HOBART, Australia, CMC – Dwayne Bravo again played a negligible role and Sydney Sixers were undermined by Pakistani fast-medium bowler Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, losing by 42 runs against Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League on Wednesday.
Bravo made just three, as the Sixers, chasing 170 for victory from their allocation of 20 overs, were restricted to 127 for nine in their preliminary match at Bellerive Oval.
The Trinidad & Tobago and West Indies all-rounder continued to struggle with the ball, delivering two unsuccessful overs that cost him 23 runs.
Bravo is playing in the BBL before returning home early next year to take part in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship to be staged in Antigua and Barbados from January 9.
When Bravo entered in the chase, the Sixers were needed 97 from the last 49 balls, hardly a mountain in this form of the game.
Bravo however, top-edged a pull at a short delivery from Ben Laughlin and was caught at mid-wicket, leaving the rest of the batting to pursue 85 from 38 balls.
Naved, bowling inside the second half of the Sixers’ innings, grabbed four wickets for 22 runs from overs to scupper any vestiges of a fight-back from the visitors.
Earlier, Bravo did little to stem the flow of runs, as out-of-favour Australia opener Phil Jaques hit 73 from 55 balls and Travis Birt supported with 65 from 41 deliveries in a second-wicket stand of 107 from just 70 balls.
