'Embarrassing' Thunder slump to historic low

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By Damien McCartney and Matt Bungard

The Sydney Thunder person collapsed to the lowest people successful nonrecreational T20 cricket aft they were rolled for conscionable 15 by the Adelaide Strikers successful their BBL clash astatine Sydney Showgrounds connected Friday night.

Five Thunder stars - including England's one-day opener Alex Hales - made ducks, and apical scorer Brendan Doggett made conscionable 4.

The Strikers utilized conscionable 3 bowlers - Matt Short took 1-1 from his azygous over. While Wes Agar besides picked up 4-6 from his 2 overs.

But the time belonged to Henry Thornton, who connected his 26th day ripped done the Thunder to instrumentality 5-3 from conscionable 17 balls.

The Thunder's 15 takes the mantle arsenic lowest ever T20 score from the Turkish nationalist side, who were rolled for 21 by the Czech Republic successful 2019.

The Thunder are coached by Trevor Bayliss - who conscionable past period coached England to triumph successful the T20 World Cup.

The Thunders' woeful show near commentators and pundits alike successful full disbelief.

"Take a screencap of that - due to the fact that you'll never, ever spot this again," Fox Cricket commentator Dan Ginnane said aft the ninth wicket fell.

As Fazalhaq Farooqi walked to the crease with the people astatine 14, the Thunder needed to marque different 43 conscionable to debar the embarrassment of having the lowest Big Bash people successful history, acceptable by the Renegades successful 2015.

"I've ne'er seen a crippled of cricket similar this ever," Brett Lee said successful commentary for Fox Cricket.

The crippled would extremity 1 shot aft that statement, arsenic Thornton took his 5th wicket - and the tenth of the innings.

"I don't cognize what they're going to accidental successful the alteration rooms, but that's very, precise embarrassing for the Sydney Thunder - they've been perfectly drilled," Lee said.

"The bowling from the Strikers was spot on."

His aged teammate Brad Haddin agreed.

"There was immoderate mediocre dismissals successful there, but what it was, it was conscionable prime accelerated bowling - it was intimidating, they recovered the edges, and were backed up by the fielding," helium said.

It didn't commencement severely for the Thunder. After losing the flip and being thrown the ball, they restricted the Strikers to conscionable 139 from their 20 overs.

Farooqi was the prime of the bowlers with 3-20 from his 4 overs, with Gurinder Sandhu, Daniel Sams and Doggett each picking up 2 each.

But that was arsenic bully arsenic it got.

They mislaid Matt Gilkes successful the archetypal over. Rilee Rossouw and Sangha past fell successful the second.

In the 3rd over, Hales and Sams were dismissed, earlier Alex Ross followed successful the fourth.

Chris Green and Sandhu departed successful the fifth, earlier Ollie Davies and Doggett collapsed successful the sixth to extremity a historical night. It was besides the shortest completed innings - wherever a squad had been bowled retired - successful T20 history.

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