BBL13 blasts off tomorrow night to begin a 7-week frenzy of T20 cricket culminating in the Final on January 24.
The Parade College Writing Workshop – Hadi Ehtsham: The BBL Melbourne Derby
March 6, 2020 by 1 Comment
Parade College Grade 9 student Hadi Ehtsham tells the tale of going to watch the Melbourne Stars play the Renegades in a derby over the 2019/20 season. Watching Glenn Maxwell blast his team to victory, Hadi’s joy is difficult to contain.
A night at the Big Bash – Taking one for the kids
January 6, 2019 by 12 Comments
Craig Dodson will take a bullet for his kids, however, under no circumstances will he put a Colonel Sanders Fried Chicken bucket on his head while watching a bunch of mediocre state cricketers hack it around the park in the Big Bash. Craig reports on a night at the BBL with his “scallywags”.
“I can’t wait to see us bowl, Dad”
December 26, 2018 by 1 Comment
The love of Test cricket, in fact all forms of cricket by his young son has been a joy to behold for Edward P Olsen as he explains.
Almanac Cricket: The Catch
January 23, 2018 by 13 Comments
Dwayne Bravo’s dismissal in Monday night’s BBL match between the Melbourne Renegades and Adelaide Strikers may have been innocuous on the scorecard but was sublime for Mickey Randall.
BBL Stars v Thunder, WBBL Stars v Renegades – Sixes, Super Overs and Shane Watson
January 23, 2018 by 6 Comments
Luke Reynolds made it a family night out to the BBL on Saturday where he found the curtain-raiser, a WBBL derby between the Stars and the Renegades to be the highlight of the on-field action. (Great family happy snaps too Luke! KS)
Australia v England ODIs – MCG: In the Shadow of the BBL
January 15, 2018 by 7 Comments
Jack Banister ponders the future of ODIs against our love of epic tests and the shiny new toy that is BBL.
Almanac Baseball: ABL Ain’t No BBL
January 9, 2018 by 3 Comments
What has slowly dawned on The Ruminator over time is that trying to compare our respective affinities for cricket and baseball is not so much a hankering for the glory days of old but the brutal reality of sport in the modern world. The BBL is a behemoth that is offering Australian fans what Americans have taken for granted for decades – when the days are long and languid people like to watch games that kick off about 7pm and finish around 10pm pretty much any old night of the week.
Almanac (Big Bash) Cricket: NYE in Adelaide Oval’s Bay 134
January 1, 2017 by 12 Comments
“If KFC was available at Adelaide Oval I’d buy thirty-eight pieces, inhale them and wipe the grease through the hair of my loved ones.” Just one of a number of cracking lines in Mickey Randall’s account of Adelaide’s New Year’s Eve Big Bash. [Again Mickey, you’ve gone early with noms for Line of the Year – my other fave is the dig at the selectors. JTH]
Q & A with Adelaide’s cult security guard
December 24, 2016 by 5 Comments
With an exclusive interview with Adelaide’s cult figure of a security guard, Peter Zitterschlager drops in a pearler just in time for Christmas.
Almanac Cricket – One Crowded Summer: T20 is king
October 25, 2016 by 8 Comments
We all know that T20 is king. When it comes to scheduling, actions speak louder than words – but what does this mean for competing forms of “cricket”? David Wilson’s reading of the schedule shows that interesting complications are just around the corner.
Chris Gayle: Hitting across the line, or colouring only between them?
January 24, 2016 by 11 Comments
Michael Viljoen views the recent Chris Gayle incident, selecting a lens which offers an alternative view to the orthodoxy established by other lenses.
Limited Overs Sixermania … bring back the Five and an end to Sixes!
January 17, 2016 by 1 Comment
Drawing on precedent, Demonymic proposes the resurrection of the ‘five’.
Gayle, Briggs and the ongoing battle of women to be
January 5, 2016 by 18 Comments
David Wilson wonders why some men have so much trouble allowing women the freedom to be. Change is happening. But we have a responsibility to call out the laggards.
NYE in Adelaide Oval’s Bay 127
January 1, 2016 by 20 Comments
Mickey Randall and family are back in Adelaide this New Year’s Eve; home of the curiously named Adelaide Strikers. [Rich harvest of observations and memories – Ed].
What happens in the next chapter of Australian cricket?
October 23, 2015 by 1 Comment
Tom Riordan on what may occur as a new chapter of Australian cricket begins in the upcoming summer of cricket.
Big Bash 2014-15 – Stars v Renegades: Who will rule Melbourne?
May 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Ben Myatt writes about last summer’s BBL Melbourne derby which was decided on the last ball of the night.
Almanac Cricket: Tests, T20s and that tall, slim bloke with the graphs and diagrams
Peter Crossing has a go at deciphering the state of the land’s premier summer sport through opposite ends – the traditional Test and the upstart T20, both under pressure at the moment for different reasons.