Malinga sets record with 6 for 7 as Perth hit all-time low

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Lasith Malinga took 6 for 7, the best ever figures in domestic Twenty20, as the Melbourne Stars dismissed the Perth Scorchers for 69 - the lowest ever Big Bash score - en route to a 10-wicket win.

Amid farcical scenes, the Stars returned to the field on 0 for 29 from two overs after a rain delay and were required to face one ball before being awarded the game via the Duckworth/Lewis method.

Most onlookers believed five overs had to be played to constitute a game, but the umpires ruled that as the Stars had already exceeded the necessary target needed at that point in the game (6), they were handed the game.

Malinga’s new-ball partner James Faulkner began the carnage dismissing Herschelle Gibbs (0) and added the wicket of Simon Katich (0) after Malinga had bowled Marcus North (1) in his first over.

The Sri Lankan slinger took the wicket of Marcus Stoinis (9) in the following over to leave the Scorchers decimated at 4 for 16.

Adam Voges and rookie Hilton Cartwright steadied the shop until the end of the powerplay but Stars skipper Shane Warne forced a breakthrough trapping the former leg before.

Malinga then returned to the attack and after having top-scorer Cartwright (17) caught at midwicket trapped the next two leg before, before bowling Joe Mennie (2) to take his haul to six.

Luke Wright then took the final wicket of Michael Beer to leave Perth with the unwanted record of the lowest ever total in Australian Twenty20 competition - beating New South Wales’ total of 71 against Western Australia - also at the WACA Ground - in 2010.

The only cricketer to record better bowling figures than Lasith Malinga is Malaysian part-time spinner Arul Suppiah who took 6 for 5 for Somerset against Glamorgan in 2011.

The Stars in response reached 0 for 29 in two overs, with Luke Wright hitting 23 off 11 balls, before rain forced the players off.

Rob Quiney (1) faced the lone ball after the resumption, a swinging ball down the leg side from Cartwright.