Thunder vs Sixers, 8th Match at Sydney, BBL, Dec 21 2024 - Match Result

smart, smart batting by Dwarshuis, and he is delighted! The Sixers pull another win out of the fire and this team somehow keeps finding ways to triumph under pressure! Back of a length on middle and leg. Dwarshuis does not try anything fancy and plays the old-fashioned nurdle into the on side. Silk knew that was on the cards and hurtles across to complete the run, with Dwarshuis doing so soon after. Spare a thought for the Thunder and Green, but just when push came to shove, they cracked, and Dwarshuis was adept enough to capitalize!

Dwarshuis finds the fence, and he finds the moon too! That is a massive, massive shot under pressure! Green blinks first and bowls a full toss outside off. Dwarshuis cannot believe his luck and smears it high and long over the wide long on fence!

full and wide outside off. Would have been a wide had Silk not made contact but he does make contact, getting a thick outside edge to short third. Just a single

nails the wide yorker this time, and Silk swishes and misses. But hang on. The umpire calls it a wide. Seemed to be touch-and-go, and the umpire went the other way. On second glance, that was perhaps just outside the tramlines

goes for the wide yorker and bowls it beyond the tramlines. Silk holds his nerve and lets it go. Called a wide

into the blockhole outside off. Dwarshuis digs it out towards deep cover and this time, the Sixers cannot come back for the second

hides it full and wide outside off again. Dwarshuis laces it towards deep extra cover and Silk is rapid enough to tear back for the second

full and wide outside off. Dwarshuis throws the kitchen sink at it and slices it over cover for a couple of runs

slower ball that lands right in the slot on off stump. Dwarshuis drills it towards mid off and hares across to keep strike

another slower ball, into the track outside off. Silk swings like a rusty gate and shanks it towards short fine leg

off-pace on a length just outside off. Silk does not pick it and swings a week early. Makes no contact and might have lost his off stump on another day

fullish on the pads. Dwarshuis works it away towards deep backward square leg and has to settle for a single this time

oh, hello! That is an enormous hit! Right in the slot outside off and Dwarshuis climbs into it. Gets his front foot out of the way and clatters it over long on! A 101m six, if you don't mind!

stumps go splat, and Ferguson punches the air in delight! Slower ball, you-miss-I-hit stuff from Ferguson. Angles into middle and off and Shaw has no option but to go after it. Swings wildly and misses, and hears the death rattle soon after. Ferguson amps up the pressure on the Sixers!

gets this away! A loose ball to end what was otherwise a great over. Full ball down leg and Silk gets under it to pop it over short fine leg!

cutter on a back of a length wide outside off. Silk lets it go, hoping for the wide but does not get any favours from the umpire. Seems like the right call too

slower bumper, finishing just outside off. Shaw drags it towards deep mid wicket

oh! It is all happening here! Another superbly-disguised slower ball, pitching on a full length on off. Shaw does not read it at all and plonks it back towards Sams. He sprawls to his left like a goalkeeper but cannot quite get there

full on the pads. Silk works it away towards deep mid wicket and has to settle for a single. Good work on the fence by Konstas

almost! Slower ball on a full length on middle and leg. Silk is a touch early into his stroke and smacks it back at Sams. He gets both hands to it to his right but cannot make it stick. Tough chance