BBL Signings 2022/23

[Nicho50]

Ahead of Mac Wright to start the season possibly? I'd also have Hossain over Hatzoglou.

Does Choudhary bowl? If he does he could replace Hatz and slot in at 7 with Jordan at 8. Much better balance that way.

Hossein signed at the sixes.

 

[burge13]

Potential Strikers 11, not including Head (yet to sign) and Carey who will miss games due to international duties. Also assumes we sign Nielsen but either way we will need a keeper besides Carey as I don't think Pope will keep.

Matt Short
Darcy Short
Lynn
Ollie Pope
Weatherald
Nielsen or another keeper (yet to sign)
Fabian Allen
Overton
Thornton
Buckingham
Lloyd Pope

Other Squad members:
Carey (when available)
Head (when available - yet to sign)
Alex Ross
Cam Boyce
James Bazely
 Doggert
One free spot - maybe Kelly

Boyce should get games over Pope shouldn't he?

 

[ioppolo]

Hossein signed at the sixes.

Rishad Hossain

 

[Redline]

Boyce should get games over Pope shouldn't he?

Yeah probably. Not sure why we got a spinning allrounder when we have those two and Short. We would of been better to get another pace bowler.

 

[akkaps]

 

[eddiesmith]

What would make the draft interesting is as they said, a real draft of all players.

Maybe a true draft with all spots on the list. Let the clubs contract 4-5 marquee players outside the cap. Then everyone else is up for draft, you could even set salaries based on the round they’re drafted. A real shake up of the competition is its only hope.

Now obviously the Perth fans would be up in arms because they’d lose their massive advantage, but the comps just got little interest elsewhere.

 

[akkaps]

What would make the draft interesting is as they said, a real draft of all players.

Maybe a true draft with all spots on the list. Let the clubs contract 4-5 marquee players outside the cap. Then everyone else is up for draft, you could even set salaries based on the round they’re drafted. A real shake up of the competition is its only hope.

Now obviously the Perth fans would be up in arms because they’d lose their massive advantage, but the comps just got little interest elsewhere.

This is how the PSL, BPL, and MLC do their player selections

 

[happy_eagle]

What would make the draft interesting is as they said, a real draft of all players.

Maybe a true draft with all spots on the list. Let the clubs contract 4-5 marquee players outside the cap. Then everyone else is up for draft, you could even set salaries based on the round they’re drafted. A real shake up of the competition is its only hope.

Now obviously the Perth fans would be up in arms because they’d lose their massive advantage, but the comps just got little interest elsewhere.

You'd have to weigh this up against the fact that the teams would feel even less like teams than they do now, if we introduced that level of list turnover. If 7 out of your 11 are changing every year, kinda makes it hard to establish cultures around teams, and overall interest would wane I reckon.

 

[Nicho50]

Scrap the draft but allow 4 or 5 international signings and 3 in the line up per game or even 4. Higher quality and bring the people in.

I’m sure if the teams were full of Stokes, Pooran, De Kock , Butler etc rather than the likes of Overton, Walter etc you might get more people invested to want to watch.

The overseas signings are relatively poor and instead of watching Australian players like Starc Head etc your stuck watching Manenti , Edwards and these guys that might be handy domestic players but your not going to want to tune in or go see them live.

 

[akkaps]

Player	Age	Test	ODI	T20I	Last T20I	T20I Stats	T20	T20I Stats
Ben Duckett	30	25	11	12	Dec 23​	31.45 @ 145.16	193	31.09 @ 139.27
Laurie Evans	37	-	-	-	-	-	307	30.54 @ 138.58 35.00 @ 95.4
Lockie Ferguson	33	1	65	42	Jun 24​	3.62 @ 80.55 17.72 @ 7.15	161	10.36 @ 115.11 22.93 @ 7.75
Shai Hope	31	38	124	34	Aug 24​	26.78 @ 137.61	120	27.29 @ 130.52
Jamie Overton	30	1	-	-	-	-	141	19.77 @ 160.69 28.01 @ 9.04
Colin Munro	37	1	57	65	Feb 20​	31.34 @ 156.44 46.50 @ 9.45	428	30.44 @ 141.25 32.80 @ 9.21
Finn Allen	25	-	22	47	Jun 24​	24.27 @ 158.69	126	29.28 @ 168.60
James Vince	33	13	25	17	Jan 22​	27.23 @ 128.25	402	31.97 @ 134.97 29.00 @ 6.69
Tom Curran	29	2	28	30	Jul 21​	11.66 @ 114.28 31.21 @ 9.25	210	21.15 @ 143.91 24.50 @ 8.77
Jacob Bethell	21	-	-	-	-	-	44	23.58 @ 138.18 27.42 @ 7.83
Ollie Pope	26	48	107	-	-	-	60	28.77 @ 132.82
Chris Jordan	36	8	35	95	Jun 24​	13.71 @ 129.11 26.36 @ 8.74	378	16.91 @ 131.97 27.00 @ 8.60
Sam Billings	33	3	28	37	Jan 22​	17.01 @ 129.89	330	23.98 @ 132.83
Paul Walter	30	-	-	-	-	-	149	20.06 @ 141.64 24.46 @ 8.94
Akeal Hosein	31	-	38	60	Aug 24​	15.46 @ 112.29 28.53 @ 7.31	175	14.80 @ 109.26 24.57 @ 7.00
Matthew Hurst	21	-	-	-	-	-	17	26.50 @ 142.14
Fabian Allen	29	-	29	38	Aug 24​	14.88 @ 135.35 29.50 @ 7.46	134	17.00 @ 141.66 28.43 @ 7.85
Sherfane Rutherford	26	-	3	21	Aug 24​	27.84 @ 152.10 72.00 @ 10.28	144	23.47 @ 134.25 39.66 @ 8.96
Tim Seifert	30	-	3	61	Apr 24​	25.31 @ 134.75	219	27.64 @ 130.89
Usama Mir	29	-	12	5	Apr 24​	2.33 @ 100.00 35.00 @ 8.75	125	10.20 @ 134.83 23.57 @ 7.81
Tom Alsop	29	-	-	-	-	-	77	27.64 @ 130.44
Keaton Jennings	32	17	-	-	-	-	98	32.58 @ 129.38 28.54 @ 7.38
Jafer Chohan	22	-	-	-	-	-	23	12.33 @ 139.62 23.18 @ 7.68

