Australia T20 League continues to entertain the cricket fans with power-packed action and the sixth match of the tournament between Sydney Thunder and Adelaide Strikers is scheduled on 21st December. The match will commence at Manuka Oval, Canberra at 12:40 PM IST. The two teams have great cricket history against each other, as they have played 11 matches head to head. Out of which, Adelaide has won 6 matches and on the other hand, Sydney has won 4 matches.
In this season, Sydney Thunder is in the lead, winning both the matches they have played so far. However, Adelaide Strikers will play their first match of the tournament and will seek for victory in the opening match. These are the initial matches of Australia T20 League of the current season and both the teams will look forward to maintaining their spots on the points table to win the tournament.
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Pitch Report
The game will be played at the Manuka Oval, Canberra. The highest total at this venue is 151, hence the ground is difficult to bag good scores. The team that will chase will most probably win.
Weather Conditions
There are no chances of rain interrupting the game. The report says that the weather is partly cloudy. The day will be quite hot and the temperature will be around 41 degrees Celsius.
Precipitation- 20%
Wind- 27km/h
Humidity- 23 %
Probable Playing XI
Sydney Thunder
Callum Ferguson (c), Usman Khawaja, Alex Hales, Chris Morris, Gurinder Sandhu, Chris Tremain, Alex Ross, Jay Lenton, Chris Green, Liam Hatcher, Nathan McAndrew, Arjun Nair, Jason Sangha, Daniel Sams, Jonathan Cook, Matthew Gilkes, Tanveer Sangha, Oliver Davies
Adelaide Strikers
Cameron White, Peter Siddle, Michael Neser, Jonathan Wells, Harry Conway, Travis Head (c), Alex Carey, Matthew Short, Cameron Valente, Billy Stanlake, Nick Winter, Jake Lehmann, Harry Nielsen, Philip Salt, Rashid Khan, Liam O Connor, Jake Weatherald, Wes Agar
Key Players
Sydney Thunder
Usman Khawaja
Callum Ferguson
Adelaide Strikers
Travis Head
Cameron White