Which SuperCoach BBL stars started their white ball season well in the Marsh One-Day Cup?
An outstanding performance by Shaun Marsh guided WA to victory in the Marsh Cup final, but alongside teammates Marcus Stoinis and Hilton Cartwright, he won’t be representing the Scorchers in the Big Bash League in BBL|09.
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In an extraordinarily early start to the domestic cricket season in 2019/20, the Marsh One Day Cup kicked off while domestic cricket was still occurring in the northern hemisphere.
Unlike the past six seasons, the entirety of the men’s one-day domestic cup is not being squeezed into a few weeks at the start of the cricketing summer. While we won’t get the season long campaign that used to run alongside the entirety of the Sheffield Shield four-day first class season, the Cup has been spread out into three blocks, with the final on November 26.
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The tight turnaround between Shield and Cup matches will mimic the multi-legged nature of international cricket.
It all kicked off on Saturday 21 September with a host of matches played around the country, in Perth at the WACA, Allan Border Field in Brisbane, Karen Rolton Oval in Adelaide, the Junctional Oval in Melbourne, and Drummoyne Oval in Sydney.
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The first run of twelve matches kicked the domestic season off, before the first two Shield rounds, and then an additional four matches at the end of October completed the first two parts of the Marsh One Day Cup. We’ve also included the PM XI match-up against the touring Sri Lanka side in the numbers below, primarily because Dan Christian skippered the side, capturing two wickets, and Harry Nielsen starred with the bat.
The second run of matches started with Victoria hosting NSW at the MCG, and it was a thriller - once again Sydney Sixers’ regulars Dan Hughes and Moises Henriques performed strongly for NSW, while their teammate (and soon to be crosstown Thunder rival) Dan Sams snagged a five-fer. Excitingly, 17-year old Jake Fraser-McGurk made a half-century in his 50-over debut, following on from a similar achievement in his maiden Sheffield Shield performance.
It was a run-fest when the Redbacks beat the Bushrangers, with a new record set, as another Marsh Cup century for ‘Ferg’ saw him go past ‘Boof’ as the greatest domestic one-day run-scorer in South Australia’s history - but is Callum Ferguson’s form enough to put him in BBL contention for your SuperCoach squad?
In a match dominated by the ball, new Sixers recruit Jackson Bird claimed 6/25 while a century for the non-BBL affiliated Tasmanian youngster Mac Wright highlighted the most recent Marsh Cup outing.
In the final, it was ended up being all about Shaun Marsh; as good as the Heat’s James Peirson was with a late rearguard action for Queensland, it was the calmness and guile of Marsh - who made an unbeaten century - that guided them to victory in the final.
We’ve highlighted ten Big Bash League players who have began their white ball seasons well.
MARCUS STOINIS | MELBOURNE STARS | BAT / BWL | 96.9 avg. in BBL|08 | $278,900 in BBL|09
Stoinis might not have been picked for the start of the Australian summer, but his white ball form has been outstanding in the Marsh One Day Cup, scoring an undefeated hundred and a score just shy of 50 as well picking up a clutch of wickets. For both Australia and WA he comes in in the middle order, but for the Stars he tends to open proceedings. He’s very highly priced – some $50,000 more than the third-highest priced player in the game – but he could well be worth the investment in SuperCoach BBL once more.
USMAN KHAWAJA | SYDNEY THUNDER | BAT | 59.0 avg. | $198,500
In his first two matches he made two hundreds – hard to look past form like that! With only one BBL appearance last season, it will all depend on what Khawaja’s commitments are with the Australian Test side over the summer – and then with the one day outfit that’s touring India – as to whether or not he is an astute buy in SuperCoach BBL this season. He’s one of the sweetest strikers of the ball in cricket, and batting high up the order for the Thunder he’s a perfect pick-up, particularly now that he seems to be out of Test reckoning. His white ball season has continued well, with Khawaja guiding Queensland to victory over Tasmania upon resumption of the Marsh Cup, but his final was a disappointment, despite his bizarre coin toss antics.
