Rahul Tiwari
khelja|04-01-2025
Australia's T20 tournament Big Bash League saw a fierce competition between Melbourne Stars and Melbourne Renegades. Both the teams clashed on Saturday 4 January. During this, Hilton Cartwright created a stir with the bat. In a thrilling match, he played a stormy innings with a strike rate of 200 and led his team Melbourne Stars to victory in the last over. During this innings, Cartwright hit a huge six and took the ball away from Yuvraj Singh. Actually, Cartwright hit a long six of 121 meters, whereas Yuvraj Singh hit the longest six of his career of 119 meters.
Batting first, Melbourne Renegades had set a target of 169 runs. While chasing this, Melbourne Stars team had scored 159 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 19 overs. Now he needed 10 runs in the last over. Only 2 runs were scored on the first two balls after which the pressure increased. After this, Hilton Cartwright removed all the tension of the team by hitting a 121 meter long six on the third ball. Cartwright hit a four on the very next ball and won the match. In the end he played an important inning of 24 runs in 12 balls.
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The performance of the Melbourne Stars team in the current season has not been good. She would have been eliminated if she lost this match, but with this win she is still in the race. Melbourne Stars are at the last position in the points table with 4 points from 7 matches with 2 wins. But he still has a chance to win his remaining matches and qualify for the knock out stage.
Although Hilton Cartwright ended the match by scoring 24 runs in 12 balls, the big hero of this important chase was Ben Duckett. While opening the batsman, this England batsman played an innings of 67 runs in 49 balls at a strike rate of 136. This inning of Duckett came when the Stars team had lost 2 wickets at the score of 3 runs. At the same time, till 41 runs, 3 batsmen had returned to the pavilion. He along with team captain Marcus Stoinis made an important partnership of 83 runs and took the score to 124. After this, Cartwright finally finished the match. Duckett was chosen player of the match in the match.