Living up to his notorious moniker of The Finisher to an innings, Faulkner ended the game with three clean strikes amid a dramatic final over against Perth Scorchers.

It was the second year in a row the Hurricanes have stunned the home crowd at Optus Stadium after their Big Bash semi-final upset win.

“I’m a bit stunned myself,” Faulkner said in the post-match interview moments later on Saturday morning.

“My first 10 or 12 balls, I thought I’d kick over the stumps and start walking off.

“I feel like I owed the boys after my last over with the ball – it was a really good chase.”

Faulkner took up the strike needing 16 runs to win after Nathan Coulter-Nile restricted the Tasmanians to just five runs in the penultimate over.

The one-time Launceston allrounder first whipped Andrew Tye over long leg for six.

The following delivery was struck through mid-wicket between two fielders for four.

Faulkner then pulled off a lofted drive over mid-off for six to secure the four-wicket win with three balls still left.

The final over pitted one of the best finishers with the bat against another with the ball.

But Faulkner who had only batted this season for 2 not out and 0 not out, turned around 12 off 17 balls to hit 16 from the next three.

“I just backed my skill; backed my training, I suppose. I haven’t really had a hit so far in the BBL,” he said.

“I’ve only spent a lot of time in the nets with the batting coaches, but what a win.”

Faulkner earlier in the clash had mixed fortunes in his two spells of bowling.

The left-arm swing bowler got the Hurricanes off to a fabulous start, snaring three wickets in his first seven balls to leave the Scorchers reeling at 3-7 just 13 balls into the contest.

Faulkner first found Cameron Bancroft backing away and slashing to backward point, caught on the third ball of the night.

Just two deliveries later, he struck the pads of Michael Klinger full off a peach of an inswinger but that was tracking to miss leg stump.

First ball of his second over, Ashton Turner was bowled after playing on after walking up to Faulkner.

But the 28-year-old was on the other end of consecutive sixes off his final three balls from Coulter-Nile that pushed Perth to 9-177.

Coulter Nile’s brutal blows through the leg side turned Faulkner’s figures from a tidy 3-18 off 21 balls to 3-36 off his four overs.

“Credit as well to the Scorchers – I thought they batted exceptionally well,” Faulkner said.

“They had a really good knock to get back in the game and they obviously cleaned me up in the last over.”

George Bailey revived the Canes’ slim hopes of a seventh win in eight appearances despite slipping to 5-97 in the 13th over.

The ex-South Launceston batsman walloped game-high 69 in just 39 balls that also included six fours and three sixes to put the side in a position with a further 25 needed off 14 after Bailey’s late dismissal