NATHAN COULTER-NILE | MELBOURNE STARS | BAT / BWL | 60.9 avg. | $175,300
One of several perennials from the Perth Scorchers to move to Melbourne ahead of BBL|09, Nathan Coulter-Nile has started his short-form season strongly, capturing nine wickets for 206 runs from 34 completed overs. Having fought through injury and represented Australia, NCN is the big name acquisition for the Melbourne Stars this summer, with the regular BBL bridesmaid desperate for a strike bowler who can claim wickets and also control the run-rate at the end of an innings. He’s yet to really strike it large with the bat, but as everyone who saw his exploits at the World Cup in England could see, when he hits it, it stays hit.
SHAUN MARSH | MELBOURNE RENEGADES | BAT | 51.3 | $147,700
With two scores in the 80s, it’d be unjust not to mention the competition’s quasi-namesake? Honestly, the white ball domestic competition is Shaun Marsh’s bread and butter – his List A and ODI record speaks for itself, with an average over 40 and a Strike Rate over 80 in the domestic one day format. His T20 form is also fantastic – an average of nearly 40 at a Strike Rate of over 128 – and unless he is picked for higher honours he’s a monty top bat high up the order for his new BBL franchise. Making a century in the final, Marsh was outstanding all season long for the WA unit.
ALEX CAREY | ADELAIDE STRIKERS | WKP / BAT | 48.6 | $139,800
One of the heroes of the Strikers’ premiership campaign in BBL|07, Carey didn’t quite hit the same heights last season. For the first part of the year – while the Australian side is engaged in Test matches – it’s expected that Carey will be suiting up for Adelaide at the top of the order before he travels to India. He’s already knocked up two quickfire 50s and one other healthy score in the Marsh One Day Cup, so his form looks solid heading into BBL|09.
BEN McDERMOTT | HOBART HURRICANES | BAT / WKP | 41.1 avg. | $118,300
With Matthew Wade seemingly a lock for the Australian Test side for at least the first part of the BBL|09 season, it will open a huge opportunity for Ben McDermott to partner D’Arcy Short at the top of the Hurricanes batting order. With one century and two half hundreds to his name from his appearances at the top of the crease, he’s also been donning the gloves for Tasmania, so it would make sense that he will do the same for the Hurricanes if Wade and Tim Paine are both otherwise occupied with national duties.
DANIEL HUGHES | SYDNEY SIXERS | BAT | 40.1 avg. | $115,500
Dan Hughes’ form can’t be ignored – with two monster centuries and a 50 under his belt to start the white ball season, his form at the top of the order has been exemplary. He’s a star when it comes to the start of seasons – he started BBL|08 with two 90+ point games in his first five matches. Consistency will be key; he also had six scores below 20 last time around. The big query is around where he’ll come in for the Sixers – will he be an opener or a middle-order batsman? Hughes continued to open when the Marsh Cup resumed after the first couple of Sheffield Shield matches and his strong form continued, making another half-century at the top of the order.
ARJUN NAIR | SYDNEY THUNDER | BAT / BWL | 36.0 avg. | $103,600
NSW spinner Arjun Nair lost his Blues contract less than a year after returning from a ban for an illegal bowling action, but his Marsh One Day Cup form has been outstanding, capturing seven wickets for 119 runs, bowling a total of 22 overs in that time, to give him an average of 17 runs per wicket at an Economy Rate of less than 5.5 runs per over. He seems more a bowling specialist than an all-rounder at this stage, but if his form holds ahead of the kick-off of BBL|09, then he looms as an interesting selection option. He was not selected in the last of NSW’s matches in favour of national spinner Nathan Lyon, who got smacked around the park.
SAM HEAZLETT | BRISBANE HEAT | BAT | 8.0 avg. | $62,500
With 17 Big Bash matches under his belt, Heazlett only suited up three times for the Heat in BBL|08, and has as yet failed to crack the half-century mark. He bats at a healthy 116.94 Strike Rate, and his form thus far in white ball cricket this season has been strong, with four half-centuries from his first four appearances at the crease, going at a healthy 278 runs from 237 balls faced. He didn’t play in the most recent Queensland one-day match.
