BBL|09 Discussion

[Unbreakable]

13 days until the first game kicks off, pretty keen. The Heat finally have a good chance for the first time since our last championship imo.

 

[Unbreakable]

Here are my predicted XI's for each side -

Adelaide Strikers -

1. Phil Salt (int)
2. Jake Weatherald
3. Alex Carey (c)
4. Cameron White
5. Jono Wells
6. Matthew Short
7. Michael Neser
8. Rashid Khan (int)
9. Peter Siddle
10. Wes Agar
11. Billy Stanlake

Extras: Jake Lehmann, Harry Nielsen, Cameron Valente, Liam O’Connor, Nick Winter, Harry Conway

Unavailable for Round 1: Travis Head

Brisbane Heat -

1. Tom Banton (int)
2. Max Bryant
3. Chris Lynn (c)
4. Matt Renshaw
5. Sam Heazlett
6. Ben Cutting
7. Jimmy Peirson
8. James Pattinson
9. Mark Steketee
10. Ben Laughlin
11. Zahir Khan (int)

Extras: Cameron Gannon, Josh Lalor, Jack Prestwidge, Mitch Swepson, Matt Kuhnemann

Unavailable for Round 1: Marnus Labuschagne, Joe Burns, AB de Villiers (int), Mujeeb ur Rahman (int)

Hobart Hurricanes -

1. D'Arcy Short
2. Jake Doran
3. Ben McDermott
4. David Miller (int)
5. George Bailey (c)
6. Simon Milenko
7. James Faulkner
8. Qais Ahmad (int)
9. Clive Rose
10. Scott Boland
11. Riley Meredith

Extras: Caleb Jewell, Jarrod Freeman, Nathan Ellis, Aaron Summers, David Moody, Tom Rogers

Unavailable for Round 1: Matthew Wade, Jofra Archer (int)

Melbourne Renegades -

1. Aaron Finch (c)
2. Marcus Harris
3. Shaun Marsh
4. Sam Harper
5. Tom Cooper
6. Daniel Christian
7. Jack Wildermuth
8. Faheem Ashraf (int)
9. Cameron Boyce
10. Kane Richardson
11. Usman Shinwari (int)

Extras: Beau Webster, Mackenzie Harvey, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Zack Evans, Will Sutherland, Jon Holland, Joe Mennie

Unavailable for Round 1: Harry Gurney (int), Mohammad Nabi (int)

Melbourne Stars -

1. Ben Dunk
2. Nic Maddinson
3. Peter Handscomb
4. Glenn Maxwell (c)
5. Marcus Stoinis
6. Hilton Cartwright
7. Nathan Coulter-Nile
8. Adam Zampa
9. Daniel Worrall
10. Dale Steyn (int)
11. Sandeep Lamichhane (int)

Extras: Seb Gotch, Jonathan Merlo, Clint Hinchcliffe, Nick Larkin, Lance Morris, Jackson Coleman, Tom O’Connell

Unavailable for Round 1: Pat Brown (int)

Perth Scorchers -

1. Josh Inglis
2. Cameron Bancroft
3. Mitch Marsh (c)
4. Liam Livingstone (int)
5. Ashton Turner
6. Cameron Green
7. Ashton Agar
8. Chris Jordan (int)
9. Jhye Richardson
10. Matthew Kelly
11. Fawad Ahmed

Extras: Sam Whiteman, Nick Hobson, Aaron Hardie, Joel Paris

Unavailable for Round 1: Kurtis Patterson, Andrew Tye, Jason Behrendorff

Sydney Sixers -

1. Josh Phillipe
2. Daniel Hughes
3. James Vince (int)
4. Moises Henriques (c)
5. Jordan Silk
6. Jack Edwards
7. Tom Curran (int)
8. Sean Abbott
9. Stephen O'Keefe
10. Ben Dwarshuis
11. Jackson Bird

Extras: Justin Avendano, Henry Thornton, Mickey Edwards, Daniel Fallins, Lloyd Pope

Unavailable for Round 1: Steve Smith, Nathan Lyon

Sydney Thunder -

1. Alex Hales (int)
2. Usman Khawaja
3. Callum Ferguson (c)
4. Jason Sangha
5. Matthew Gilkes
6. Alex Ross
7. Chris Morris (int)
8. Daniel Sams
9. Gurinder Sandhu
10. Chris Green
11. Chris Tremain

