Matt Quick has celebrated his captaincy debut with a heroic, maiden T20 ton to assist Adelaide Strikers pull off the best run chase in BBL historical past.
After the Hurricanes posted an imposing 4-229 on Thursday night time, Quick crunched Pakistan paceman Faheem Ashraf for back-to-back boundaries within the 20th over to boost his century and victory by seven wickets with three balls to spare.
With common skipper Peter Siddle sidelined (again harm), Quick celebrated his non permanent elevation to the captaincy function by crunching 100 not out off 59 balls.
Scratchy early, Quick obtained two lives off Riley Meredith’s bowling – dropped by Mitch Owen first ball and a sitter by Nathan Ellis on 22 – and he made the ‘Canes pay.
After the early departure of Ryan Gibson (5), Quick and Chris Lynn (64) added 124 off 58 balls for the second wicket to show Adelaide’s dream right into a actuality.
Lynn smashed 4 sixes in his whirlwind 29-ball knock earlier than falling to the spectacular thriller spinner Paddy Dooley (2-25) throughout the energy surge.
On 20, English import Adam Hose holed out to Tim David at mid-on however was reprieved when third umpire Eloise Sheridean deemed Faheem’s full toss above waist peak.
Hose duly belted the free hit for six, one in every of three maximums he whacked in Faheem’s over, which reaped 22.
Hose finally fell for 38 earlier than an excellent larger excessive full toss from the struggling Faheem within the 20th over conceded one other free hit, permitting Quick to pounce.
Dooley suffered a nasty harm to his left shoulder whereas diving to save lots of a boundary within the 19th over, compounding the ache for the Hurricanes who regarded in an impregnable place on the midway mark.
Half-centuries to Ben McDermott (57), Caleb Jewell (54) and Zak Crawley (54no) underpinned the Hurricanes’ franchise document rating.
The guests smoked 14 sixes of their innings and appeared on monitor to make it two wins over the Strikers in 5 days, whereas consigning Adelaide to a fourth successive defeat, earlier than Quick stole the present.
-AAP
