Sydney Thunder vs Perth Scorchers, 17th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Tye to Chris Green, FOUR, bang in his arc, Green clears his front leg, stays low and under and slices it big and high over extra cover

Tye to Gurinder Sandhu, FOUR, slammed uppishly, dying in front of a running-in Coulter-Nile at long-off. And he completely loses it against the lights, only for the ball to sneak right through his legs. Dig a hole, NCN

Coulter-Nile to Chris Green, FOUR, dead straight. He's keeping the hopes of 140 alive, getting under this leg-lined half volley of sorts and muscling it straight back

Coulter-Nile to Jason Sangha, out Caught by Cartwright!! It looked a crisp pull, but he's picked out deep square leg to perfection. Rib-lined, Sangha adjusts well to the lack of bounce to stay low as he pulls, but doesn't keep it down. Cartwright does well against the floodlight engulfing the ball to wait behind. Jason Sangha c Cartwright b Coulter-Nile 2(6)

J Richardson to Chris Green, FOUR, opens his back-footed stance, swatting a pull off his tummy through cow corner. The Thunder desperately needed this

J Richardson to Buttler, out Hit Wkt!! His extravagance consumes him. Buttler premeditates the reverse scoop, and so what if the ball is a wide slower yorker outside off, he isn't going to ditch it for that. So he sweeps, misses all ends up and because he's doing it from well inside his crease, has the bat-swing break his own stumps. Buttler hit wkt b J Richardson 55(54) [4s-4 6s-1]

Coulter-Nile to Buttler, FOUR, when the conventional one doesn't work, the reverse sure will. Buttler turns leftie, pulls the line from outside off over short third man -- to bring up his third fifty of the tournament, easily the most scrappy

Tye to Daniel Sams, out Caught by Agar!! Lucky, very lucky. There's nothing in this delivery for Sams to use, so he rocks back, manufactures all the power himself to pump it over long-off with another flat-whack. But there's Agar out there by the fence, reverse-cups it over his eyeline. Daniel Sams c Agar b Tye 5(6)

Agar to Root, out Bowled!! Bat-pad-pitch-stump. Agar slows it up smartly, makes Root loses his timing on his commited sweep - which is through well before the ball comes to him - and so ends up getting an under-edge onto his pad, which trickles under his legs to leave a mess behind. Pretty safe to assume Root's BBL affair isn't going about well. Root b Agar 5(4) [4s-1]

Agar to Root, FOUR, oh neat. Steps out, gives himself enough room and inside-outs it perfectly over the covers

Agar to Ferguson, out Bowled!! Stays low and skids through Ferguson to knock over middle stump. He stayed back in the crease to a length ball and really fancied a cut there. But the pitch deceived him more than the bowler. A superb knock though on a tough pitch, his timing really stood out. Ferguson b Agar 42(30) [4s-5 6s-1]

Agar to Ferguson, SIX, what a shot this is. Absolute skimmer from Ferguson as he swipes this flighted ball flat and hard over deep midwicket. Some of his timing today, geez

Coulter-Nile to Ferguson, FOUR, slower short ball outside off, Ferguson charges down to it, makes enough room while doing so and smashes the forehand through extra cover

J Richardson to Buttler, FOUR, short of length, off-pace from Richardson and Buttler helps this round the corner behind square. Imparts enough timing on the swivel-pull to beat deep square leg

J Richardson to Ferguson, 1 run, has just lost his timing here. Richardson has done well against him to really hit the pitch hard. Short of length, hits Ferguson very high on the bat as he looks to pull. He ends up splicing it down to long-on

Tye to Ferguson, FOUR, he keeps timing the ball so brilliantly. Short of length outside off, slower off-cutter from Tye. Ferguson waits for this nicely and nails the back-cut wide of third man

Tye to Buttler, FOUR, slower dipping yorker outside off, Buttler does enough work with the bottom hand to jam this through the gap at cover-point. Runs away to the fence

Behrendorff to Buttler, SIX, that's a Jos Buttler specialty. Gives the impression that he's backing away, then quickly walks across the stumps and scoops this over short fine leg. No one executes this shot like he does

Behrendorff to Ferguson, FOUR, phew, he's batting on another pitch. Behrendorff doesn't help himself here with this full-pitched ball outside off, and gets smoked through extra-cover. Great start from Ferguson

Willey to Ferguson, FOUR, short fine leg has dived right over this. Not a great delivery to start with from Willey, straying in at the hip from round the wicket, Ferguson clips it nicely to the left of the fielder. Should've been stopped

Behrendorff to Ferguson, FOUR, the timing on this is sublime from Ferguson, which - as we've seen - hasn't been easy to do with the pitch being damp. Short and wide, he crunches the cut through point

Behrendorff to Watson, out Caught&Bowled!! Full ball angling away outside off, Watson plants his foot down looking to thrash it straight, but it comes off the toe-end. It was still going quickly though, and it's such a good return catch from Behrendorff. Excellent reflexes. Always crucial to strike early with an opening pair like that, and Perth have done exactly that. Watson c and b Behrendorff 4(7)

Coulter-Nile to Buttler, FOUR, short of length outside off, this pitch is slow enough for Buttler to rock back and drag his pull through midwicket