Nathan Coulter-Nile registered the best figures of his BBL career on Friday, taking four wickets to help Melbourne Stars beat Brisbane Heat by six wickets at the Manuka Oval in Canberra.
Coulter-Nile (4/10) helped Stars in dismantling Heat for just 125 runs in 19.5 overs. Chasing the paltry total, captain Glenn Maxwell (46 off 26) and Hilton Cartwright (46 not out off 42) starred with the bat and took their team over the finish🐈 line with 17 balls to spare.
Well, things weren’t as easy as it looked. Debutants Xavier Bartlett (1/28) and Jack Wood (2/28) had last season’s finalists slumping to 3/34 after 6.1 overs. But then Maxwell and Cartwright steadied their ship, and they also claimed the bonus-point for leading the game till the 10-over mark.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
It was all quite easy for Nathan Coulter-Nile 🐟🍸tonight!
The Player of the Match
— KFC Big Bash League (@BBL)
WPA in agreement with the player of the mat💝ch call as Nathan Coulter-Nile picked up 4 for 10 and 38.1% WPA as the S🍰tars rolled the Heat in Game 2 of
— Richard Little (@alittlefitness)
in his best form !
— Vinny Vatyani (@veronica___77)
//twitter.co💝m/little_mikey96/status/1337363105320488961
A six-wicket win for Melbourne Stars over Brisbane Heat.
over Brisbane Heat.— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
Stars WIN 💚
What a way to start our campaign 👌
— Melbourne Stars (@StarsBBL)
A very convincing win for – barring the very start of their run chase they have dominated every part of this game. bowled better than they batted but that has to be acknowledged as a low bar.
— Thomas Sutcliffe (@aspitweets)
Stars 129-4(17.1)🏏🏏
Maxi quick fire 46 and good bowling gave last year finalists good wꦑin😮😮
— Luffy (@Rahul67137552)
Me👍lbourne Stars defeat Brisbane𒐪 Heat by six wickets.
Points: Stars 4 (3 for the win,𒈔 1 for the Bash Boost) Heat 0
— Crowdiegal (@crowdiegal)
Cartwright is such a revelation for Stars at t𝔉he top! Underrated talent.
— Aashish Poudel 🇳🇵 (@AsisPdl07)
Melbourne Stars starts with a win – beating Brisbane Heat by 6 wickets – Maxwell 46(26) & Nathan Coulter Nile 4 wickets – they got 4 points including 1 point from Bash Boost.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
Highlight of tonight's game is the Two left arm Chinaman bowlers getting wickets off there first deliveries of there first overs. .
— Brad Hogg (@Brad_Hogg)
Good exposure for our youngsters tonigh꧙t, but too strong.
— Brisbane Heat (@HeatBBL)
