Adelaide Strikers finished a disappointing season on a high note on Saturday, Tabraiz Shamsi taking four wickets in a commanding eight-wicket win against Melbourne Renegades at Adelaide Oval.

Chasing a target of just 100 to win, Chris Lynn made an unbeaten 27 to propel his side to victory with 49 balls to spare.

Strikers skipper Matt Short won the bat flip and elected to bowl in the clash that didn’t have finals implications, with both teams managing just three wins from their opening nine games.

The carnage started early with Jerrssis Wadia taking two wickets with the first two balls of the innings.

Wickets fell regularly from there and Shamsi cleaned up the tail, dismissing the last four batters, as the home side bowled out the Renegades for 99 runs from 16.5 overs.

CAREY CRUNCHED

Alex Carey copped a nasty knock to the helmet from Brendan Doggett in the second over when he mistimed a ramp shot against his Ashes teammate.

But the Test keeper shook off the blow and got the run chase off on a positive note with a quickfire 22 before he holed out in the fourth over by Sam Elliott.

The Strikers were 1-39 after the Power Surge, with Short and Lynn keeping the run chase going at a rapid pace.

The home side needed 33 runs from 70 balls when Short departed for 30 off 22 deliveries, with Lynn and Liam Scott steering their side to an emphatic win in the 12th over.

WOWEE, WADIA!

Wadia was responsible for one of the most memorable starts to a Big Bash innings when he had Tim Seifert caught behind off the first ball bowled then dismissed Jake Fraser-McGurk with the second.

The visitors were reeling when Seifert was expertly caught by Carey, and Fraser-McGurk spooned an easy return catch back to Wadia, but the damage could have been even worse.

Muhammad Rizwan mistimed the last ball of Wadia’s opening over and spooned a simple catch to mid-off, but Hassan Ali put it down.

Rizwan lasted until the fourth over when Wadia took a superb catch in the deep to have the visitors 3-24.

Hassan redeemed himself with the key wicket of opener Josh Brown, the Renegades’ top scorer for the season, in the sixth over, and also took an excellent catch running in from deep mid-on to send Brendan Doggett on his way.

POPE STRIKES

Fan favourite Lloyd Pope finished the tournament as the Strikers’ top wicket-taker with 15 after taking 2-23 from his four overs.

The Renegades were 5-51 in the eighth over after Pope bowled Hassan Khan and he followed up with the wicket of Caleb Jewell two overs later as the Renegades crumbled.

“That is terrible batting, this is ‘park’ cricket from the Renegades,” Australian Test great Mark Waugh said on Fox Cricket after the visitors slumped to 6-58 when Pope bowled Jewell.

“I know they’re trying, but at the end of the day they are professional batsmen and it’s just not good enough at the moment.”

Hassan bowled the first over of the Power Surge and Jamie Overton dropped top scorer Will Sutherland on 19.

The England all-rounder’s disappointment was made even more acute when he bowled the next over and Sutherland belted two sixes and a four as the Renegades took the Power Surge for 25 runs.

Sutherland didn’t last much longer, however, with the Renegades skipper holing out to Wadia in the deep in the 16th over, bowled by Shamsi.