Henriques' maximum impact puts Stars in the shade

The Match in a Tweet: Mighty Moises rains sixes on a wet night at the SCG to inflict the Stars' second loss of #BBL09 despite more runs from Marcus Stoinis

The Result: Sydney Sixers 4-143 (Henriques 72, Vince 41no) beat Melbourne Stars 5-125 (Stoinis 62, Dwarshius 2-20) by 21 runs

The playing conditions: Following a downpour 3.1 overs into the Sixers' innings, the players returned to the field 54 minutes later to contest a 14-overs per side match. The powerplay was condensed from six overs to four, with the tactical timeout was removed for both teams. After the Sixers made 4-143 from their 14 overs the target was boosted to 147 after DLS calculations.

The Hero: There is an old saying in cricket that there is more room in the air, a saying that Sixers skipper Moises Henriques took to heart as he hit his first eight boundaries for six, with a majority landing among the 15,643-strong crowd at the SCG.

With six overs lost due to wet weather, Henriques had no time to waste as he banished the Stars bowlers over the rope, feasting on the spin of Sandeep Lamichhane (three sixes) and the medium pace of Lance Morris (two sixes, two fours) as he powered his way to 50 from just 24 balls in 28 minutes.

Anything in his arc was met as he employed his slog sweep to devastating effect, out in the final over for a blistering 72 from 31 balls.

The Consolation Effort: You can't keep Marcus Stoinis out of the runs. The Stars opener found the rope, and then hit over it, against Jackson Bird in the third over before taking down Tom Curran for six more in the seventh.

But he reserved the lusty blows for Test off-spinner Nathan Lyon, taking the veteran for a four in the eighth over then a succession of four, six and six from three deliveries in the 12th over.

It brought up his fifty from 34 balls to give the away side a sniff, but he was out to a fine catch by Henriques going for a hat-trick of sixes off Lyon, who had the last laugh in his first BBL game of the season.

The Supporting Cast: James Vince played a gem of an innings supporting Henriques.  The English import hit just three boundaries (two sixes and a four) but did his job by putting his red-hot partner on strike. The right-hander put on 114 for the third wicket with his captain, a match-winning stand for the Sixers who had lost two of their past three games with a washout in the middle.

The Beamer: We do not see these very often, thankfully, but Sixers left-arm paceman Ben Dwarshius bowled a beam ball to Stars captain Glenn Maxwell in the 10th over of the run chase. Bowling from round the wicket, Dwarshius' delivery never landed as it hit an evading Maxwell on the gloves.

Well above the waist, the delivery was called a no-ball and the ensuing free hit was spanked through the covers for four by the visiting skipper.

The Stat: In nine seasons of the KFC BBL, no Sixers player has reached triple figures. The highest score for the magenta men is Josh Philippe's unbeaten 86 almost a year ago to the day against the then league-leading Hobart at the SCG.

The Next Stops: The Stars head to Adelaide to face the Strikers on Wednesday. Melbourne should have Adam Zampa and Peter Handscomb back in their XI, while Adelaide welcome back gloveman Alex Carey, who will need a win to return to second place after the Sixers moved into outright second with their win tonight.

For the Sixers, the head north to take on the Heat on Thursday in Brisbane where they will be boosted by the BBL return of gun batter Steve Smith. The Heat also have a huge in with Marnus Labuschagne set to play for Brisbane alongside AB de Villiers.

Melbourne Stars XI: Marcus Stoinis, Hilton Cartwright, Nic Maddinson, Glenn Maxwell (c), Sebastian Gotch (wk), Nick Larkin, Jonathan Merlo, Clint Hinchliffe, Daniel Worrall, Lance Morris, Sandeep Lamichhane.

Sydney Sixers XI: Josh Philippe (wk), Justin Avendano, Daniel Hughes, James Vince, Moises Henriques (c), Jordan Silk, Tom Curran, Ben Dwarshuis, Jackson Bird, Nathan Lyon, Steve O'Keefe.