*Official* Big Bash League 2019/20

[Starfighter]

Haris Rauf will be playing in the place of Dale Steyn for the Stars tomorrow after the latter was injured.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Sad that Steyn is injured, but considering his last 4 years or so I I can't be too shocked. Hopefully it's just a management/cotton wool type situation and not something more serious.

Rauf seems a left field choice, from what little I've seen he has a fair bit of pace but can spray it around sometimes

 

[Starfighter]

I suppose you gotta replace an overseas fast bowler with another one. Rauf is an interesting bowler and I'll be looking forward to seeing him, although he might find playing here a bit more challenging.

 

[_Ed_]

Solid start for the Renegades, then.

 

[Starfighter]

I don't think there's any way that McAndrew actually hit 144 like the speed gun just claimed.

 

[Starfighter]

Calling Nair a bowler is a bit of a stretch.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

144 may be overcooking things a bit, but McAndrew does look a bit sharper than I remember

 

[Starfighter]

Usman tries to throw the ball in from the ring and only gets it two metres.

 

[Noumenon]

Is this thing still going?

 

[Spark]

Is this thing still going?

It literally started two days ago.

 

[mr_mister]

I've heard Ponting use the term All time great a few times on comms before. He just described Steyn as one

Is ATG a term coined by CW?

 

[Spikey]

nah it pre-existed the internet. i've always summed it's an australian term though

The smiling assassin of Australia's victorious 1989 Ashes tour and one of Australia's all-time great opening bowlers, Terry Alderman, could be gracing the SCG for the final time this weekend.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/...Term="all time great"&searchLimits=l-title=11

 

[Spark]

This has been impressively un-Thunder like from the Thunder. Khawaja and Hales is a very balanced opening pair IMO.

 

[Burgey]

Bill used to use it in comms a lot. “One of the all time great innings/ spells/ players.”

 

[Spikey]

lol too high

This has been impressively un-Thunder like from the Thunder. Khawaja and Hales is a very balanced opening pair IMO.

interesting tactic from hales. barely face a ball and struggle to hit it off the pitch, and then bat like a dream when usman gets out

 

[Spark]

lol too high



interesting tactic from hales. barely face a ball and struggle to hit it off the pitch, and then bat like a dream when usman gets out

Works though. Khawaja is ace in the powerplay when he can hit fours through gaps which lets Hales gets set, and then it doesn't matter where the fielders are.

 

[Spikey]

from 21 off 21 to 68 off 37. fair effort

 

[Starfighter]

That wasn't all that good from Harper.

 

[Spark]

Was worried there hadn't been enough classic BBL fielding so far, but the Renegades are rectifying that

 

[Burgey]

Gilkes demonstrating why he’s something of a myth here tbh