'No fear' the secret behind Sixers' thrilling win

Once again, the Sydney Sixers have shown they can win from anywhere.

Seemingly down and out at 8-47, you could almost write off every other team in the competition, but not the two-time defending champions.

It's a culture that match winning allrounder Sean Abbott credits to captain Moises Henriques and coach Greg Shipperd and their constant message of having no fear.

Abbott, who is the competition's all-time leading wicket-taker, put in arguably the most complete all-round performance ever seen in the KFC BBL last night.

The 29-year-old's night started with an outrageous one-handed catch to remove the competition's all-time leading run scorer in Chris Lynn in the fourth over of the Brisbane Heat's innings.

He then followed it up with 4-31 from his four overs and 37 not out, which included hitting the winning runs from the last ball of the match as the Sixers chased down the Heat's 105 in a thriller at the SCG.

Abbott was joined at the crease by Ben Dwarshuis when the Sixers slumped to 8-47 in the 13th over before the pair put on an unbeaten 59 to clinch the Sixers' sixth win of BBL|11 and return them to the top of the table.

"The credit has got to go to Shippy (Shipperd) and Moey (Henriques), they've created such a great environment here to give the players the tools to go out there and perform," Abbott said after the match.

"They trust the (players) to either get the job done or if they don't get the job done, they learn and get better.

"We speak all the time about having a growth mindset, whether we're out there in the game, no fear of failure in the game, and when we're in the nets we're never happy with where we're at, we just keep trying to get better.

"Benny's (Dwarshuis) performed under pressure with the ball plenty of times and he's a strong hitter, so it was just about dealing with pressure tonight.

"We were quite calm out there."

Abbott said the message was "four-day batting" from skipper Henriques when he walked out to bat at 5-29.

"When I went out to bat with Moey he said 'we've had (batters) be too early out on the ball, it's a slow wicket, it's holding in the wicket, a bit of four-day batting, let the ball come and play a bit straighter'," he said.

"We obviously lost way too many wickets than we'd like, we would have liked to have got that done three or four down.

"When Dwarshuis came out, I said 'look mate, this is what Moey said, just get a good base, get bat on ball … let's just get together and bat'."

Abbott's four wickets last night moved him into equal first place on the leading wickets tally for BBL|11 as the Sixers hunt a historic three-peat.

Heat allrounder Jack Wildermuth, who was subbed into the game as the X-factor at the 10-over mark of the first innings and proceeded to hit a crucial 27 runs and take 2-18 from four overs, rued losing a game his side had all but won during the chase.

"You look at small moments in the game or periods where you want an extra run or whatever, it's a disappointment just getting so close," he said after the match.

"(I'm) really proud of the bowlers. Initially a 105 score is definitely not enough in a T20 match and credit to the boys to come out and really show some fight.

"We can take a lot of confidence out of that against a very good side.

"Credit to Sean and Ben there, they batted really well under pressure and got the job done.