Sixers skipper Moises Henriques has defended the SCG floor after his facet was bundled out of the BBL finals on a sub-standard pitch for such an vital last which made life too powerful for the batters.
The Sixers had been restricted to 9/116 from their 20 overs on Thursday evening, with the Heat sneaking dwelling with 10 balls to spare due to a masterful knock by Michael Neser who was the one batter who appeared snug.
The high quality of the SCG pitch has been a problem for a lot of the season, with Renegades skipper Nic Maddinson launching a scathing assault after his facet misplaced a match earlier within the yr.
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“It was pretty shit, to be honest,” Maddinson stated after that sport.
“I thought it was one of the worst T20 wickets I’ve seen for a while, and it’s been a little bit like that all competition where we’ve had some pretty tricky wickets.”
Not lots has improved since then with solely Steve Smith making it look simple with an excellent century within the Sydney Smash, and the gremlins returned on Thursday with the Sixers managing simply seven boundaries of their innings.
It was a dream deck for the spinners with Matthew Kuhnemann taking career-best figures of 3-17, and whereas it was a troublesome look ahead to the followers, Henriques had no difficulty with a pitch that he stated is nice for the sport.
“It’s really good to play on these types of wickets. The best way to get well-rounded cricketers is to be challenged in different conditions,” he stated.
“You see at Adelaide Oval and some other grounds like at the Gabba that it’s an absolute bowler’s graveyard, so it’s nice to tip the scales into the bowlers’ favour for a change and see which batters can use their brains to figure out a tough situation.
“These wickets are maybe not too dissimilar to what you might face in India or something like that with how low and slow it was, and possibly taking a little more spin.
“When you get these unique conditions, it sometimes makes for really fun cricket to play because it’s so different to what we’re used to.
“You do have to be flexible and be able to adapt to what we’ve got. I think it’d be boring if they just rolled out the same wicket every week wherever you went.
“Typically in years gone by at the SCG in Shield cricket, it’s been a bit of a spinning wicket so it’d be nice to get back to that heritage where when you go around Australia, you (get some variety).”
The loss ends the Sixers’ run of three-straight grand finals and ruins any hopes that they had of getting revenge on final yr’s loss to the Scorchers.
The Sixers may have averted Thursday’s match had they received in Perth final week, however as a substitute they’ll have to look at the decider from dwelling with the Heat out to proceed their large killing streak.
“We had two cracks at making the final, and unfortunately we weren’t good enough to take either of them,” Henriques stated.
“It’s disappointing because I thought we had such a good year. I’m still really proud of what we were able to achieve throughout the season.”
Source: www.news.com.au
