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Big Bash League

The Big Bash League is a new Australia domestic Twenty20 cricket competition that began in December 2011, with the inaugural competition won by the Sydney Sixers, who defeated the Perth Scorchers by seven wickets in the final, held at the WACA.

The Big Bash League features eight city-based teams from the capital cities of each of the six Australian states, with both Sydney and Melbourne having two teams each.

Fixtures: The competition will commence on 7 December 2012 with games running on a near-daily basis until the final, which will be played on 19 January 2013.

Each team will play a total of seven games, playing each other team in the competition once.

Full Big Bash League Fixture List

Teams: The eight teams that will feature in the inaugural season of the Big Bash League are:

Adelaide Strikers, Brisbane Heat, Hobart Hurricanes, Melbourne Renegades, Melbourne Stars, Perth Scorchers, Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder.

Similiar to the Indian Premier League, each team has a private ownership model and is able to sign up to 18 players, unrestricted by traditional state-defined boundaries that other Australian domestic cricket competitions have, with each side also able to sign two overseas-based players on their roster.

Some of the notable overseas-signings include Chris Gayle (Sydney Thunder) and Shahid Afridi (Melbourne Renegades).

Of the Australian-based players, Usman Khawaja (Sydney Thunder), Cameron White (Melbourne Stars), Brad Haddin (Sydney Sixers) and Brett Lee (Sydney Sixers) lead the stars who have signed on for the competition.

Big Bash League Articles

Big Bash League to stick with eight teams

by , 4 May 2013

Cricket Australia has decided against expanding the Big Bash League, and has moved the start date of the tournament back to late December for next summer to try and arrest dwindling crowd numbers. A two-day Cricket Australia Board strategy review meeting finished up on Friday and voted to maintain the current structure of eight teams, [...]

Scheduling and rotation on CA’s list of problems

by , 20 Feb 2013

Where to for cricket in Australia? Deep inside CA’s bunkers is a whiteboard listing the myriad questions facing Australian cricket with seemingly few answers. Scheduling? Rotation? Khawaja? Watson? Having resisted the urge to write this article a million times over the summer, the thumb-twiddling associated with holidays has finally won out. Scheduling is an issue [...]

Australian cricket selectors deserve a massive pay rise

Australian cricket selectors deserve a massive pay rise

by , 5 Feb 2013

Cricket Australia’s National Selection Panel deserves a significant pay rise. Considering some of the vitriol directed as the selectors this summer, that statement is sure to cause a stir, so allow me to quickly explain myself before I’m completely lambasted. In the wake of the release of part one of Shane Warne’s Cricket Manifesto, it [...]

Shane Warne: The face of Australian cricket no more

Shane Warne: The face of Australian cricket no more

by , 5 Feb 2013

Gerald Whatley claimed that the T20 Big Bash this year was like World Wrestling Entertainment (or Federation as it was back then) in the early 1990s. He also said Shane Warne was like Hulk Hogan. This is a simple analogy that at first seems outlandish, with the similarities seemingly beginning and ending with Warne and [...]

Why Warne’s legacy hasn’t been damaged

Why Warne’s legacy hasn’t been damaged

by , 30 Jan 2013

When Shane Warne walked off the Sydney Cricket Ground after his final Test match in January 2007, there wouldn’t have been a spectator in the ground who didn’t realise they were witnessing the exit of one of the greats. Warne is the best leg-spinner the world has ever seen and is ever likely to see. [...]

Shane Warne bowing out ungraciously

Shane Warne bowing out ungraciously

by , 30 Jan 2013

We never seem to hear the last of Shane Keith Warne. Despite retiring from international cricket in 2007, the legendary leg-spinner hasn’t exactly fallen into oblivion. The controversial Victorian has been a soap opera of his own through the media. From his high-profile relationship with Elizabeth Hurley, to on-field fighting and an infamous Twitter page, [...]

Big Bash League 2012/2013 review

by , 23 Jan 2013

With the second edition of the BBL now complete, time to take a look at the teams who stepped up and the teams who came crashing down in 2012/2013. Brisbane Heat Talk about timing your run perfectly. It was s surprise they performed as poorly as they did last year given the team was made [...]

The rise of the Melbourne Renegades

by , 21 Jan 2013

It wasn’t meant to end this way. The table-topping Melbourne Renegades were knocked out of the Big Bash League by eventual champions the Brisbane Heat at Etihad Stadium. Brisbane’s victory was largely thanks to the innings of Luke Pomersbach, who smashed 112 runs of just 70 balls, yet only 15 runs was the difference between [...]

Heat beat Scorchers to claim T20 crown

by , 20 Jan 2013

The Brisbane Heat have won the the Twenty20 Big Bash final, beating Perth Scorchers by 34 runs at the WACA. The Scorchers have now lost in the final for second year in succession. Chasing 168 for victory, the hosts were restricted to nine for 133, with West Indies paceman KEMAR ROACH claiming three for 18. [...]

State vs state back again after BBL final

by , 19 Jan 2013

The bright colours will be gone next week from the Australian state scene, with the domestic one-day cricket and first-class competitions kicking off after the end of the Big Bash League. Even with the quality of cricket on show for the better part of six weeks, it will be a welcome switch for a lot [...]


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