#Big Bash League 2019-20 Fixtures

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Big Bash League 2019-20 | Squads, Schedule, Fixtures & Live Streaming

The Big Bash League 2019–20 season or BBL 2019-20 will be the 9th period of the KFC Big Bash League, the expert men's Twenty20 domestic cricket rivalry in Australia. The competition is booked to begin on 17 December 2019 and finish up on 8 February 2020.

The length of the period has been abbreviated contrasted with that from the most recent year while the number of matches would be expanded from 59 to 61 from the past season. The thump outs have been patched up into a play-off framework where the best two groups in the association will get another opportunity to make it to the last regardless of whether they lose the principal coordinate in the play-offs. The play-off matches have all been given interesting monikers, specifically The Eliminator, The Qualifier, The Knock-Out, The Challenger pursued by The Final. Melbourne Renegades are the protecting, victors.

Big Bash League 2019-20 Team

Melbourne Stars

Brisbane Heat

Sydney Thunder

Hobart Hurricanes

Melbourne Renegades

Sydney Sixers

Adelaide Strikers

Perth Scorchers

Big Bash League 2019-20 Squads

Melbourne Stars

Michael Beer, Jackson Bird, Scott Boland, Liam Bowe, Dwayne Bravo (West Indies), Jackson Coleman, Travis Dean, Ben Dunk, Seb Gotch, Evan Gulbis, Peter Handscomb, Sandeep Lamichhane (Nepal), Nic Maddinson, Glenn Maxwell, Jonathan Merlo, Matt Parkinson (England)*, Marcus Stoinis, Daniel Worrall, Adam Zampa

Brisbane Heat

Chris Lynn, Max Bryant, Joe Burns, Ben Cutting, Brendan Doggett, Sam Heazlett, Matt Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Lalor, Brendon McCullum, James Pattinson, Jimmy Peirson, Jack Prestwidge, Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Afghanistan), Matt Renshaw, Alex Ross, Mark Steketee, Mitchell Swepson

Sydney Thunder

Shane Watson (c), Fawad Ahmed, Jos Buttler (England) Pat Cummins, Anton Devcich (New Zealand) Callum Ferguson, Ryan Gibson, Chris Green, Liam Hatcher, Chris Jordan (England), Usman Khawaja, Jay Lenton, Nathan McAndrew, Arjun Nair, Kurtis Patterson, Sam Rainbird, Joe Root (England), Daniel Sams, Gurinder Sandhu, Jason Sangha

Hobart Hurricanes

Matthew Wade (c), Jofra Archer (England), George Bailey (c), Johan Botha, Jake Doran, James Faulkner, Caleb Jewell, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Simon Milenko, Tymal Mills (England), David Moody, Tim Paine, Tom Rogers, Clive Rose, D’Arcy Short, Aaron Summers

Melbourne Renegades

Aaron Finch (c), Cameron Boyce, Dan Christian, Tom Cooper, Zak Evans, Harry Gurney (England)*, Marcus Harris, Mackenzie Harvey, Jon Holland, Tim Ludeman, Joe Mennie, Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan), Kane Richardson, Usman Khan Shinwari (Pakistan)*, Will Sutherland, Chris Tremain, Beau Webster, Cameron White, Jack Wildermuth

Sydney Sixers

Moises Henriques (c), Sean Abbott, Juston Avendano, Tom Curran (England), Joe Denly (England), Ben Dwarshuis, Jack Edwards, Mickey Edwards, Dan Fallins, Daniel Hughes, Nathan Lyon, Peter Nevill, Stephen O’Keefe, Josh Philippe, Lloyd Pope, Jordan Silk, Henry Thornton, Greg West

Adelaide Strikers

Travis Head (c), Wes Agar, Alex Carey, Michael Cormack, David Grant, Colin Ingram (South Africa), Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Ben Laughlin, Jake Lehmann, Michael Neser, Liam O’Connor, Matt Short, Peter Siddle, Billy Stanlake, Cameron Valente, Jake Weatherald, Jonathan Wells, Nick Winter

