Brisbane Heat vs Sydney Thunder match prediction 59th match

Sydney Thunder vs Brisbane Heat | Winning Team Bets in the Market

The Knockout of the Big Bash League will take place between Brisbane Heat and Sydney Thunder at the Manuka Oval in Canberra on Sunday, the 31st of January.

This is the third match where the teams will lock horns, with both teams winning one encounter from the previous two matches. The winner of the match will proceed to the Challenger match and would need to win that for a place in the Finals. While Brisbane Heat have won 9 of the 12 head to head matches the teams have gotten a result from, Sydney Thunder did win the only match they faced at Manuka Oval, earlier in the season. Sydney Thunder has played 7 matches at Manuka Oval in the season and won 4 of the games, while Heat managed to pull off only 1 victory from their 3 games at the pitch this season. Sydney Thunder also won more matches than Heat in the league stage of the season, winning 8 of the 14 games they played, where Heat managed 7 wins from 14 games. It comes as no surprise then, that Sydney Thunder are the favourites to win the match and while you could bet on them, I have picked higher winning odds from the market so you can make a lot of money sitting at home.

Brisbane Heat to have the Highest Opening Partnership

This bet is hard to spot, but it's a winner with great odds, and we can base that on the performances of the teams this season. Chris Lynn has been a regular opener for Heat, while Max Bryant, Joe Denly, Marnus Labuschagne, and Sam Heazlett have all come to open for the team and they have performed averagely with an average of 32.8 from the 15 games. Sydney Thunder, similarly have an average of 35.0 from their 14 games. The bet cannot be decided on the basis of this, but we have an interesting take from the games. Usman Khawaja and Alex Hales, who are opening for Thunder, consistently delivered with their partnerships in the season except for the three teams with strong bowling squads, i.e. Brisbane Heat, Perth Scorchers, and Adelaide Strikers. They constantly failed to deliver from their opening partnerships against these teams and scored just 54 runs (1, 0, 6, 30, 17, 0), where they scored 1 and 0 runs from their opening partnerships against Heat. They conceded higher opening partnerships in 5 out of the 6 matches including both the games against Heat where they conceded 37 and 37 runs in both the games. While Brisbane Heat fared similarly to the bowling squads of the Scorchers and the Strikers scoring just 31 runs( 9, 16, 0, 6) they did not have this problem against Thunder, and are expected to score the higher partnership in this match as well. Bet365.com is offering the best odds of 2.00 for Brisbane Heat to have the highest opening partnership.

Sydney Thunder to hit the most Match 4's

I have another winning bet for you with this one! This is a frontier where Thunder have an obvious advantage over Heat. Brisbane Heat have hit a total of 162 fours from the 14 complete matches they have played this season, this is an average of 11.57 fours per match. Sydney Thunder have them beat with 174 total fours, that too from just 11 complete matches, at an average of 15.8! That's an average higher by 4.23 fours per match. While both teams have conceded fours similarly, with an average of 12.9 from 11 games for Thunder, and 12.86 from 14 games for the Heat, the difference in their hitting averages has Sydney Thunder pegged for the winner when it comes to highest match fours. Even if we look at the two teams' games at Manuka, Heat have hit 36 fours(10, 12, 14) from their 3 games there at an average of 12.0, while Sydney Thunder have hit 93 fours(13, 16, 15, 15, 20, 14) from their 6 completed matches there at an average of 15.5. This bodes extremely well for this bet and LeoVegas.com has offered odds of 1.85 for Sydney Thunder to hit the Most Fours.

Sydney Thunder to hit the most Match 6's

I have a bet here that is not only a winner but will allow you to double your money in three hours. In the last 10 matches of the season, Brisbane Heat have hit a total of 43 sixes(3, 6, 7, 4 3, 4, 3, 6, 6, 1), while Sydney Thunder have hit a total of 75 sixes (9, 5, 12, 10, 9, 4, 6, 3, 5, 12) from their last 10 completed matches. If numbers aren't your thing, let me simplify that for you, that's an average of 4.3 sixes per match by the Heat and 7.5 sixes per match by the Thunder. This is automatically very good for our bet. While Heat have conceded sixes at a higher rate than they have hit them, conceding 54 sixes from the 10 games at an average of 5.4. Sydney Thunder are conceding sixes at the same rate as the Heat, which is lower than their hitting rate. Thunder have conceded 56 sixes from their last 10 games, which is an average of 5.6 sixes per game. While both teams came off on top in their previous games in the season, with Sydney Thunder's hit rate, they are fated to hit more match 6's in the upcoming match. The kicker for this bet is RoyalPanda.com is offering odds of 2.01 for Sydney Thunder to hit the most match 6's