Big Bash League.

[Donny]

1/82 after 10.

McD 43*, Short 27*.

[Donny]

2/100 in the 13th. over. Short 37.

McD 50*.

[Pies4shaw]

Fantastic century by Ben McDermott, chasing the target. He just brought up his 100 with a 6 and then backed up with a four.

[Pies4shaw]

McDermott finished with 110* from 60 balls. The Hurricanes ran down the target with 9 balls to spare.

[Pies4shaw]

Meanwhile, the Stars are 3/16. Maxwell is gone for 2.

[Pies4shaw]

Stars have recovered to be 3/85 from 10.

[Pies4shaw]

Stars 4/167 after 15. Hilton just went out for 79 from 44. Clark is at the other end, still - 74 from 35. Here comes Russell - but, no, he's lbw second ball. 5/167.

[Donny]

Joe Clarke out for 85 (44).

[Skids]

Just to give the bookies a chance, I'm going to have a little bet on Perth being beaten tonight. $2.45 on offer for the Thunder is very generous.
The Scorchers will surely drop one soon, this game looks like it could be it.

[Pies4shaw]

The Stars got home comfortably, in the end. They made 207 and the Heat made 187 in the chase.

[K]

BTW...

in PS v MR, Finch became the 2nd player to reach 2,500 BBL runs.
Lynn was the 1st.

[K]

Most BBL wickets (from Swamp, as of Dec 21st):

112 Sean Abbott
111 Ben Laughlin
104 Kane Richardson
103 Andrew Tye
90 Adam Zampa

[Donny]

Scorchers won the toss and elected to chase, v. the Thunder.

Thunder: Matthew Gilkes, Alex Hales, Jason Sangha, Sam Billings (wk), Alex Ross, Daniel Sams, Ben Cutting, Nathan McAndrew, Chris Green (c), Saqib Mahmood, Tanveer Sangha

Scorchers: Josh Inglis (wk), Kurtis Patterson, Mitch Marsh, Colin Munro, Ashton Turner (c), Laurie Evans, Ashton Agar, Andrew Tye, Matthew Kelly, Jason Behrendorff, Peter Hatzoglou

[Donny]

2/26 after 4 overs. Hales out for 13.

[Donny]

Billings and Sangha setting up a possible 200+ total. 13 overs gone.

2/117. Sangha 42* (36), Billings 51* (29).