BBL04 Match 25: Adelaide Strikers v Sydney Thunder @ Adelaide Oval 7.10pm (s.a time)

[vaughany]

Striekrs 2nd on ladder with the Thunder sitting 6th.

Would think Strikers would win easily and set up a home final berth. Thunder need to win to keep their semi-final hopes alive. Hussey & Cummins out is a huge loss for Sydney.

Strikers Squad
Johan Botha (C)
Jono Dean
Travis Head
Ben Laughlin
Tim Ludeman
Gary Putland
Kane Richardson
Alex Ross
Craig Simmons
Kelvin Smith
Shaun Tait
Ryan ten Doeschate
Adam Zampa

In: Putland, Smith
Out: Seb Gotch, Hamish Kingston

Thunder Squad
Chris Hartley (c)
Ahillen Beadle
Aiden Blizzard
Mark Cosgrove
Chris Green
Nathan Hauritz
Daniel Hughes
Jacques Kallis
Josh Lalor
Ian Moran
Jason Roy
Gurinder Sandhu
Chris Tremain

In: Beadle, Green
Out: Pat Cummins, Mike Hussey


Pre game match: Breezair SA Scorpions v Lend Lease NSW Breakers: 1:55pm – 4:40pm

 

[vaughany]

Off topic but what happened to the infamous 'Gus the Goose'?
Not seen this year??

https://twitter.com/GustheGooseBBL

 

[grimlock]

Off topic but what happened to the infamous 'Gus the Goose'?
Not seen this year??

https://twitter.com/GustheGooseBBL

They've clearly canned it, on one of the mathces yesterday they made a joking reference to Gus being finished.

 

[TN25]

The Strikers should deal with the Thunder easily, although I'd love an upset

 

[grimlock]

The weather forecast doesn't look very promising.

 

[Pugsley]

The Strikers should deal with the Thunder easily, although I'd love an upset

The weather will provide that

 

[TN25]

The weather will provide that

What is the weather looking like?

 

[Pugsley]

What is the weather looking like?

Cloudy at this stage but according to the BOM, we should be expecting rain from midday for the rest of the day.

 

[eth-dog]

Thunder are a definite chance if they play at their best.

 

[Pugsley]

Thunder are a definite chance if they play at their best.

Could have a swimming comp.

 

[Lensen]

That's a bbl03 esque thunder side, terrible

 

[Carbine Chaos]

That's a bbl03 esque thunder side, terrible

It's as bad as you're likely to see. I don't normally think you can predict results in T20 cricket with any confidence, but the Strikers are certainties here.

 

[Aussie_boy]

Hoping they can at least sneak some sort of match in here... typical Adelaide weather . Agree though that Thunder side looks quite ordinary when you take out Hussey and Cummins, looks quite good with them in there.

 

[eth-dog]

Still think it isn't as bad as everybody thinks. Something like:

Roy
Hartley (c, +)
Kallis
Blizzard
Cosgrove
Hughes
Beadle
Hauritz
Sandhu
Lalor
Tremain

Is far from horrible. Although having McDonald in for Beadle, Hussey in for Hughes and Cummins in for Tremain would be better.

 

[Lensen]

Line that side up vs the side that got rolled by 73 last year:
Khawaja, Hughes, Hussey, Borgas, Floros, Patterson, Carters, Tye, Mendis, Sandhu, Nannes

Roy v Khawaja
Hartley v Carters - wash
Hussey v Kallis - wash
Blizzard v Borgas
Cosgrove v Patterson - wash
Floros v Beadle - wash
Hauritz v Mendis
Lalor v Tye
Tremain v Nannes

so 4 replacements that are fairly like for like, one improvement, three that are worse. this side is appalling

 

[eth-dog]

I wouldn't have Khawaja as a definite as better than Roy, nor would I say Nannes is better than Tremain considering Nannes got dropped by the Thunder. I'd say:

Roy vs Khawaja draw
Hartley vs Carters draw
Kallis vs Hussey draw
Blizzard vs Borgas
Cosgrove vs Patterson
Floros vs Beadle draw
Hauritz vs Mendis
Lalor vs Tye
Tremain vs Nannes

 

[Greasyrhys]

Please bat first tonight Strikers (or is that Chasers?), the majority attending tonight's game would rather see us bat first for once. Has there ever been an instance where a team has had to chase in all four BBL home games?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Still think it isn't as bad as everybody thinks. Something like:

Roy
Hartley (c, +)
Kallis
Blizzard
Cosgrove
Hughes
Beadle
Hauritz
Sandhu
Lalor
Tremain

Is far from horrible. Although having McDonald in for Beadle, Hussey in for Hughes and Cummins in for Tremain would be better.

That's pretty terrible. Opening with Hartley, Kallis will flop in 80% of matches purely based on age, Cosgrove is a waste of (a lot of) space, Hughes I don't rate, Beadle the bard I'm not sure who he is, Lalor and Tremain as half the pace attack, yeesh.

 

[Cudi]

Nannes is injured not dropped.

Team is only going to get worse next match when Sandhu leaves for international duty.

 

[vaughany]

Sandhu is playing/part of the aust odi squad after tonight's game.

Strikers/Adelaide oval update- umbrellas are allowed to be brought into the ground tonight but must not be put up during play. No ponchos will be sold at the ground.

 

[HurlsMeister18]

Thunder are a definite chance if they play at their best.

 

[eddiesmith]

Hopefully the rain stays away, the renegades record could be broken less than 2 weeks after being set

 

[Aussie_boy]

That thunder side isn't great but I don't think we will ever see a side as bad as the Thunder teams from BBL 2 and 3 although the Heat's current bowling lineup would go close

 

[vaughany]

5 overs a side is the minimum required to constitute a match

 

[eth-dog]

That's pretty terrible. Opening with Hartley, Kallis will flop in 80% of matches purely based on age, Cosgrove is a waste of (a lot of) space, Hughes I don't rate, Beadle the bard I'm not sure who he is, Lalor and Tremain as half the pace attack, yeesh.

Kallis has already played very well in 2 or 3 games, Cosgrove can play, write him off at your peril, Hughes has been handy recently and Beadle is making his debut but an unknown quantity, And then you have 3 quality T20 bowlers in Sandhu, Hauritz and Kallis.

Nannes is injured not dropped.

Team is only going to get worse next match when Sandhu leaves for international duty.

Nannes was dropped then got injured

It's T20, they've had a few good wins, and it's not as if the Strikers are invincible.