The newly-streamlined Ladies’s Massive Bash League returns on Sunday, stay on Sky Sports activities, with a variety of England gamers concerned and Adelaide Strikers focusing on a 3rd straight title.
What’s the format?
There will probably be 43 matches on this 12 months’s competitors, down from 59 final time period, with the eight sides taking part in 4 groups as soon as and three groups twice for a complete of 10 group video games.
The highest 4 sides will then advance to the knockout stage – the desk toppers progress on to the ultimate on December 1 with the opposite three groups duking it out to affix them.
The groups ending third and fourth will meet within the Knockout on November 27 with the winners reaching the Challenger – in opposition to the aspect coming second – and the losers eradicated.
The winners of the Challenger will then qualify for the ultimate.
Who’re the Ladies’s Massive Bash League groups?
- Adelaide Strikers (champions in 2022/23 and 2023/24)
- Brisbane Warmth (champions in 2018/19 and 2019/20)
- Hobart Hurricanes
- Melbourne Renegades
- Melbourne Stars
- Perth Scorchers (champions in 2021/22)
- Sydney Sixers (champions in 2016/17 and 2017/18)
- Sydney Thunder (champions in 2015/16 and 2020/21)
Which England gamers will probably be concerned?
England captain Heather Knight has been given the all-clear to hyperlink up with Sydney Thunder after injuring her calf throughout her nation’s group-stage exit on the Ladies’s T20 World Cup within the UAE.
England captain Heather Knight retired harm on the Ladies’s T20 World Cup however will hyperlink up with Sydney Thunder
Knight will probably be joined at Thunder by spin-bowling all-rounder Georgia Adams, a constant performer in English home who made her worldwide debut in opposition to Eire this summer time.
Spinner Sophie Ecclestone can even be in Sydney however at Thunder’s metropolis rivals Sixers, alongside batter Hollie Armitage, whereas wicketkeeper-batter Amy Jones will play for Perth Scorchers.
Over in Melbourne, all-rounder Alice Capsey and spin bowler Linsey Smith will characterize Renegades, with opener Lauren Winfield-Hill becoming a member of Brisbane Warmth for the primary two matches.
Explosive batter Danni Wyatt-Hodge was a high-profile choose for Hobart Hurricanes within the draft, along with her team-mates together with Scotland skipper Kathryn Bryce.
The England gamers chosen for the upcoming all-format tour of South Africa, which begins with the primary T20 worldwide on Sunday November 24, will miss the top of the WBBL.
Eire’s Orla Prendergast (Adelaide Strikers) can even play within the WBBL.
Who else ought to I look out for?
Quite a lot of gamers who starred within the Ladies’s T20 World Cup will probably be in motion in Australia, together with Participant of the Event Amelia Kerr, of New Zealand.
The leg-spinning all-rounder – who hoovered up a number one 15 wickets within the UAE, together with three within the remaining because the White Ferns overcame South Africa – is within the Sixers squad.
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Amelia Kerr took three wickets as New Zealand beat South Africa within the Ladies’s T20 World Cup remaining
New Zealand’s World Cup-winning captain Sophie Devine is on the Scorchers roster, whereas South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt – the main run-scorer within the T20 World Cup and a participant with probably the most elegant cowl drives you’ll ever see – at Strikers.
Wolvaardt and India’s Smriti Mandhana might kind a robust opening partnership for the defending champions, whereas Renegades’ hopes of a primary title could possibly be boosted by the arrivals of West Indies duo Hayley Matthews and Deandra Dottin.
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West Indies’ Deandra Dottin took 4 wickets and hit three sixes in her aspect’s semi-final defeat to New Zealand on the Ladies’s T20 World Cup
The most effective Australia gamers can even be concerned, in fact, together with Tahlia McGrath and Megan Schutt for Strikers, Sophie Molineux for Renegades, Annabel Sutherland for Stars, Beth Mooney for Scorchers, Ellyse Perry and Ashleigh Gardner for Sixers and Phoebe Litchfield for Thunder.
Full fixture listing
All instances UK and Eire
Sunday, October 27: Adelaide Strikers vs Brisbane Warmth (2.40am), Melbourne Renegades vs Sydney Sixers (6.10am), Perth Scorchers vs Melbourne Stars (9.30am)
Monday, October 28: Hobart Hurricanes vs Sydney Thunder (7.10am)
Tuesday, October 29: Sydney Sixers vs Adelaide Strikers (7.10am)
Wednesday, October 30: Brisbane Warmth vs Melbourne Renegades (8.10am)
Thursday, October 31: Sydney Thunder vs Hobart Hurricanes (8.15am)
Friday, November 1: Adelaide Strikers vs Sydney Thunder (4.45am), Sydney Sixers vs Melbourne Stars (8.15am)
Saturday, November 2: Brisbane Warmth vs Hobart Hurricanes (12.40am), Melbourne Renegades vs Perth Scorchers (4am), Melbourne Stars vs Hobart Hurricanes (11.10pm)
Sunday, November 3: Melbourne Renegades v Adelaide Strikers (2.40am)
Tuesday, November 5: Perth Scorchers vs Brisbane Warmth (9.10am)
Wednesday, November 6: Hobart Hurricanes vs Sydney Sixers (7.10am)
Thursday, November 7: Sydney Thunder vs Brisbane Warmth (6.05am), Perth Scorchers vs Melbourne Renegades (9.35am)
Friday, November 8: Melbourne Stars vs Sydney Sixers (12am)
Saturday, November 9: Melbourne Renegades vs Melbourne Stars (4am), Brisbane Warmth vs Adelaide Strikers (8.15am), Hobart Hurricanes vs Perth Scorchers (11.10pm)
Sunday, November 10: Sydney Sixers vs Sydney Thunder (2.40am)
Monday, November 11: Adelaide Strikers vs Melbourne Renegades (7.10am)
Tuesday, November 12: Sydney Thunder vs Perth Scorchers (7.10am)
Wednesday, November 13: Hobart Hurricanes vs Adelaide Strikers (7.10am)
Thursday, November 14: Sydney Sixers vs Brisbane Warmth (4.30am)
Friday, November 15: Perth Scorchers vs Sydney Thunder (4.45am), Melbourne Stars vs Melbourne Renegades (8.15am)
Saturday, November 16: Adelaide Strikers vs Hobart Hurricanes (4.30am)
Sunday, November 17: Melbourne Stars vs Brisbane Warmth (2.25am), Sydney Thunder vs Sydney Sixers (6.25am)
Tuesday, November 19: Adelaide Strikers vs Perth Scorchers (7.10am)
Wednesday, November 20: Sydney Thunder vs Melbourne Stars (7.10am)
Thursday, November 21: Sydney Sixers v Perth Scorchers (4.45am), Hobart Hurricanes vs Melbourne Renegades (8.15am)
Friday November 22: Brisbane Warmth vs Melbourne Stars (9.10am), Melbourne Renegades vs Sydney Thunder (11pm)
Saturday, November 23: Perth Scorchers vs Hobart Hurricanes (9.30am), Melbourne Stars vs Adelaide Strikers (11pm)
Sunday, November 24: Brisbane Warmth vs Sydney Sixers (9.05am)
Wednesday, November 27: Knockout (7.10am)
Friday, November 29: Challenger (7.10am)
Sunday, December 1: Closing (7.10am)
