BBL 2021-22: Cameron Boyce disrupts Sydney Thunder's batting setup with a double hat-trick

Melbourne Renegades leg-spinner Cameron Boyce has picked a double hat-trick and a five-wicket haul against Sydney Thunder at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Renegades skipper Aaron Finch won the toss and asked Thunder to bat first. Boyce came to bowl in the seventh over of the innings when the scorecard read 75/0. He gave away five runs before he took his first wicket on the last ball of the over in the form of Alex Hales, who was caught by debutant Unmukt Chand.

He then came to bowl the ninth over when the scorecard read 85/1 with Usman Khawaja and Jason Sangha batting at the crease. He managed to drag Sangha out of his crease on the first ball as wicketkeeper Sam Harper completed the stumping. On the hat-trick ball, he trapped Alex Ross LBW and then dismissed Daniel Sams to complete the double hat-trick.

He came back in the 11th over to bowl his third over and took the wicket of Matthew Gilkes, who was caught by Josh Lalor. With this wicket, he completed his five-wicket haul. Thunder went from 80/0 to 93/5 and the 2018-19 champions made a comeback in the game.

Cameron Boyce wreaks havoc against Sydney Thunder

Double hat-trick and five wickets.

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— Melbourne Renegades (@RenegadesBBL) January 19, 2022

Skipper Usman Khawaja plays a lone hand in the Thunders innings

 Usman Khawaja continued his Ashes form as he went on to score 77 runs. The 2015-16 winners ended up with 170/8 after the end of the innings. At one stage, they were 75/0 in seven overs with Hales batting on 44. The team looked like scoring more than 200 runs but the Cameron Boyce spell made it difficult for the team to even touch the 170-run mark.

Six batters couldn’t get past the double-digit mark. Ben Cutting struggled with the bat as he amassed 20 runs off 22 balls at a meager strike rate of 90.90, which is deemed low according to his reputation. For Renegades, Josh Lalor and Zak Evans took one wicket each and the team utilized eight bowling options. Lalor, Evans, and Will Sutherland bowled at an economy rate of over 10 per over each.