Unlucky Test cricketer blasts Heat to BBL final

Michael Neser had already plundered 4 fours connected the bounce to settee the Brisbane Heat successful a wobbly tally pursuit astatine the SCG.

The fringe Australian Test speedy past capped his heroics by muscling a Ben Dwarshuis transportation for 4 down the crushed to nonstop the Heat to the Big Bash League final.

Neser produced a destructive sound to pb the Heat to a four-wicket triumph implicit the Sydney Sixers, who had started the preliminary last arsenic overwhelming favourites.

As Moises Henriques and his teammates rue their big-game crash, Jimmy Peirson and institution are eyeing a title-deciding lucifer against the Perth Scorchers, who they'll conscionable astatine Perth Stadium connected Saturday evening.

While the Scorchers are the league's astir palmy broadside and are hunting their 5th title, the Heat are pursuing conscionable their 2nd crown and archetypal since the 2012-13 summer.

The Heat struggled to prime disconnected the runs successful the preliminary last contempt chasing conscionable 117 to win.

Opener Sam Heazlett was the archetypal to depart erstwhile helium called his spouse done for a tally connected an overthrow, earlier being tally retired astatine the bowler's end.

Wickets continued to tumble, Brisbane crumbling to 5-56.

Enter Neser.

Three nights aft claiming men's home subordinate of the twelvemonth astatine the Australian cricket awards ceremony, the Queenslander blasted 48 runs from 32 balls, including 7 fours, arsenic the Heat cruised location with 10 balls to spare.

"How did you marque it look truthful easy?" Mark Waugh said connected Fox Cricket's post-game coverage, drafting a laughter from Neser.

"What was your mindset? Just enactment arsenic inactive arsenic imaginable and play the shot arsenic precocious arsenic you could?"

Neser said that was "pretty much" his plan.

"Obviously it was rather pugnacious to get started, but erstwhile you got the gait of the wicket it wasn't excessively bad," the weapon all-rounder added.

"Also, a spot of luck determination I had aboriginal on. But I conjecture it came off."

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