CricketMelbourne Renegades too good for Brisbane Heat kicking off their season with a win
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Melbourne Renegades too good for Brisbane Heat kicking off their season with a win

Cricket
15 Dec 2022
Sarvesh
Big Bash League 2022: A wonderful start for Melbourne Renegades to the BBL12. Last year, they only three of their league matches and were extremely poor with the bat but things have changed this time now. They have registered first victory of their BBL12 campaign by crushing Brisbane Heat.

The was played at Cairns stadium entirely dominated by Melbourne Renegades who first batted excellently then followed the same suit with ball in hand. Nick Maddinson and Akeal Hosein were brilliant for the Renegades who produced energetic performances for their team. At the toss, the new captain Nick Maddinson wasn’t very happy in losing a key toss as the ground tells that chasing side have enjoyed better time there.

However, Nic Maddinson started in best way possible with the bat. With his partner Sam Harper on the other side, he accelerated in the first 5 overs collecting over 50 runs. Certainly, he knew that as the match will progress, spinners will enjoy the the surface, getting a bit of hold which made it tough for the batters to flourish.

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Melbourne Renegades completed their innings with 7/166, and rookie seamer Xavier Bartlett had a terrible night, finishing with 0/51 from just three overs. With the bat, Melbourne’s Maddinson took the lead, scoring 87 runs off just 49 balls to leave his imprint on the tournament.

At one stage, Brisbane Heat was able to make a comeback but they couldn’t hold on to the bowling momentum and the Renegades signed for the power surge, things changed pretty quickly in their favour. They lost 4 wickets in the middle overs but Russell and Maddinson just toyed with the bowlers for a brief time which got them past above part total.

Brisbane Heat had a horrible start of their innings, Max Bryant losing his wicket without scoring any run to Akeal Hosein. Colin Munro and Jimmy Pierson tried their best to save Heats from a shameful loss. They both shared 54 runs partnership which made it look like that Heats were getting back into the game. But in the end, Renegades’ bowlers were too good for them, taking wickets at regular intervals and squeezing the Heat batting line-up.

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With the ball in hand, Hosein was unquestionably the best in his maiden BBL game, allowing only 15 runs off four overs while also taking three wickets. In addition to being excellent, Mujeed Ur Rahman only lost four wickets for 28, with Tom Rogers and Andre Russell taking the other two.

The most bizzare incident of match came in the first innings when bails got off the themselves. Maddinson was given out and he started walking back to the dugout thinking he must have hit the stumps. But later, hawkeye camera showed that it was too windy out there which took off the bails.