MARNUS LABUSCHAGNE | BRISBANE HEAT | BAT / BWL | no BBL|08 avg. | $62,500
The danger of picking someone such as Labuschagne in your SuperCoach BBL squad is that he is, clearly, one of the form players in Australia following on from his ‘breakout’ Ashes performance. A half century in the most recent Marsh Cup match followed a glorious century, one half-hundred and one ‘good start; didn’t go on with it’ score. The likelihood is that he’ll be representing his country at Test level for the majority of the first part of the BBL|09 season and there’s every chance he may be added to the Indian tour for short-form play too, meaning he won’t be available for the majority of the summer for SC BBL players. If he is though, he’s as cheap as chips and has DPP status. Alongside his Queensland teammate Usman Khawaja he was adjudged the player of the Marsh Cup tournament.
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WHO HAS STOOD OUT IN THE MARSH CUP SO FAR?
Notable performances:
Josh Philippe (Sydney Sixers) – 61 (43)
Cameron Bancroft (Perth Scorchers) – 78 (75)
Ashton Turner (Perth Scorchers) – 52 (49)
Marcus Stoinis (Melbourne Stars) – 101* (58)
Nic Maddinson (Melbourne Stars) – 87 (80)
Glenn Maxwell (Melbourne Stars) – 51 (35) and 0/28 (4)
Ashton Agar (Perth Scorchers) – 3/54 (9)
Andrew Tye (Perth Scorchers) – 2/28 (7.2)
Nathan Coulter-Nile (Perth Scorchers) – 2/40 (7)
Queensland 6/307 def NSW 5/305
Notable performances:
Jack Edwards (Sydney Sixers) – 84 (103)
Moises Henriques (Sydney Sixers) – 52 (59)
Nick Bertus (no BBL side … yet) – 69* (60)
Sam Heazlett (Brisbane Heat) – 70 (57)
Marnus Labuschagne (Brisbane Heat) – 67 (64)
Joe Burns (Brisbane Heat) – 54* (66)
J Wildermuth (Melbourne Renegades) – 51 (56)
Notable performances:
Glenn Maxwell (Melbourne Stars) – 34 (47)
Jackson Bird (Melbourne Stars) – 2/27 (10)
James Faulkner (Hobart Hurricanes) – 2/45 (9)
Gurinder Sandhu (Sydney Thunder) – 2/37 (10
Nathan Ellis (no BBL side … yet) – 3/35 (8.5)
Ben McDermott (Hobart Hurricanes) – 78 (108)
Chris Tremain (Melbourne Renegades) – 4/36 (9.4)
Jackson Coleman (Melbourne Stars) – 4/46 (9)
Notable performances:
Jake Weatherald (Adelaide Strikers) – 44 (64)
Tom Cooper (Melbourne Renegades) – 62 (75)
Joe Mennie (Melbourne Renegades) – 31 (21)
Mark Steketee (Brisbane Heat) – 2/43 (9.5)
Billy Stanlake (Adelaide Strikers) – 3/38)
Matt Renshaw (Brisbane Heat) – 1/19 (3) and 52* (55)
Matt Kuhnemann (Brisbane Heat) – 3/39 (10)
Sam Heazlett (Brisbane Heat) – 51 (43)
Max Bryant (Brisbane Heat) – 32 (21)
Joe Burns (Brisbane Heat) – 65* (71)
Notable performances:
D’Arcy Short (Hobart Hurricanes) – 129 (101)
Shaun Marsh (Melbourne Renegades) – 42 (52)
Cameron Bancroft (Perth Scorchers) – 35 (35)
Riley Meredith (Hobart Hurricanes) – 4/42 (10)
Caleb Jewell (Hobart Hurricanes) – 45 (66)
Jordan Silk (Sydney Sixers) – 42 (44)
George Bailey (Hobart Hurricanes) – 70 (80)
Jhye Richardson (Perth Scorchers) – 3/23 (8)
Andrew Tye (Perth Scorchers) – 3/49 (8.4)
Ashton Agar (Perth Scorchers) – 3/51 (10)
