BBL match 21: Thunder vs Hurricanes @ Spotless stadium

[ioppolo]

BBL heads over to Western Sydney tonight as the Thunder play the Hurricanes in the first match at Spotless stadium! Teams are as follows:

Thunder:
AC Blizzard, MJ Cosgrove, PJ Cummins, CD Hartley†, NM Hauritz, DP Hughes, MEK Hussey*, JH Kallis, JK Lalor,IA Moran, JJ Roy, GS Sandhu, CP Tremain

The great man himself, Mark Cosgrove has found himself in the squad of 13.

Hurricanes:
GJ Bailey*, CJ Boyce, TT Bresnan, XJ Doherty, BR Dunk†, EP Gulbis, BW Hilfenhaus, MW Hill, DP Michael, JK Reed, Shoaib Malik, JW Wells, SW Willis

No Birt, no Paine. That paves way for explosive powerhouse Dom Michael to make the squad of 13.

Thunder to win for mine.

 

[eth-dog]

Dom Michael? Please let him play, I want to see him fail at cricket again

 

[TN25]

Which Thunder team will turn up to play?

 

[grimlock]

Which Thunder team will turn up to play?

Maybe neither as it looks like rain could threaten this match.

 

[grimlock]

The Thunder have had some serious bad luck with injury, losing Khawaja, McDonald and Patterson.

Is Nannes injured too or has he been dropped?

With regards to this match, both teams look weak in the batting department, but the Thunder look to have the better bowlers so they should win this comfortably.

 

[TN25]

Maybe neither as it looks like rain could threaten this match.

That's a shame. Apparently rain will affect most of the games this round

 

[eth-dog]

The Thunder have had some serious bad luck with injury, losing Khawaja, McDonald and Patterson.

Is Nannes injured too or has he been dropped?

With regards to this match, both teams look weak in the batting department, but the Thunder look to have the better bowlers so they should win this comfortably.

Thunder's top 6 is Cosgrove, Kallis, Blizzard, Hussey, Roy, Hartley. That's pretty good if you ask me.

 

[grimlock]

Thunder's top 6 is Cosgrove, Kallis, Blizzard, Hussey, Roy, Hartley. That's pretty good if you ask me.

Nah Roy will open.

Would have been better had it been
Roy, Jacques, Ussie, Mr. Cricket, Blizz, Ronnie, Harts

 

[Aussie_boy]

Maybe neither as it looks like rain could threaten this match.

Forecast says possible shower, surely they can get a game going? And it looks alright weather at the test

 

[vaughany]

BBL heads over to Western Sydney tonight as the Thunder play the Hurricanes in the first match at Spotless stadium! Teams are as follows:

Thunder:
AC Blizzard, MJ Cosgrove, PJ Cummins, CD Hartley†, NM Hauritz, DP Hughes, MEK Hussey*, JH Kallis, JK Lalor,IA Moran, JJ Roy, GS Sandhu, CP Tremain

The great man himself, Mark Cosgrove has found himself in the squad of 13.

Hurricanes:
GJ Bailey*, CJ Boyce, TT Bresnan, XJ Doherty, BR Dunk†, EP Gulbis, BW Hilfenhaus, MW Hill, DP Michael, JK Reed, Shoaib Malik, JW Wells, SW Willis

No Birt, no Paine. That paves way for explosive powerhouse Dom Michael to make the squad of 13.

Thunder to win for mine.

Is that the same Cosgrove who once played for South Australia?

 

[eth-dog]

Is that the same Cosgrove who once played for South Australia?

Still does.

 

[Kram]

Interesting to see how Spotless goes with the cricket, got to better than having 12k in an 80k seat stadium which looked ridiculous.

 

[The_Reaper]

Spotless should be their permanent home ground

 

[vaughany]

For Sydney people I believe if you buy a ticket for BBL tonight you will be given a free pass to royal show also

 

[grimlock]

Weather starting to get real dark and overcast here. Don't think it will result in the abandonment of the game but I think it might result in a shortened game.

 

[JC Hawks]

For Sydney people I believe if you buy a ticket for BBL tonight you will be given a free pass to royal show also

Pretty decent.

 

[The_Reaper]

For Sydney people I believe if you buy a ticket for BBL tonight you will be given a free pass to royal show also

Royal Show during Jan?

 

[JC Hawks]

Royal Show during Jan?

Isn't the Sydney one the Royal Easter Show?

 

[grimlock]

Covers are currently on, but the relevant Twitter accounts say they expects some play.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Thunder with the heavy hitters

 

[94_Eagles]

M m m Mel

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

M m m Mel

Banned yourself from the test thread today? Mel looking fine as always, very elegant lady.

 

[94_Eagles]

Banned yourself from the test thread today? Mel looking fine as always, very elegant lady.

I was there for parts.

 

[NSWCROW]

Didn't expect the pitch to be laid that way.

 

[Admiral Byng]

Interesting tio see what sort of crowd they get here. I'd love for them to get regular 40,000+ crowds at the Olympic stadium, but that will never happen. if they can pack 20,000 into Spotless it might create a better atmosphere.