“If he had been in better form he would have called for the opening, but I think he probably wasn’t confident enough to do it,” Waugh said.
But Haddin responded by saying: “Even Stoinis… in a seven-over game, it doesn’t matter – he won’t face 10 balls. If he faces 10 balls, he will have 25 runs. I just think they got it wrong there.”
Earlier in the game, Haddin said, “I don’t want to play at the end of the game where Maxwell and Stoinis only bat one or two overs.
“Marcus Stoinis is one batsman who can get 20 from the last over.
“I still don’t know why Maxwell and Stoinis weren’t earlier and faced more balls. They left it too late.”
Stoinis is 13th on the list of top run-scorers in this season’s Big Bash, but the casual Maxwell is at 59th.
Harper, meanwhile, is third with 381 runs from 11 matches at an average of 54.42 and a strike rate of 155.51.
Proven commodities Maxwell and Stoinis have been named in Australia’s squad for this year’s T20 World Cup, while Harper has missed out.
The Stars were 1-9 when the rain forced players off the field, with their goal of victory changed as part of DLS.
Cartwright hit Mitch Owen for six off the second last ball of the innings, leaving the Stars needing five to win and four to draw – and force a super over – off the final delivery.
But Owen held his nerve and held Cartwright to just a single as the Stars finished on 4-81.
Earlier, when Hurricanes quick Riley Meredith slipped in the wet, former Australia wicketkeeper and Hobart gloveman Matthew Wade said: “We shouldn’t be playing in this.”
During the previous rain break, Wade said on Fox Cricket: “Everybody wants to play, no doubt, but there’s a point where when the rain keeps coming down and guys come in and try to play 145. [km/h]there has to be some common sense.”
The Hurricanes take on the Sixers at the SCG on Friday night, with the winners taking on the Scorchers in the final in Perth on Sunday.
Riley Meredith bowled that ball over the rope for a six in the final over of the match, but the Hurricanes still held on.Credit: Getty Images
It was a brutal end to the season for the Stars, who could have locked up top spot and two bites at the cherry with a win over Perth in their final regular-season game.
Stoinis carved a six off the first ball in the final over but then dug himself out before Cartwright did his best with three boundaries in three balls.
Hurricanes quick Riley Meredith (2-19) claimed a scalp early in the chase to help give his side a lead before the match.
Earlier, Webster, who has played just four times in the Big Bash League this summer due to Test team commitments, hit three sixes in the final off Tom Curran, who had 21.
The Stars dropped two catches in the off-field, including Nikhil Chaudhary (24 off 11), who made back-to-back maximums after Curran dropped the keeper to cover.
Mitchell Swepson bowled two tight overs that ended up for just 12, while Stoinis took 1-6 but bowled just one over.
After they lost the toss, Hobart opener Owen, who has not hit a full-on this season, hit Maxwell into the stands but was out for seven two balls later.
If the game had been washed out, they would have advanced to the higher-ranked Hurricanes (third) at the expense of the Stars (fourth).
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