BBL Match Match 27 Strikers v Scorchers @ Alice Springs

Scorchers to win

 

Weather forecast is pretty average.

 

As is the case with rain affected matches, the team who bats second will likely win.

 

What a shitty and irrelevant place to host.

 

Why is this is in Alice Springs rather than Darwin?

 

Probably because of the weather ironically.

 

That was Penrith.

 

Yeah, it's a weird place to host a game. CA is probably giving away 40,000 in the crowd by not playing it in Adelaide.

 

It'll still rate a miwyun.

Thats where the money is, TV rights.

 

Scorchers feeling the player drain atm.Need some luck and playing Adelaide in the NT.Is far better than Adelaide oval.

 

Get to the money!

 

Looks like most of Alice Springs is at the game

 

Anyone see the irony of the Strikers changing their shirt sponsor from West End to Drinkwise for today's game yet still having the West End signage on the field

 

I thought all the extra home games this year were meant to be played at different venues to normal?!

 

West End make goon now?

 

Magnificent Macdonnell Ranges.

 

West End isn't too far from goon

 

Pitch is flat and low. Outfield slow.

140 could win this.

 

Though Scorchers would play outside Perth somewhere. Also the Renegades outside of Melbourne.

 

While some have been, I don't think the teams were compelled to play the extra game elsewhere.

Renegades went to Geelong
Hurricanes went to Launceston
Thunder are going to Canberra

I'm surprised the Heat didn't go to Townsville or Cairns (but I suspect they'll play one on the Gold Coast next season when Metricon's back online). The Sixers could've visited somewhere like Coffs Harbour. Stars could've gone to Ballarat, and the Scorchers could've gone to Darwin.

 

Who do the conditions favour? The slow outfield may close the gap in terms of the Strikers' inability to find the boundary.

 

23,000, the Alice is bigger than I give it credit for.