Perth Scorchers

Ashton Agar, Cameron Bancroft*, Jason Behrendorff, Hilton Cartwright, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Cameron Green, Josh Inglis, Matthew Kelly, Michael Klinger, Mitch Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Joel Paris, Usman Qadir (Pakistan), Jhye Richardson, Ashton Turner, Andrew Tye, Sam Whiteman, David Willey (England)

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Adelaide Strikers will be squaring off against Perth Scorchers in the 10th fixture of Big Bash League 2019-20. Strikers have till now played a single match which ended without any result. https://www.sportzcraazy.com/

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Shane Watson slams Big Bash League organisers, blames greed for competition’s crowd slump

Shane Watson slams Big Bash League organisers, blames greed for competition’s crowd slump

Former Aussie cricket star Shane Watson has lashed out at organisers of the Big Bash League, warning greed has compromised the competition.

Writing for the T20 Stars blog, Watson said it was “really sad” to see the BBL extended at the expense of fans, and admitted the longer fixture was behind his decision to sit out the 2019/20 season.

“The BBL a few years ago was the envy of all cricket…

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The forty seventh fixture of Big Bash League(BBL) 2019-20 is scheduled among Melbourne Renegades and Hobart Hurricanes on January 21st, 2020. The match is going to be held at Docklands Stadium, Melbourne, Australia , and the live telecast will start from 08:10 AM (GMT).

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Rebel WBBL fixtures 2019 , Live Streaming TV Channels, Live Scorecard

Rebel WBBL fixtures 2019 , Live Streaming TV Channels, Live Scorecard

Rebel WBBL fixtures 2019 , Live Streaming TV Channels, Live Scorecard: Rebel Women Big Bash League (Rebel WBBL 2019) complete schedule, fixtures and live streaming guide for lovers of Women Cricket in Australia. WBBL Live Streaming and live telecast tv Channels and Kayo Sports live guide will help to watch online WBBL 2019 . Here are the finished WBBL apparatuses list for the 2019 season. The…

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20 THOUGHTS: Laser Hair Removal

MOTHERS’ Day – a day of celebration, acknowledgement and love.

We try and treat our Mums on Mothers’ Day, we catch up, we tell them how much they mean to us and often a gift is a part of that.

Some go down the cliché flowers and chocolates path, others look to the indulgent experiences, the massages, the spa treatments, etc.

Not Tim Kelly.

No, see the Cats’ midfielder got his partner Claire on the kids’ behalf some laser hair removal. Nothing says “I love you Mum” by addressing some unwanted forearm hair, or worst still... well you let you mind wander.

Happy Mothers Day! Let’s go onfield.

 1.       Let’s start with rule changes. Need to whack Steve Hocking one last time. Last September he said “our trials (of the rule changes) have indicated a 15 per cent increase in scoring”. 12 months ago when the footy world was amidst crisis teams were averaging 83 points a game. So far this year its 80 points a game. Where’d you do your trials Hocking? The Belle Gibson Institute for Honesty? The launch of Apollo One? Lance Armstrong’s back shed? Steven, do better man.

2.       Right, so Dane Rampe was a nincompoop on Friday night, we all know that. The rule says intentionally shake the post and if we’re technical he did not, he climbed the post, or he unintentionally shook the post. Either way, play on... imagine if they’d paid it?!

3.       But here comes Robbo, “we will look back on Friday night and remember it as the night the AFL failed the competition.” Ah, no, settle down, by tomorrow we would have all moved on,Mark, now take a breath, but this time without an entire deck of Marlboros.

4.       Now to the other end of the spectrum, the one they call ‘Purple’, “Carlton's loss to second-placed Collingwood on Saturday was every bit as bad as Carlton's loss to 17th-placed North Melbourne in round seven…. In many ways, the narrow losses are worse than the big ones for Bolton. There's nothing gallant about them now….” Ah, what, no it wasn’t, clearly the Blues were better what a horrid thing to say, and if anything narrow losses replacing big losses shows progress, would it not, Damien?

