Perth Scorchers took a big blow in their race for finals in another thriller against Melbourne Renegades on Tuesday night.

Here are our hits and misses.

HITS

Remembering your roots

Laurie Evans said in his pre-match press conferences he was looking forward to his Perth homecoming and wanted to see the family that had always made him special signs.

And as the final warm-ups ahead of the game wound down, he got the chance.

In a heart-warming moment the English star spent more than five minutes chatting and signing items for the kids.

The Laurie Evans Fan Club then got its 15 minutes of fame in the Channel 7 broadcast.

Agar is back!

It’s been a long, dry spell with the bat for Scorchers all-rounder Ashton Agar but when his team desperately needed him, he delivered in spades.

The left-armer, who was also battling a bout of COVID-19, arrived at the batting crease with his side in the midst of batting carnage, reduced to 6-86.

But batting with the tail he showed his craft and power to belt four maximums, including a giant ball into the Justin Langer Stand-end sight-screen during the final over.

He ended unbeaten on 51 to record his first half century since BBL|05 and his highest score since 2016.

Where there’s a Will

The Renegades looked dead and buried at 4-10 but while skipper Will Sutherland is at the crease, the men in red are always a chance.

The towering all-rounder looked like he was batting on another wicket to the rest of the line-up, belting an incredible 70 off 45 balls with a strike rate of 155.55.

He worked perfectly with Tom Rogers to farm the strike and get the match ups right.

He made the most of his target bowlers with five boundaries and three sixes and when he finally fell his side only needed 12 runs to win, which Rogers promptly saw off.

MISSES

Stars fall flat

For the first time all season, the Perth fans were left disappointed by the entire top order.

Finn Allen made a bright start, hitting a monster 97-metre maximum, with 19 off 12 before Mitch Marsh and Cooper Connolly were dismissed for ducks.

Marsh’s first Scorchers knock in three seasons was hotly anticipated but his horrendous Test form that saw him dropped from the international team followed him home.

Propping on the front foot first ball, Renegades skipper Will Sutherland trapped the big all-rounder lbw with a ball that seamed into the front pad.

It got worse as the league’s leading wicket taker Tom Rogers produced a jaffa to Connolly.

Rogers got the ball to stay low and deck across the left-hander before cannoning into the off stump to remove the previously unremovable Connolly.

For context, Connolly sits atop the Big Bash runs chart with the golden cap.

Power Play woes

Melbourne Renegades managed to avoid the worst Power Play in league history, but only by the skin of their teeth.

The record low is eight runs and while the Renegades managed to get to nine runs from four overs, they were also three key wickets down.

They just couldn’t recover from Jason Behrendorff starting the innings with a double-wicket maiden, just missing out on what would have been a remarkable hattrick.

The Scorchers also couldn’t have asked for a better trio of scalps with New Zealander Tom Seiffert who has been in run-scoring form as well as Jake Fraser-McGurk and Jacob Bethell.

Laurie Evans then fell for a three-ball duck the over after the power play to leave the score 4-10 chasing 148 for victory.

Un-Scorchers like inconsistency

For the second match in a row, Perth were left to rue missing their half chances.

Andrew Tye, who was a sub fielder, could have had Will Sutherland in the deep, but lost control of his body after running in too far and needed to throw a catch away to stop it going over the boundary.

The score would have been 6-75 with Sutherland out.

Ashton Turner had the same trouble in the final over at deep mid-on.

A missed run out and over throw added to the pain of another bowling implosion, Matthew Kelly not even going close to defending 12 runs in the final over after starting with a waist-high no ball that cost runs and a wicket.