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A career-best Twenty20 rating from in-form Caleb Jewell has helped Hobart Hurricanes overcome a late-innings meltdown to beat Melbourne Stars and hold alive their BBL finals hopes.
Jewell (70 off 44 balls) starred because the Hurricanes handed the Stars meagre rating of 7-131 at Blundstone Oval by two wickets with 14 balls to spare, however solely after the house group misplaced 7-35 after being 1-94.
The win moved the ‘Canes degree on factors with fifth-placed Adelaide, whereas the loss left the bottom-of-the-ladder Stars with simply two victories from 9 video games.
Hilton Cartwright (57 off 47) performed a lone hand for the Stars, who had been wanting firepower with Marcus Stoinis injured and Trent Boult having left the outfit.
Coming off scores of 54, 54 and 28, Jewell maintained his wealthy vein of kind, beating his earlier greatest T20 effort of 61 not out.
He struck eight fours and two sixes and the left-hander’s aggression all the time had his facet nicely forward of the required run charge.
Opener Ben McDermott was bowled by Liam Hatcher for 2, however Jewell and Englishman Zak Crawley (30 off 34) added 84 off 10 overs for the second wicket.
Jewell reached his 50 off simply 30 balls with a cover-driven boundary and smashed a six over midwicket off Luke Wooden and one other one over deep backward sq. leg off Adam Zampa.
The Hurricanes stumbled to the ending line as soon as Jewell was caught behind off the spectacular Hatcher, who returned his greatest BBL figures of 3-25.
Earlier, Cartwright hit eight of his groups’ 12 boundaries off the bat with no different Star discovering the rope till the 14th over.
The Hurricanes stand-in skipper Nathan Ellis (2-12) gave nothing away and Cartwright and James Seymour (20 off seven balls) had been the one Stars to problem the disciplined Hobart assault.
A 3rd-wicket stand of 60 between Cartwright and Beau Webster (27 off 35) stabilized the innings after each openers fell early.
Huge-hitting import Joe Clarke was run out after a mix-up and Tom Rogers holed out to sq. leg Within the fifth over.
At one stage, Cartwright hit six fours within the area of 9 balls however the boundaries dried up for nearly eight overs.
Webster, who struggled along with his timing to seek out gaps, broke the drought with a scoop to high quality leg, however was out quickly after off a vanguard.
The Stars scored simply 9 runs off their two Energy Surge overs.
Ellis used seven bowlers throughout the primary 10 overs with fellow quicks Riley Meredith (2-25) and Faheem Ashraf (2-29) performing nicely.
-AAP
