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Christian the hero as Sixers edge past the Heat The match in a tweet: Dan the man! Sixers down Heat on final ball thanks to veteran allrounder's cool head #BBL10 The scorecard: Brisbane Heat 148 (Lynn 56, Gregory 26; Brathwaite 4-18) lost to Sydney Sixers 6-152 (Christian 61no, Hughes 51; Mujeeb 2-16) by three wickets with no balls remaining The points: Sixers 4, Heat 0 The heroes: The Sixers were in a world of hurt at 4-54 in the ninth over. Mujeeb Ur Rahman (2-16) was casting a spell, the pitch was doing plenty, and suddenly the 149 target seemed more like 249. But cool heads tend to prevai...

Whether the snub was linked to past off-field incidents, he'll never know but it was enough for the 36-year-old to consider walking away from the game. "I was bitterly disappointed that I wasn't playing four-day cricket. I was nervous, I was anxious to come back to playing at this level," he said. A chat with Sydney Sixers general manager Jodie Hawkins before the Big Bash season convinced him to play on. O'Keefe was so impressed by the conversation he has urged more sporting organisations to employ female CEOs due to the empathy Hawkins showed him during some of his darkest days.