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BBL 11 | Melbourne Stars finish campaign with brilliant victory against Hurricanes

The league of stage of the Big Bash League 2021-22 came to an end with Melbourne Stars finishing it off in a style. The Glenn Maxwell led side registered a fantastic victory over the Hobart Hurricanes at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Wednesday, January 19. 

The Stars, who scored the highest ever total in BBL history by reaching 273-2, beat the Hurricanes by a whopping 106 as the latter was only able to get as far as 167-6 in its quota of 20 overs. The chase was never going to be easy in any case. To be honest, it was almost impossible. 

However, no team can simply give up because of the huge target and hence neither did Hurricanes. Ben McDermott, till the time he was at the crease, gave his best to try and gather as many runs as possible. 

Consistency among the Hurricanes batters was difficult to find as after 55 off 33 from McDermott, nobody else could get past the fifty run mark. D'Arcy Short who played his usual slow innings was able to make 41 off 36 balls. For Stars, Brody Couch picked up three wickets. 

Earlier in the evening, after being put in to bat, Stars got off to as flying a start as possible with openers adding 97 runs for the first wicket in the first seven overs only. The intensity kept on moving a notch above from there on as after Joe Clarke’s wicket, Maxwell got even more aggressive as he reached his second hundred of the season. 

Marcus Stoinis, who joined Maxwell after the fall of the second wicket in the form of Nick Larkin also gelled well with his captain. The duo put up an unbeaten stand of 132 runs in just 54 balls. It was during that time that Maxwell became the first person in BBL history to go past the 150 run mark as a batter in an innings. 

Now the BBL would move to Finals with five teams fighting for the biggest honours. In the first match, the Eliminator, the number four and five ranked teams in the points table, Adelaide Strikers and Hobart Hurricanes will face each other. The match will be played on January 21 at the MCG.

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Though Melbourne Stars are out of the Finals race of the Big Bash League 2021-22, Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis made sure that there was no lack of entertainment as fours and sixes rained at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground, much to the relief of the battered Stars’ fans. Thanks to a belligerent 154 off just 64 balls by Glenn Maxwell, the Stars were able to reach 273-2, the highest team total by a huge margin in the BBL history so far. The previous highest team total was 232 by Sydney Thunder which was achieved against Sydney Sixers in Adelaide last season. This is also the highest total in franchise or domestic T20 cricket ever as it beat Trinabago Knight Riders' 267-2 which was achieved against Jamaica Tallawahs in Caribbean Premier League 2019. Overall, the 273 by Stars is the third-highest T20 total after Afghanistan’s 278-3 against Ireland in 2019 and Czech Republic’s 278-4 against Turkey also in 2019. The unbeaten 154 by Maxwell is also the highest individual score by a batter in BBL history. He overtook his own teammate Marcus Stoinis on the list. Stonis, who also scored a brilliant 75* off just 31 balls in tonight’s game, had scored 147* against Sydney Sixers in 2020. In terms of the overall highest individual score in all T20s, this knock by Maxwell, in which he hit a record 22 fours and fours sixes, ranks at the ninth spot. However, 22 fours is the highest number of fours hit by any batter in any T20 game ever in history. Also, the total 29 fours hit by the Stars in this innings is the highest for a BBL game in history as well. Hurricanes had won the toss and decided to bowl first in this game, a decision that they would now be thinking very hard about. In reply to the Stars, the Hurricanes were 67-3 in the eighth over at the time of publishing this copy.