 

[corbies]

Scrap the draft but allow 4 or 5 international signings and 3 in the line up per game or even 4. Higher quality and bring the people in.

I’m sure if the teams were full of Stokes, Pooran, De Kock , Butler etc rather than the likes of Overton, Walter etc you might get more people invested to want to watch.

The overseas signings are relatively poor and instead of watching Australian players like Starc Head etc your stuck watching Manenti , Edwards and these guys that might be handy domestic players but your not going to want to tune in or go see them live.

These guys have all played in the BBL and there was no discernable difference in crowd numbers in the matches they played.

We had the best players in the World turn up in this country for a World Cup and the only people who really went to games were Indians for India matches. England v Afghanistan in that tournament would have had 8 of the best 20 players in the World playing in it and 8k people turned up to watch it on a Saturday Night.

Australians don't follow cricket outside Australia so they don't even know who the good players are. Even if they did they don't really care for cricketers who are not Australian. The biggest factor on BBL crowds is:

1. Timing of matches (must be in the 3 weeks after christmas when Australians like cricket).
2. Australian Test players playing.
3. Vibes.

 

[Redline]

These guys have all played in the BBL and there was no discernable difference in crowd numbers in the matches they played.

We had the best players in the World turn up in this country for a World Cup and the only people who really went to games were Indians for India matches. England v Afghanistan in that tournament would have had 8 of the best 20 players in the World playing in it and 8k people turned up to watch it on a Saturday Night.

Australians don't follow cricket outside Australia so they don't even know who the good players are. Even if they did they don't really care for cricketers who are not Australian. The biggest factor on BBL crowds is:

1. Timing of matches (must be in the 3 weeks after christmas when Australians like cricket).
2. Australian Test players playing.
3. Vibes.

People just set the bar to high for crowds. Outside the AFL most sports would love the BBL numbers. The Strikers average over 20,000 for example.

Outside a few key test match days the Cricket crowds are fairly low

 

[fightingfury_88]

Billy Stanlake 1 year deal with Hurricanes.

Hurricanes show faith in Stanlake with new deal | cricket.com.au

Paceman Billy Stanlake hopes to be back to his best in BBL|14 after featuring in just one Big Bash…

www.cricket.com.au

 

[Cleavy]

Lehmann quits coaching roles with Heat and Queensland for commentary gig

Former Australian coach leaves assistant roles with a year to run on his contract for a radio commentary job with ABC Sport

www.espncricinfo.com

Lehmann doing commentary rather than assistant coaching. sounds a lot less stressful.

 

[fightingfury_88]

A few re-signings in the past week or so.

Jon Merlo back at Stars, Mitch Perry at Sixers.

Stars sign Merlo, Sixers re-sign Perry | cricket.com.au

Melbourne Stars welcome back allrounder Jon Merlo on a one-year deal while Sixers lock in emerging…

www.cricket.com.au

Tye signs on at Scorchers, Bird at Sixers and Couch at Stars.

Three clubs boost pace stocks for BBL|14 | cricket.com.au

Veteran bowlers Andrew Tye and Jackson Bird sign new deals for BBL|14 while Stars throw paceman…

www.cricket.com.au

 

[Aussie_boy]

Not sure what they see in Merlo

 

[Moonwatcher]

You'd have to weigh this up against the fact that the teams would feel even less like teams than they do now, if we introduced that level of list turnover. If 7 out of your 11 are changing every year, kinda makes it hard to establish cultures around teams, and overall interest would wane I reckon.

* checks poster's teams *

 

[happy_eagle]

* checks poster's teams *

Thats the easy answer

But honestly, Melbourne cricket fans already have a hard time caring for either the Stars or the Renegades, unless one is doing well. Do you really think this would improve if every summer they had a completely different starting XI ?

 

[Moonwatcher]

Thats the easy answer

But honestly, Melbourne cricket fans already have a hard time caring for either the Stars or the Renegades, unless one is doing well. Do you really think this would improve if every summer they had a completely different starting XI ?

No, I agree with you completely.