5.       “I think they keep performing like they did (on Saturday), his job is safe…I know it’s another L to his name but with performances like that, they keep Brendon Bolton in a job.” That’s Wayne Carey. Duck might not be safe around teammates’ wives, but his view is as on the money as Barrett’s isn’t. Blues are ok, very young side ‘breaking through’; it’ll be up and down before they nail it, relax.

6.       Last one on Carlton, here are some facts: 17 of the 22 on Saturday had played less than 100 games. Cripps is 24, Charlie Curnow is 22, but then all of Dow, Walsh, Weitering, McKay, Petrevski-Seton are 21 or younger. Their second-best player after Cripps is out with a knee, Sam Docherty, but even he is still only 25.

7.       And last one on Damo’s shocker of a Monday - “For the second consecutive year, a season being talked about as a premiership possibility is virtually over by round eight for Essendon.” Did we? Remember a lot of talk about tipping Melbourne for the flag, or Richmond getting back up there, but Essendon? Did we? Maybe you did Damien, not us sensible folk. My Lord…

8.       If you’re 1-7 but with a % over 84, you’re not a real poor side. Melbourne is 2-7 with a % under 76. I’d rather Carlton in 2019 a million percent. Go on, say you’d sack Goodwin as well then, Damien…

9.       What is the difference between Geelong and Melbourne – the Cats have the comp’s premier 'general defender' in Tom Stewart and premier 'general forward' in Gary Ablett – the Dees don’t and everything else is pretty much the same, but those two are super impactful and it’s about a five-win difference to this point.

10.   That said, Melbourne played poorly Saturday and have for some time but the sorta thing last weekend’s win does, it would give them a massive boost around the club this week. Meanwhile, the Eagles are just going, not doing anything amazing. So this Friday night, don’t be surprised if the Dees get into the contest and if the home team isn’t watching maybe snatch it

11.   Geez we all bagged the Giants for their game Sunday. Firstly, Clarkson was amazing but secondly we’re now going to question their premiership contentions? Whose top right now? Who is the only team to beat them this year? So either the Cats dropped a game to a dud team which is then a huge question mark, or the Giants had an off day on Sunday, they’re still a good side and the Cats only loss was to a good side…

12.   Tell you what, with an injury list as long as an anaconda popping Viagra, Richmond can still put out some scary performances. They get relatively fit at some point later in winter, finishing anywhere in the eight, they’re mega dangerous for a second flag in three years no questions about that.

13.   Violence at the footy – send some of the cops you had at Sydney Sunday night for the A-League to the AFL. The media is actually catching up, no longer soccer-bashing for a headline, but the cops need to get the balance right. Nowhere near enough security/cops for big MCG crowds,

14.   But the heavy handed stuff at Kogarah Sunday night for Rory Carroll and his three girls, that’s nothing but shameful. No doubt the cops involved are probably all good people doing what’s otherwise a very tough job, but that situation was massively avoidable and nothing but a smear on the NSW Police Force. Shame.

15.   Mother’s Day footy, especially in Melbourne, not great. Under 15,000 for the Hawks-Giants at the ‘G yesterday, 12 months ago Pies-Cats got 44,000, year before Richmond got 31,000. Seems to be not as much an issue interstate, so for the time being, keep footy out of Melbourne on Mother’s Day.

16.   So conjecture about the Crows and Blues pick swap situation. Let’s lay it out and bare it for what it is, the Blues initiated whats essentially Pick 1 right now for Pick 19 in 2018 and whats now Pick 15 this year. First overall for 15 and 19. Yeah, pretty smelly.

17.   Before we get into that time of the year we bag the fixture and try and conjure up Mensa-level solutions, easy – when we get Tassie and a 20th team, we drop three rounds and move to a 19 game season, allowing for a properly extended AFLW season too. Job done.

18.   Concede the A-League did well this weekend; sure we mentioned the cops before but from a sporting perspective, did nicely. Exciting football. However, still work to do, NRL games on Sunday on Foxtel averaged 250k, AFL got around 150k, the Sydney-Melbourne final got 58k. Needs to be much better. Two biggest clubs in a primetime final, come on.

