*Official* Big Bash League 10 2020-21

[Starfighter]

Fixtures so far ('rona dependent):

Date	Fixture	Venue	Time	Broadcast
Thu Dec 10	Hurricanes vs Sixers	Blundstone Arena	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Fri Dec 11	Stars vs Heat	Manuka Oval	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Sat Dec 12	Stars vs Thunder	Manuka Oval	4:05pm	Fox Cricket
Sat Dec 12	Renegades vs Scorchers	Blundstone Arena	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Sun Dec 13	Strikers vs Hurricanes	Blundstone Arena	2:10pm	Seven/Fox
Sun Dec 13	Sixers vs Renegades	Blundstone Arena	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Mon Dec 14	Thunder vs Heat	Manuka Oval	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Tue Dec 15	Hurricanes vs Strikers	UTAS Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Wed Dec 16	Scorchers vs Stars	UTAS Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Sat Dec 19	Hurricanes vs Renegades	Blundstone Arena	11:10am	Seven/Fox
Sun Dec 20	Sixers vs Strikers	Blundstone Arena	11:10am	Seven/Fox
Tue Dec 22	Thunder vs Scorchers	Manuka Oval	7:15pm	Fox Cricket
Wed Dec 23	Heat vs Strikers	The Gabba	7:15pm	Fox Cricket
Sat Dec 26	Thunder vs Renegades	Manuka Oval	6:10pm	Seven/Fox
Sat Dec 26	Sixers vs Stars	Metricon Stadium	9:20pm	Seven/Fox
Sun Dec 27	Heat vs Hurricanes	The Gabba	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Mon Dec 28	Scorchers vs Strikers	Adelaide Oval	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Tue Dec 29	Renegades vs Sixers	Metricon Stadium	6:10pm	Fox Cricket
Tue Dec 29	Thunder vs Stars	Manuka Oval	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Wed Dec 30	Hurricanes vs Heat	The Gabba	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Thu Dec 31	Strikers vs Scorchers	Adelaide Oval	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Fri Jan 1	Renegades vs Thunder	Metricon Stadium	7:15pm	Fox Cricket
Sat Jan 2	Hurricanes vs Stars	Blundstone Arena	5:05pm	Fox Cricket
Sat Jan 2	Heat vs Sixers	The Gabba	8:15pm	Fox Cricket
Sun Jan 3	Scorchers vs Renegades	Optus Stadium	4:05pm	Fox Cricket
Sun Jan 3	Strikers vs Sixers	Metricon Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Mon Jan 4	Stars vs Hurricanes	Blundstone Arena	4:05pm	Fox Cricket
Mon Jan 4	Heat vs Thunder	The Gabba	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Tue Jan 5	Renegades vs Strikers	Adelaide Oval	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Wed Jan 6	Scorchers vs Sixers	Optus Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Thu Jan 7	Hurricanes vs Thunder	Optus Stadium	6:10pm	Seven/Fox
Thu Jan 7	Heat vs Stars	Metricon Stadium	9:20pm	Seven/Fox
Fri Jan 8	Strikers vs Renegades	Adelaide Oval	6:10pm	Fox Cricket
Sat Jan 9	Scorchers vs Thunder	Optus Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Sun Jan 10	Sixers vs Heat	Metricon Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Mon Jan 11	Strikers vs Stars	Adelaide Oval	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Tue Jan 12	Scorchers vs Hurricanes	Optus Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Wed Jan 13	Thunder vs Sixers	Sydney Showgrounds Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Thu Jan 14	Heat vs Renegades	Marvel Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Fri Jan 15	Stars vs Strikers	MCG	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Sat Jan 16	Sixers vs Scorchers	SCG	6:40pm	Fox Cricket
Sun Jan 17	Stars vs Renegades	MCG	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Mon Jan 18	Thunder vs Hurricanes	Sydney Showgrounds Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Tue Jan 19	Scorchers vs Heat	Marvel Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Wed Jan 20	Renegades vs Stars	Marvel Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Thu Jan 21	Strikers vs Heat	MCG	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Fri Jan 22	Hurricanes vs Scorchers	Marvel Stadium	4:05pm	Fox Cricket
Fri Jan 22	Sixers vs Thunder	SCG	7:15pm	Fox Cricket
Sat Jan 23	Renegades vs Heat	Marvel Stadium	4:05pm	Fox Cricket
Sat Jan 23	Stars vs Scorchers	MCG	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Sun Jan 24	Thunder vs Strikers	Sydney Showgrounds Stadium	4:05pm	Fox Cricket
Sun Jan 24	Sixers vs Hurricanes	SCG	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Mon Jan 25	Strikers vs Thunder	Sydney Showgrounds Stadium	7:15pm	Seven/Fox
Tue Jan 26	Heat vs Scorchers	SCG	1:05pm	Fox Cricket
Tue Jan 26	Renegades vs Hurricanes	MCG	4:15pm	Seven/Fox
Tue Jan 26	Stars vs Sixers	MCG	7:50pm	Seven/Fox

