Cricket 365 live stream replay: Northern Tide v City Cyclones in T20 Strike League in Darwin
A nerveless knock from Campbell Kellaway has helped the City Cyclones to their first T20 Strike League victory. Watch the replay in the player above.
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A classy 62 from Melbourne batsman Campbell Kellaway has helped the City Cyclones to a T20 Strike League win over the Northern Tide in a victory that has kept their finals hopes alive.
Kellaway was dismissed in the 18th over, with the Cyclones still needing 18 runs for victory but his 62 off just 48 balls, including eight fours and a monster six ensured his team had a chance to run down the Tide’s target of 148.
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They managed that with two balls remaining when Josh Neill hit a boundary at Darwin’s DXC Arena to give his side a chance of making Friday’s Strike League decider.
With openers Jack Edwards and Dylan Hunter out cheaply and Melbourne Stars batsman Nick Larkin falling for 10, Kellaway was forced to anchor the innings and played a steady hand, building a 57-run fourth-wicket partnership with Ryan McElduff that put the Cyclones’ chase back on track.
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The Melbourne batsman brought up his half-century from 41 balls and was eventually out to Jason Sangha, who had earlier taken the key wicket of Larkin in the seventh over.
The win leaves the Cyclones level on points with the Northern Tide, who they face again on Thursday night in the final round match of the tournament.
Earlier, a quickfire 30 off 20 balls from spinner Jayllen Naganayagam helped the Tide post a defendable score of 8-147.
After losing early wickets, the Tide were reeling at 7-98 in the 16th over after Austin Umpherston was dismissed in the opening ball of the power surge.
But with a display of power hitting that included four fours and a six, Naganayagam put on an eighth-wicket partnership of 45 with Matt Hammond (20 off 13) to ensure the Tide would be able to bowl to a defendable total.
The Cyclones gave themselves every chance of restricting the Tide early after Liam Guthrie made broke through in the second over to dismiss Antum Naqvi for just one.
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But it was Jack Edwards who picked up the key wicket of Jason Sangha the following over to put the Cyclones in the box seat early.
Coming off an unbeaten 66 against the Southern Storm on Sunday night, Sangha came to the wicket in great form but faced a great ball that he feathered through to the keeper.
Edwards struck again the next over, getting another ball to rise sharply to Matt Gilkes, with the opener getting an edge to bring an end to an explosive innings of 34 off 19 balls.
Young guns soaking up knowledge in T20 Strike League
In any other environment, Callum Stow’s behaviour might seem stalker-like.
He’s watching, listening, taking notice of every movement and behaviour of those around him.
But Stow’s actions are far from malicious.
The Victorian teen - he turns 19 on Friday - may have finished school last year but the lessons he’s learning in the T20 Strike League are being delivered by some of the best young cricketers in the country and he’s become a model student.
A left-arm leg spinner who represents Geelong in Victorian Premier Cricket, Stow fled the southern winter and impending lockdown, heading to the Northern Territory for a three-month intensive training and learning block that’s paying dividends.
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Playing in a Northern Tide team alongside the likes of NSW first-class representatives Jason Sangha and Matt Gilkes, Stow is learning plenty about what it takes to be a professional.
“It was a great opportunity so I couldn’t really say no to it,” Stow said of being able to hone his game in the Territory’s Cricket 365 system.
“Just working with the likes of Jason Sangha and (NSW Second XI spinner) Ryan Hackney and a few other blokes that are up here, it’s been really good to learn form them.
“I’ve trained a fair bit compared to what I’d be doing at home, so it’s been good to learn some things about my bowling and continue to work on my batting.”
With Geelong initially outside the areas of great Melbourne locked down following the latest Covid outbreak, Stow was able to enter the Territory almost three months ago without having to complete a quarantine stint, unlike the other Melbourne-based Strike League players.
“I was very lucky to miss quarantine to come up here,” he said.
“We weren’t in lockdown at the time and I ended up coming up a couple of weeks earlier than I was meant to, just to make sure I got out.”
With all of the state now under strict lockdown orders, Stow realises the magnitude of his current opportunity.
“I wouldn’t be training and playing with the likes of Matthew Gilkes and Sangha and Hackney, so it’s been a great opportunity to come up here and train and play with those guys rather than be at home in lockdown,” he said.
“You see how Sangha goes about his preparation - he’s very spot on in how he goes about it - and you see what it takes to be a professional cricketer the way they train, so it opens your eyes to what you need to be doing to get to that next level.
“That’s been good to see. I’d love to get to that next level and be a professional cricketer but we’ll see what happens.”
Stow’s Tide face the City Cyclones at Darwin’s DXC Arena on Tuesday and hope to notch another win after upsetting the Southern Storm on Sunday night.
The match will be streamed live on News Corp websites from 6.30pm AEST.
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