BBL BBL Match 56 Melbourne Starts v Sydney Sixers at the MCG 1930 AEDT

[Gough]

Melbourne from, Aaron Finch (c), Noor Ahmad (AFG), Cameron Boyce, Zak Evans, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sam Harper, Marcus Harris, Mackenzie Harvey, Jon Holland, Josh Lalor, Shaun Marsh, Mohammad Nabi (AFG), James Pattinson, Mitch Perry, Jack Prestwidge, Kane Richardson, Rilee Roussow (SA), Will Sutherland, Imran Tahir (SA), Imad Wasim (PAK), Beau Webster, Peter Hatzoglou*, Benny Howell (ENG)*, Brody Couch*
Hobart from, Scott Boland, Tim David, Jake Doran, Nathan Ellis, James Faulkner, Peter Handscomb, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, David Moody, Mitchell Owen, Tim Paine, Will Parker, D’Arcy Short, Matthew Wade, Nick Winter, Mac Wright, Sandeep Lamichhane (NEP), Dawid Malan (ENG), Keemo Paul (WI), Johan Botha*, Charlie Wakim*, Caleb Jewell*, Will Jacks* (ENG), Colin Ingram* (SA)

 

[Cleavy]

too late to switch both games to Docklands?

 

[The Victorian]

too late to switch both games to Docklands?

Why? It’s only raining in the morning

 

[Drunkcat]

Why is gades and Hobart locked its game on

 

[Gough]

Why is gades and Hobart locked its game on

Because I ticked the wrong box when I posted it, apologies. Open now.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Genuine question - if you were coaching the Sixers - would you want to be batting second and simply making a focus of achieving the bash boost point over winning

let’s say the stars make 75 off 10 and 150 off 20

you’d think getting the 75 with your ten wickets is eminently more achievable

and serves the higher purpose for the tournament

 

[Belnakor]

Genuine question - if you were coaching the Sixers - would you want to be batting second and simply making a focus of achieving the bash boost point over winning

Which is exactly what they did

 

[HBF]

Thank you Gades. Over to you now Stars

 

[Moonwatcher]

Thank you Gades. Over to you now Sixers

 

[Ronnie Baby]

So Perth hoping for a Stars win and Adelaide has their fingers, toes and ballsacks crossed for a Sixers win

 

[danstar]

Stars to win with bonus point to make finals, whos batting first?

If it was me I would send in all the hitters first and get 120 off 10 overs than finish around 190 and defend

 

[Stig O'Hara]

So Stars have to get the bp & win??

Not sure about NRR.

Anyhoo, for probably the first time in my life......go Sydney.

 

[Dazza the Viking]

Stars need all 4 pts, Sixers will aiming for the bonus point to finish on top

 

[Moonwatcher]

So Stars have to get the bp & win??

Not sure about NRR.

NRR is higher than Adelaide.

 

[ep2018]

Sixers will be going for the BP and not the win, they'll lose several wickets doing so. They're going to treat this like a ten over game with all wickets in hand. Its gonna be a farce. Thanks CA.

 

[Moonwatcher]

It's amazing how important the bonus point has become.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

NRR is higher than Adelaide.

low scoring game, will that impact NRR??

 

[Moonwatcher]

low scoring game, will that impact NRR??

No, Adelaide only lost 0.7 last night with a big loss. Stars lead Adelaide by that 0.7 and their NRR will only increase.

 

[Joe9]

hate how they constantly say how the stars team is full of superstars and they can't believe they haven't won every game.

Stoinis, Maxwell and Zampa are their only quality players. The rest are pretty garbage

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Rightio Sydney, you’ve got one job to do.

 

[The Sultan]

Looking forward to the stars being in a winning position and then balls it up completely

 

[ep2018]

Surely the game plan for the stars is to go the swing straight away? They need to bonus point (and also the win) to make finals, they need a huge ten over total.

 

[HBF]

hate how they constantly say how the stars team is full of superstars and they can't believe they haven't won every game.

Stoinis, Maxwell and Zampa are their only quality players. The rest are pretty garbage

Stars have been woefully inconsistent this year. Really don't deserve to play finals.

 

[jackster83]

hate how they constantly say how the stars team is full of superstars and they can't believe they haven't won every game.

Stoinis, Maxwell and Zampa are their only quality players. The rest are pretty garbage

They're the Essendon of the Big Bash.

 

[Moonwatcher]

low scoring game, will that impact NRR??

Come to think of it a high scoring match like 1200 v 1199 would drive their NRRs towards 0.