The Big Bash.

[Donny]

Stars won the toss against the Thunder. Will chase.

[Donny]

Renegades 6/168.

Sixers 3/91 after 12 overs.

[Donny]

Thunder 7/219 (20 overs). Hales 71, Fergp 51, Zampa 3/45.

Hales and Khawaja opened with 89.

[Donny]

Sixers 4/112 after 14 overs.

Need 57 from 36 balls.

[Donny]

Stars won the toss against the Thunder. Will chase.

Need 220 to win.

They certainly have the firepower: Marcus Stoinis, Andre Fletcher, Hilton Cartwright, Glenn Maxwell, Nicholas Pooran, Nic Maddinson

[Donny]

Sixers 5/120 after 15 overs.

Need 49 from 30.

[Donny]

Sixers need 21 from 12 deliveries.

[Donny]

Brathwaite holed out to Finch.

20 from 10 needed.

[Donny]

Stars off to the start they needed.

1/42 after 4 overs. Stoinis 27.

[Donny]

Sixers need 16 from the last over.

Sutherland to bowl. Holder to face.

1. Dot

2. Two

3. Four

4. Four

5. Need 6 runs. SIX.

Sixers win.

[Donny]

2/60 from 7 overs. Green 2/12.

[Donny]

Facing 11 r.p.o. from the start is always going to be a big ask. Proved so.

All out 144.

[K]

...
They certainly have the firepower: Marcus Stoinis, Andre Fletcher, Hilton Cartwright, Glenn Maxwell, Nicholas Pooran, Nic Maddinson

So Stoinis is playing? I haven't seen him play this season.

Cartwright, Maxwell, Pooran, Maddinson all failed badly.

When the cause was lost, Zampa hit a 6 over midwicket with no follow through, no big swing... Those bats are not getting any less powerful. Those boundaries are not getting any longer.

Do we really want it to be easy for small leg-spinners to hit 6s with chipped shots?

[K]

Certainly T20 slogathons are helping destroy real cricket...

Michael Holding: "T20 has ruined cricket."

What absolute nonsense.

Well, Holding is (of course) from the WI. Look what has happened to WI cricket. They are perennial T20 world champions. Their Test performances are disastrous. Holding cares about Test cricket.

(I'm curious to see what Pooran's Test vs. T20 figures are. He may not have played a lot yet, though.)

Even while enjoying watching slogging, one shouldn't kid oneself that this "fun" spectacle doesn't come at a huge cost. The way they bat, how could it possibly not affect their Test batting technique?

An example from the current series is Agarwal, whose technique was picked apart by Gavaskar and Ponting in commentary. Gavaskar pointed the finger at the IPL. Ponting added that Agarwal probably had his best season in the IPL this year. Predictably, his Test batting is now crap.

[Donny]

Hurricanes scored 150. Malan 39, David 36.

Mujeeb Ur Rahman took 5/15.