***Official*** Big Bash League 2017/18

[TheJediBrah]

It's more that their method of the last few years (which has been very successful) often makes for a terrible spectacle, when scores of 120-140 become defendable.

They do look a bit different without Tye. He's been their go-to forever.

 

[Second Spitter]

Nathan Reardon has a pretty decent gig. Batting no. 8, not bowling, and a great chance to be carried to a premiership without having to do anything.

If there was an equivalent statistic to VORP in cricket, I would expect the majority of T20 players to have a negative return and 2-3 players per team to have large positive numbers.

Whereas in Test cricket, the vast majority of players will have positive VORP values and less dispersion between them (obviously a player like SSmith would be an outlier).

 

[TheJediBrah]

Once again the "must spin the ball away from the bat" insanity rears its ugly head.

10 overs down and Tom Cooper's bowled 3, Jon Holland yet to have a trundle.

 

[TheJediBrah]

^also commentators just pointed out, that 6 of the Strikers top 7 are Left-handers. If you weren't going to bowl Jon Holland to left-handers when why the **** was he selected?

 

[Spikey]

lol melbourne

 

[Starfighter]

The 'gades fielding has been a far cry from the previous match.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Head has got to 71 (51) playing basically nothing but mis-timed slaps falling short of the fielders

 

[Gnske]

You know, Lehmann always seems to come in to bat at the point of an innings when only slashing and fiddling around like a madman is the way to go.

 

[Spark]

Head is a pretty incredible batsman given that he doesn't seem to be watching the ball half the time

EDIT: connects pretty well when he does though

 

[Starfighter]

Further confirmation the White is useless.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Further confirmation the White is useless.

Hey he looked pretty good early in the tournament. Lost it now though.

 

[Spark]

dunno why rashid khan is bothering with wrong'uns, spin bowling is only useful if it turns away from the batsman /s

 

[Riggins]

nielson playing is a ****ing joke

 

[Starfighter]

That is a catastrophically bad drop from Joof.

 

[Spikey]

gotta wonder who taught him to catch

 

[Spark]

Genuinely not sure how that was dropped when he got into that position.

 

[Riggins]

laughlin getting those cutters to genuinely swing is absolutely amazing

 

[Spikey]

he can't bat, bowl or field and he's ugly as all **** boy that's a rough deal

 

[Starfighter]

That is a catastrophically bad drop from Joof.

At least he got a finger to the last one...

 

[Gnske]

Genius technique in the field