At Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, the teams Adelaide Strikers and Sydney Thunder came against each other. The latter team won the toss and opted to bat first.
To unveil the batting attack, Hales and Matthew Gilkes came to the middle and Short opened the bowling attack. In the 2nd over, Hales hit two boundaries and two more fours in the immediate over, followed by a six. SYT got a score of 26 after 3 overs.
Rashid Khan took the first wicket of Gilkes and the left-handed batter, Rilee Rossouw took the charge. Hales kept showing his efforts that led them to cross the half-century with a score of 52-1 after 6 overs.
After 10 overs, the score of SYT jumped up to 79-2. Meanwhile, Hales got to his 50-run stand. On the throw from Rashid Khan, Davies crunched a four and SYT crossed the century, standing at a score of 100-2 after 13 overs.
Fueling a huge score of 68 in 50 balls, Hales got a dismissal from de Grandhomme while Davies lost his wicket, scoring 42 in 30 balls.
In 20 overs, SYT made a thunder finish, posting a run score of 150 with a loss of 5 wickets.
For the run chase of 151, on the ground, Weatherald and Short came up for batting attack with Gurinder Sandhu on opening bowling attack. In the 2nd over, Weatherald bought the first boundary for the side and lost his wicket to Sandhu, then the right-handed batter, Chris Lynn came to the crease. After 3 overs, the side got a score of 12-1.
In the 6th over, Short smacked two back-to-back sixes and two boundaries came from Lynn and Short, crossing the half-century with a score of 51-1 after 7 overs. On the over from Sams, Short smacked two fours and a six and got to 50-run stand, jumping the score up to 83-1.
Scoring 28 runs in 26 balls, Lynn lost his wicket to McAndrew. With Short standing tough for the side, ADS crossed the century with a score of 106-2 after 13 overs. Fueling a huge score of 65 in 44 balls, Short got a dismissal from McAndrew.
Hose and Grandhomme kept hitting boundaries and sixes; the side jumped to a score of 133-3 after 17 overs.
In 18.4 overs, ADS scored 151 runs with a loss of 4 wickets and won the match against SYT by 6 wickets.
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