Adelaide Strikers obliterated Sydney Thunder on the Sydney Showground on Friday night time, bowling out the house facet for an embarrassing 15 runs.
Yes, you learn accurately. Thunder was all out for 15. It was U/10s stuff. It was unbelievable.
“Crazy night. Still can’t believe it,” tweeted West Indies nice Ian Bishop. “What a bowling performance.”
Consider the numbers.
Henry Thornton took 5/3 off 17 balls. Wes Agar took 4/2 off 12 balls. Matthew Short took 1/5 and a catch of the summer season.
The total Thunder innings lasted 35 balls.
Rashid Khan didn’t bowl. Peter Siddle didn’t bowl.
There had been 5 geese. Wicketkeeper Henry Nielsen took 5 catches.
“I don’t have much to say about it, to be honest,” Thunder captain Jasan Sangha stated. “It’s not like we went out to be crazy. Nine of 11 batsmen out caught behind … we nicked off too many times.
“I don’t want to dive into it. But end of the day it’s just not good enough for a professional team to be bowled out for that many runs.
“I don’t know. It wasn’t like guys were out there trying to throw their wicket away.”
They didn’t should – Thornton and firm had been bowling hand grenades.
“We’re just a bunch of good blokes doing our best,” Thornton stated. ”It was a bit surreal within the huddles. No-one may consider it was happening.”
At the midway mark it had regarded good for the house facet after the Strikers, confronted by a wonderful bowling efficiency by Sydney Thunder, amassed 9/139.
And then the carnage started. Matthew Gilkes recorded his second duck in two video games when he lower Short uppishly to level the place Alex Hose took a wonderful diving catch.
Jason Sangha got here in and Thornton had two for none when the captain edged to Nielsen. Strikers captain Peter Siddle introduced in two slips.
Short took a one-handed blinder at first slip to dismiss Riley Roussow.
Dangerman Alex Hales was quickly gone, edging Wes Agar. It was such {that a} Daniel Sams’ single was Bronx cheered by the small house crowd.
When Agar bowled Sams and Thornton had Ross the Thunder had misplaced 5 wickets for 9 runs within the first 17 balls.
“It’s an absolute shambles here at the Showground,” Brett Lee declared in commentary. He didn’t know half of it.
Thornton obtained Hales caught behind the Thunder had been 6/9 off 19 balls.
Chris Green defended Thornton‘s next ball, and the home crowd roared approval. Then they did it again. And again.
The lowest BBL score was the Melbourne Renegades’ 57 in 2015.
When Ollie Davies tucked a single by way of gully, the gang roared like he’d hit a six.
Then Green was gone, off Agar, caught behind.
They had been 7 for 10. Then 8 for 10!
When Thornton removed Ollie Davies, out slashing, Thunder had been 9/14.
Out got here Fazalhaq Farooqi. And again he went. His staff all out for 15.
All this after the Thunder entered the change of innings with the upperhand.
On a cold night time on the Sydney Showground, in entrance of a crowd that appeared within the a whole bunch, the apparently ageless vegan Peter Siddle, 38, gained the flip and elected to bat.
After a 10-minute delay attributable to the late-finishing Stars-Hurricanes recreation on the MCG, spectacular left-arm Afghan seamer Fazalhaq Farooqi opened the bowling and snared Thunder’s first wicket when Matthew Short mistimed a pull shot, the ball hovering to cowl the place Ollie Davies took the catch.
Jake Weatherald, off form, mistimed a pull shot and spooned a catch to Sangha. And each Strikers openers had been gone for 27 inside the primary four-over energy play.
After six overs Adelaide was going at lower than a run a ball and misplaced three wickets.
Big-hitting marquee man Chris Lynn got here in and instantly drew a monster shout for LBW that Sangha elected to not evaluation. Lynn, who limped to 6 from 13 balls, barely obtained out of first gear for the primary half of Adelaide‘s innings. Then Brendan Doggett came on – and Lynn decided: it is time. In 13 balls he smashed 30 runs.
At the other end Black caps all-rounder Colin de Grandhomme was following suit, smashing Chris Green over mid-wicket for six then two balls later repeating the dose over mid-on – both copybook cricket shots.
Yet just as it seemed the Thunder trundlers were under the pump, Lynn was caught by Matthew Gilkes from a top edge that came down with ice on it, while de Grandhomme was very sharply caught by Davies at mid-wicket.
In the end, it was more than enough.
Originally published as Cricket stunned by ‘crazy night’ as Adelaide Strikers set world document
