SYD vs BH 28th Match Prediction

SYD vs BH Team Previews

Sydney Sixers

After facing consecutive defeats at the start of the season, the Sixers came back strongly to win 4 matches on the trot, powered by some excellent batting at the top of the order.

Josh Philippe and James Vince have been pretty consistent with their batting, while Jordan Silk too is in great touch, and is the leading scorer for his team this season. In the last match, the Sixers set out to chase a mammoth target of 225 set by Brisbane. Philippe and Vince once again provided the team with a solid start, putting up 56 runs for the first wicket in just 4.3 overs.

Daniel Christian, Moises Henriques, and Daniel Christian departed quickly but Jordan Silk and Hayden Kerr kept the Sixers in pursuit, adding 54 runs in 26 deliveries before Kerr was stumped out. Silk was in no mood to relent as he scored 41 of 23 deliveries, but Michael Neser took a controversial catch at the boundary to dismiss him in the 19th over, extinguishing all hopes for the Sixers.

Talking about the bowling, Hayden Kerr and Sean Abbott took a wicket each, and have 10 wickets against their name for the tournament. However, both of them, plus the other bowlers, have been quite expensive this season and that is one area where the team needs to improve. 

Brisbane Heat

The Brisbane Heat was off to a dreadful start to the season as they managed to win just 1 of their first 5 matches. However, they came back in style in the last match, defeating the Sixers in a run fest.

Batting first, Brisbane lost their leading run-scorer for the season, Colin Munro, with just 12 on the board. However, his opening partner, Josh Brown, went berserk and scored 62 of just 23 deliveries. Brown brought up his half-century in just 19 deliveries, which is the fifth fastest in BBL history.

Once he departed, McSweeney, playing his first match of the season, continued with the momentum and scored 84 of 51 deliveries to guide the Brisbane Heat to a total of 224. Later on, in the second innings, the Brisbane bowlers continued to pick up regular intervals to ensure that despite reaching tantalizingly close to the target, the Sixers couldn’t cross the line.

While Brisbane has a couple of good batsmen like Colin Munro and Sam Billings, as well as a quality seamer in the form of Michael Neser, they have failed to perform as a unit. With the change in momentum, the team will be hoping to keep winning the upcoming matches as well.