The Sydney Thunder's Big Bash finals dream was comprehensively extinguished on Wednesday night after they fell victim to the bottom-placed Adelaide Strikers and a spin-bowling masterclass from New Zealand import Ish Sodhi.
The Indian-born leg-spinner produced the second best bowling figures in Big Bash League history, claiming 6-11 to tear through the hapless Thunder.
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Darren Lehmann on Chris Lynn
Australian Cricket coach Darren Lehmann provides an update on the team for the rest of the series against Pakistan.
Only a win would have done for the defending champions, but chasing the visitors' 5-178 in front of 20,642 at Spotless Stadium after three-straight wins proved too much of an ask for captain Shane Watson and his men who fell 77 runs short.
When Watson's wicket fell at 39, just as he was threatening to give the Thunder a toehold in the game, a batting collapse was triggered and the chase was quickly rendered impossible.
Kurtis Patterson, Carlos Brathwaite and Ben Rohrer all fell in quick succession as the Strikers turned to their slow-bowling battery of Sodhi, Liam O'Connor, Jake Lehmann and Brad Hodge to tighten the screws on the home side.
No resistance was offered lower in the batting order, and the home side's season ended as it began.
The Thunder lost their first four games this campaign before a last-ball six by England one-day international captain Eoin Morgan against the Melbourne Stars reignited their hopes.
The arrival of Brathwaite to replace Andre Russell followed, as did wins away from home against Hobart and the cross-town Sydney Sixers, before the Strikers came to town and ended the Thunder's unlikely run to the finals.
Had they made it through, Brathwaite would not have been a available for the finals with domestic duties in the West Indies with Barbados beckoning.
The giant all-rounder gave the Thunder an ideal start, trapping Tim Ludeman lbw in the fourth over, and celebrated with his usual flair.
But in the next over, off the bowling of Chris Green, he spilled a catch that should have been taken at mid-off, while Ben Dunk was on just eight runs.
The hard-hitting Striker went on to make 65, his 92-run stand with Hodge setting up Adelaide's commanding total.
Kieron Pollard blasted 47 from 22 balls in a late cameo, while Thunder off-spinner Green ended the night with a sprained right ankle after turning it over in the field.
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