Big Bash League.

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I think heat will take last place in the play offs

[Donny]

Scorchers 8/143. (20 overs). Hayden Kerr 4/32, Aaron Hardie 45.

[Donny]

Sixers 3/16 after 3 overs.

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Tonight:

Heat V 6ers: Tipping 6ers to bounce back and win the heat have a few players out due to covid.

Played at Gold Coast Metrocon

Strikers v Hurricane: Tipping and upset and Strikers to win

Played at Adl oval

[Donny]

'Canes all out 126 (19.5 overs). Sids took 5/23.

[Donny]

"The BBL is facing a COVID-19 crisis after 12 Brisbane Heat players tested positive to leave the club unable to find enough healthy players to fill a team to play the Sydney Sixers this evening.

Like the Melbourne Stars, the Heat have been forced to scramble for replacement players after the virus ripped through their playing group and left them with less than half a full side for tonight’s game."

CA.

[Donny]

Strikers 1/76 after 9 overs. Matt Short 46*.

[Donny]

Short brings up a half ton.

1/89 after 11 overs. Short 53*, Renshaw 14*.

[Donny]

Strikers cruising.

Short 67* (41).

[Donny]

7 wicket win. Short 72*.

[K]

Aahhh...

Matt Short... For a moment I thought D'Arcy had wound back the clock...

With COVID, etc., dunno which teams are playing when...

[K]

Sixers 3/16 after 3 overs.

Dan Christian did his best to keep the Sixers in the game, but the Scorchers won in the end.

[Donny]

The Heat have named 10 new players for tonight's game.

Squad to play Renegades: Tom Cooper (c), Fakhar Zaman*, Jack Clayton*, Sam Heazlett, Jake Lehmann*, Lachlan Pfeffer*, Steve McGiffin*, Will Prestwidge*, Mujeeb Ur Rahman*, Ronan McDonald*, David Grant*, Bryce Street*, Paddy Dooley*, Jack Wood

* in line for Heat debut

[Donny]

"Brisbane have just three ‘healthy’ players from its existing squad, with last-minute replacements coming from far and wide

A coach's son, an electrician, an opener with a first-class strike-rate of 33 and a club cricketer who yesterday was fishing in central Queensland are among the 10 new players the COVID-19 ravaged Brisbane Heat have recruited for tonight's KFC BBL match against the Melbourne Renegades.

Tom Cooper has been appointed captain of a decimated Heat side that will play in Geelong tonight despite 12 players and a coach contracting the virus, the second major league outbreak after the Melbourne Stars were left in a similar position last week."

CA.

[Pies4shaw]

By the way, it was announced earlier today that the BBL is going to use a "player pool" of "COVID-bubble" stand-by replacements - they will apparently turn out to play for whoever needs top-up players (so, eg, they could play for one team one day and a different team the next).