19.   Peter FitzSimmons is a friend of this column, very rarely off the mark. Went on Channel Nine’s Today show Sunday morning and got in a tiff with Miranda Devine, who I concede I had to google (is a sometimes published Newscorp journo) so don’t feel bad for now knowing her either. Anyway, Fitzy’s Israel Folau position is that “you can’t do what he did… there is no other organisation in Australia that could possibly countenance one of their employees… posting that (on social media).” Old mate Devine disagreed, somehow, saying “I don’t understand how you can just crucify a man for his Christianity…. and you seem to think that it’s OK to destroy not just his job, but his livelihood”. Now Miranda, I’m sure you’re intelligent some of the time, but as FitzSimmons retorted, he wasn’t selectively referring to the bible, he was posting “homophobic slurs” so if you can’t understand that you need to find a way to be even more irrelevant please.

20.   Daniel Ricciardo. He is getting paid really well I guess. But then again, whether you’re pushing hard for a podium or finishing mid-pack at best like his Renault is, is there a more boring, uninspiring sport right now than Formula Hamilton? Don’t think so.

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ROUND 1

THE SEA EAGLE

MAKING RUGBY LEAGUE GREAT AGAIN!!!

Manly Sea Eagles                             6

Defeated by. 

Wests Tigers                                     20

The Sea Eagle took the opportunity to watch this fixture from the confines of the North Sydney Leagues Club. With the Stench of the Bear continuing to emanate from these less than hallowed walls, there was little confidence to be had in what was about to transpire.

Following on from the litany of off-field indiscretions that have plagued the game during the past off-season, the first half of this fixture did little to restore any confidence or credibility in rugby league. Both teams struggled to come to grips with the wet and slippery conditions and a procession of errors ensued. It was an average spectacle put on by two equally average and likely bottom feeder outfits.

Despite having very little in terms of field position and possession, somehow Manly led 2-0 at the break. It’s fair to say Manly were somewhat unlucky not to score a try when a bizarre instance of refereeing interference denied Curtis Sironen a try. Surely the onus must be on referees to stay well clear of the playing area and teams like Manly need all the help they can get.

Manly carried their average form into the second half, with scant regard for possession, simple errors and very little to offer, particularly in terms of attack. Unfortunately for Manly, the Wests Tigers left their poor form in the sheds and they ran roughshod in the second half. Dominating field position, with 60% possession and led by ageing veterans Robbie Farrah and Benji Marshall ran in 3 tries and put Manly to the sword. The fact that Manly could not come to grips with Farrah and Marshall is a real concern as its fair to say that both these players are well past their primes and what lies ahead when they have to face up to teams with genuine talent in their playing rosters.

This loss continues Manly’s tradition of poor starts to a season, now having lost 14 of their last 19 opening round games. It doesn’t get any easier next week where they will host the reigning premiers, the Roosters at Lottoland.

Peter Beattie sends a shout out to long dead Balmain Tigers legend Laurie Nicholls

The juggernaut of embarrassment that is Peter Beattie has made some big gaffes since he took over as NRL Commissioner but this one tops the lot. Who can forget shortly after being named NRL commissioner he was unable to identify that the Sharks were the club that played out of Cronulla during a TV interview with Phil Gould.   Following this he then confused the Barcelona football jersey with that of the Newcastle Knights in an interview on the Today Show with Karl Stefanovic.   But the prolific Twitter user has now made another stumble by bringing the Tigers greatest fan, Laurie Nicholls, back from the dead.

