Stand-in Heat skipper Xavier Bartlett has been left fuming by a no-ball controversy after he was struck in the stomach while batting.
Bartlett appeared to be hit above the thigh guard by a Jamie Overton full toss – but the delivery was deemed legal.
“It’s hit me in the stomach!” Bartlett could be heard yelling to the square leg umpire.
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“Show him the bruise, X,” Fox Cricket commentator Brad Haddin joked.
The umpire appeared to state that the delivery dropped below waist height when contact was made.
But replays suggested the 119km/h delivery hit high.
“Ohhhh! He’s not happy,” Brendon Julian said.
“The umpire is just shaking his head.
“It would have hurt too!”
“If it was lower he wouldn’t be up!” Haddin added.
“It’s dropped him.
“That’s a no ball!”
Earlier Brisbane star Matt Renshaw continued to push his late T20 World Cup claim with a thrilling 21-ball knock against the Adelaide Strikers on Saturday.
Renshaw was at his brilliant best for 33, in an innings that included two fours and two big sixes – one that reached the upper deck at the Gabba.
“He’s just so confident in his game at the moment Matt Renshaw,” Brad Haddin said of Renshaw, who is now the BBL’s leading run scorer this season.
“(Getting out) is the last thing on his mind.”
But the star batsman’s only blemish came trying to take on Strikers skipper Matt Short.
After being sent in to bat, both openers Colin Munro (14) and Jack Wildermuth (1) fell in the powerplay to leave Brisbane 2-35 after four overs.
Max Bryant (63 off 32 balls) helped steady the ship for the Heat as they finished 9-179.
In reply, Matt Short and Chris Lynn made a slow start before it was Bartlett who brought himself on and drew the miscue from his former Heat teammate.
Lynn had to depart as a result for 22 (off 24 balls), and when Bartlett then snared the wicket of Mackenzie Harvey in the same over (0 off 2), the match was back in Brisbane’s favour.
“He’s turned this game around,” Haddin said of Bartlett.
The BBL’s top four beckons for the winners of Saturday’s contest.
Saturday’s match started at 6.15pm local time at the Gabba.
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SQUADS
Brisbane Heat: Shaheen Shah Afridi, Tom Alsop, Tom Balkin, Xavier Bartlett (c), Max Bryant, Liam Haskett, Lachlan Hearne, Matthew Kuhnemann, Colin Munro, Oli Patterson, Jimmy Peirson, Matthew Renshaw, Hugh Weibgen, Jack Wildermuth
In: Oli Patterson Out: –
Adelaide Strikers: Hassan Ali, Mackenzie Harvey, Chris Lynn, Harry Manenti, Harry Nielsen, Jamie Overton, Lloyd Pope, Jason Sangha, Liam Scott, Matt Short (c), Henry Thornton, Jerrssis Wadia, Luke Wood
In: – Out: Alex Ross (omitted)
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