{"id":7913,"date":"2023-12-13T10:04:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T04:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=381930"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:12:11","slug":"bbl-2023-match-6-brisbane-heat-seals-victory-by-20-runs-in-thriller-against-sydney-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/bbl-2023-match-6-brisbane-heat-seals-victory-by-20-runs-in-thriller-against-sydney-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"BBL 2023 Match 6: Brisbane Heat seals victory by 20 runs in thriller against\u00a0Sydney\u00a0Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Brisbane Heat<\/strong> clashed with<strong> Sydney Thunder<\/strong>\u00a0in a thrilling encounter at <strong>Manuka Oval, Canberra<\/strong> on 12 December. The match lived up to the hype, showcasing exceptional cricketing skills and a roller-coaster of emotions for fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sydney Thunder<\/strong>\u00a0won the toss and elected to bowl. The decision proved pivotal as it set the tone for the entire match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Innings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Batting performance: <em>Brisbane Heat<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Opener\u00a0<strong>Josh Brown\u00a0<\/strong>set the stage with 14 runs off 17 balls,\u00a0<strong>Colin Munro<\/strong> who played alongside him, made 46 runs off 33 balls with a strike rate of 139.39, with two 4s and two 6s. He was followed by <strong>Nathan Mcsweeney,<\/strong> who made a decent 29 runs off 27 balls. He was followed by\u00a0<strong>Matt Renshaw(20), Sam Billings(23), Paul walter(6), Michael Neser(2), spencer johnson(4).\u00a0<\/strong>The team made a total of 151\/7<\/p>\n<p>Bowling performance: S<em>ydney thunder<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tanveer Sangha managed to take 3 wickets (Nathan McSweeney, Matt Renshaw, Paul Walter) and bowled for 4 overs, he was followed by Zaman Khan who took 2 wickets then Liam Hetcher and Chris Green with 1-1 wickets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Score at the end of innings: 151\/7 (20 overs)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Innings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Batting performance: Sydney Thunders<\/p>\n<p>Opener\u00a0<strong>Cameron Bancroft<\/strong> who made 25 runs off 19 balls, alongside\u00a0<strong>Alex Hales (0), Mathew Gilkes(3), Oliver Davies(35\/30).<\/strong> He was followed by Daniel Sams(11\/9), Chris Greens(30\/20), Nathan Mcandrew (13\/9). The team made 131 runs for 10 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Bowling performance:\u00a0<em>Brisbane Heat<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Xavier Bartlett managed to take 3 wickets and bowled for 4 overs, he was followed by Mitchell Swepson, Matthew Kuhnemann, Paul Walter with 2 wickets each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Brisbane Heat\u00a0<\/strong>won by 20 runs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Player of the match: Mitchell Swepson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brisbane Heat clashed with Sydney Thunder\u00a0in a thrilling encounter at Manuka Oval, Canberra on 12 December. The match lived\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":30802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4644,2],"tags":[1249,3478,3476,2211,304],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbl","category-cricket","tag-alex-hales","tag-matt-renshaw","tag-michael-neser","tag-mitchell-swepson","tag-sam-billings"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43386,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions\/43386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}