Melbourne Stars continued their unbeaten run with a convincing victory against Hobart Hurricanes five-wicket in Melbourne. The top three teams - Stars , Perth Scorchers and Sydney Sixers - have qualified for the semi -finals and the fourth will be fought for between Brisbane Heat , Hobart Hurricanes and Adelaide Strikers .
The Hurricanes have lost Tim Paine on the first ball of the match when they were invited to bat but Ben Dunk and Jonathan Wells steer them to safety. However, Wells has been referred in the fifth by John Hastings and Shoaib Malik was executed for a diamond duck five balls later , in which Dunk hit two fours , letting to 41 3 . Travis Birt loaded sleeves targeting Scott Boland, who was hit consecutive vau . Stand 43, which lasted 6.3 overs was broken when two drummers were all rejected by Marcus Stoinis , leaving a precarious 84 for 5.
Aiden Blizzard hit two fours and a six , but the rest of the batsmen did not have to rely on the platform Dunk and Birt had expected the last five batsmen gathered only 17 races. Hastings took another wicket to finish with an economical 2 for 15 four overs and Blizzard was unbeaten on 28 as the Hurricanes were restricted to 131 for 9.
The stars have also lost one of their openers early fall with Cameron White for 4 on the first ball Dimitri Mascarenhas of . Luke Wright remained solid at the other end , even if he did not have much support for important partnerships. In nearly seven overs Wright and Brad Hodge put on 42 from which it was only 12 out 26 balls. When it came out in the 12th over , the stars needed 59 from 55. Wright fifty and took the team past 100 but his wicket in the 15th over bumpy hunting them later, but they need less to run - a ball then .
Peter Handscomb a four on the first ball of the last stars have more home and gave them their seventh win in seven games.
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