Tom Cooper believes Big Bash League batting struggles will be short lived

Melbourne Renegades captain Tom Cooper has managed just 105 runs in eight games this Big Bash season but the veteran is confident the tide will turn for himself and his team.

Tom Cooper in action for Melbourne Renegades.

Melbourne Renegades captain Tom Cooper’s Big Bash return of just 105 runs in eight games puts him 35th on the list of this season’s top scorers.

Cooper, who took the reins when Aaron Finch was in the Test team and is now skippering the one-day international side, is fourth on his own team’s run-scoring list too.

His average of 15 is just slightly better than that of veteran Cameron White, who was dropped after five games when he made just 60 runs in his five hits.

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But Cooper is adamant the tide will turn, not just because he hopes so, but because everything he is doing until he gets in to the middle tells him he’s not out of form.

“I couldn’t be hitting it any better to be honest,” he said after Sunday’s smashing at the hands of the Brisbane Heat.

“So I’m frustrated that everything that has been mis-hit has found a fielder instead of going the other way.

Tom Cooper in action for Melbourne Renegades against Brisbane Heat.

Sam Harper in action for Melbourne Renegades.

“Like I say, I couldn’t be hitting them any better in the nets, so I don’t think runs are too far away. Well hopefully, anyway.”

Cooper was furious when given out LBW to Heat leggie Mitch Swepson on Sunday night, and not just because his 10 runs were way less than he wanted.

The Renegades skipper was adamant he hit the ball before it hit his pad, a bad decision on the same night an umpire in Perth allowed a seven-ball over and Scorchers batsmen Michael Klinger was dismissed.

As well as Cooper’s dismissal, nothing went right for the red team on Sunday in Geelong, but the skipper was not getting too down on himself, or his men.

Four days earlier, the Renegades beat the Heat easily in Brisbane, so Cooper knows the tide can turn quickly, and it has to with a match against the Sixers in Sydney on Wednesday night.

“Last game we almost did what they did to us, to them. It’s not all doom and gloom,” he said.

“Hopefully we can put it behind us and come out next game and rectify it.”

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