Fri Jan 29	Fourth vs Fifth	TBC	TBC	Seven/Fox
Sat Jan 30	First vs Second	TBC	TBC	Seven/Fox
Sun Jan 31	Third vs Eliminator winner	TBC	TBC	Seven/Fox
Thu Feb 4	Qualifier loser vs Knockout winner	TBC	TBC	Seven/Fox
Sat Feb 6	Qualifier winner vs Challenger winner	TBC	TBC	Seven/Fox

Squads:

Adelaide Strikers: Danny Briggs (Eng), Wes Agar, Alex Carey, Harry Conway, Travis Head (c), Spencer Johnson, Rashid Khan (Afg), Michael Neser, Harry Nielsen, Liam O'Connor, Matt Renshaw, Phil Salt (Eng), Liam Scott, Matt Short, Peter Siddle, Cameron Valente, Jake Weatherald, Daniel Worrall, Jon Wells

Brisbane Heat: Tom Banton (Eng), Xavier Bartlett, Max Bryant, Joe Burns, Tom Cooper, Lewis Gregory (Eng), Sam Heazlett, Matthew Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Ben Laughlin, Dan Lawrence (Eng), Chris Lynn (c), Morne Morkel, Jimmy Peirson, Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Afg), Mark Steketee, Mitch Swepson, Jack Wildermuth, Matthew Willans

Hobart Hurricanes: Scott Boland, Tim David, Jake Doran, Nathan Ellis, James Faulkner, Peter Handscomb, Colin Ingram (SA), Will Jacks (Eng), Sandeep Lamichhane (Nep), Dawid Malan (Eng), Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, David Moody, Mitch Owen, Wil Parker, Keemo Paul (WI), D'Arcy Short, Matthew Wade (c), Nick Winter, Mac Wright

Melbourne Renegades: Noor Ahmad (Afg), Cameron Boyce, Zak Evans, Aaron Finch (c), 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 Rossouw (SA), Will Sutherland, Imran Tahir (SA), Beau Webster

Melbourne Stars: Jonny Bairstow (Eng), Hilton Cartwright, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Ben Dunk, Seb Gotch, Clint Hinchliffe, Zahir Khan (Afg), Nic Maddinson, Glenn Maxwell (c), Jono Merlo, Lance Morris, Tom O'Connell, Nicholas Pooran (WI), Will Pucovski, Billy Stanlake, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa

Perth Scorchers: Ashton Agar, Fawad Ahmed, Cameron Bancroft, Jason Behrendorff, Joe Clarke (Eng), Cameron Gannon, Cameron Green, Aaron Hardie, Josh Inglis, Matthew Kelly, Liam Livingstone (Eng), Mitchell Marsh (c), Colin Munro (NZ), Joel Paris, Kurtis Patterson, Jhye Richardson, Jason Roy (Eng), Ashton Turner, Andrew Tye, Sam Whiteman

Sydney Sixers: Sean Abbott, Carlos Brathwaite (WI), Jackson Bird, Dan Christian, Tom Curran (Eng), Ben Dwarshuis, Jack Edwards, Mickey Edwards, Moises Henriques (c), Daniel Hughes, Hayden Kerr, Nathan Lyon, Ben Manenti, Steve O'Keefe, Josh Philippe, Lloyd Pope, Jordan Silk, Mitchell Starc, James Vince (Eng)

Sydney Thunder: Sam Billings (Eng), Jonathan Cook, Ben Cutting, Oliver Davies, Brendan Doggett, Callum Ferguson (c), Matt Gilkes, Chris Green, Alex Hales (Eng), Baxter Holt, Usman Khawaja, Nathan McAndrew, Adam Milne (NZ), Arjun Nair, Alex Ross, Daniel Sams, Jason Sangha, Tanveer Sangha, Chris Tremain

 

[Nintendo]