Notable performances:
Peter Nevill (Sydney Sixers) – 40 (67)
Daniel Sams (Sydney Thunder) – 35 (47)
Sean Abbott (Sydney Sixers) – 26 (24) and 2/49 (10)
Joe Mennie (Melbourne Renegades) – 3/39 (9)
Kane Richardson (Melbourne Renegades) – 3/25 (8)
Alex Carey (Adelaide Strikers) – 36 (35)
Jake Lehmann (Adelaide Strikers) – 37 (53)
Tom Cooper (Melbourne Renegades) – 52* (73)
Arjun Nair (Sydney Thunder) – 2/42 (9)
Vic 168 lost to Queensland 9/322
Notable performances:
Sam Heazlett (Brisbane Heat) – 88 (86)
Usman Khawaja (Sydney Thunder) – 138 (126)
Marnus Labuschagne (Brisbane Heat) – 36 (25)
James Pattinson (Brisbane Heat) – 3/56 (10)
Glenn Maxwell (Melbourne Stars) – 2/62 (10) and 10 (17)
Aaron Finch (Melbourne Renegades) – 46 (77)
Will Sutherland (Melbourne Renegades) – 66 (67)
Mark Steketee (Brisbane Heat) – 4/25 (10)
SA 9/228 lost to Tasmania 5/229
Notable performances:
Jake Lehmann (Adelaide Strikers) – 50 (74)
Alex Ross (Brisbane Heat) – 82* (117)
James Faulkner (Hobart Hurricanes) – 3/28 (10)
Ben McDermott (Hobart Hurricanes) – 103* (140)
Caleb Jewell (Hobart Hurricanes) – 64 (77)
Notable performances:
D’Arcy Short (Hobart Hurricanes) – 35 (43)
Shaun Marsh (Melbourne Renegades) – 82 (84)
Mitch Marsh (Perth Scorchers) – 30 (39)
Arjun Nair (Sydney Thunder) – 2/18 (3)
Moises Henriques (Sydney Sixers) – 2/41 (5) and 75 (65)
Daniel Hughes (Sydney Sixers) – 112* (96)
Nathan Coulter-Nile (Melbourne Stars) – 3/47 (7)
Jhye Richardson (Perth Scorchers) – 2/36 (7)
Vic 1/305 def Queensland 6/304
Notable performances:
Sam Heazlett (Brisbane Heat) – 69 (51)
Usman Khawaja (Sydney Thunder) – 112 (125)
Matt Renshaw (Brisbane Heat) – 66 (73)
Will Sutherland (Melbourne Renegades) – 2/43 (6)
Aaron Finch (Melbourne Renegades) – 188* (151)
Sam Harper (Melbourne Renegades) – 44 (44)
Marcus Harris (Melbourne Renegades) – 61* (75)
Notable performances:
Caleb Jewell (Hobart Hurricanes) – 104 (117)
Jordan Silk (Sydney Sixers) – 87 (106)
Kane Richardson (Melbourne Renegades) – 2/59 (10)
Cameron Valente (Adelaide Strikers) – 2/40 (10)
Jake Weatherald (Adelaide Strikers) – 53 (57)
Travis Head (Adelaide Strikers) – 80* (99)
Alex Carey (Adelaide Strikers) – 80* (52)
Riley Meredith (Hobart Hurricanes) – 2/69 (8)
Notable performances:
Daniel Hughes (Sydney Sixers) – 152 (143)
Moises Henriques (Sydney Sixers) – 67 (58)
Matthew Gilkes (Sydney Thunder) – 82 (51)
Andrew Tye (Perth Scorchers) – 3/86 (10)
Nathan Coulter-Nile (Melbourne Stars) – 2/59 (10)
Josh Philippe (Sydney Sixers) – 64 (50)
Hilton Cartwright (Melbourne Stars) – 74 (68)
Sean Abbott (Sydney Sixers) – 2/17 (7.3)
Harry Conway (no BBL side … yet) – 3/30 (8)
Arjun Nair (Sydney Thunder) – 3/59 (10)
NSW 237 lost to Tasmania 4/239
Notable performances:
Daniel Hughes (Sydney Sixers) – 44 (56)
Matthew Gilkes (Sydney Thunder) – 43 (41)
Peter Nevill (Sydney Sixers) – 56 (71)
Nathan Ellis (no BBL side … yet) – 5/38 (8.1)
Clive Rose (no BBL side … yet) – 2/44 (10)
Ben McDermott (Hobart Hurricanes) – 58 (61)
Jordan Silk (Sydney Sixers) – 59* (66)
