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Bbl 11 Brisbane Heat Score Their Lowest Total Put Up Just 105 After Choosing To Bat First

BBL 11 | Brisbane Heat score their lowest total; put up just 105 after choosing to bat first

Playing their seventh match of the season, Brisbane Heat were bowled out for just 105 runs in Sydney on Wednesday, 29 December. Up against the Sydney Sixers, Heat chose to bat first on a used SCG track, hoping to make the best out of it.

Things went sideways very quickly against the quality of left-right seaming combination of Sean Abbott and Ben Dwarshuis who ran through the batting line up in the first 10 overs, reducing the batting line up to 21/4 inside the powerplay.

After swinging early in the first couple of overs, the seamers made full use of the slow track to trap batsmen with cutters bowled into the surface. Sixers were very good with their catching as well.

In the first XI for the first time this season Shadab Khan did not return with any wickets, but the pace battery of Abbot, Dwarshuis, Hayden Kerr and veteran Daniel Christian picked 9 wickets between them to wrap Heat up in 19.1 overs.

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BBL 11 | Sean Abbot takes 'catch of the summer' to dismiss Chris Lynn

Sydney Sixers were on top at their home game against the Brisbane Heats toppling their top order early on Wednesday, 29 December. The second placed team in the Big Bash League, Sixers, gave Heat absolutely no chance with some wonderful bowling from the pace attack, led by Ben Dwarshius. On a slow Sydney pitch, the batsmen found it difficult to negotiate Dwarshuis’ swing and were reduced to 46/6 by the 11th over. However, the dismissal that got talked about the most on the day was of Chris Lynn. The hard hitter while looking to tee off got out to an absolute stunner from Sean Abbot. While Abbot did take two wickets to play an equally important part in the downfall of the Heat, in Lynn’s case, he was on the business end of grabbing an incredible one handed stunner. Standing at cover, Abbot grabbed a hard backfoot punch from Lymm that was always destined to reach the boundary. He flung himself to his right and picked up an unlikely chance making the commentators go into a frenzy. The box called it the ‘catch of the summer’ and one of the best that they have seen in the BBL 11.

Super Smash 2021-21 | Match Review: Lockie Ferguson & George Worker gift Auckland fans early New Year's gift

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The Ashes | Australia legend baffled with England’s approach to Test cricket

Ashes winning captain Ricky Ponting has been baffled with England’s approach to Test cricket in the ongoing 5-match series. "All their planning, their thoughts and their structures have just been completely wrong, and it's come back to bite them," said an irritated Ponting after the end of the third Test match in the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground. He was referring to England’s choice of playing XI in the first Test match, where both James Anderson and Stuart Broad were benched despite being fit. While it was speculated by the English media that the two veterans are being kept fresh for the pink ball Test match in Adelaide, Ponting argued that at any point in time, a team should not begin a Test match without their best players. "Pick your best team from the start and then see how far that group can take you. The fact that Anderson and Broad didn't play in Brisbane is staggering." He also called out Joe Root’s decision to bat first in overcast conditions at The Gabba. "The fact that Joe Root didn't bowl first in Brisbane was staggering. The fact that Mark Wood didn't play in Adelaide was staggering. He looked like one of the most likely bowlers up in Brisbane." "All their planning, their thoughts and their structures have just been completely wrong, and it's come back to bite them," Ponting said. Ponting has not been a fan of Root’s captaincy for a while and had found his choices of words amusing after the England captain blamed his bowlers for the loss at Adelaide.

Two members of MCA Apex Council disqualified for conflict of interest

Two of the members of the Apex Council of the MCA have been disqualified by the Ethics Officer of the board on the grounds of conflict of interest. There is evidence of intractable conflict of interest against Unmesh Khanvilkar and Kiran Powar as held by Retired Justice VK Tahilramani, a former chief justice of Madras High Court on Tuesday. The two members will not perform their duties with immediate effect. Khanvilkar’s sister Chitra Khanvilkar had been appointed as the trainer of Mumbai women's team while he himself held the post of joint secretary is a conflict of interest. Moreover, Khanvilkar has also completed six years in MCA. He was joint secretary (from June 17, 2015 to October 3, 2019) and later an apex council member (October 4, 2019 to till date) and is required to go into a cooling-off period. On the other hand, Powar was removed from his post as his brother Ramesh Powar was made Mumbai coach while he was in the Apex Council. Moreover, Kiran Powar was also being paid for being either head coach or mentor in Goregaon Sports Club.