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"The defending BBL champions have been forced to add their assistant coach to their squad for tonight's 'Challenger' final
Sydney Sixers star Josh Philippe has been ruled out of tonight's Challenger final at the SCG after testing positive to COVID-19.
The Sixers confirmed Philippe, who is the tournament's seventh-highest run scorer with 429 runs for the season, had returned a positive COVID test result this morning and will miss the clash against the Strikers (7:25pm AEDT) and also Friday's final - should they advance.
It's a huge blow for the Sixers' chances of a historic three-peat as he's the third member of their squad to be diagnosed with the virus in the past week after fellow opener Jack Edwards and his brother Mickey were ruled out of the game against the Perth Scorchers last Saturday.
Wicketkeeper-batter Jay Lenton, who has been travelling and working as an assistant coach with the Sixers since the start of the month, has been added to their squad to replace Philippe."
CA.
Sydney Sixers star Josh Philippe has been ruled out of tonight's Challenger final at the SCG after testing positive to COVID-19.
The Sixers confirmed Philippe, who is the tournament's seventh-highest run scorer with 429 runs for the season, had returned a positive COVID test result this morning and will miss the clash against the Strikers (7:25pm AEDT) and also Friday's final - should they advance.
It's a huge blow for the Sixers' chances of a historic three-peat as he's the third member of their squad to be diagnosed with the virus in the past week after fellow opener Jack Edwards and his brother Mickey were ruled out of the game against the Perth Scorchers last Saturday.
Wicketkeeper-batter Jay Lenton, who has been travelling and working as an assistant coach with the Sixers since the start of the month, has been added to their squad to replace Philippe."
CA.
Donny.
It's a game. Enjoy it.
It's a game. Enjoy it.
Yeah, not great terminology, is it?Donny wrote:The term 'double hat trick' is a misnomer.
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But at least no one has ever taken 6 wickets in 6 balls...
Wasim Akram once took 4 wickets in 5 balls. The non-wicket ball was a dropped catch.
(Remember when Warnie dropped the hat-trick ball nick off Fleming's bowling?! )
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Sixers: Justin Avendano, Hayden Kerr, Jake Carder, Moises Henriques (c), Jordan Silk, Dan Christian, Sean Abbott, Ben Dwarshuis, Jay Lenton (wk), Nathan Lyon, Stephen O'Keefe
Strikers: Alex Carey (wk), Matt Short, Ian Cockbain, Travis Head, Jonathan Wells, Matthew Renshaw, Thomas Kelly, Henry Thornton, Harry Conway, Peter Siddle (c), Fawad Ahmed
Strikers: Alex Carey (wk), Matt Short, Ian Cockbain, Travis Head, Jonathan Wells, Matthew Renshaw, Thomas Kelly, Henry Thornton, Harry Conway, Peter Siddle (c), Fawad Ahmed
Donny.
It's a game. Enjoy it.
It's a game. Enjoy it.
Wowee...K wrote:Sixers will have to regroup... and stop whingeing about not being allowed to play FTB Smith.
Dunno why some media say it's not allowed on a "technicality". Huh?? FTB was not on the Sixers' list! If the other teams allowed it, it'd be like allowing the Sixers extra spots on the list and extra salary cap space.
Strikers have Carey and Head... That's 'cos they were on the Strikers' list. They had to carry on when those fellas were unavailable and still fit them in their salary cap.
Scorchers have Jhye, Inglis and M. Marsh. That's cos they were on the Scorchers' list. They had to carry on when those fellas were unavailable and still fit them in their salary cap.
It's simple. It's not a "technicality"...
More whingeing... Whingeing article from M. Conn. Must be 'cos he's from Sydney. Unhinged!! FTB is not on the Sixers' list. It's irrelevant who he played for 10 years ago or 1 year ago...
At least S'OK recognised this... SO'K said they could let Cummins play for Thunder and Green for Scorchers.... That won't work... 'cos we don't even know the other Oz players want to play BBL. Just to make FTB and Sixers happy, you'd have to persuade the others to play... Who'd they persuade to play for Strikers??? (It'd need to be someone the Strikers would actually play... Starc??? )
Madness...