they've won it with a wide! A zippy bouncer, but it flies down the leg side, eluding a flailing pull. What a soggy end to a contest that never really got going...
Scorchers vs Renegades, 4th Match at Hobart, BBL, Dec 12 2020 - Ball by Ball Commentary
Renegades won by 7 wickets (with 21 balls remaining)
10.15pm So that'll do for today's double header. Join us again tomorrow as Adelaide and Hobart do battle at Bellerive, before Renegades get right back on it to face Sixers.
Josh Lalor is the Player of the Match: "The boys are saying it's nice to have someone like myself up front. Marsh made a tough run-chase look like a walk in the park, Back tomorrow, so no rest for the wicked." Can't argue with those sentiments.
10.10pm it took them nine games to get off the mark last year, but Renegades are off to a flyer this time around! A resounding victory, set up by their bowlers and sealed by Shaun Marsh. That's more like it from the 2018-19 champions ...
As for Scorchers, a bit of a false dawn. Their bowlers had their moments but not enough of them
length ball, no need to take any liberties young'un
Jake Fraser-McTurk ... for the win ...
bowled him! Marsh had the glory in his sights, and he's missed a straight one! Just played around the length ball as he looked for the winning angle. A personal anticlimax after a superb anchoring innings, but I suspect it's not going to change much ...
full length, dipping into the pads, flicked to midwicket, and the scores are level...
flogged out to deep point, another single. The last rites are nigh ...
cuts back into the left-hander with late lift and movement, chopped to gully for another single
a big wind-up with victory in sight, but that's too tight to the body and skitters through to the keeper
clattered back past the bowler! That's dismissive! Pounded back at the bowler's ankles, and clean through long-off
rolls the fingers on a length ball, fourth-stump line, punched to long-off
slower ball on a wide line, back of a length, thumped to cover. Into single figures now
Five overs to go. I suspect we won't need them... Tye to share the Power Surge honours...
slower ball outside off, almost a half-tracker, but with protection in the deep that's a percentage ball. Settles for the single with another swingeing pull
another resounding echo of willow as Rossouw hits down on his pull, and deep midwicket sweeps up again
slow again, on the hips, tapped square. Renegades are two blows away...
back of a length, Rossouw rides the bounce with a sweet-sounding pull, but Scorcher's men in the deep are guarding the leg side
fuller and straighter, nudged back to the bowler
slower ball, outside off, and somehow that has been panned with disdain over the covers! Rossouw gave himself too much room initially, but the speed of the ball gave him plenty time to measure his connection superbly!
Time for the Power Splurge! As if Scorchers weren't already up against it. Two overs of tonkage in the offing...
thumps the pad but that's a very ambitious appeal, sweeping from outside the line of off
another single to keep the score ticking
huge wipe to deep midwicket, and dropped! Rossouw got right underneath his slog-sweep, and that should have been taken ... perhaps some indecision as two fielders converged
hanging on the back foot, pressed firmly into space in the covers
Over 17 • MR 131/3