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BBL10: Twitter goes crazy after Jack Wildermuth’s all-round brilliance

Brisbane Heat all-rounder Jack Wildermuth turned the tide in his team's favour, first with the bat and then with the ball as he scored a quickfire 31 of 11 balls in the death overs to take Heat to a par score of 178 against Sydney Thunder in Canberra. Wildermuth played his first season with Heat and then moved to Renegades, before coming back this year to his first team.

With the ball, he was right on the money in the first over itself, getting the dangerman Alex Hales bowled for a duck with only his second delivery in the match. Later in the first over itself, he got the prized scalp of Thunder captain Callum Ferguson, that too for naught, ending the over with the Thunder scorecard reading one for two.

Twitter was full of praise for the 27-year-old, who just a few days ago hit a hundred in a first-class game against India in Sydney.

But that was not all, he came back in his second over and got out Usman Khawaja too, the other opener, who was trying to hit one out of the park, over cover, but got a thick edge to Jamie Pierson behind the wickets.

Seeing the luck that he was having, skipper Lynn bowled him out in one go, as he finished his four-over quota with amazing figures of 3-23. In batting, when Wildermuth came to the crease, the Heat were at 140/4 at the end of 17 overs. It was courtesy his four sixes in 11 balls that the Heat was able to get to a good total even after Lynn got out in the 19th over.

At the time of writing this news, the Thunder, chasing a target of 179, were 129-5 at the end of the 15th over, needing 50 in the last five overs to achieve their first win of the season.

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NZ vs WI Tests: Kiwis clean sweep hapless Windies

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BBL10: Heat players Lynn & Lawrence under covid-19 scrutiny, yet allowed to play against Thunder

Brisbane Heat captain Chris Lynn and foreign import Englishman Dan Lawrence have been put under scrutiny by Cricket Australia after the two have been caught "coming into close contact with members of the public" on Saturday. Although the two players have been allowed to play the game against Sydney Thunder at Manuka Oval in the Australian Capital Canberra, they have been strictly warned not to come in close contact with any of their or opposition team members. The CA as understood from reports is investigating a case involving both players and a member of the public seen in a selfie posted on Social Media on Saturday. This has now forced strict measures to be followed by Heat and their two players. The two players are required to use a different change room to their Heat teammates, they can not be part of the huddle before or during the game, they have to maintain social distance from other players and they may not be allowed in the team dugout as well. The measures are especially harsh in the sense that Lynn, 30, is Heat’s captain and his job involves being in constant touch with the players. Also, he is one of their most important batters, and hence if he bats it is more than a certainty that not only Lawrence but other players would also come in his contact. Hence the restrictions seem a bit illogical. Although No penalty has yet been imposed on either of the players. CA’s head of security, Sean Carroll, has taken the matter seriously and said that neither players nor the public should take covid-19 lightly and jeopardize the efforts being put in by the various administrations. “We are always monitoring the public health situation and attempting to strike the appropriate biosecurity balance between keeping everyone safe on both sides of the hub and providing as much freedom as possible for those within it,” he said. “We must insist on our biosecurity measures being respected and followed so as not to jeopardize public health and safety or the viability of the tournament,” Caroll added.

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