Big Bash XII started on Tuesday night.Three games have been completed of the 61’matches.
Thunder and Stars in Canberra,Adelaide and Sixes in Adelaide,Heat and Renegades up in Cairns.
Crowds have been solid with sellouts in Canberra,Cazaly Stadium and 17,000 at Adelaide Oval.
The bonus points system has been removed this season.Powerplay is still 4 overs.1+2 and between 11+20.
Most imports are from the UK, Afghanistan, Pakistan and currently some Kiwi International players.
Most of the English WC winning side started the professional careers in the BBL.
Scorchers start to there season has not been perfect.With our International import failing a drug test.We have bought in a seasoned RSA import,Faf Du Plesses..Our season kicks of at home Saturday night.
Sydney Thunder were bowled out for 15 in 35 balls tonight. Lowest ever score in a major 20/20 match apparently.
Perth Scorchers will struggle this year IMO. Faf Du Plessis is only available for half the season and the batting looks fragile without Mitch Marsh
caught the last 10 minutes or so of the “game” - during that time I think it was either 6 or 7 wickets that fell
reminded me of the old primary school games on the oval where you’d be lucky to see any kid get to 10 runs
I’ve seen Australia get rolled for 48 against SA , and again for 63 against England and saw Scotty Boland run through England last year at the MCG
But I haven’t seen anything remotely like last night in first class grade cricket
Even sundries couldn’t get their poo together
How the frick does a side get shovelled up in just 5.5 overs / 35 balls ???
Geoff Marsh is Adam Voges assistant coach.Remember in Geoff test playing days training with South Fremantle.The boys will be fit.
Great to see Jhye Richardson firing and taking wickets. Good start by the scorchers, the batting is the main concern. Hardie and Agar rescued them last night when they were 5 for 48.
A see saw momentum game in Launceston.Both sides had there periods of domince
.With four overs left we required 32 runs..9/10 you should chase that down in BBL.The Hurricanes bowled out really well.
As Mike said previous, Scorchers have batting problems without Mitch Marsh in the lineup.
GTR Perth have essentially been 2 batsman short in their 2 games so far.
- They have 2 bowling all rounders in Hardie & Agar coming in at 6 & 7 respectively and then a long tail following them.
- Hobson batting at 3 is head scratching to say the least, not even sure how he is in the team ahead of Bancroft let alone at 3.
They had that game last night on toast until Ingliss decided to try to hit that mystery spinner out of the ground, got caught on the boundary and exposed the tail.
Also thought it was pretty poor form from Wade again
As well as Marsh, the Scorchers have lost Patterson and Munro from last years batting line up. Du Plessis and Lyth are only there for half the season as I understand, so the Scorchers will struggle to get any more than 150-160 with what they have currently got. Puts a lot of pressure on the bowling group to defend low scores, which they did against the Sixers but won’t be able to do every time. Bancroft should be in the team and I would probably open with him. Cam Green should also be available at the back end when the tests are over.
As for Wade, nothing he does really surprises me.
Somehow the Scorchers are winning games, even though their batting has only fired once ( albeit in a big way)
The bowling group is holding things together but you would think that the collapses would come back and bite them at some stage.
Their luck is totally out this season with Laurie Evans failing the drug test, Mitch Marsh injured for the whole season, Phil Salt the same, Tymal Mills having to go home for family reasons and now Cam Green with a broken finger. There is also talk about Agar and/or Hardie being drafted into the test squad as cover.
Making finals will be a real achievement for them this year.
Another solid Scorchers win . Captain Aston Turner really had the crowd screaming again.
Best 3 BBL attendances this BBL season at Optus21,240
26,785
27,420 tonight.
Stick that in your pipe Maxwell.
Big setback for the Scorchers with Jhye Richardson out for a few weeks with a hamstring injury. Morris will be back soon so that should compensate for this loss. The batting is another matter. Faf has done OK but he is leaving, Lyth has been a dud. May be time to go back to Inglis opening with Bancroft which seemed to work OK last year in the powerplay. They also have another English guy Eskinazi to come in, he has been playing for Claremont Nedlands this season so he is well and truly acclimatised.
Amazing that Adelaide chased down 230 in the game last night. Matt Short must be very close to national 20/20 selection
Or a big IPL contract next year Mike.
Went along to the Scorchers game last night, great atmosphere. It was a shaky start by the men in orange with 80 from the first 7 overs (Munro was brutal during this period). Once that first wicket fell, Brisbane lost 9 - 90 and ended up well short of where they should have been. 171 was still a challenging score though but Bancroft and Hardie made it into a doddle. Brisbane Heat only had 2 front line seamers in Perth which was a huge error as the Scorchers batsmen plundered the spinners. Hardie is a very talented batsman as he showed in last years shield final and I’m sure he will be picked for Australia sometime in the near future.
Morris bowled fast, went for a few runs but took a couple of wickets as well. Great to see Cooper Connelly making his debut as well and he contributed with a couple of catches
Why on earth these BBL teams pay these International has been’s or in some cases never was’s so much money has me stumped?
For Perth Lyth was next to useless, a young batsman from club cricket could have done a better job, whilst Faf was not much better and awful in Perth.
The other teams have also had next to no value from some of these “Professional T20 players” surely playing local would be far more cost efficient?
I agree with everything you said BH
Though that was easy, would that have to have been the worst bowling attack ever in BBL? Very ordinary. But the batsmen, Hardie and Inglis did it on their ear.
Anchor ,Ricky Pointing talking up both Hardie and Inglis.
Both have become a very strong part of the Scorchers.
A friend of mine who has written books on Goldfields sports and is an avid cricket fan, asked how Hardie was rejected by the IPL teams at a bargain basement price of $40,000.
He considers he is a much better T20 player than Green, who free $3.4 mill.
The reason why the Scorchers have been so successful over many years is that there has not been such a reliance on overseas imports. The core base of their team has always been local players and they have driven the culture and performance of the team.
Inglis still has a chance of a last minute call up to India as I believe that Handscomb was injured in a grade game the other day.