Doesn’t belong use the Optus network for data?
Maybe 'cause its not Perth playing 
Haha Belong are Telstra wholesale. Good match so far!
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Yes, the Sixers 3/220 was too much for the Scorchers (7/206). High scoring game though!
Hard to believe this is the same ground that no team made 200 on in the recent Test match in 4 innings!
If the Heat win the 2nd game tonight, it pretty much spells the end of the Scorchers hopes for the year with only 2 games remaining as they’ll be 3 points out of the Top 4. Only the Renegades (with 3 games remaining) could realistically then catch the Thunder/Heat to make the finals. Sixers and Hurricanes have already qualified.
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Two high scoring BBL games today with the Strikers beating the Heat by 57 runs at Adelaide Oval. The Strikers piled up 5/251 from their 20 overs, the second highest innings score in competition history, thanks mainly to captain Matthew Short who smashed 109 from 54 balls. The Heat were under the pump from their first ball, and were bowled out for 195 from 20 overs.
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Ashes smirk.
Much hype around this series. Do these two teams get along? Does the Ashes rivalry from the men’s game extend to this series as well? Or are they just a bunch of mates having a hit and a bit of a laugh?
If i were to take a guess it would be rivalry on the field but all buddy buddy off it. Considering too that there are a lot of Womens T20 Leagues popping up too so they probably all know each other
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Glenn Maxwell has done it again. He smashed 90 off 54 balls (including a new BBL record for most sixes in an innings - ten) to rescue the Stars from 7/75 to 165 all out from 20 overs, in tonight’s derby at Marvel Stadium. The 81-run stand between him and Usama Mir is also a new BBL record for an eighth wicket partnership. Maxwell contributed 79 runs to the partnership while Mir failed to score.
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Great innings, he hit 3 sixes in a row off Will Sutherland, two of those should have been called a no ball free hit for height, but weren’t. He was probably denied a chance at a century there.
Has single handedly given the Stars a chance after being 7/75.
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A one man big show. Pity he missed out on a ton, but still incredible to watch.
So many crowd catches yesttrday.
Even a father son combo.
There isn’t much in between, it’s either a Big Show or a No Show.
But yes, great to watch when it’s his day.
Maxwell’s innings was the difference in the end. The Renegades were dismissed for 123 with one ball left in the 20th over, giving the Stars a 42 run win. Mark Steketee took 5/17, his first five wicket haul, while Joel Paris also took three wickets.
No surprise Maxwell was named player of the match.
And in one fell swoop, the Stars go from last to 4th place with one foot in the finals!
Odd competiton this year in a way - a bit like how a faulty electric bail needed to be replaced in the last over.
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It was a bizarre game. Steketee bowling a wild 10 ball over to begin with, but finishing with figures of 5/17!
I saw that, and it made me look up the longest over in 1st class (or higher) cricket.
10 balls, not even close… it was 22 balls long, and went for 77 runs, from your country of course!