Sixers vs Heat, Qualifier at Carrara, BBL 2023, Jan 19 2024 - Ball by Ball Commentary

'Catch it' is the call, SOK takes it. Dwarshuis has career-best figures and Sixers will host the final of BBL 13! Kuhnemann went across early and went for another scoop, skied it off a length. easy catch at long leg to finish things off.

Goes across and tries to scoop, misses. Dwarshuis went into the pitch and the ball went just over the stumps

Slower one just outside leg, Kuhnemann slides leg side and chips it over the bowler with a nice, easy swing. Stopped in the deep

Makes room and tries to slap the shortish bounce but it goes over the bat swing

Length around off, blocked off the back foot to the bowler

Sweppo in for a good time. Goes across and gets inside the line of a back of lengther and scoops it on one leg

Makes room and drives through the line. Edwards tried following him but served up a slot ball, Swepson clubbed it over the bowler and in the gap

Nudges the fullish ball to midwicket

Lol Edwards can catch flies with those reflexes. He was in his follow-through as Johnson miscued another flat-bat hit. Ball was travelling nonetheless, and was going away to the right but Edwards flung his hat out and the ball just stuck. A bit of magic there, he has four catches for the match now.

Flat-bat belting. Back of length outside off, sits up and Johnson slaps the knuckle ball over mid-on

Tries to smash the fullish ball angling away outside off, beats the attempted lofted off-drive.

Run-out chance, but there's no direct hit from mid-off Fullish ball is driven along the ground to Henriques and the batters take off, run wasn't on but Johnson, who probably wanted to retain strike, got through

Four to the short-third fence brings a rare cheer from the crowd. Johnson made room and tried to carve the back-of-length cross seamer, got a thick edge that flew wide of the keeper

Stays leg side and slaps the length ball from fourth to deep point. Pace - 134ks

Full on leg, Johnson backs away while trying to drive it straight. Gets an inside edge to square leg

Punches the length ball off the back foot, to cover

Neser is bowled with a bowlful of misfortune. Dwarshuis has an end-to-end grin. Neser made room and tried slapping it off a length and hit it onto pad, the ball then started snaking around as it went back. It went off side, then leg side but then spun away to hit leg stump. Dwarshuis strikes from the other end to now have four.

Quick single to cover. Back of length over middle, 129ks, Neser hops leg side and blocks it off the back foot

Length on off, stays leg side and square drives it in the gap at backward point. Neser scampers back to make the tight second

Length over middle and off, opens the face and dabs it to forward point