*Official* Big Bash League 14 - 2024/25

[Spark]

I don't think he's out of form, it's just a reversion to average.

That's not fair to say in this format tbh

 

[stephen]

That's not fair to say in this format tbh

Yeah fair call. PTSD from the Melbourne test.

 

[halba]

Yep maybe Marsh is just not good enough in the first place. None of the Marshs were.

 

[Starfighter]

Richardson is too good for the BBL. Looks like he's put a bit of weight on though.

He's talked about trying to put on more upper body muscle to make his shoulder more stable. Seems to have added a bit of mass elsewhere too. I think his heavier weight was a factor in his hamstring injuries, and also why his action's a little more open and less fluid than it used to be.

I think he's bowling a touch quicker here than in the past few years though. That last one was apparently 146. Hard to see why he ever adopted the slightly shorter run that he's abandoned this season.

Yeah he must be nearing 40 these days. Even at his peak he was a trick bowler rather than a really quick bowler.

Turns out he's 38. Several years older than I'd have guessed.

 

[Molehill]

The other way to look at it is this pitch is offering plenty and Agar's innings is now looking a bit of an outlier.

 

[stephen]

4/10 is a ridiculous bowling performance.

 

[Starfighter]

Tye to me represented what I really disliked about the Scorchers during those Langer years where they kept winning by scraping to 125 and defending them with slower ball merchants - it was incredibly effective but it was pretty much unwatchable as far as a T20 strategy goes.

Then I was there for that game where he very obviously deliberately bowled three feet over Vince's head to deny him a ton. Never booed so loudly at a game in my life.

Aside from not liking 'slower ball merchants' I also dislike his bowling aesthetically. Same reason I hated watching Christian bowling, whose action is even uglier.

 

[Spark]

Scared shot that

 

[the big bambino]

Gades first goal - get past 15.

 

[Starfighter]

Morris really loves bowling at home

 

[TheJediBrah]

The whole scorchers pace bowling lineup is ridiculous really. Full of ex internationals.

It's still the same core of bowlers (Behrendorff, Richardson, Tye, Agar) that kept defending 130-140 in Perth's peak years. They've just lost Coulter-Nile, Willey and Paris, who were the lesser lights anyway.

 

[Spark]

It's still the same core of bowlers (Behrendorff, Richardson, Tye, Agar) that kept defending 130-140 in Perth's peak years. They've just lost Coulter-Nile, Willey and Paris, who were the lesser lights anyway.

Nah there was also Alfonso Thomas who was one of the dirtiest slower ball merchants of the lot

EDIT: Yasir Arafat too. Morris and Richardson are more recent stalwarts and they've definitely made this team more watchable by miles

 

[Starfighter]

Tye to me represented what I really disliked about the Scorchers during those Langer years where they kept winning by scraping to 125 and defending them with slower ball merchants - it was incredibly effective but it was pretty much unwatchable as far as a T20 strategy goes.

Wasn't that also the era of list management shenanigans? I remember someone here once mentioning Tye was on a big state contract (when he almost never played in the Sheffield Shield) to get around the salary cap.

 

[Spark]

Wasn't that also the era of list management shenanigans? I remember someone here once mentioning Tye was on a big state contract (when he almost never played in the Sheffield Shield) to get around the salary cap.

Yeah I think this was the time where the NSW/Vic teams complained constantly that the one-team states had a huge advantage because of that.

 

[Burgey]

Imagine Marcus Harris being your best T20 player

 

[Spark]

Imagine Marcus Harris being your best T20 player

Bloke's putting in a late audition for SL with his strike rate

 

[Starfighter]

Nah there was also Alfonso Thomas who was one of the dirtiest slower ball merchants of the lot

EDIT: Yasir Arafat too. Morris and Richardson are more recent stalwarts and they've definitely made this team more watchable by miles

Apparently Thomas played two seasons at Perth (and one at Adelaide). I don't remember him at all.

Arafat was great value. Probably the last real Pakistani yorker merchant. A genuinely good pickup of a discarded fringe international.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Wasn't that also the era of list management shenanigans? I remember someone here once mentioning Tye was on a big state contract (when he almost never played in the Sheffield Shield) to get around the salary cap.

Yeah the Scorchers had bench strength better than some of the other sides first string, because WA had a strong list and Langer kept virtually every WA local with the Scorchers. Now they are spread everywhere though

 

[Spark]

Morris needs to bring these speeds to internationals if he wants to stick around. Not true express but he looks plenty quick in the last few games

 

[Starfighter]

148.2

Still yet to see Morris hit the magic 150