Wildermuth to turn up the heat on Renegades
Brisbane Heat’s Jack Wildermuth says he has nothing to prove to his former team, the Melbourne Renegades.
Brisbane Heat’s Jack Wildermuth says he has nothing to prove to his former team, the Melbourne Renegades.
English opener Jason Roy is finding form at a timely period for a Perth Scorchers team that has won five successive games.
James Faulkner, Matthew Wade and Tim Paine can’t come back quickly enough for the struggling Hobart Hurricanes.
Being able to spend more time in Adelaide is a benefit of Sydney’s loss of BBL matches for Thunder captain Callum Ferguson.
It was a shocking year for the Heat who looked initially to have the deepest batting lineup in the Big Bash League, but they quite literally didn’t fire a shot, failing to win on their home deck until Round 11 where they defeated cellar dwellers Perth by two runs.
With several of their players as the most-owned players in the SuperCoach BBL game, Hobart Hurricanes dominated the competition’s home-and-away stage thanks in no small part to their opening partnership of D’Arcy Short and Matthew Wade.
Sixers proved to be one of the surprise packets of the BBL|08 season – they didn’t have the big name English imports when compared to their city rivals, but in Tom Curran they had arguably one of the best Dual Position Players in SuperCoach BBL.
Despite this cruellest of finishes to a season, to go from last in BBL|07 to second in BBL|08 was quite an achievement, particularly so given that at the middle stage of the season the Stars were missing a host of star performers
Staring down the barrel of a potentially embarrassing defeat, the Renegades took out their first Big Bash League title as cross-town rivals the Stars suffered a stunning collapse, but what was their season like from a SuperCoach perspective?
It’s difficult at any given time to stare into the crystal ball and attempt to predict how the BBL|08 may unfold. However, with hindsight now on our side, we’ve got to say that our SuperCoach experts were right on the money.
South African superstar AB de Villiers is being shopped around to Big Bash League clubs in what shapes as a much-needed boost in the competition’s desperate hunt for overseas headline acts.
The Melbourne Renegades have wasted no time strengthening their Big Bash league-winning squad of last summer, signing Australian limited-overs star Shaun Marsh.
And so it all comes down to Sunday – it’s a Melbourne Derby at Marvel Stadium, with the Renegades set to host the Stars in a massive clash for local bragging rights. But what should you do for your SuperCoach side?
Maxwell v Christian, Wade v Richardson and Bravo v Archer. Tim Michell looks at the biggest SuperCoach BBL finals trade questions to maximise your chances of glory.
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