During yesterdays game, a spoof Twitter account known as “Laurie Nicholls is God” responded to a tweet from Peter Beattie who was at the game.   The spoof account wrote “Isn’t she just a beauty Pete” when Beattie posted a photo of the Leichhardt crowd to his 12,000 followers.   But it was Beattie’s response to the fake Laurie’s account that took the cake. “Good to see you are well Laurie. Good win for Wests Tigers today. All the best.”   Somehow Beattie was unaware that Nicholls died some time ago.   Peter Beattie is the gift that keeps giving and we eagerly await his next faux pas.   Which brings us to his efforts earlier in the week  

Beattie: We won't look like 'village idiot' over stand-down law

Sun Herald  March 9, 2019 — 4.49pm

 Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter Beattie defended the length of time it has taken for the new ''no-fault'' stand-down ruling to be rubber-stamped, declaring: "It's better to get it right and cop some flak now than look like a village idiot later on.''

Beattie apparently (according to the Sun Herald) told the Sun-Herald,  NRL commissioners had received the draft for the new ruling late on Friday (8 March 2019) and would meet to approve it on Monday (11 March 2019) before the NRL quickly implemented it.   This is despite the fact that the NRL had already told St George player Jack De Belin and Manly player Dylan Walker they had been stood down (to name a few) before the rules were actually in place.   It came as no surprise therefore that  St George Illawarra forward Jack de Belin scored a victory in the Federal Court on Thursday 7 March 2019 when  Federal Court judge Steven Rares said on 7 March 2019 ''there's no entitlement to stand him down'' and ''there's nothing in place at the moment''. With the NRL rules introduced around 11 or 12 March 2019, De Belin is  presently not playing rugby league and apparently back in Court against the NRL in April 2017 .   One could be forgiven after all of this, for thinking the current membership requirements for a spot on the NRL Commission or a senior role at the NRL, may well be holding a PHD from a typical Australian university where you can now be degree qualified by actually being dumb, and based solely on a thesis paper “why it’s cool to be an idiot” or “the many things you should do now rather than look like a village idiot later on”. One of those things clearly, must be the policy of standing players down based on a press announcement, whilst attempting to put the rules in place to justify that, after the event.

Like the Billy Idol balls up at the 2002 GF (and many others), only in rugby league would this be considered “normal”.   Now let’s consider this news piece from 2014, regarding Russell Packer, who played for the Tigers in this Rd 1 2019 fixture against Manly:

  Russell Packer of the Newcastle Knights sentenced to two years' jail

By Stephen Ryan- SMH

January 6, 2014 — 12.20pm

Newcastle Knight rugby league player Russell Packer has been jailed for two years for assault, dismaying the Kiwi enforcer ….

Packer looked to his supporters, which included his partner and a number of Knights officials, in distress before he was led away in handcuffs from a Downing Centre Local Court on Monday.

Earlier Packer, 24, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm after he bashed a man during a booze-fuelled night last year, with the court hearing he had stomped on his victim's face as the man lay motionless in Martin Place in Sydney's CBD.

No need to go any further into this incident. Given Mr Packer is now able to play NRL it seems the NRL position on off field atrocities is this:

1. if you are charged with a crime, that may carry a certain lengthy gaol penalty, and you plead not guilty, you may or will be banned, despite the fact you are legally entitled to the presumption of innocence;

2. if you are in gaol, then clearly you are banned from paying rugby league, given an inherent inability to do so;.

3. If you have been sent to gaol for 2 years, for “assault occasioning actual bodily harm” after bashing a man “during a booze-fuelled night” and having “stomped on [the victim's] face as [ the victim] lay motionless in Martin Place in Sydney's CBD”, then once released from gaol you are free to play NRL.

Naturally, this sound perfectly reasonable. The pathway is plead not guilty, banned by NRL, go to gaol, banned by the NRL, released from gaol, free to play NRL. One might argue the order of bannings should be the reverse, but that is just speculation. The Sea Eagle is sure everyone would agree with that. Like the Billy Idol balls up at the 2002 GF (and many others), only in rugby league would this be considered “normal”.

We could go into why Mathew Lodge is allowed to play for the Broncos given his well-documented efforts in the USA, but time simply does not allow this.

