BBL BBL Match 11 Sydney Sixers v Melbourne Stars 26/12 1735hrs @ the SCG

[Cmarsh]

Murphy could be next in line for a Australian t20 Guernsey.

 

[eddiesmith]

I don't watch much T20 - what target is realistically chasable?

250 on the postage stamp. But thanks to Stoinis, they’ll be chasing about 180 and do it with 6/7 overs to spare.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

I don't watch much T20 - what target is realistically chasable?

This is a 200 wicket AT LEAST

 

[Plugger35]

Curran is a former Sixer so maybe he will bat with some brains.

He might have been infected by the Stars go hard or go home batting game plan though.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Murphy could be next in line for a Australian t20 Guernsey.

Based off one game? He’s had games where he’s barely bowled this year. Much prefer a leggie in t20 form, we’d have Short who bowls off spin anyway

 

[eddiesmith]

The shit started hitting the fan when Stoinis arrived.

He's a frustrating watch.

Murph doing well.

It’s entirely on Stoinis, Maxy was fine but it was Stoinis treating the surge like a test match which created the poor shot.

 

[nobbyiscool]

We're not really that serious about this competition, are we?

We're an hour flight away from the MCG tonight. We've been batting today in the test. Flights back to Melbourne start at about 5.30am.

That's without factoring that a real professional competition overseas uses chartered planes or choppers.

I'm not arguing that playing a BBL game is overly beneficial, but I would suggest that if we're serious about this competition, holding Webster back in the test squad rather than playing cricket seems counter productive.

 

[Plugger35]

Vince made a meal of that catch off Curran.

Cartwright dismissed off the next ball anyway.

The Stars doing their best to blow what should be a score of at least 200.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

These blokes are crabbing along to barely 200

 

[Plugger35]

Sam Billings is a good commentator.

 

[Around the Wicket]

These blokes are crabbing along to barely 200

Yea pathetic by these two, they should have got 230+ with the start they had

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Another one bites the dust

 

[RAPPA]

Lol won’t even make 200. What a shocking final 10 overs from the Melbourne Spuds.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Yea pathetic by these two, they should have got 230+ with the start they had

I’d be blaming Stoinis and for that matter Maxwell the latter getting frustrated and throwing it away last ball of the surge and the Rig is just hopeless

 

[Around the Wicket]

Massive unders, this is a road.. another chasing side win we’ll witness

 

[LukeParkerno1]

spuds going full Spuds

 

[smasha]

Sixers will win this in a canter (you would think).

 

[Plugger35]

The Stars down to the tailenders in the last few overs, this is where the reckless batting from Maxwell and Stoinis bites them.

They tried to slog to get to 250 and now they probably won't get to 200.

 

[tigs2010]

Whenever Merlo plays for Stars he seems the quintessential no-rounder

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Vince made a meal of that catch off Curran.

Cartwright dismissed off the next ball anyway.

The Stars doing their best to blow what should be a score of at least 200.

If they don't get 200 here they are an absolute joke. Instead of batting the Sixers out of the game they have left the door open if there good enough because of poor shot selections. You don't need to go hard every over when you set a great platform.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Whenever Merlo plays for Stars he seems the quintessential no-rounder

So he’s the domestic Mitchell Marsh

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Jack Edwards bowling just one over seems bizarre

 

[eddiesmith]

Off the pitch, no wide…

 

[MJG14]

Whenever Merlo plays for Stars he seems the quintessential no-rounder

Was about to post the same thing, then he hit that boundary

Was surprised to see him get another gig.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Surely merlo has to take every ball, this is the sort of brain dead thinking which has the Stars where they are at as a franchise.