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akkaps said:
Starc is key to Australia’s t20i team and hasn’t not played at t20 domestic game since ~2016. Im not sure why the media hasn’t been on his case more.
Green is also someone that needs to play in the BBL, with his $3M IPL, he still needs to prove to MI that he can make the first XI.
And Head would probably do well in the BBL.
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Interesting point. One of the selectors go to excuse/reason for and against selecting player X is the form or lack of in the domestic competition. I dont know what starcs record is in the BBL, but we know international cricket wise, incumbents in other formats get first dibs on a spot.
 
Teen Wolf said:
I am told by incredible sources that as of 2024/25, possibly as soon as 2023/24 (negotiations re commencing new broadcast deal a year early are currently taking place), there is a high chance of the league being split into two groups.

Group 1: Strikers, Hurricanes, Renegades, Stars
Group 2: Heat, Scorchers, Sixers, Thunder

Play the teams in your group twice, teams in the other group once = 5 home, 5 away and there's your 10 total games per team. Top 2 from each group qualify for finals.

If this happens, let it be known as the Melbourne Stars Clause as I believe CV execs are salty about the green pea hearts starting with a heavy Sydney/Perth schedule for the past three years (and therefore having their finals hopes dashed early each season).

With the season being cut back to 40 games, they are worried this theme of unfairness will only be amplified (crap teams copping both the Scorchers and Sixers twice each, good teams beating up on both the Stars and Canes twice).

CA meanwhile see the potential of two groups as a way to decrease one-sided affairs while also increasing the odds of the most-watched teams (Stars and Gades) playing finals, and in general making the worst teams always, at most, only two spots on the ladder away from finals.

EDIT: This just came across my desk...

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Much better format!
 

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Teen Wolf said:
I am told by incredible sources that as of 2024/25, possibly as soon as 2023/24 (negotiations re commencing new broadcast deal a year early are currently taking place), there is a high chance of the league being split into two groups.

Group 1: Strikers, Hurricanes, Renegades, Stars
Group 2: Heat, Scorchers, Sixers, Thunder

Play the teams in your group twice, teams in the other group once = 5 home, 5 away and there's your 10 total games per team. Top 2 from each group qualify for finals.

If this happens, let it be known as the Melbourne Stars Clause as I believe CV execs are salty about the green pea hearts starting with a heavy Sydney/Perth schedule for the past three years (and therefore having their finals hopes dashed early each season).

With the season being cut back to 40 games, they are worried this theme of unfairness will only be amplified (crap teams copping both the Scorchers and Sixers twice each, good teams beating up on both the Stars and Canes twice).

CA meanwhile see the potential of two groups as a way to decrease one-sided affairs while also increasing the odds of the most-watched teams (Stars and Gades) playing finals, and in general making the worst teams always, at most, only two spots on the ladder away from finals.

EDIT: This just came across my desk...

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Groups called parties? Maybe an attempt to attract more young youngsters PARTY TIME!!!

I do like the traditional semi final - final combo, rather than the semi final-preliminary finals-final oddity
BBL/13 Format? 13 as in 2013?
 
Shorten the regular season and extend the post-season. People want to watch meaningful games, not the endless dead rubbers we get now and play more matches between the best teams in theory.

Play offs style - a couple of wild card one off matches then best of 3 series for Semi’s & Final

I.e

1st & 2nd straight through to Semi

3rd (Home) vs 6th 1 off match, winner to play 1st/2nd in best of 3 series.

4th (Home) vs 5th to play 1st/2nd.

Keeps 5th & 6th relevant until finals, gives a massive advantage to 1st & 2nd (compared to 3rd/4th)

In regular season bring the games right down - play every team once and your rival twice = 32 regular season games and up to 11 finals. Instead of 56 + 5.

Play regular season every night, then finals spread across two weeks on prime time.
 
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peternorth said:
Interesting point. One of the selectors go to excuse/reason for and against selecting player X is the form or lack of in the domestic competition. I dont know what starcs record is in the BBL, but we know international cricket wise, incumbents in other formats get first dibs on a spot.
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Fairly even, in comparison. Had played a similar number of International games to domestic.
But by this age, should have at least have played more T20 Domestic games

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While this season has been better than previous, is anyone seeing past the medias beat up of the big bash having its 'mojo' back.

Still far too many games dull and the talent in each team is pretty limited.
 
Teen Wolf said:
I am told by incredible sources that as of 2024/25, possibly as soon as 2023/24 (negotiations re commencing new broadcast deal a year early are currently taking place), there is a high chance of the league being split into two groups.

Group 1: Strikers, Hurricanes, Renegades, Stars
Group 2: Heat, Scorchers, Sixers, Thunder

Play the teams in your group twice, teams in the other group once = 5 home, 5 away and there's your 10 total games per team. Top 2 from each group qualify for finals.

If this happens, let it be known as the Melbourne Stars Clause as I believe CV execs are salty about the green pea hearts starting with a heavy Sydney/Perth schedule for the past three years (and therefore having their finals hopes dashed early each season).

With the season being cut back to 40 games, they are worried this theme of unfairness will only be amplified (crap teams copping both the Scorchers and Sixers twice each, good teams beating up on both the Stars and Canes twice).

CA meanwhile see the potential of two groups as a way to decrease one-sided affairs while also increasing the odds of the most-watched teams (Stars and Gades) playing finals, and in general making the worst teams always, at most, only two spots on the ladder away from finals.

EDIT: This just came across my desk...

