BBL|06 and WBBL|02: Match Discussion Thread!

[Jay]

Good win boys!

But did they just say Marsh won't be available for the final?

Yep, he's off to NZ for some bland ODIs

What a joke! This is the best limited overs competition in the Southern Hemisphere, yet the talent gets severely diluted just because of some boring, meaningless ODI games that no one cares about. #ScrapODIs

[Ringo]

Good win boys!

But did they just say Marsh won't be available for the final?

Yep, he's off to NZ for some bland ODIs

What a joke! This is the best limited overs competition in the Southern Hemisphere, yet the talent gets severely diluted just because of some boring, meaningless ODI games that no one cares about. #ScrapODIs

Yep replacing the "rested" Warner
Will never happen but wouldn't be great to see BBL as stand alone with all players available.

[shaker]

Good win boys!

But did they just say Marsh won't be available for the final?

Yep, he's off to NZ for some bland ODIs

What a joke! This is the best limited overs competition in the Southern Hemisphere, yet the talent gets severely diluted just because of some boring, meaningless ODI games that no one cares about. #ScrapODIs

Yep replacing the "rested" Warner
Will never happen but wouldn't be great to see BBL as stand alone with all players available.

Teams like the Stars have always lost key players just before the finals and they keep losing I know it won't happen but maybe they should by-pass players that get picked for other duties and base there team around players that are going to be around for the pointy end ?

[fanTCfool]

Good win boys!

But did they just say Marsh won't be available for the final?

Yep, he's off to NZ for some bland ODIs

What a joke! This is the best limited overs competition in the Southern Hemisphere, yet the talent gets severely diluted just because of some boring, meaningless ODI games that no one cares about. #ScrapODIs

Yep replacing the "rested" Warner
Will never happen but wouldn't be great to see BBL as stand alone with all players available.

Teams like the Stars have always lost key players just before the finals and they keep losing I know it won't happen but maybe they should by-pass players that get picked for other duties and base there team around players that are going to be around for the pointy end ?

They spoke on this very topic towards the end of the broadcast last night and came to the conclusion that you can't know who's going to be playing for Australia in 12 months time. If you took the above approach last year, you would have left Boland off of your list because he was playing for Australia, and then this year comes around and he doesn't look close to it.

[Jukes]

Or maybe concentrate on improving your state's cricket so you have plenty of very good homegrown players rather than poaching the best players from elsewhere ;)

Worked well for us despite having lost guys like the Marshes, Voges, Coults, Dorff etc. Lazy 5 grand finals in 6 seasons :3

[PowerBug]

Teams like the Stars have always lost key players just before the finals and they keep losing I know it won't happen but maybe they should by-pass players that get picked for other duties and base there team around players that are going to be around for the pointy end ?

That's why Steve Smith and David Warner don't have BBL contracts anymore. Not worth using a roster spot.


It's always going to happen, it's only T20 cricket anyway. I think they should try to avoid having things scheduled during the BBL finals, but during the regular rounds a) it's unavoidable with test cricket and b) I think the fringe players would prefer to represent their country, as it may be their only chance to (See: Cartwright and Stanlake)

[Jay]

Teams like the Stars have always lost key players just before the finals and they keep losing I know it won't happen but maybe they should by-pass players that get picked for other duties and base there team around players that are going to be around for the pointy end ?

That's why Steve Smith and David Warner don't have BBL contracts anymore. Not worth using a roster spot.


It's always going to happen, it's only T20 cricket anyway. I think they should try to avoid having things scheduled during the BBL finals, but during the regular rounds a) it's unavoidable with test cricket and b) I think the fringe players would prefer to represent their country, as it may be their only chance to (See: Cartwright and Stanlake)

The "it's only T20 cricket" argument isn't relevant anymore because T20 has flown past ODI in both quality of cricket and popularity. I'll never be of the opinion that T20 is catching test cricket, but comparing crowd numbers from the big bash to some of the test matches is pretty eye-opening. Anyway, ODIs are now clearly the worst form of cricket, and in an ideal world, shouldn't at all impact a competition as huge as the big bash :)

[Bill Manspeaker]

T20 is still the worst form. I don't care about crowd numbers.  I'd rather watch an ODI game over a T20 10/10 times and if I had the option I'd rather play for my country than my state (both would be awesome though obviously)

[Jukes]

Test > Domestic T20 > First Class > International T20 >>>>>> List A > ODI imho (for watching as in)

[Nige]

Teams like the Stars have always lost key players just before the finals and they keep losing I know it won't happen but maybe they should by-pass players that get picked for other duties and base there team around players that are going to be around for the pointy end ?

That's why Steve Smith and David Warner don't have BBL contracts anymore. Not worth using a roster spot.


It's always going to happen, it's only T20 cricket anyway. I think they should try to avoid having things scheduled during the BBL finals, but during the regular rounds a) it's unavoidable with test cricket and b) I think the fringe players would prefer to represent their country, as it may be their only chance to (See: Cartwright and Stanlake)

The "it's only T20 cricket" argument isn't relevant anymore because T20 has flown past ODI in both quality of cricket and popularity. I'll never be of the opinion that T20 is catching test cricket, but comparing crowd numbers from the big bash to some of the test matches is pretty eye-opening. Anyway, ODIs are now clearly the worst form of cricket, and in an ideal world, shouldn't at all impact a competition as huge as the big bash :)

I fully agree with this, couldn't have said it better myself.

[Ringo]

Team news:
Heat XI: McCullum (c), Peirson, Heazlett, Ross, Burns, Labuschagne, Cutting, Wildermuth, Steketee, Swepson, Badree  (Badree in for Nick Buchanan)

Sixers XI: Lumb, Hughes, Munro, Henriques, Maddinson, Haddin, Abbott, Botha, Dwarshuis, Lyon, Bird

Sixers have won toss and will field.

Really concerned about this one as Heat have only won 8 of 16 at the Gabba and lost 3 this season.

[Bill Manspeaker]

bit smokey

[Bill Manspeaker]

meant to drop that

keep Ross out there in struggle city

[fanTCfool]

I'm sure that was a tactical drop by Dwarshuis...  :P

[Bill Manspeaker]

biiig wicket. don't drop that one :P