  Off-season Atrocities – Final Comment

Since the last edition of the report The Sea Eagle has been left to ponder why these atrocities in the main seem confined to the NRL. Sure, other codes have the odd scandal and are not immune to player behavioural issues but none seem to be as affected and scandal prone as the under-seige NRL. This prompts the question as to why is this still such a regular occurrence in professional rugby league?

As far as the Sea Eagle is concerned and as unpalatable and politically incorrect as it may seem, a possible explanation for the extent of atrocities (as compared to other professional football codes) lies with the socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of the majority of participants at the professional level.

The Sea Eagle has previously identified the emergence of the largely Polynesian playing base at NRL level as a concern in terms of who will actually be plying the game, particularly the instances where the size and athleticism of these players especially at junior levels has led to a dwindling participation from the non-Polynesian population. It’s fair to say that country rugby league is dying on the vine as Tonga and Samoa are now replacing the likes of Maitland and Cessnock as the traditional heart-land and nurseries of rugby league.

Whether Polynesian players or other cultural playing groups are over represented in off field atrocity stakes remains largely speculative guesswork at present.

An urgent statistical analysis needs to be performed to see just how many of the recent atrocities, particularly those in terms of violence have been committed (or alleged to have been committed) by players of Anglo Saxon, Aboriginal, Polynesian, or other backgrounds, with a detailed analysis of educational levels attained and time spent in the non NRL playing workforce (ie holding doe a so called real job), and to then see why if at all, any particular player cultural group appears to be statistically over represented.

Then, analysis is needed as to where, NRL players as a whole, are statistically over represented in certain off field atrocity categories, namely aggravated sexual assault, assault occasion actual bodily or grievous bodily harm, DUI, domestic violence and the like.

Or as Tooves once said, there needs to be an investigation. That vital data needs to be collated, reviewed and sent to the NRL integrity unit for comment, and further review, and then sent to the press, media commentators and gender advisers for their take on it all. But without these core facts/data, and comment, we would all be merely speculating if we pointed the finger at one player group as opposed to any other as regards to anything. At best, all we can do about any incident in particular, is shrug our shoulders and say “but it’s rugby league”. Which is far from acceptable.

The Sea Eagle would also like to single out NRL adviser Professor Catharine Lumby for special mention. According to Ms. Lumby’s website she has worked in a role advising the NRL on cultural change and education programs for players since 2004. Whilst not questioning Ms Lumbly’s credentials, objectives and motivation, clearly on any objective analysis, the influence and impact of Ms Lumby’s work, as evidenced in recent years (and particularly this off-season) have failed miserably. One possible conclusion is the players have stopped listening to Ms Lumby if they ever listened and understood in the first place. The question must be asked, is she now ready to hear the words of the great man – you’re FIRED.

This will be the last mention by the Sea Eagle in terms of the atrocities and scandals that have plagued the NRL in the off-season, now preferring to turn his hand to reporting on the game at hand and the inevitable litany of atrocities and scandals that will no doubt follow now that season 2019 has commenced.

Let us not forget Round 9 of the NRL Telstra Premiership - 9-12 May 2019 will see every rugby league match at one stadium- for the first time ever, simply called “Magic Round Brisbane” which is coming to Suncorp Stadium. The promotional take on this is “That's Magic!”. All the Sea Eagle can say is if 16 NRL teams -circa 320 NRL players, descend on Brisbane in one magic weekend in May, what could possibly go wrong?

THE SEA EAGLE

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Perth Scorchers will be squaring off against Melbourne Renegades in the 7th fixture of Big Bash League 2019-20. Both the teams have lost their inaugural game and would like to clinch this one to open their account on Saturday. https://www.sportzcraazy.com/

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Cricket Australia confirms new Big Bash League season slashed

Cricket Australia confirms new Big Bash League season slashed

Cricket Australia has confirmed the 2019-20 Big Bash League season will be slashed in a bid to win back families, with the last seven home-and-away games to be crammed into the Australia Day long weekend.

CA will unveil the full BBL09 fixtures on Thursday, with the 56-game regular season to be played across 41 days between December 17 and January 27 – the final day of school holidays.

Average…