High-flying Heat recover from first-ball blow against Thunder with bumper crowd building — LIVE

We’ve got a bumper crowd at The Gabba with more than 25,000 expected through the gates to watch the Brisbane Heat host the Sydney Thunder.

The Heat won the bat flip and elected to bat but they lost big hitter Colin Munro in the first over for a golden duck.

MATCH CENTRE: Heat v Thunders, scorecard, teams, highlights

Brisbane’s leading run-scorer this season holed out when he skied a delivery from Gurinder Sandhu down the throat of Daniel Sams at deep mid-wicket.

But the hosts have recovered and it’s 3-136 after 15 overs. The average winning total at The Gabba is 188.

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MATCH PREVIEW

Brisbane are undefeated through four games (three wins and one washout) with big hitter Colin Munro and spinner Mitchell Swepson leading the charge.

The Thunder posted their first win of the season in their last start when they chased down the Melbourne Stars’ 172 with 10 balls to spare.

Cameron Bancroft been the Thunder’s best batsman this summer while Tanveer Sangha has been the pick of the bowlers.

But they’ve already lost to the Heat this season when the Sydney outfit failed to chase down 7-151 in their season opener.

TEAMS

Brisbane Heat: Josh Brown, Colin Munro (c), Nathan McSweeney, Matthew Renshaw, Sam Billings (wk), Paul Walter, Michael Neser, Xavier Bartlett, Spencer Johnson, Mitch Swepson, Matthew Kuhnemann

Sydney Thunder: Alex Hales, Cameron Bancroft (wk), Jason Sangha, Ollie Davies, Alex Ross, Daniel Sams, Nathan McAndrew, Chris Green (c), Gurinder Sandhu, Zaman Khan, Tanveer Sangha