Currently, the challenger match of Big Bash League 2024 is being played between Brisbane Heat and Adelaide Strikers in Queensland. Let us tell you, whichever team wins this match will play against Sydney Sixers in the final.

Brisbane Heat, batting first in this match, scored 214 runs losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. For Brisbane Heat, opening batsman Josh Brown played a stormy innings of 140 runs in 57 balls with the help of 10 fours and 12 sixes. Josh Brown did not spare any of the Adelaide Strikers bowlers and hit everyone hard.

Josh Brown completed his century in just 41 balls in this match. After this he scored 40 more runs in 16 balls. He has reached second position among the players who scored the fastest century in this tournament. Along with him in this list is Glenn Maxwell of Melbourne Stars who also completed his century in 41 balls. At the first position is Craig Simmens who scored a century in 39 balls in 2014.

This is the best score made by any player in a knockout match. Not only this, he hit 12 sixes in this innings, which is a record in itself.

Josh Brown scored an insane 140 in just 57 balls with 12 sixes for Brisbane Heat in the BBL….!!! pic.twitter.com/O2hZWNKyLu

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) January 22, 2024

Adelaide Strikers need 215 runs to win

Apart from Josh Brown, Brisbane Heat captain Nathan McSweeney played a valuable inning of 33 runs in 29 balls with the help of two fours and a six. Apart from these two, no other player could cross the 10-run mark. David Penn, Cameron Boyce and Lloyd Pope took 2-2 wickets for Adelaide Strikers.

If Adelaide Strikers want to win this match, they will have to score 215 runs in 20 overs. However, it is not going to be so easy for them to score this score. Now it remains to be seen who among these two teams makes it to the finals?