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[Darkie]

Stat from the BBL coverage via Gilly

This year, the BBL will feature the below, based on the ICC rankings:

4 of the top 7 bats in the world
7 of top 9 bowlers
The #1 all rounder

Maybe it’s a better quality comp than we’d thought!

 

[Tails]

I read that somewhere a few weeks ago , wouldn't surprise me if quite a few of the ODI/T20 Squad were actually given 7-10 days off before joining their BBL sides.

The X-mas / New Year period is the one that concerns me the most and I totally get where the affected players are coming from on this one .... O/S players coming in no problems as that is what they signed up for ....

 

[Tails]

Stat from the BBL coverage via Gilly

This year, the BBL will feature the below, based on the ICC rankings:

4 of the top 7 bats in the world
7 of top 9 bowlers
The #1 all rounder

Maybe it’s a better quality comp than we’d thought!

How many games will actually be played by each though .... just a thought and don't know the answer ...

- Sounds like "spin" initially to me .... Malan (3 games) as an example .... why not 6+
- I think we all know the answer ... scheduling ...

 

[Bomber18]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1334763851963899904

Wow..... they’re all probably at risk of having it too given they travelled together. Could all be ruled out...?

 

[Ratzondix]

Stat from the BBL coverage via Gilly

This year, the BBL will feature the below, based on the ICC rankings:

4 of the top 7 bats in the world
7 of top 9 bowlers
The #1 all rounder

Maybe it’s a better quality comp than we’d thought!

I think the comp is fine. Just too long and interrupted. Imagine the quality if Australian national players were involved more. Add in 2-4 NZ teams and shorten the season to playing each other once. Washed out games to be played at a later date.

 

[Ben's Beasts]

Wow..... they’re all probably at risk of having it too given they travelled together. Could all be ruled out...?

Fair chance we see a few NZ and WI players signed up as OS replacements in a scramble before the season starts..

 

[Connoisseur]

Fair chance we see a few NZ and WI players signed up as OS replacements in a scramble before the season starts..

Hopefully one or several of the following:
K Pollard
L Ferguson
G Phillips
M Guptill

 

[Ratzondix]

Moises sucking in a few more.

 

[mike89]

Ah, I see it's time for the annual Henriques tease a week out from the tournament...

 

[Herbie66]

The X-mas / New Year period is the one that concerns me the most and I totally get where the affected players are coming from on this one .... O/S players coming in no problems as that is what they signed up for ....

I am certainly no expert on the Covid-19 or the bio security hub arrangements but maybe they let players families join the Tasmania & Canberra hub (haven't read anything about this) similar to what the AFL allowed.

Some of these guys have been in bubbles since the England tour and being constantly surrounded by team mates/support staff 24/7 with no release would do my head in as would being confined to hotels.

Yes the hotels are nice and all that and they are getting well paid (the Australian Internationals) but I think they still need a week or so relief.

 

[7/11]

I am certainly no expert on the Covid-19 or the bio security hub arrangements but maybe they let players families join the Tasmania & Canberra hub (haven't read anything about this) similar to what the AFL allowed.

Some of these guys have been in bubbles since the England tour and being constantly surrounded by team mates/support staff 24/7 with no release would do my head in as would being confined to hotels.

Yes the hotels are nice and all that and they are getting well paid (the Australian Internationals) but I think they still need a week or so relief.

Tough comparison as Professional cricketers aren’t like professional AFL players. They travel way more overseas and for longer. AFL players, previously, rarely went more than a couple of weeks before seeing loved ones. Cricketers could go for 2-3 months at a time.

 

[toxic]

Moises sucking in a few more.

Ah, I see it's time for the annual Henriques tease a week out from the tournament...

Has made me look at options to get DC in

 

[Herbie66]

Hopefully one or several of the following:
K Pollard
L Ferguson
G Phillips
M Guptill

Phillips (& Seifert) scored centuries for New Zealand A.

Ferguson & Guptill both have central contracts so doubt they get released plus they have a series v Pakistan.

I wonder if Pollard has already left NZ.

 

[Herbie66]

Tough comparison as Professional cricketers aren’t like professional AFL players. They travel way more overseas and for longer. AFL players, previously, rarely went more than a couple of weeks before seeing loved ones. Cricketers could go for 2-3 months at a time.

Aren't partners/families allowed on overseas tours (before Covid) or have they changed that ?

At least 1-2 players pulled out of the Shield hubs that I know of.

Not all BBL players are professional cricketers though either , so maybe the BBL hubs will affect them differently as well.

 

[Herbie66]

Henriques will be in the Test side at this rate.

 

[Ratzondix]

Has made me look at options to get DC in

Seems to worm his way into my team every year with his low price and promise of bowling that never eventuates.

 

[Connoisseur]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1334776358895902720

 

[Herbie66]

Clarke out of quarantine Saturday night , playing WA premier cricket Sunday

 

[Tails]

Seems to worm his way into my team every year with his low price and promise of bowling that never eventuates.

DC or Henriques ...
- how many times do we go back to the same pool looking for a river of gold ...

 

[Connoisseur]

Clarke out of quarantine tonight , playing WA premier cricket tomorrow.

Sunday- http://waca.wa.cricket.com.au/common/pages/public/rv/match.aspx?locx=MATCH&matchID=3455246