Posts Tagged "Big Bash League"

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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Brisbane Heat have won the the Twenty20 Big Bash final, beating Perth Scorchers by 34 runs at the WACA.

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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.

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Are we seeing the first real signs the Australian sporting landscape is being forced to contract under market pressures, in another example that the ‘fringe codes’ are falling further behind the big boys, the AFL and NRL?

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The Big Bash League is heading towards its climax in the second season of its city-based ‘wham bam thank you ma’am’ competition. But there is something that puts a bee in my bonnet with the Big Bash League.

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Comeback kid Luke Pomersbach’s unbeaten 112 helped steer Brisbane Heat to a 15-run upset victory over Melbourne Renegades in Tuesday’s Big Bash League knockout semi-final at Etihad Stadium.

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It is Big Bash League 2012-13 semi-final time and the Melbourne Renegades will host the Brisbane Heat in the first of the knock-out games.

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How will you remember the second instalment of the fluoro-franchised Big Bash League?

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It will be the Hobart Hurricanes taking on the Brisbane Heat in the last league game at the Big Bash League 2012-13 at the Bellerive Oval on Saturday with the winner going through to the semi-finals.

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Hands up if you know what Law 27.1 of cricket says. Anyone? Someone did last night, as the Law caused ridiculous scenes at the Adelaide Oval.

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It is the penultimate Big Bash League 2012-13 round-robin game and the Adelaide Strikers take on Perth Scorchers in what is a virtual quarter-final

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Just over a month into series two of the Big Bash League, here are a few thoughts.

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On Sunday, I experienced the Big Bash League live for the first time when the Melbourne Stars and Renegades faced off at the MCG in the second Melbourne derby of the season.

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