Cricket: Steve Smith caught first ball of the Sydney Smash after being stirred up by David Warner pre-game.
The Thunder were a 90.26 per cent chance of winning after being 0-44 after the power play, but they imploded from there on to surrender to the Sixers.
That pretty much summed up the performance from the Thunder, whose batting has let them down all season.David Warner’s box office helicopter arrival helped supercharge a sellout SCG crowd, but it was a Sixers legend who took flight with the ball, strangling the Thunder’s chase and ending their finals hopes.
With Hales and Cameron Bancroft back in the pavilion at the end of the left-armers first over, the chase lost momentum and was terminated when Warner was the seventh to fall 50 shy of the target. His selection as Warner’s replacement to open in next week’s Test in Adelaide may have divided opinion, but in magenta it’s usually a no brainer.Yet before most fans had taken their seats, he’d already skied the opening delivery of the night from Daniel Sams to deep square and was heading towards the exit.
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