Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley confirmed the Melbourne hub on SEN this morning.
Geelong Advertiser reports GMHBA Stadium will host a BBL doubleheader next Tuesday, January 11, with Scorchers v Stars at 2.10pm AEDT, followed by the already scheduled game between Renegades and Sixers at 7.15pm AEDT.
Thatâs such a shocking time slot for stars fans given itâs an arvo game on a work day not even in Melbourne but Geelong
No more or less shocking than a test match or ODI being played during daytime hours surely.
We are paying members of the club. Test matches arenât memberships so each game played in ridiculous time slots for us members is a game we canât attend thatâs in our membership package that we paid for
Bad luck - your membership terms and conditions permit the movement of games as required by Cricket Australia
You might be eligible for a discount on your membership
I thought it was a Scorchers âhomeâ game? So it wouldnât be part of your Stars membership package by default unless Iâm mistaken.
We were given free access last week to 4 tickets
You wouldnât be losing out on anything promised at the start of the season anyway.
Looks like Glenn McGrath will not be at the SCG tomorrow for Jane McGrath Day. He is still at his home at Noosa and told The Project today that he was still waiting for his test result before leaving isolation.
Good idea, that should work fairly regardless of whether you bowl first or second.
They need to introduce an in-match penalty in all forms of cricket, not just T20. Over rates in ODI and test cricket are abysmal as well. My suggestion of docking runs from the next batting innings would work for tests; for 50 over matches you could try the T20 approach.
For tests, the over rate would be analysed over the whole test so the deductions would have to take place in the next test match.
Good to see some further action on this at last as itâs one of the things thatâs killing the game.
What a crap idea - weâll be here discussing the same issues in the future, its not a great incentive for the bowling team to pick up the pace (especially if theyâve bowled well)
Cricket Australia has announced a revised BBL fixture for the week of January 10-16, with all eight teams to be primarily based in Victoria for the remainder of this season, with some matches to be played in other states under a fly-in, fly-out model.
I never noticed before that they use the indigenous land names. Itâs fantastic to see some of this sort of movement.
Itâs First Nations round 
Oh so itâs not something they do all the time?
Nope. Just for this round that Iâve seen (note the indigenous artwork on the background of the graphic too)
Thatâs a pity.
