Pace ace Henry Thornton has stopped in need of declaring the Adelaide Strikers the group to beat within the BBL however says he “couldn’t be happier” with the historic mauling of the Sydney Thunder.
The Strikers bowled the Thunder out for simply 15 runs – the bottom complete within the historical past of males’s skilled T20 cricket – and Thornton (5-3) was chief destroyer.
The 26-year-old solely got here into the Strikers’ ranks final summer season as a substitute participant however his star has since ascended by the sport.
He’s taken 9 wickets throughout his first two BBL12 matches to announce himself because the match’s latest celebrity.
“I just tried to bowl my best ball. I guess I got really lucky. They nicked them and we just caught everything,” he advised reporters after the defeat of the Thunder.
“I haven’t played many games of cricket that have happened like that and I think if you asked the boys, they’d probably say the same thing.
“The boys had been operating the drinks out going, ‘What is happening?’.”
The Strikers now hold the record for restricting a team to the lowest total, comfortably eclipsing the Melbourne Stars, who kept the Melbourne Renegades to only 57 runs in early 2015.
But it wasn’t the chance to enter the history books that most excited Thornton.
“Hopefully, we maintain onto the report for some time,” Thornton stated.
“It was an incredible effort. I believe everybody’s contributing and that is the signal of a extremely good group.
“With the scoring what it was, a really easy way out would have been to go hunting or try and create stuff.
“If you take a look at all of the dismissals we simply hung in and bowled good balls and we bought the rewards.”
The Strikers comfortably defeated last season’s runners-up and perennial heavyweights the Sydney Sixers in their first match of the tournament and now head into Tuesday’s rematch with the Thunder on the highest of highs.
But despite their early dominance, Thornton said it was too early to begin thinking about tournament favouritism, especially given the reigning champions are yet to make an appearance this summer.
“There are nonetheless some actually good groups. The (Perth) Scorchers have not performed but so I need to see what they’re like. And the Sixers and the Thunder are superb outfits,” he stated.
“It’s a protracted match. Rather a lot can change. I’d actually like to be there on the back-end like final yr. Playing finals was superior so hopefully we are able to simply preserve enjoying good cricket and revel in one another’s firm.
“At the moment, we couldn’t be happier.”
