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Match Details
BRH vs MLS 1st Match, BBL 2023-24
MLS
111-1015.1
Brisbane Heat won by 103 runs 🏆
BRH
20.0214-3
Player of the Match
Colin Munro
Brisbane Heat99(61)
MLS - 2nd Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 52 | 49 | 10 Over | 82 | 73 | 15 Over | 113 | 111 |
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BRH - 1st Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 47 | 63 | 10 Over | 97 | 101 | 15 Over | 146 | 151 | 20 Over | 211 | 214 |
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An astonishing game to kick start the 13th edition of the Big Bash League. That will be it from our coverage of this fixture. Ninaad Dixit here bidding goodbye on behalf of my co-commentator Akshay Bhide and scorer Paras Yadav. Stay tuned for more cricketing action from around the world.
Colin Munro (Player of the Match): "I said to Max, give me some KFC as we had a bet on who scores a fifty tonight. So, I get the treat from him. I don’t know what the order will be. Maybe get some bucket. Yeah. It’s nice to get the win. Also, nice to have some Aussie boys back. Send them off with one in one and let them enjoy their Test cricket. We thought he (Maxwell) was bowling his best over. I tried to hit him straight which was a short boundary and I practiced it last night. So, happy to get some runs."
Player of the Match: Colin Munro
4:48 PM IST, 9:18 PM Local Time: The Brisbane Heat start their BBL campaign with a huge win against Melbourne Stars as they bundle the visitors for 111 and take the home game by a huge margin of 103 runs.
Stars skipper Glenn Maxwell won the bat flip and decided to have a bowl first. Opener Colin Munro scored an unbeaten 99 and helped Heat to put up 214/3 on the board. Marnus Labuschagne scored 30 and Heat skipper Usman Khawaja scored 28 in 19 balls.
In response, pace bowler Michael Neser started off in style getting rid of the Stars openers inside the first over. Joe Burns (22 off 23) and Glenn Maxwell (23 off 14) shared a 43-run partnership for the 3rd wicket but Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis (2 off 3) were sent back in the space of 5 balls by spin duo of Mitchell Swepson and Matthew Kuhnemann respectively.
Hilton Cartwright top scored with 33 in 16 balls adding 34 runs with Liam Dawson (7 off 10) for the 6th wicket but was the 7th man to depart as seamer Paul Walter deceived him with the change in pace.
The Stars lower order couldn't add any respite to the chase and were bundled out for 111 in the 16th over. Leg spinner Mitchell Swepson was the pick of the bowlers with 3/23, Xavier Bartlett produced an outstanding spell of 2/8 in 3 overs with Neser (2/30) taking his 2 in the very first over.
Kuhnemann (1/17) and Paul Walter (1/7) bowled tidy spell with Spencer Johnson (1/25) dismissing Dawson in an expensive spell. Each of the Heat batter scored into double digits and each bowler picked up at least a wicket starting the BBL campaign on a solid note.
Stars skipper Glenn Maxwell won the bat flip and decided to have a bowl first. Opener Colin Munro scored an unbeaten 99 and helped Heat to put up 214/3 on the board. Marnus Labuschagne scored 30 and Heat skipper Usman Khawaja scored 28 in 19 balls.
In response, pace bowler Michael Neser started off in style getting rid of the Stars openers inside the first over. Joe Burns (22 off 23) and Glenn Maxwell (23 off 14) shared a 43-run partnership for the 3rd wicket but Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis (2 off 3) were sent back in the space of 5 balls by spin duo of Mitchell Swepson and Matthew Kuhnemann respectively.
Hilton Cartwright top scored with 33 in 16 balls adding 34 runs with Liam Dawson (7 off 10) for the 6th wicket but was the 7th man to depart as seamer Paul Walter deceived him with the change in pace.
The Stars lower order couldn't add any respite to the chase and were bundled out for 111 in the 16th over. Leg spinner Mitchell Swepson was the pick of the bowlers with 3/23, Xavier Bartlett produced an outstanding spell of 2/8 in 3 overs with Neser (2/30) taking his 2 in the very first over.
Kuhnemann (1/17) and Paul Walter (1/7) bowled tidy spell with Spencer Johnson (1/25) dismissing Dawson in an expensive spell. Each of the Heat batter scored into double digits and each bowler picked up at least a wicket starting the BBL campaign on a solid note.
15.1 M Swepson to O Stone
W BOWLED HIM! GAME OVER! Heat win by 103 runs as Stars are dismissed for nelson! Swepson bowls over the wicket. A full length delivery on the middle stump, goes straight through the gate as Stone lunges forward looking to slog sweep. The ball hits the top of the middle stump, an exceptional performance from the hosts.
OVER 15
Melbourne Stars
111/9
Nathan Coulter-Nile
1(1)
Olly Stone
2(2)
Xavier Bartlett
2-8(3.0)
14.6 X Bartlett to O Stone
1 Length ball on the leg stump, another slow ball. Stone hits down to long on for another single.
14.5 X Bartlett to N Coulter-Nile
1 Short delivery on the off stump, pulled away to deep backward square for a single.
Nathan Coulter-Nile is the last man walking out to bat for Stars. He has come out with a runner as he can't run as he hurt his calf while bowling earlier. Sam Harper is the runner for NCN.
14.4 X Bartlett to J Paris
W EXCELLENT CATCH AT DEEP BACKWARD SQUARE! Joel Paris departs and that should be curtains for the Stars! Bartlett bowls on length on the off stump. Paris gets down on a knee, shuffles across and clubs in the leg side. No timing on the stroke, Paul Walter at deep backward square moves a few steps forward and takes a good diving low catch.
14.3 X Bartlett to J Paris
0 Slower ball hitting the deck hard and angling away. Paris swings hard and misses through to the keeper.
14.2 X Bartlett to O Stone
1 Back of a length outside the off stump, Stone pushes out to deep third man for a single.
Olly Stone walks out to bat.
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