BBL Match 23 Melbourne Renegades v Melbourne Stars 4/1 1845hrs @ the MCG

[010203]

121m or 2× Eden Park

 

[LukeParkerno1]

121m six lol

 

[NSWCROW]

 

[V_23]

121m!?

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Gades should have run Cartwright out and caught Maxwell…

There’s the game

 

[amazingjoshy]

Entertaining game

 

[Mr Meow]

In a fiercely contested battle to prove who was the shittest team in Melbourne, the Gades rose to the occasion in the end.

 

[smasha]

Entertaining game in the end.
Stars just win.

 

[smasha]

Fantastic crowd of over 40k for two bottom teams.
Still have pulling power.

 

[cats_09]

Gades should have run Cartwrightnout and caught Maxwell…

There’s the game

The half trackers through the middle overs and Roster swatting at & missing a dozen deliveries at the start of our innings were more costly

 

[largebus]

For all the hype the Renegades are gonna be hard pressed to make the finals. A few decent starts from JFM and the Gades are probably 4-2. He's in the running with Hurst for the Worst and Unfairest Award.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

The half trackers through the middle overs and Roster swatting at & missing a dozen deliveries at the start of our innings were more costly

To a degree but you still got a decent total, flopped in the field late. I’ll never understand why you have fast bowlers fielding at point lol

 

[Cleavy]

Do we have a resident geek on the cricket board that someone can tag for me? I have a maths and/or physics question.

Fox Sports give us that data of ball speed in, ball speed out, and bat speed.

• what is the unit of measurement denoting the impact of the bat itself? Is it force? Is it power?
• what would be the mathematical equation for working out the value of that unit of measurement?

E = mc squared x “made it up”

 

[gtrxuone]

Cartwright been a good player for the Stars.Over a number of BBL seasons.Good to see,him up and about ar the end of this game.

 

[cats_09]

I know there's been chat in here of blowing up the Stars and starting again, but kinda want to do the same with the Gades - especially our bowling unit which has seemed rather limp most of this season


I know Rogers has been our strike bowler over recent seasons, likely our current leading wicket taker with 11 but he seems to be very predictable and not exactly someone seen as a partnership breaker unless the surge has been called & batsmen get themselves out

When there's something in the pitch he's looked dangerous, otherwise opposition batsmen don't seem too troubled by him. Add in that he's also proven something of a liability in the field with the dropped catch of Maxwell tonight, and in the first game the missed runout of Henriques - looked like we tried to hide him tonight but that's not a permanent option, and he's a slightly frustrating player


Richardson has also been hit & miss going back to last season - he has only the 3 wickets so far this season to go with just the 6 from 7 matches last season and he's simply getting smacked around the park each match


Crone is 27 - made his debut for us tonight. So is he a long term option that just needs to find his feet or nothing more than a fill in?

O'Neill seems to have been made a scapegoat from a bowling perspective after going for 11 from his 1 over last match. Don't think they can use the excuse he was sore as he was fielding tonight. He looked an exciting prospect last season and would like to see what he has to offer if they trust him a bit more

I'd like to see at least one of O'Neill & Crone in the 11 the rest of the season - they may go for a few runs, but so are the more experienced players and wouldn't mind seeing what they have to offer over our remaining games


Sutherland is another who hasn't performed as well with the ball in hand as would have been expected - 5 wickets in his first two games, only 2 wickets in our next 4. I also wouldn't mind someone like Finch working with him from a tactical side of things as I think we've got it wrong in the field the last couple of mattress and made it way too easy for the chasing team


The one player tonight who tonight was willing to keep pitching it up on that hard to hit length was Sandhu and he was rewarded with 3 wickets, plus a run out during his first over



Not sure who our bowling coach is but they suck - seriously, we saw how hard it is to hit the ball of a good length but too often we seem reluctant to continually hit that good spot and try to get too fancy with what we do

 

[eddiesmith]

Good to see the shit Tom Rogers gifting the Stars a win, lucky they didn’t listen to Bigfooty and get rid of the Big Show.

 

[cats_09]

To a degree but you still got a decent total, flopped in the field late. I’ll never understand why you have fast bowlers fielding at point lol

Maybe he doesn't have a good arm which is why we rarely see him fielding out on the boundary

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Maybe he doesn't have a good arm which is why we rarely see him fielding out on the boundary

not saying put him at deep mid but how about not in a catching position there’s a middle ground there

 

[JLC]

To be unable to go at a run a ball in the first four overs and lose 2 wickets is not good enough.

Their go hell for leather strategy in the first power surge s failed. The Gades don't have the length in their line up to do that.

 

[cats_09]

Gades have bought Marcus Harris into the squad for tomorrow night's match - wonder if that's an indication of a change at the top of the order

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Gades have bought Marcus Harris into the squad for tomorrow night's match - wonder if that's an indication of a change at the top of the order

Has to be, enough of the two hacks being 2 for squat.

 

[JLC]

Has to be, enough of the two hacks being 2 for squat.

If they played normal cricket shots (given only 2 players are outside the circle), took the singles etc then they would have a much better start to the match.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

If they played normal cricket shots (given only 2 players are outside the circle), took the singles etc then they would have a much better start to the match.

That would require them to have a brain

 

[eddiesmith]

Yet the Stars can’t have Scott Boland back because of his heavy workload plus being rested to carry the drinks in Sri Lanka…

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Gades have bought Marcus Harris into the squad for tomorrow night's match - wonder if that's an indication of a change at the top of the order

Get rid of JFM he belongs in park cricket.