Does he open there?The thing with Stoinis is his form has plummeted, take aside his performance in new years eve, he was striking it at 107.5 strike rate in BBL 13 from 9 matches. And the SA20 he has looked cooked as well, striking it no better than 105 strike rate from 5 games.
His body language looks shot at the moment. He would probably be one of their higher paid players at the Stars too, commanding at least $300,000 per season. In the last 2 seasons anyway, he has looked like a player that looks like he would rather be anyway near that Stars set up.
Pretty clear his best spot is opening and needs a bit longer to get going these days. We try to get too cute in BBL with 'specialist' positions in the batting order. Just get your highest ceiling batsmen at the crease the longest. Tim David at 6 is a waste, put him in at 3-4 and if he bats 10 overs you've won. If Stoin has anything left in the tank at all, he has to open or why bother. Send Maxwell out with him too