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The Melbourne Stars’ daring move to hold back Glenn Maxwell paid off as they kept their slim Big Bash finals hopes alive with a tense final-over victory in the Melbourne derby.

The Stars are bottom of the BBL 2024/25 standings with five defeats from five matches. They own a net run rate of -1.016. They started off the campaign with a defeat against Perth Scorchers. They lost to Brisbane Heat, Adelaide Strikers and Sydney Sixers before Saturday's defeat.

Melbourne Stars' Glenn Maxwell (2969) and Melbourne Renegades' Jon Wells (2954) are 31 runs and 46 runs respectively away from reaching 3000 in the BBL. They would be the fifth and sixth batters to the milestone after Chris Lynn, Aaron Finch, D'Arcy Short and Moises Henriques.

Brisbane Heat is set to face Melbourne Stars in the second match of the New Year's Day double-header for 2025 in the Big Bash League (BBL) season 2024-25. Brisbane started their BBL campaign off with two victories in the first two matches but faltered in their next two games,

Melbourne Renegades (Playing XI) - Jake Fraser-McGurk, Josh Brown, Tim Seifert (WK), Jacob Bethell, Laurie Evans, Will Sutherland (C), Jonathan Wells, Tom Rogers, Gurinder Sandhu, Adam Zampa, Xavier Crone.