‌‌Boundaries came thick and fast on a gorgeous batting deck for the opening duo of Quinton de Kock and Joe Clarke after the Hobart Hurricanes asked the Melbourne Renegades to bat first as the side zoomed past 70 by the eighth over. However, once the bowling side struck, it proved to be an avalanche as Patrick Dooley got rid of Quinton on de Kock (38 off 22) and Jake Fraser-McGurk on successive deliveries before Nathan Ellis sent Joe Clarke's (38 off 25) middle-stump cartwheeling to begin the ninth over. With the side suddenly reeling at 78/3, the newly-arrived pair of Aaron Finch and Nic Maddinson struggled to settle in, the latter eventually departing for a run-a-ball 18. With the Hurricanes having wrestled back momentum by bringing down the scoring rate to eight an over, the visitors took the power surge in the 16th over and the move paid dividends. Finch finally got going and combined with Jonathan Wells to aggregate 34 runs off the 14 balls, the most effective power surge of the season so far. Wells went on to remain unbeaten on 40 at a strike rate of 166.66 thus propelling the Renegades to 183/5 despite some efficient bowling at the death.