World News – AU – Davies shoots as Thunder hits the record

The young gun Oliver Davies bludgeoned five sixes in a row to help the Sydney Thunder with 8-209 against the Melbourne Renegades to their highest Big Bash result.

In just his second BBL match, Davies brought Mohammad Nabi to the cleaners with four sixs in a row before sending Will Sutherland over a deep square leg for the next ball he faced.

Sutherland then took his stumps off the ball with a good Yorker, but by then Davies had collected 48 of only 23 balls.

Three nights after scoring a 36 hit from 21 on the debut, Davies hit Nabi three times over mid-wicket with two of the six powerful sweep shots.

The 20-year-old was one of several Thunder batsmen who got him to the spinners when the Sydney team put the ball into the crowd of the Manuka Oval twelve times.

Usman Khawaja and Alex Hales took 50 runs from the first four-over-power game and sent Imad Wasim (0-35) and Peter Hatzoglou (2-38) off early.

But both eventually fell on Spinner, with Khawaja caught 34 out of 18 in the depth of Nabi (1-35) and Hales thrown by Hatzoglou on 35 out of 21.

Nathan McAndrew quit the job and tapped 20 of just five balls in the finals to take the Thunder past its previous record of 1-208.

Kane Richardson meanwhile took 2-33 and ran out of Baxter Holt to complete a team hat trick while Sutherland made an excellent catch on the border to remove Callum Ferguson, 31. .

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