bash history...

Kerr needs a six for a ton. Conway needs a dot to be the hero.
19.6: A MISFIELD FROM JON WELLS AND THE SIXERS ARE INTO THE FINAL! WHAT A GAME FROM HAYDEN KERR! He flicks this one through mid wicket, two was likely to be run anyway but Wells lets one slide through his feet and to the fence to win the game for the Sixers. Wells will get blame for this, but it should be Carey and Renshaw, both of whom missed the all rounder before he hit his prior career high - 22. Now, 98*. Perth are the biggest winners out of all of this, as we've seen a depleted Sixers team beat the form team of Adelaide while also losing Silk and O'Keeffe to injuries. Hughes may come back in but still. So a rematch of last year's final then, with Perth almost unbackable favourites.

I'm sure I'm not spoiling anything by saying that Hayden Kerr for such a special innings is man of the match.

See you in the final, which is Perth against... read the spoiler at the Marvel on Friday. See you then!

Looks like BBL has finally hired some good writers.

I'm full on backing that as the best BBL game ever.

There's been some good ones - BBL08 final, BBL05(?) NYE match. And there's been some astonishing performances - one just four matches ago comes to mind. But, and there's no other way of putting this, I actually have a migraine after that.

 

[ddrap14]

I'd just like to actually point out two things before I sleep tonight.

1) Last year, the fifth seed won the first game and then beat the Thunder in the Knockout before losing the Qualifier to the eventual losers of a SCO-SIX final.
This year, the fifth seed (I can't actually remember if the Strikers were the fifth seed but both teams played away so it doesn't really matter) won the first game and then beat the Thunder in the Knockout before losing the Qualifier to set up a SCO-SIX final.
History suggests Perth will win it.

2) If the Sixers can't field a fit lineup, do the Strikers assume their place, or is the final a forfeit? Genuine question

 

[Till Valhalla]

MISFIELD FROM JON WELLS AND THE SIXERS ARE INTO THE FINAL

I don't think that misfield even matter, they would have taken the 2 anyway.

 

[Umair7]

If the Sixers can't field a fit lineup, do the Strikers assume their place, or is the final a forfeit?

Would be nice if CA actually allows Sixers some reinforcements instead of asking them to play Club Cricketers in the final!

 

[ddrap14]

Would be nice if CA actually allows Sixers some reinforcements instead of asking them to play Club Cricketers in the final!

The Melbourne Stars who missed finals only due to having to play club cricketers: