The Sydney teams person continued their ascendant commencement to the Big Bash, with the Thunder cruising past the Brisbane Heat successful their play opener.
After losing 3 aboriginal wickets, the brace of Sam Billings (44 not retired disconnected 36 balls) and Alex Ross (61 not retired disconnected 46 balls) guided the Thunder to a seven-wicket win, with 17 balls to spare.
The Heat batted first, posting 8-140.
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"It's ever been bully to get up the bid and the higher you tin bat, the better," antheral of the lucifer Ross said afterwards.
"Our bowlers acceptable up that triumph though. 140 was ne'er capable connected that wicket. A fewer of the guys speech astir continuity successful the team. There's nary egos."
Ashes hopeful and Heat skipper Jimmy Peirson had a infinitesimal to hide precocious on, wholly losing way of what should person been a regular drawback aft a mis-hit from Sam Billings.
"He's not got a manus connected that," Andrew Symonds said.
"You've got to instrumentality them."
The lucifer was astir apt beyond uncertainty astatine this point, with the Thunder needing lone 9 runs from 3 and a fractional overs.
Peirson was successful the framework for a call-up to the Ashes squad aft Tim Paine's departure, but the motion went to Alex Carey instead.
"I'm inactive benignant of learning my commercialized done this relation of captaincy and keeping. I learned a batch tonight," Peirson said afterwards.
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