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Perth Scorchers posted a commanding win over the Melbourne Renegades on the back of Finn Allen’s brilliant first BBL century<\/p>\n
Melbourne Renegades v Perth Scorchers | BBL|15<\/p>\n
Kiwi blaster Finn Allen has smashed a masterful first BBL century as the Perth Scorchers punched their finals ticket with a commanding 50-run win over the Melbourne Renegades.<\/p>\n
The Scorchers were sent in to bat on Thursday night at Marvel Stadium, where chasing teams had won 14 of the previous 16 matches.<\/p>\n
Opener Allen relished the challenge, thumping 101 from 53 balls to help the Scorchers post a massive 7-219 – just four runs shy of the highest-ever total at the Docklands venue.<\/p>\n
Jake Fraser-McGurk gave the Renegades a brief burst of life in the chase with five sixes in his quickfire 42 off 18, and Tim Seifert kept the flame flickering with 66 off 43.<\/p>\n
Fraser-McGurk entertains in blazing knock<\/p>\n
But the victory target always looked beyond their reach as the home side managed 7-169.<\/p>\n
Allen brought up his first BBL century \u2013 his fifth in T20 cricket \u2013 off just 51 balls before he eventually holed out to long-on off Adam Zampa.<\/p>\n
It was the second-fastest century in Scorchers franchise history, with the second 50 runs coming in just 17 deliveries.<\/p>\n
“It was one of those wickets where it was probably a little bit difficult at the start, so I had to get a little bit rogue on a length ball to kind of get me going,” Allen told Seven during the broadcast.<\/p>\n
Almighty Allen blasts epic ton to scorch ‘Gades<\/p>\n
“I just tried to hit good shots once I was on.<\/p>\n
“When they hit a good length, top of the stumps, it was definitely difficult.<\/p>\n
“Going into the back 10 overs, once we took the Surge, I think that got us a bit of momentum and softened the ball up a little bit.”<\/p>\n
Allen smashed eight sixes and five fours in his match-winning knock.<\/p>\n
The right-handed opener was given two lifelines, first dropped on eight by Harry Dixon on the boundary off Gurinder Sandhu’s bowling.<\/p>\n
He was on 37 not out when he hit the Marvel Stadium roof with a huge strike off Will Sutherland \u2013 resulting in a dead ball \u2013 and was dropped by Sandhu at cover next ball.<\/p>\n
It was a difficult chance, with Allen’s shot cracked low at Sandhu with incredible power.<\/p>\n
Allen showed no mercy to Sandhu, smashing the right-arm quick for three consecutive sixes to kick off the power surge, with the Scorchers taking 34 runs from it for the loss of one wicket.<\/p>\n
One of the blows sent the ball flying over long-on, up into the second tier of the grandstand.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know how big it was, but yeah, it was good,” Allen said.<\/p>\n
Sam Elliott, who took 4-28 from three overs, was the best of the Renegades’ bowlers, with legspinner Zampa (1-31, four) the tightest.<\/p>\n
Renegades batter Dixon was hit in the neck by a bouncer from Scorchers quick Mahli Beardman and was alert afterwards, but was taken to hospital as a precaution.<\/p>\n
The pair were Australian teammates in the 2024 Under-19 World Cup win.<\/p>\n
KFC BBL|15 standings<\/p>\n
Team<\/p>\n
\n Matches played\n <\/p>\n
M<\/p>\n
\n Wins\n <\/p>\n
W<\/p>\n
\n Losses\n <\/p>\n
L<\/p>\n
\n Ties\n <\/p>\n
T<\/p>\n
\n No results\n <\/p>\n
N\/R<\/p>\n
\n Net Run Rate\n <\/p>\n
NRR<\/p>\n
\n Deductions\n <\/p>\n
Ded.<\/p>\n
\n Total points\n <\/p>\n
PTS<\/p>\n
1
\n
\n Hobart Hurricanes Men
\n HUR<\/p>\n
10
\n 6
\n 3
\n 0
\n 1
\n 0.331
\n 0
\n 13<\/p>\n
2
\n
\n Perth Scorchers Men
\n SCO<\/p>\n
9
\n 6
\n 3
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1.319
\n 0
\n 12<\/p>\n
3
\n
\n Melbourne Stars Men
\n STA<\/p>\n
9
\n 6
\n 3
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1.031
\n 0
\n 12<\/p>\n
4
\n
\n Brisbane Heat Men
\n HEA<\/p>\n
9
\n 5
\n 4
\n 0
\n 0
\n -0.375
\n 0
\n 10<\/p>\n
5
\n
\n Sydney Sixers Men
\n SIX<\/p>\n
8
\n 4
\n 3
\n 0
\n 1
\n 0.458
\n 0
\n 9<\/p>\n
6
\n
\n Adelaide Strikers Men
\n STR<\/p>\n
9
\n 3
\n 6
\n 0
\n 0
\n -0.625
\n 0
\n 6<\/p>\n
7
\n
\n Melbourne Renegades Men
\n REN<\/p>\n
9
\n 3
\n 6
\n 0
\n 0
\n -0.91
\n 0
\n 6<\/p>\n
8
\n
\n Sydney Thunder Men
\n THU<\/p>\n
9
\n 2
\n 7
\n 0
\n 0
\n -1.182
\n 0
\n 4<\/p>\n
Legend<\/p>\n
M: Matches played<\/p>\n
W: Wins<\/p>\n
L: Losses<\/p>\n
T: Ties<\/p>\n
N\/R: No results<\/p>\n
NRR: Net Run Rate<\/p>\n
Ded.: Deductions<\/p>\n
PTS: Total points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perth Scorchers posted a commanding win over the Melbourne Renegades on the back of Finn Allen’s brilliant first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-414813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}