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In this episode of Sport Is Life, Ian Hawkins reflects on an unforgettable cricket match where the Hurricanes stunned the Thunder with a thrilling performance.  

• Ian discusses Mitch Owen’s extraordinary innings, the critical bowling efforts of Nathan Ellis, and the challenges faced by the Thunder during a high-pressure game.  
• Ian highlights how moments like this showcase the unpredictability and brilliance of sports, exploring themes like composure under pressure, the evolution of the game, and the power of individual brilliance.  

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and they kind of lost their way. Do I

reckon they, they started panicking a

little bit and, and,

and trying to blast him out or just lost

concentration, which which can easily

happen when you're under an onslaught

like that. And it probably really needed

someone just to, to pull them aside and

just slow the game down and, and

change things up a bit.

I'm Ian Hawkins and this is Sporty's

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Well, how good was that? the Hurricanes

absolutely demolished the Thunder. I'm

going to be honest, when the Thunder were

batting and none for 100, sayingit's

going quite well. It was a flat pitch,

mind you, but it's like, oh, wow. Like

they're a big chance here. But

then wow, like what a fight back.

Nathan Ellis with the bowling pegged him

back, took crucial wickets and then.

Mitch Owen. Like what a display.

Fitting. Unbelievable. Now I've got to be

honest. Sixes fan. I was

out Monday night, got home, the game was

halfway through. Hadn't given it a great

deal of thought, but I started getting

messages and my son was the same he liked

he hadn't really thought about it either.

He get a message. This is ridiculous

what's going on. And so

he put it on and carnage by the time

we like was only 2 1/2 hours in and he

was already must have been nearly 50. I

can't remember the details, but I told

him we had a quick look back. Look TuneIn

again, he's up to 70. And

just smashing it. And I love the back

story, the.

The young felt the photo of the young

fella him Mitch Owen, as a young

fella in the crowd 10 years earlier.

Just like we all were as kids.

Loving the atmosphere, loving the moment,

maybe dreams of one day being out

there doing that sort of thing

themselves, yourself. And then he

got to do that and what it means. It's a

sort of moment back in my Fox Sports

days where we would have looked up the

number of viewers and there would have

been a clear spike as his innings got

underway, as people did exactly what our

mates did, just started texting, passing

messages onto people and are you watching?

Yes or if you're not watching this,

you've got to be watching this because it

was an unbelievable display. It made me

start thinking what is actually

possible because

think of the one day game, how it's

evolved. We thought you know getting off

to anything over 5 and over was pretty

good in the 1st 15 overs. Actually there

was a time where not losing any wickets

and and four and over in the 1st 15 overs

was pretty good and then. That

improved over time, but then

the introduction of 2020 is what? An

exponential increase in the speed at

which?These

batters are able to increase the run

rate. Incredible that it's

halfway through the 3rd, the 4th over and

east on 6th of the scores on 60 already.

Like I can't remember the exact figure

once the end of the power play, but.

Crazy. So yeah, what's possible and and I

would have loved to have seen what the

the data was, but there definitely would

have been a spike. People would have been

tuning in all over the place as word got

around. He also said, like I said,

back story.

Apparently. He's been going right for a

couple of years and there's, there's

opportunities for him to go to other

franchises. But Ricky Ponting, who's

obviously a Tasmanian legend, was part of

the team putting the, the Hurricanes team

together and, yeah, sold the

vision of, of being the importance of

being the Tasmanian that stays with

that team and, and the impact and like,

what an impact. He was

clearly already confident. He

got a fair few runs in the tournament.

But just how it unfolded, they got a bit

lucky. The first couple of balls had the

the wide down the leg side. Maybe that

took a bit of pressure off. But then he

gets one away and then

suddenly it's like, I don't know where to

bowl him. And it was really interesting

to watch how the commentators kept

saying, though they're not, they're not.

There's no off pace bowling here. They

bought on the spinner. But they, like I

said, there's no point bringing the

spinner on if he's just going to bowl

quick. You need to mix it up and and they

kind of lost their way. Do I reckon they,

they started panicking a little bit and,

and, and trying to

blast him out or just lost concentration,

which which can easily happen when you're

under an onslaught like that. And it

probably really needed someone just to,

to pull them aside and just slow the game

down and, and change things up a bit.

It's been 40° here. I've just noticed the

cold changes just here so I might be

quick in case in case let's start

getting hail on this roof.

But yeah, the the the crowd going crazy

like them chanting Mitch Owens name like

it was a basketball crowd.

Just, yeah, haven't seen that sort of

my home team going that crazy might be

standard fair in the the IPL because they

they're pretty keen on it being an

Australian crowd. That's that's not

something I've seen the likes of. So that

really crab that community, that

connection. And and I

reckon like if talking about performance,

clearly there was a a good fight back

from the Hurricanes in their bowl innings

and, and Nathan Ellis in particular that

taking crucial wickets and slowing down

the rate of scoring. But sometimes

it's just a freakish moment

from an individual like there was from

Owen where just everything came off.

It wasn't necessarily any more in the

middle, but he was finding the gaps. He

was here 11 over the boundary, so it

wouldn't matter where the gap gaps were

for that one, but just in the zone.

So he was confident because he got runs

before he had clearly had a simple plan.

He he wasn't playing any of the ramp

shots. He wasn't playing or

limited. Inventive

shots He was a lot of good cricket

shots. Some of them were

slogs and heaves, but they were He kept

his still head. He was pretty relatively.

Relatively normal stance

and just goes to show that there's

there's many ways to play the game even

in this new age where they've they've

invented new shots and created all sorts

of different scoring avenues.

Yeah, I'd love to hear people's thoughts.

Where were they? Were they watching? Did

they get the message? Did they see

something on social media and then jumped

on and had a look? What did you think of

it? Was there anything the Thunder could

have done? I know some of my mates would

be looking there going. Yeah, they

definitely could have mixed things up

and. I think the Thunder lost their way a

bit. But if we just

look at it for what it was, just an

incredible moment, the sort of thing that

only sport can do, just create those

moments where.

Yeah, huge, high

performance and you can't help but just

look back and admire it and and be

excited by it. The only people that

probably aren't excited by it are the

Thunder fans, but even some of those guys

would have to be grudgingly

acknowledge just what a incredible

display it was.

Yeah, the power of sport A I'll

leave it there for today. Let me know

your thoughts if if you have any feedback

in the. Anything

that you liked about the game, any

ideas you might have about how things

could have gone differently and and just

in general about what a display it was,

speak to the next one.

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