Extras: Jay Lenton, Oliver Davies, Nathan McAndrew, Arjun Nair, Jono Cook, Brandan Doggett, Tanvir Sangha

Unavailable for Round 1: N/A

 

[Unbreakable]

Based purely on the line-ups, this is also my predicted standings -

1. Renegades
2. Heat
3. Stars
4. Strikers
5. Sixers
6. Scorchers
7. Thunder
8. Hurricanes

 

[broncos4life]

13 days until the first game kicks off, pretty keen. The Heat finally have a good chance for the first time since our last championship imo.

Agreed, it is arguably a better team even than that championship year.

 

[ZTop]

Based purely on the line-ups, this is also my predicted standings -

1. Renegades
2. Heat
3. Stars
4. Strikers
5. Sixers
6. Scorchers
7. Thunder
8. Hurricanes

Yep that's pretty accurate, the melbourne teams look good

 

[ZTop]

So Doggett has gone to Thunder?

 

[Unbreakable]

So Doggett has gone to Thunder?

Yep.

Makes sense for him, I doubt he would've got a game this year for the Heat, arguably had 6 fast bowlers ahead of him - Pattinson, Laughlin, Steketee, Cutting, Lalor, Gannon

 

[Alec]

Lalor was arguably Heat's best player last year, and now he can even miss out.

 

[Unbreakable]

Lalor was arguably Heat's best player last year, and now he can even miss out.

Toss of the coin between Lalor & Steketee imo, I put Steks in there purely because of his recent form.

 

[ZTop]

Yep.

Makes sense for him, I doubt he would've got a game this year for the Heat, arguably had 6 fast bowlers ahead of him - Pattinson, Laughlin, Steketee, Cutting, Lalor, Gannon

And what about Ross?

 

[Unbreakable]

And what about Ross?

Same deal, don't think we offered him a new contract so he went to the Thunder where they had plenty of opportunity. There was really no need for him when we have Renshaw, Heazlett & Cutting in the middle order, with Burns & Labuschagne to come back for the finals if necessary.

Our only issue this year might be batting depth, we have essentially nobody if one of our top 7 get injured, only bowlers in reserve. I personally don't think we were expecting Burns to get picked for Australia again, our depth would've been fine if we had him as well.

 

[ZTop]

Same deal, don't think we offered him a new contract so he went to the Thunder where they had plenty of opportunity. There was really no need for him when we have Renshaw, Heazlett & Cutting in the middle order, with Burns & Labuschagne to come back for the finals if necessary.

Our only issue this year might be batting depth, we have essentially nobody if one of our top 7 get injured, only bowlers in reserve. I personally don't think we were expecting Burns to get picked for Australia again, our depth would've been fine if we had him as well.

Ross never really fired for heat unfortunately. Was one of the best players in BBL when he was Strikers.

 

[1910]

Prestwidge will have a break out summer. Should be the all rounder over Cutting.

 

[Unbreakable]

Prestwidge will have a break out summer. Should be the all rounder over Cutting.

That's a big call, but I like it. He's probably already a better bowler than Cutting from the little I've seen of him, but Cuts has a big advantage over him with the potential to go monumental if he gets his eye in with the bat.

 

[Unbreakable]

The Hazlewood injury isn't great for the Heat, that means we're likely without Pattinson for the foreseeable future.

At least we've got a bit of fast bowling depth this year.

 

[1910]

Prestwidge 72 off 36 and 44 off 20 for Norths.

 

[Unbreakable]

As expected, no Pattinson.

1. Banton
2. Bryant
3. Lynn (c)
4. Renshaw
5. Heazlett
6. Cutting
7. Peirson
8. Steketee
9. Khan
10. Lalor
11. Laughlin

 

[Unbreakable]

Thunder squad -

Callum Ferguson (12) (C)
Jonathan Cook (50)
Matthew Gilkes (22)
Chris Green (93)
Alex Hales (6)
Liam Hatcher (19)
Usman Khawaja (18)
Nathan McAndrew (44)
Arjun Nair (7)
Alex Ross (49)
Dan Sams (60)
Tanveer Sangha (17)
Chris Tremain (20)