Hobart Hurricanes and Sydney Sixers faced each other at Bellerive Oval, Hobart. Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and opted to field.
Josh Philippe and Steven Smith came to the field, and Meredith opened the bowling attack. Smith opened the boundary account with six and hit two more fours in the second over. After 3 overs, SYS was 37-0.
In the fifth over, Smith hit back-to-back two sixes and reached his team to 50. Philippe got out after scoring 8(16) in the sixth over. After 6 overs, SYS was 56-1. In the 7th over, Smith hit a six on the third ball and hit the four on the next ball, and scored his half-century in 22 balls.
In the 8th over, Smith hit six and four on Faheem Ashraf. Nathan Ellis took the wicket of Steve Smith, and he returned to the pavilion after scoring 66(33) runs. After 10 overs, SYS was 91-2. Hayden Kerr got out after scoring 2(4) in the 11th over. Christian hit a four, and Sixers reached 100 runs. He got out after scoring 8(9) runs in the 13th over.
Patterson hit a four and got out in the next over on Joel Paris after scoring 18(20). Jordan Silk got out after scoring 2(3) in the 15th over. After 15 overs, SYS was 122-6. In the 18th over, Dwarshuis hit 4, 6, 4, and 4 on the first four balls and got out on the fifth ball. After 18 overs, SYS was 156-7. In the 19th over, Sean Abbott hit two fours on Nathan Ellis.
In 20 overs, Sydney Sixers scored 180 runs with a loss of 7 wickets.
Chasing 181 runs, Caleb Jewell and McDermott came to the crease, and Jackson Bird opened the bowling attack. McDermott hit the first boundary of the second inning. He hit two fours in the second over. McDermott got out after scoring 13(11). After 3 overs, HBH was 21-1.
In the 4th over, Caleb Jewell hit the four on the second ball and got out on the next ball after scoring 7(7) runs. Matthew Wade smashed two fours in the 7th over. He got out on the next over after scoring 14(10) runs. Tim David came to bat and hit back-to-back three-fours on Jackson Bird. After 10 overs, HBH was 84-3.
Tim David got out after scoring 24(13) in the 12th over on Hayden Kerr. After 15 overs, HBH was 119-4. In the 16th over, D Arcy Short hit four and got out on the next ball. Zak Crawley got out after scoring 49(45) on Izharulhaq Naveed. In the last over, Hobart Hurricanes required 39 runs, and they scored only 14 runs in the last over. Hobart scored 156/8 and lost the match by 24 runs.
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