Nathan McSweeney gave a befitting reply to AUS selectors, after being dropped from the team against India, he won Brisbane with a stormy innings.
Nathan McSweeney: Brisbane Heat defeated Adelaide Strikers by 3 wickets in the Big Bash League 2024-25 match played at the Gabba Stadium in Brisbane on Sunday (22 December). With this victory, Brisbane team has reached first place in the points table. The hero of Brisbane’s victory was Nathan McSweeney, who scored an unbeaten 78 runs in 49 balls with the help of 10 fours and 2 sixes. For which he was chosen Player of the Match.
After being invited to bat first, Adelaide team scored 174 runs at the loss of 6 wickets. In which Jamie Overton scored unbeaten 45 runs in 24 balls, Ollie Pour scored 34 runs in 29 balls and James Beazley scored 23 runs in 11 balls.
For Brisbane, Will Prestwitz took 2 wickets, Xavier Bartlatt, Paul Walter and Tom Whitney took 1 wicket each.
In response, Brisbane won on the last ball after losing 7 wickets. Apart from McSweeney, Matt Renshaw played an inning of 54 runs in 27 balls with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes.
Let us tell you that McSweeney was a part of Australia’s playing eleven in the first three Test matches of the Border Gavaskar Trophy played against India. But the selectors did not include him in the team for the last two test matches.
McSweeney scored 72 runs in 6 innings of 3 matches at an average of 14.40. Although star players like Usman Khawaja and Mitchell Marsh have not performed well with the bat in this series, but they are a part of the team. McSweeney also expressed his disappointment at being dropped from the team.
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