Big Bash League
The Big Bash League is a new Australia domestic Twenty20 cricket competition that is set to commence in December, 2011.
The Big Bash League will feature eight city-based teams from the capital cities of each of the six Australian states, with both Sydney and Melbourne having two teams each.
Fixtures: The competition will commence on 16 December 2011, with games running on a near-daily basis until the final, which will be played on 28 January 2012.
Each team will play a total of seven games, playing each other team in the competition once.
Full Big Bash League Fixture List
Teams: The eight teams that will feature in the inaugural season of the Big Bash League are:
Adelaide Strikers, Brisbane Heat, Hobart Hurricanes, Melbourne Renegades, Melbourne Stars, Perth Scorchers, Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder.
Similiar to the Indian Premier League, each team has a private ownership model and is able to sign up to 18 players, unrestricted by traditional state-defined boundaries that other Australian domestic cricket competitions have, with each side also able to sign two overseas-based players on their roster.
Some of the notable overseas-signings include Chris Gayle (Sydney Thunder), Shahid Afridi (Melbourne Renegades) and Paul Collingwood (Perth Scorchers).
Of the Australian-based players, Usman Khawaja (Sydney Thunder), Cameron White (Melbourne Stars), Brad Haddin (Sydney Sixers) and Brett Lee (Sydney Sixers) lead the stars who have signed on for the competition.
Big-Bash-League Articles
by timmy_morgs - March 14th 2012 @ 5:00pm
Here lie the remains of Gold Coast United (2008-2012), a team who due to short vision were short-lived. May they rest in peace. Welcome to the tombs of teams gone by, a graveyard littered with faded dynastys and failed expansions. In seven short seasons the A-League has witnessed the death of three sides, who now [...]
by Adrian Musolino - February 28th 2012 @ 2:35am
The timing of the Allan Border Medal, Australian cricket’s night of nights, says a lot about the messy scheduling of the cricket season. With the Commonwealth Bank Series still a match away from its finals series, Australian cricket was patting itself on the back for a job well done. In their reworked season in which [...]
by Garfield Robinson - February 13th 2012 @ 6:36am
I love cricket. However every year around the time of the Indian Premier League, I do my best to avoid every cricket website, news story, TV station, and anything else to do with the game. The reason is simple. I hate Twenty20 cricket. Call me a snob if you will, but I find it difficult [...]
by Luke Doherty - February 4th 2012 @ 4:00am
Cricket Australia may be basking in the afterglow of the Big Bash League, but another huge test is looming. Last night marked the end of Twenty20 international cricket in Australia for the summer and the coming month is filled with matches many fans see as irrelevant. Between now and March 2, the Aussies will play [...]
by Mark Young - January 31st 2012 @ 7:16am
I was so certain that the Big Bash League was going to be a massive flop, I tried to bet money on its inevitable failure. To my astonishment, it has been the big hit of Summer. It is time to reflect on what Cricket Australia did right and why I was so very very wrong! [...]
by GarethIan - January 31st 2012 @ 6:47am
Throughout the summer there has been a lot of focus placed on the Big Bash League and its impact on the Sheffield Shield and in-turn Test cricket. Australia’s four Test obliteration of an impotent Indian side prevented any significant discovery of the flaws in the current scheduling. Had Australia not performed with such effect, the [...]
by owenteakle87 - January 31st 2012 @ 6:31am
With the Sheffield Shield season recommencing on Thursday, it will be interesting to see which players are quickest back into form following the competitions six-week hiatus, and whether the break will be a impediment to the continuing form of players pressing for higher honours. Pre Christmas, Queensland batsmen Peter Forrest topped the first-class domestic averages [...]
by Justin Chadwick - January 29th 2012 @ 5:32am
by Suneer Chowdhary - January 29th 2012 @ 5:16am
Moises Henriques played a blinder as Sydney Sixers chased down a potentially difficult 156 in the final of the Big Bash League against Perth Scorchers at the WACA. Henriques’ 41-ball 70 and his opening stand of 110 with Steve O’Keefe took the game away from the Scorchers. Despite a late hiccup from the visitors, the [...]
by Suneer Chowdhary - January 28th 2012 @ 5:12pm
The opening edition of the Big Bash League will culminate into a potentially exciting final between Perth Scorchers and Sydney Sixers on Saturday, January 28. We’ll bring you the live scores and commentary of the action throughout the final, with the match starting at 8.00 pm AEDT on January 28. The last time these two [...]
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