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Women's Big Bash League Live | BHW vs STW LIVE | WBBL Thunder vs Heat LIVE Sydney Thunder quick Shabnim Ismail will unleash a pace barrage on the Brisbane Heat in the second Rebel WBBL semi-final on Thursday night. Ismail was at her scintillating best in the Thunder's previous match against the Hurricanes on Sunday, with a fiery opening spell reducing Hobart to 3-4. Thunder captain Rachael Haynes wants more of the same as her club looks to spoil the Heat's hopes of a third consecutive title. "That was the quickest I've seen her bowling in a while," Haynes told cricket Australia this week. "It was rapid, it was fiery, and you could just tell the batters weren't too comfortable out there. "When you are on her team and that's happening out in the middle … you know she's a special player who can take really big wickets so we're hoping she can do more of that." Brisbane Heat took the points the last time the teams went, a victory that triggered their current seven-match winning run. This will be new captain Jess Jonassen's first final in charge of the Heat, but she is backing their thorough preparation ahead of the tournament to hold up against whatever the Thunder throw at them. We're feeling pretty confident coming off the back of those seven wins, it's been really nice that we've been able to get those results off the back of three losses in a row early on," "We knew we weren't too far off during those losses and we've still got a lot to improve on. "We put in a lot of work behind the scenes up in Brisbane, a lot of scenario-based work that I think has really helped us during this tournament. We've been able to come out in a lot of different situations and a lot of different surfaces and have been able to get the job done." Ismail will look to target in-form Heat opener Georgia Redmayne, who has taken her T20 game to a new level in her first season for Brisbane to be their leading run scorer, helping fill a hole left by the departure of Australia star Beth Mooney. "She's been fantastic, she's been a really good get for us," Jonassen said of Redmayne. "I know the work she's put in, particularly into her batting and looking to take that aggressive options and I'm really pleased she's been able to get results and get us off to a good start more often than not at the top." Form (Most recent first) Brisbane Heat: WWWWWWWLLL Sydney Thunder: WWLWLLLWLW Head-to-head Honours were split between the Heat and the Thunder during the regular season, with the Sydney club taking out their first, rain-affected encounter by 14 runs (DLS). Batting first under threatening skies, Rachel Trenaman (28) and Tammy Beaumont (30) laid the foundation with a 71-run opening stand, as the Thunder reached 3-80 from 12.1 overs when the heavens opened, forcing a lengthy delay.