BBL 2020-21: Match 36, STR vs STA – Strikers’ home dominance against the Stars, Stoinis @ 2000 runs and more stats

Adelaide Strikers climbed to No.3 position in the points table following a 5-wicket win against the Melbourne Stars at the Adelaide Oval. Stars, who elected to bat first, found themselves in trouble against some tight bowling by the Strikers. They crawled to 149/7 in their 20 overs with help of Marcus Stoinis’ 31-ball 47 at the top and an unbeaten 48 at the end by Nic Maddinson. Five out of Strikers’ top six batsmen scored no less than 19 runs as the home team completed the chase with an over to spare.

Here are all the statistical highlights from Adelaide Strikers’ victory in their 100th appearance in the BBL:

Strikers’ home dominance against the Stars:

3 – Adelaide Strikers have defeated Melbourne Stars in three consecutive matches in the BBL for the first time. They defeated Stars by 5 runs and 11 runs respectively at the Carrara Oval and Adelaide Oval in the 2019-20 season before facing on Monday.

6 – Melbourne Stars have lost each of their last six matches played at the Adelaide Oval in the BBL. The six defeats of Stars in Adelaide are the most for any team at this venue in the BBL. The lone win of the Stars at the Adelaide Oval came in their first appearance during the 2012-13 season by an 8-run margin.

Double maidens by the Strikers:

1 – The STR vs STA game recorded the first-ever instance of two maiden overs in a BBL match by the Adelaide Strikers’ bowlers. This is overall the 9th such instance for any team in the league history and the 7th time where two bowlers delivered a maiden over in the same innings.

Milestone game for Rashid:

50 – The STR vs STA game was marked to be the 50th appearance of Rashid Khan in the Big Bash League. He is now the 5th player to feature in as many as 50 BBL matches for the Adelaide Strikers.

37 – Rashid Khan has played half of his 50 BBL games at the Adelaide Oval where he bagged as many as 37 wickets. Only Sean Abbott (45 wickets at SCG) has picked more wickets than Rashid at a venue in the BBL thus far.

Stoinis @ 2000 runs:

2018 – Marcus Stoinis became only the 5th player to aggregate 2000 runs in the Big Bash League when he went past his individual score of 29. Stoinis scored 2008 of those runs for the Melbourne Stars only which makes him the first player with 2000 BBL runs for the Stars.

Zampa moves on to the top:

81 – Adam Zampa, with 81 wickets to his name, is now the 5th highest wicket-taker in the BBL history. He also became the most successful spin bowler by going past Cameron Boyce (79) with the two wickets he picked during STR vs STA game.