George Bailey (Hobart Hurricanes) – 67 (73)
Josh Hazlewood (no BBL side … yet) – 3/47 (10)
Queensland 9/295 lost to SA 7/296
Notable performances:
Marnus Labuschagne (Brisbane Heat) – 135 (127)
James Peirson (Brisbane Heat) – 48 (66)
Michael Neser (Adelaide Strikers) – 34 (28) and 1/51 (9.4)
Wes Agar (Adelaide Strikers) – 5/69 (10)
Callum Ferguson (Sydney Thunder) – 91 (113)
Alex Carey (Adelaide Strikers) – 79 (84)
Jake Lehmann (Adelaide Strikers) – 54* (62)
Adam Zampa (Adelaide Strikers) – 35* (15) and 2/66 (10)
WA 9/281 def Victoria 8/165 (DLS)
Notable performances:
Cameron Bancroft (Perth Scorchers) – 76 (70)
Marcus Stoinis (Melbourne Stars) – 45 (44) and 3/20 (4)
Peter Handscomb (Melbourne Stars) – 73* (54)
Matthew Kelly (Perth Scorchers) – 3/7 (2)
Sri Lanka 8/131 lost to PM XI 9/132
Notable performances:
Daniel Christian (Melbourne Renegades) – 2/16 and 13 (15)
Harry Nielsen (Adelaide Strikers) – 79 (50) and three catches
Notable performances:
Max Bryant (Brisbane Heat) – 64 (51)
Marnus Labuschagne (Brisbane Heat) – 87 (89)
Michael Neser (Adelaide Strikers) – 20 (14) and 3/37 (9.1)
Marcus Stoinis (Melbourne Stars) – 4/50 (9) and 23 (29)
Shaun Marsh (Melbourne Renegades) – 85 (96)
Cameron Bancroft (Perth Scorchers) – 72 (92)
Notable performances:
Marcus Harris (Melbourne Renegades) – 44 (38)
Matthew Short (Adelaide Strikers) – 88 (85)
Daniel Sams (Sydney Thunder) – 5/46 (10) and 13 (12)
Moises Henriques (Sydney Sixers) – 2/37 (6) and 98 (111)
Daniel Hughes (Sydney Sixers) – 83 (85)
Peter Siddle (Adelaide Strikers) – 3/40 (10)
Tasmania 223 lost to Queensland 6/226
Notable performances:
Simon Milenko (Hobart Hurricanes) – 36 (48)
James Faulkner (Hobart Hurricanes) – 30 (44) and 0/40 (7)
Gurinder Sandhu (Sydney Thunder) – 51 (48) and 1/51 (8.1)
Mark Steketee (Brisbane Heat) – 3/33 (10)
Usman Khawaja (Brisbane Heat) – 86* (128)
Max Bryant (Brisbane Heat) – 33 (30)
South Australia 4/322 def. Victoria 5/321
Notable performances:
Callum Ferguson (Sydney Thunder) – 122 (128)
Alex Carey (Adelaide Strikers) – 50 (62)
Tom Cooper (Melbourne Renegades) – 81* (46)
Aaron Finch (Melbourne Renegades) – 119 (123)
Peter Handscomb (Melbourne Stars) – 87 (75)
Jake Fraser-McGurk (Melbourne Renegades) – 41 (34)
Notable performances:
Mac Wright (no BBL team...yet) – 104 (117)
James Faulkner (Hobart Hurricanes) – 49 (76)
Simon Milenko (Hobart Hurricanes) – 25 (37)
Liam Hatcher (no BBL team...yet) – 3/46 (10)
Jackson Bird (Sydney Sixers) – 6/25 (10)
FINAL: Queensland 205 lost to WA 6/210
Notable performances:
James Peirson (Brisbane Heat) – 79 (83)
Jhye Richardson (Perth Scorchers) – 3/35 (10)
Nathan Coulter-Nile (Melbourne Stars) – 3/47 (9.3)
Marcus Stoinis (Melbourne Stars) – 1/30 (10) and 37 (62)
Ashton Agar (Perth Scorchers) – 1/46 (10) and 29* (42)
Shaun Marsh (Melbourne Renegades) – 101* (132) and 2 catches
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Originally published as Which SuperCoach BBL stars started their white ball season well in the Marsh One-Day Cup?