stupendous catch ends the match by Neser lunging one-handed on the ring at wide mid-off! Length ball and tried to carve this away over the off side, miscues this and it flutters in the air wide of Neser, who tracks 15 yards and slides reaching out left-handed to pluck the ball and sticks the landing. A tidy bow-tie on a ruthless team performance.
Strikers vs Heat, 46th Match at Adelaide, BBL, Jan 21 2021 - Ball by Ball Commentary
So the Heat are teetering on the edge of elimination from playoff contention. They have two games remaining and one of them is against the last place and already eliminated Renegades. If they can claim full points there, they'll be in with a remote chance of making the playoffs taking on the red hot Scorchers in their season finale. The Strikers play back-to-back games against the Sydney Thunder and will have a handy home field advantage in both. A sweep of those and they're guaranteed to be in the playoffs. That's all from us today. Come back tomorrow for a BBL doubleheader. Take care!
Alex Carey is Player of the Match: "Very happy with the result. We knew it was a big game and every game down the stretch is a big game. Hopefully we can get some momentum going into the last few games. Jake again tonight was outstanding at the top. We went back to that [combo] and it worked out. It's great to have [Neser] as well. It's good to have him in the group and he's a great fielder so no surprise what he did there. Heady has done such a great job with this BBL team so it was nice to just go out there and take the gloves. It was a really good opportunity to go to the IPL in the first place so we'll see if I can get back there."
9.50 pm An absolute thumping from the Strikers. Heat's playoff chances have effectively been dashed. Meanwhile the Strikers not only collect full points to move up into a tie for second on 24 points with the Stars and Scorchers, but get a desperately needed boost to their net run rate when tournament tiebreak calculations come into play.
good length ball tapped out for a single.
Witness: "Bryant out for 25 - was that really worth it? Should've just kept Morne " He's second high score in this innings. Where was the rest of the batting? If they keep Morkel in, they hold them to 185 or 190 instead of 197. They'd lose the game by 50 runs instead of 70. The top and middle order lost the game for the Heat, not the Morkel for Bryant swap.
yorker dug out through the off side.
full on the legs, tries to whip this over deep midwicket, middles this but gets it too flat and a simple catch a yard in from the rope by Salt taken at head height. A fraction more elevation and that sails 10 rows back for six.
ankle high full toss on middle, doesn't get the yorker right and slaps it out toward extra cover, misfield allows the single.
knee high full toss tailing down leg, flicked away along the ground to deep backward square for one.
Dane Dehaan: "@RobJ I think Marnus is in the team purely because he's a skilled batsman and not because he's a "t20 batsman", and he brings in bowling too. They're expecting him to do something special any day now. Don't mind his inclusion as long as he's not sent to bat with the likes of Denly and Burns at the same time. Look at the scorecard, makes it pretty obvious."
short on the legs, pulls this clean over deep midwicket, lands 18 rows back.
yorker jammed into the legs, dug out through midwicket.
wide yorker on fifth stump, jammed out back to Agar.
full on the stumps, swept to deep backward square, diving stop on the rope.
short and cut away to the sweeper.
short and wide, slapped to the sweeper.
ayaz khan: "So to those who were saying they would prefer Bryant chasing 200 than Morne 4 overs for 35." The lineup wet the proverbial bed long before Bryant arrived. The issue was not bringing Bryant in earlier. He's not done much wrong since coming to the middle.
full and driven down the ground.
full and flicked through fine leg.
RobJ: "Bryant should have opened. Crazy from the Heat. Everyone seems to be forgetting Marcus has never done anything in T20. Lucky to be in the team."
short and skiddy from the left-arm spinner, hacks this toward cow corner but picks out the man stationed there, Salt, who takes this seven yards in from the rope.
back of a length on off, tries to cut this away but beaten.
full on the legs, Bryant ships this high over wide long-on. Only second six of the innings, first since Lynn was at the crease in the Powerplay.
short on middle, pulls this through midwicket.
bounced out again. Short ball has been effective from the Strikers. Neser banged it in and he went for the hook, didn't really sound like a noise but Neser belts out for an appeal and it's upheld regardless.
short on the legs, pulled behind square.
good length ball on off stump, prodded away.
Over 18 • BH 115/10