| Batsman | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Clarke c Matthew Gilkes b Chris Green | 60 | 37 | 8 | 1 | 162.16 |
| Sam Harper (wk) not out | 29 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 107.41 |
| Glenn Maxwell not out | 39 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 195.00 |
| Extras | 4 | (lb: 2, w: 1) | |||
| Total | 132/1 | (14.0 overs, RR: 9.43) | |||
| Did Not Bat (DNB): Campbell Kellaway, Tom Rogers, Marcus Stoinis (c), Hilton Cartwright, Tom Curran, Mitchell Swepson, Haris Rauf, Peter Siddle | |||||
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | ECON |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Hadley | 3.0 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 10.67 |
| Reece Topley | 1.0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 |
| Daniel Sams | 2.0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 15.50 |
| Shadab Khan | 4.0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 6.00 |
| Chris Green | 2.0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4.00 |
| Tanveer Sangha | 2.0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 13.50 |
| Batsman | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Konstas b Mitchell Swepson | 11 | 15 | - | - | 73.33 |
| Matthew Gilkes c Marcus Stoinis b Haris Rauf | 24 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 184.62 |
| David Warner (c) c Campbell Kellaway b Marcus Stoinis | 10 | 12 | - | 1 | 83.33 |
| Cameron Bancroft lbw b Mitchell Swepson | 10 | 13 | 1 | - | 76.92 |
| Sam Billings (wk) c Glenn Maxwell b Haris Rauf | 23 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 121.05 |
| Shadab Khan c Hilton Cartwright b Peter Siddle | 25 | 24 | 2 | - | 104.17 |
| Daniel Sams b Marcus Stoinis | 3 | 3 | - | - | 100.00 |
| Chris Green c Tom Rogers b Haris Rauf | 12 | 11 | 1 | - | 109.09 |
| Tanveer Sangha c Tom Rogers b Tom Curran | 1 | 3 | - | - | 33.33 |
| Reece Topley not out | 5 | 5 | - | - | 100.00 |
| Ryan Hadley c Sam Harper b Tom Curran | 1 | 2 | - | - | 50.00 |
| Extras | 3 | (w: 3) | |||
| Total | 128 | (20.0 overs, RR: 6.40, All Out) | |||
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | ECON |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenn Maxwell | 1.0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12.00 |
| Tom Curran | 4.0 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 5.50 |
| Peter Siddle | 4.0 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 5.50 |
| Haris Rauf ★ | 4.0 | 0 | 29 | 3 | 7.25 |
| Marcus Stoinis | 3.0 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 8.33 |
| Mitchell Swepson | 4.0 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 4.50 |
Sydney Thunder Vs Melbourne Stars – BBL Match 13 Highlight – 28 DEC 2025
For most of the evening, Sydney Thunder and Melbourne Stars played the kind of cricket that keeps people watching even when nothing spectacular is happening. There wasn’t a flood of boundaries. There wasn’t a record chase. What existed instead was uncertainty.
Thunder would put together a useful partnership and things would suddenly slow down. Stars would appear to be gaining control and then lose it almost as quickly. Neither side managed to settle for very long.
One section of the crowd would start feeling confident, only to go quiet a few minutes later.
That pattern continued deep into the match.
As the available deliveries became fewer, every decision seemed slightly more important than the one before it. Captains changed fields. Bowlers took a little longer between balls. Batters looked around more often than usual.
Nobody needed a giant total or a dramatic collapse to understand what was happening. The contest had become a question of patience.
The result eventually arrived, as results always do. Yet the lasting memory wasn’t a single shot or wicket. It was the feeling that the game could have wandered in either direction for most of the night.