Champion:Scorchers

Runner up: Thunder

Wooden spoon:Heat

Most runs:Inglis

Most wickets: Rashid khan

Surprise player to gun it: Oliver davies

Surprise player to get dropped:Khawaja

Most improved:Cameron Green

Most impressive new talent (under 6 t20 caps):Oliver Davies

Number of times warne mentions the size of stoinis's biceps on comms:100+

 

[GoodAreasShane]

So Jhye Richardson and Jason Behrendorff are back bowling in Perth grade and should be on track for the Big Bash. Good news

Jhye still can't throw though. Dire news

Daemon's boi Tim David down moving to the Hurricanes, RIP Clive Rose

 

[morgieb]

Still dire that Fox seem to have all the "good" timeslots as exclusive ones. Why can't they have the pure weekday ones?

 

[Starfighter]

Jhye still can't throw though. Dire news

Yuck. As I said, wouldn't it be 'funny' if his career was wrecked needlessly diving around in a JAMODI.

I hope my initiative of colouring the Fox matches appropriately is appreciated. The table function only lets you change one cell at a time.

 

[Spikey]

Starfighter has set a very high standard with this OP

 

[stephen]

The bbl isn't too long. Should be played in the winter months too.

But I think the thing that's killed it is the good games going to Foxtel.

 

[Kraken]

Champion:Scorchers

Runner up: Thunder

Wooden spoon:Heat

Most runs:Inglis

Most wickets: Rashid khan

Surprise player to gun it: Oliver davies

Surprise player to get dropped:Khawaja

Most improved:Cameron Green

Most impressive new talent (under 6 t20 caps):Oliver Davies

Number of times warne mentions the size of stoinis's biceps on comms:100+

I like this, Oliver Davies is an absolute gun

 

[Burgey]

What are the rule changes ppl are pissed off about?

also, Bert is apparently going into the Sixers bubble as the expectation is Phillippe will be missing a few games

 

[morgieb]

What are the rule changes ppl are pissed off about?

also, Bert is apparently going into the Sixers bubble as the expectation is Phillippe will be missing a few games

Introduction of substitutes and bonus points if you lead afte 10 overs.

 

[Burgey]

Arrrgghh.

 

[Spikey]

rule 1 is just chopping the pp from 6 to 4 and then having another 2 over pp thing from the 10 over mark
rule 2 is a substitution rule, but it can only be used after 10 overs of the first innings (I assume in rain affected games it's at the 25% point of the match) and only for a player who has done basically nothing so far in the game
rule 3 is wins are worth 3 points and there's one point for like, first innings points, or something, based on who did better after 10 overs.

all the rules have terrible no good gimmick names

Introducing the BBL Power Surge, X-Factor and Bash Boost

Trent Woodhill the man behind new powerplay rules, return of the supersub - called X-factor - and an incentive in the run chase

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[Shady Slim]

The bbl isn't too long. Should be played in the winter months too.

But I think the thing that's killed it is the good games going to Foxtel.

nail meet the hammer tbh

say it with me now, sport should not be paywalled. if you're an english poster and you don't agree with this then lick the boot of BIG TV harder tbh

 

[NotMcKenzie]

But think of the money that going on pay-tv will bring that doesn't seem to actually help the sport and somehow makes up for a shrinking audience and shrinking participation...

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Why can't they just play Shield matches all summer ffs.

 

[Starfighter]

nail meet the hammer tbh

say it with me now, sport should not be paywalled. if you're an english poster and you don't agree with this then lick the boot of BIG TV harder tbh

Aside from cricket in England, what other sports have self-destructed by being on pay TV? Drawing from personal interest, motorcycle racing is definitely one. A few of the American sports are declining in viewership, but I think there's other factors there too.

 

[GotSpin]

Rugby Union in Australia? Plenty of other reasons for that though

 

[stephen]

Union is the big one in Australia. It was genuinely as popular as Rugby League in the 1990s but when it hit pay tv it fell completely off the radar. The only time it even makes the news these days is when a league player defects or there's a world cup on.

 

[mr_mister]

Kayo is very affordable

 

[stephen]

Kayo is very affordable

Yes but it's not as accessible as flicking on a tv and leaving it on. It's alright for people who are fans, but for casuals who just want something to watch on a Saturday night, they're not going to flick on the cricket if it means over $20/ month and setting up their Chromecast.

A huge number of people are in the subset of the population who would watch the cricket if it was on but don't care quite enough to get a subscription.