The Hobart Hurricanes' poor history in Launceston continued, defeated by 14 runs at the hands of the Sydney Sixers.
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After a dominant start for the hosts, Sydney Sixers captain Moises Henriques turned the batting innings back to their favour, scoring 73 off 48 balls as his side made 9-144.
This would prove to be too much for the home side, who struggled to overcome a slow start with the bat and fell short despite some late Peter Handscomb (47 off 31) magic seeing them to 8-130.
"There's just a couple of nuts and bolts to tidy up on our overall performance," Tom Rogers said.
"Their running between the wickets was absolutely phenomenal, the way they were able to rebuild in their batting innings to get to a competitive total [was fantastic] and then they fielded and bowled their backsides off to be really economical for the first 10 overs to a point where we couldn't really catch up."
The Sixers, who were missing key cog Sean Abbott as he stayed in NSW to be with his pregnant wife, didn't have it all their own way early, with the Hurricanes restricting their dangerous top-order before claiming their wickets.
T20 World Cup squad member Nathan Ellis claimed the first, dismissing Josh Philippe with a chopped-on slower ball, putting the 'Canes on top at the end of the powerplay.
Tim David then removed a wandering James Vince, before Rogers' next over saw off both Daniel Hughes and Jordan Silk to have the Sixers reeling at 4-26.
Henriques and Dan Christian set about rebuilding the innings but the latter fell to the Sandeep Lamichhane and Jordan Cox combination, caught in the deep.
The skipper found himself a new companion in Englishman Tom Curran, ticking along nicely and depositing the bad balls over the ropes throughout.
They put on 62 off the next 47 balls, taking 34 runs in a dominant three-over stretch until Curran's response to a low Joel Paris full-toss found Peter Handscomb during the power surge.
He departed with 27 from 21 balls but Henriques continued the job, scoring his 12th BBL half-century and his first against the Hurricanes.
"His performance shows the calibre of player he is," Rogers said.
"He's been doing it for so long, he's an experienced guy ... it was pretty good to watch, I would've liked it to go a little bit the other way but it was pretty good cricket."
- Tom Rogers on Moises Henriques
Some late hitting and running with Chris Jordan saw Henriques and the Sixers to their total despite two superb bits of last-over fielding from Cox.
The Englishman, who was signed as an international replacement for the called-up Harry Brook, threw the striker's end stumps down from deep mid-off to finish the innings on a high.
Rogers finished as the Hurricanes' best bowler, taking 3-28, with Ellis the other multiple wicket-taker at 2-34.
David (1-4), Lamichhane (1-24) and Paris (1-26) all provided tidy figures while taking a wicket each.
Like their opponents, the 'Canes had a slow start to their innings, with the side's leading run-scorer of all time D'Arcy Short offering an early chance, only to be dropped by Stephen O'Keefe.
Short and Matthew Wade avoided losing wickets in the four-over powerplay, ending it at 0-17.
Only five more runs came from the next 12 balls, but the home side kept their wickets in hand throughout the troubling patch.
They doubled their four-over input at the end of the eighth, reaching 0-36 before Wade was dismissed just two balls later for 20 off 18, picking out Silk in the deep.
Short followed suit not long after, bowled by Ben Manenti, who recently relocated to Tasmania and is playing club cricket for New Town, for 21 off 36 balls.
He faced 21 dot balls in his innings, with his side picking up the Bash Boost point at the 10-over mark following his departure.
Left with 95 runs to get in the last 10 overs, the 'Canes took their power surge in the 11th and the 12th overs, leaving the Sixers with only two fielders outside the ring.
Caleb Jewell reaped the rewards of the decision by sending the ball over the fence and was later dropped by Daniel Hughes.
His luck didn't extend through the full two-over period, caught at short fine leg by Manenti off the bowling of Jordan for 20 off 11 balls.
The Hurricanes took 20 runs off the surge as a highlight-reel stop from Silk preceded an excellent caught and bowled by O'Keefe to see off the debuting Tom Lammonby for a second-ball duck.
One of the side's last hopes, David, earned a reprieve from O'Keefe, who dropped an incredibly high ball at the bowler's end.
He was eventually caught by Christian for four off the bowling of Hayden Kerr to signal a 3-8 collapse.
But while Handscomb was still out there, a slim glimmer of hope was provided, as he and Cox took 20 off Christian's 16th over.
They required 29 off the last 18 balls and lost Cox (10 off 12) en route to taking six runs off the 18th over.
Jordan's penultimate over of the game only went for three runs, making the Hurricanes' job of 20 runs off the final over a tough one.
Losing Ellis on ball two made this nigh on impossible and despite Handscomb's best efforts, he was dismissed for 47.
Post game, Henriques was complimentary of Jordan's death-bowling performance.
"I've played with Chris in the IPL ... and he's the type of guy that always wants the ball when other bowlers seem to shy away and sort of want someone else to bowl it," he said.
"He's got a really strong mentality, he's calm, I think he's found an extra yard in the last couple of years as well. He executes his yorkers, he's got a few different slower balls.
"I was really desperate to get him to the Sixers ... if we could keep him for the whole year I would absolutely love to but unfortunately he's got some other commitments."