Overview
- Perth piled up 232-4, the third-highest Big Bash total this season and fifth highest all-time, before restricting Adelaide to 200-8.
- Mitch Marsh hit 88 off 51 with six fours and seven sixes, combining with Finn Allen for 81 and Josh Inglis for 77 to set the platform.
- Adelaide surged to a 93-run opening stand as Alex Carey made 71 off 39 and Matt Short added 52, reaching 2-139 after 12 overs.
- Debutant Luke Holt conceded just four in the 13th over to stall the chase, triggering a 6-14 slide that included David Payne’s 3-35.
- Standings shifted as the Hurricanes clinched a play-off berth via a washout, the Scorchers rose to second, and the Strikers fell to sixth needing two wins and favorable results.