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what if both Semi Finals winners had the same regular season record?
 
peternorth said:
BBL/13 Format? 13 as in 2013?
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Apparently BBL seasons have been overtly branded by edition number for the entire 12 years of its existence (definitely news to me too) so I guess BBL|13 would correspond to 2023/24.

Cleavy said:
what if both Semi Finals winners had the same regular season record?
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Doubt they're planning on changing the current rule, which states a coin toss is used to rank teams who are equal on points/nrr/wins/h2h.
 
Teen Wolf said:
I am told by incredible sources that as of 2024/25, possibly as soon as 2023/24 (negotiations re commencing new broadcast deal a year early are currently taking place), there is a high chance of the league being split into two groups.

Group 1: Strikers, Hurricanes, Renegades, Stars
Group 2: Heat, Scorchers, Sixers, Thunder

Play the teams in your group twice, teams in the other group once = 5 home, 5 away and there's your 10 total games per team. Top 2 from each group qualify for finals.

If this happens, let it be known as the Melbourne Stars Clause as I believe CV execs are salty about the green pea hearts starting with a heavy Sydney/Perth schedule for the past three years (and therefore having their finals hopes dashed early each season).

With the season being cut back to 40 games, they are worried this theme of unfairness will only be amplified (crap teams copping both the Scorchers and Sixers twice each, good teams beating up on both the Stars and Canes twice).

CA meanwhile see the potential of two groups as a way to decrease one-sided affairs while also increasing the odds of the most-watched teams (Stars and Gades) playing finals, and in general making the worst teams always, at most, only two spots on the ladder away from finals.

EDIT: This just came across my desk...

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Interesting, seems very legit, even down to the fact they used an unnecessary word in place of the word division. That seems a bit harsh on the Scorchers in terms of travel though, think they could swap them and the Canes around. I don't think the Scorchers/Sixers should be penalised for being successful, they've managed to build sustained success and deserve to get it when it comes unlike basically all 6 of the other teams who have all developed their own identities of not being overly good.
 
Actually not minding this season but still too long of a season. I know not much can be done about the scheduling but Jesus I’d love to see Indian players involved as well as more Pakistan players too.
 
adogsfan5 said:
Actually not minding this season but still too long of a season. I know not much can be done about the scheduling but Jesus I’d love to see Indian players involved as well as more Pakistan players too.
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If you're keen to watch the best Indian players, you can watch them playing Sri Lanka at this very moment on Fox Cricket.
 

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Jamurp said:
Bring it back! although the issue was the better players all played for their IPL sides over others so they were all stacked.
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This was a great concept, and could work really well if players were forced to play for their home franchise in case of conflict. The old rule was that an IPL franchise would have to pay a player’s home franchise $200,000 to retain a player for the tournament. This didn’t appear to be much of a deterrent…

Even with the stacked IPL sides though, the NSW Blues and Sydney Sixers both managed to win one tournament apiece.
 
eltrain said:
This was a great concept, and could work really well if players were forced to play for their home franchise in case of conflict. The old rule was that an IPL franchise would have to pay a player’s home franchise $200,000 to retain a player for the tournament. This didn’t appear to be much of a deterrent…

Even with the stacked IPL sides though, the NSW Blues and Sydney Sixers both managed to win one tournament apiece.
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Colin Munro won titles with Perth Scorchers and the Trent Rockets last year. Which one is his home franchise?
 

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eltrain said:
This was a great concept, and could work really well if players were forced to play for their home franchise in case of conflict. The old rule was that an IPL franchise would have to pay a player’s home franchise $200,000 to retain a player for the tournament. This didn’t appear to be much of a deterrent…

Even with the stacked IPL sides though, the NSW Blues and Sydney Sixers both managed to win one tournament apiece.
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From memory the Redbacks made the semi finals one year and lost to RCB.

The only problem is the domestic T20 scene is even more of a circuit for ‘mercenaries’ now than it was 5-10 years ago. For some reason I always remember the Scorchers had an entirely different team in the CL than they would BBL, guys like Liam Davis would play CL despite never playing BBL.
 
Aussie_boy said:
From memory the Redbacks made the semi finals one year and lost to RCB.

The only problem is the domestic T20 scene is even more of a circuit for ‘mercenaries’ now than it was 5-10 years ago. For some reason I always remember the Scorchers had an entirely different team in the CL than they would BBL, guys like Liam Davis would play CL despite never playing BBL.
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Ah yes, the Scorchers at the Champions League....

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Teen Wolf said:
I am told by incredible sources that as of 2024/25, possibly as soon as 2023/24 (negotiations re commencing new broadcast deal a year early are currently taking place), there is a high chance of the league being split into two groups.

Group 1: Strikers, Hurricanes, Renegades, Stars
Group 2: Heat, Scorchers, Sixers, Thunder

Play the teams in your group twice, teams in the other group once = 5 home, 5 away and there's your 10 total games per team. Top 2 from each group qualify for finals.

If this happens, let it be known as the Melbourne Stars Clause as I believe CV execs are salty about the green pea hearts starting with a heavy Sydney/Perth schedule for the past three years (and therefore having their finals hopes dashed early each season).

With the season being cut back to 40 games, they are worried this theme of unfairness will only be amplified (crap teams copping both the Scorchers and Sixers twice each, good teams beating up on both the Stars and Canes twice).

CA meanwhile see the potential of two groups as a way to decrease one-sided affairs while also increasing the odds of the most-watched teams (Stars and Gades) playing finals, and in general making the worst teams always, at most, only two spots on the ladder away from finals.

EDIT: This just came across my desk...

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Lol....that has to be made up

For a league with a credibility problem surely they're not running with "Qantas party" and "Toyota Party".
 

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