The up-and-down Sydney Thunder will play host to the second-placed Perth Scorchers at the Sydney Showground Stadium on Monday night.
The Scorchers lost their first game in 11 BBL matches when handed a nine-wicket defeat from the Adelaide Strikers last start.
Thunder opener Cameron Bancroft will face his former side for the first time after being jettisoned by the Scorchers despite starring for them in their BBL-winning campaign last summer.
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With a win, the Scorchers will guarantee another finals appearance, and move to second, within three points of the league-leading Brisbane Heat, who booked their finals tickets on Sunday night after defeating the Hurricanes.
The Thunder are still a chance of finishing top four, but will essentially need to win all four of their remaining games to be a hope.
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Thunder: Cameron Bancroft, Ollie Davies, Liam Doddrell, Toby Gray, Matthew Gilkes, Chris Green (c), Alex Hales (England), Liam Hatcher, Tom Kohler-Cadmore (England), Sam Konstas, Nathan McAndrew, Alex Ross, William Salzmann, Daniel Sams, Gurinder Sandhu, Jason Sangha, Tanveer Sangha
Heat: Aaron Hardie (c), Ashton Agar, Jason Behrendorff, Cooper Connolly, Zak Crawley (England), Stephen Eskinazi (England), Laurie Evans (England), Nick Hobson, Josh Inglis (vc), Hamish McKenzie, Lance Morris, Jhye Richardson, Andrew Tye, Sam Whiteman