BH vs PS

PHEW! That was as thrilling a ride as it gets, we promised you one and we have got one hell of a ride tonight. T20 cricket at its finest or should I say batsmanship at its finest or should I further trim it down to say power-hitting at its finest. BBL history books have been torn apart at the Gabba as Brisbane Heat stun Perth Scorchers with the highest-ever run chase in the competition's history. We need to bring our breaths back now, you might need to too. This is now a goodbye from the trioka of Sourabh Agrawal, Bidipto Datta and Sooryanarayan Sesha. See you at the India vs South Africa 5th T20I in Ahmedabad. Cheers!

Matt Renshaw (Player of the Match, 102 runs off only 51 balls): "It still don't really believe it! A lot of people put us out of the contest, we probably did as well, but, tremendous from Jack (Wildermuth) and the rest of us to get it done! We didn't chat much, just did what we had to and things came off! But an incredible innings from him there to take us home! He had a bit of luck on our side as well, but we were confident. T20 cricket was not what I was good at, but to produce knocks like these is a confidence boost for me. There was a bit of tennis-ball bounce up front, I was a bit nervous when I went out there. It's about taking this momentum forward. We don't know about the fitness of a couple of our guys, so, we need other guys to step up." 

9:55 PM local time, 5:25 PM IST: MATCH SUMMARY

Brisbane Heat (258/2 in 19.5 overs) beat Perth Scorchers (257/6 in 20 overs) by 8 wickets

Jack Wildermuth 110*(54) | Matt Renshaw 102(51)
Finn Allen 79(38) | Cooper Connolly 77(37)

Take a bow, Jack Wildermuth! Take a bow, Matt Renshaw! Take a bow, Brisbane Heat! This is one of the most spectacular games of cricket you will ever witness.

Close to 25000 people at the Gabba have completely gone berserk, they have witnessed something that is a once in a lifetime moment.

Highest ever BBL run chase and the third-highest run chase in all T20s. Records have tumbled left, right and center at the Gabba tonight. The atmosphere is frentic, not a single player is leaving the stadium.

Imagine this, your team concedes 257 runs in 20 overs in the first innings during which your captain who is also youe number 4 batter rolls his ankle and gets ruled out of the contest after which you lose your star overseas batter on the first ball of the chase. What do you do? What are even your chances?

Brisbane Heat have pulled of an absolute heist, this is nothing less than a heist. This is almost criminal, call it a heist, a buglary, a robbery or call it what you want but this is something extraordinary that has unfolded in front of our eyes.

Matt Renshaw joined Jack Wildermuth at 0/1 in 0.1 overs with an Everest-looking target of 258 in front of them. Well, the duo notched up the highest-ever partnership in BBL history as Renshaw and Wildermuth added 211 runs in 93 balls for the second wicket.

The ball keot flying out of the park, if there were 18 sixes from the Scorchers in the first innings, Heat matched it with 18 off their own and thier two main men, shared 9 apiece each. And yes, there are no bowlers featuring in the match summary tonight becuase there ws just no place for the bowlers at The Gabba tonight.

For the first time ever in BBL, two players scored individual hundreds in a an innings for the same team as Wildermuth and Renshaaw just went berserk. The startling fact was the Heat were always ahead in the run chase, right from the get go after they lost Munro on the very first ball. To do that while chasing 258 in a 20-over game is quite spectacular. Renshaw unfortuantely got run out after his hundred but Wildermuth stayed right till the end to hit the winning runs and got able support from Max Bryant who played a lovely cameo

19.5 Aaron Hardie to Jack Wildermuth, WILDERMUTH IS THE HERO OF THE MATCH FOR THE HEAT! HE STAYS THERE TILL THE END AND GETS THE JOB DONE! Full and just outside off-stump. Wildermuth stays deep in his crease and squeezes it past the left of backward point with the open bat face. The fielder tries to half-stop it, does so but is unable to present the two runs remaining! The Gabba goes into a frenzy! 

Bryant slipped while completing the second run and looks like he has done damage to his left shoulder, he is wincing in pain. Max Bryant is walking off. What drama!

19.4 Aaron Hardie to Max Bryant, GOOD SHOT! THREE RUNS TAKEN! Full and into the block hole on off-stump. Bryant manages to squirt it through the covers with good timing on it and puts the skates on to run through for three runs in the end. Good sliding save near the rope as well! 

Hardie smashes the stumps with his hands after missing it from a couple of yards away, he is absolutely gutted with himself. 5 needed off 3 now

19.3 Aaron Hardie to Jack Wildermuth, AH! Yorker on off-and-middle. Wildermuth digs it out off the block hole and runs. Bryant runs through as well but Hardie misses the stumps from a point-blank range with the underhand flick, diving forward! One run. 

19.2 Aaron Hardie to Jack Wildermuth, low full toss on middle-and-leg. The attempted flick shot off the pads gets top-edged to deep square-leg for a couple of runs. 

Scorchers will need to bring another fielder up in the ring now, more penalty for slow over-rate. Just two fielders outside the ring now and those are long-on and deep mid-wicket with 8 needed off 5

19.1 Aaron Hardie to Max Bryant, Oh! Full on off-stump on this occasion. Bryant tried to reverse-lap it and ended up chunking it to the short third area for a single instead! 

9 needed from the final over! Still all three results possible, you know. But everyone knows who to back at this stage. Fasten your seatbelts, folks if you haven's already!

18.6 Joel Paris to Max Bryant, PARIS HAS COPPED A BLOW! Back of a length around off-stump. Slammed back to the right of the bowler from the back foot. Paris snuck the right hand out in his follow through and slowed it down a bit! One run to long-on in the end. 

18.5 Joel Paris to Jack Wildermuth, short and slow around off-stump. Pulled away off the backfoot to the deep mid-wicket region for a single again. 

18.4 Joel Paris to Max Bryant, short and wide outside off. This is flat-batted down to long-on off the back foot for a single to rotate strike.