BH vs MS

That brings an end to another thrilling match at the BBL. Stars suffer their first loss of the season finally in their fifth game but they are stiill on top of the table. Heat get back into the top-4 as they climb to number 4 with that win which was very crucial for their season, it is now 3 and 3 for them in 6 games. We move to Sydney tomorrow as the bottom placed Thunder in desperate need of a win host the second-placed Hurricanes who are themselves coming off a loss. For now, this is Sourabh Agrawal signing off on behallf of Datrim Ray and the entire team. Cheers!

Player of the Match Award [Max Bryant from Brisbane Heat, 48 off 26]: " Yes I think if we have wickets in hand, then it's a nice place to bat on. Bartlett took pressure off me - He gave me the license to go big. We don't want to lose at Gabba, and hopefully we go into the final. We need to win two home games in order to make it... Credit to the boys tonight and how they executed their bowling plans. The Stars were like 20 rus short (he adds). We had the spirit to fight just like the Queensland spirit. (The game looked done and dusted in the last five overs.) Yes, obviously, there was pressure, but we have been in situations like these earlier, and this is what we play for. It was certainly good to win tonight."

9:34 PM local time, 5:04 PM IST: MATCH SUMMARY

Brisbane Heat (199/6 in 19.4 overs) beat Melbourne Stars (195/6 in 20 overs) by 4 wickets

Max Bryant 48*(26) | Thomas Balkin 2/35(4)
Marcus Stoinis 43(35) | Mitchell Swepson 2/30(3)

Absolute scenes at The Gabba! if there's one place to be in the BBL it is The Gabba and the Heat faithful have been served up yet another thriller as the home side make it three out of three for the season at their den and also bring an end to Stars' 4-match unbeaten run.

Take a bow, Max Bryant! He was on 14* off 17 at one stage, struggling to get it away with the required rate well over 15 to the over. But then, he found the fence against Siddle and even the man with so much years of experience wilted under pressure, it was that high no-ball from Siddle at 17.5 which flipped it all around for Max Bryant and Heat!

Take nothing away from the breezy cameo by Bartlett, 21* off 9 for him and he was the one who started to put the impetus into the innings when Bryant was struggling. Heat have absolutely stolen one from under Stars's nose and handed them their first loss of the season

Guess what, Bryant should have been out caught behind in the 15th over itself off Siddle but there was no appeal at all from the Stars. How it has come back to bite them?

To be fair, Heat cost their openers early but they were well posiitoned at 103/2 at 11.5 overs with McSweeney and Renshaw having put on a 69-run stand for the third wicket. But then, the script changed at Heat lost 3 wickets in the next 7 balls which saw them stariing down the barrel

Peirson played a cameo as well after that but it really was that amazing 65-run unbeaten partnership off 24 balls between Bryant and Bartlett which saw them over the line from an improbable situation.

19.4 Haris Rauf to Max Bryant, All over! Bryant hits the winning runs, and the Brisbane Heat miraculously get away with a win tonight! Back of a length ball outside off. Bryant opens the face of his bat and guides it into the gap between the backward point and the gully to find the ropes. Brisbane Heat win by 4 wickets!

19.3 Haris Rauf to Max Bryant, SIX! Scores are level! Bryant has nearly snatched the game from the Stars! Absolutely incredible! That ball was in the slot from Rauf. Bryant swings hard across the line and deposits it over deep square leg for a six.

19.2 Haris Rauf to Max Bryant, Length ball on middle. Bryant drills it down the ground and starts running right away. He takes the first run quickly and rushes back for the second. Harper fumbles and Bryant is through!

18.6 Tom Curran to Max Bryant, Back of a length ball on middle. Swung away to deep midwicket for a couple. We are in for a thriller guys as we head into the last over!

That is a bad ball with third man and point up in the circle, short and wide and that was like a free hit for Bryant! Pressure telling on Curran, 12 off 7 now. Huge ball this!

18.5 Tom Curran to Max Bryant, SIX! Bryant is getting the Heat closer to the finishing line! Short and wide outside off. Bryant throws his hands at it and belts it into the stands over point for a six. 

Bartlett is absolutely belting it down the ground tonight, he got 10 off 2 balls targeting the sightscreen against Swepson previously and he has now got six more here off two balls. 19 needed off 9!

18.3 Tom Curran to Xavier Bartlett, GOES AGAIN! Fuller ball on off. Drilled back past the bowler but Maxwell cuts it off at long on. A couple this time!

18.2 Tom Curran to Xavier Bartlett, Drilled for four! Overpitched and around off. Bartlett gets bat down on time and powerfully drills it back past the bowler for a four.