A close loss may have been heart-breaking, but at least it would’ve signified that they had a go.
This was a craptastic effort. It seems that after the first over, they just gave up. That just pisses me off. At least have a fucking go. If I wanted to see ineptitude, I’d go to our head office in Parramatta and stay there for a day.
Emma F doing a good job as MC.
Mitch Owen was named player of the final for his score of 108 from 42 balls. He equalled the fastest ever century in BBL history, set by Craig Simmons of Perth Scorchers in 2014.
Last week, the BBL14 team of the tournament was announced, with David Warner named captain.
The Hurricanes’ BBL title win continues Tasmania’s recent good form in domestic cricket - it is the current triple reigning champion in Women’s National Cricket League. (Tasmania last won Sheffield Shield in 2012-13 season).
I think Hobart’s decision to chase was the key goal here tonight. They are much better at chasing than setting a score and with the luck of the weather today - 35 degrees only a few hours ago dropping to 20 and making things very wet in the outfield it meant that when they were batting the ball would move faster and the Thunder were losing their footing. It definitely assisted us and then add the crowd factor and just the hunger at wanting to finally get a win I think it was a shock and awe game that worked.
Hopefully it will all go well for those fighting against the stadium for the Devils, the unity across Tasmania tonight is huge!
Channel 7 however would actually be happy that Hobart won because had the Thunder won the ground would have been completely empty for the presentation. That place can clear out very quickly after a Hurricanes loss and it would have been quite awkward for the broadcasters!
On behalf of all Thunder fans, screw Channel 7. 
With the exception of the two English players, that’d be a great Australian T20 team at international level.
I can also imagine a certain Launceston based weather presenter who is also happy and will probably use the occasion to dress up tomorrow night 
Yep was a great to see them get thumped 
Jasprit Bumrah has been named ICC men’s cricketer of the year for 2024, while Amelia Kerr won ICC women’s cricketer of the year award.
Australia was completely snubbed from a spot in women’s T20 team of the year, while Travis Head was the only Aussie player in men’s T20 team of the year.
Complete winner’s list:
News Corp’s Daniel Cherny reports that Josh Inglis will make his test debut today when the first test between Sri Lanka and Australia begins at Galle. Sam Konstas has been dropped with Travis Head to open with Usman Khawaja.
Must be quite Galle-ing for Konstas.
I was quite shocked to realise (yesterday) that ATN7 had the rights to the Ceylon tests. I don’t frequent the TV section of the forum at all. By my reckoning it’s the first full FTA broadcast of a non-Ashes overseas test since 1997 (Aus v South Africa). There were highlights packages of the 1998 tours to India and Pakistan that aired on TCN9 as I remember taping them (they aired after Here’s Humphrey). No live coverage of those though, and not even FTA highlights were aired after that.
Dropping Konstas is a bit puzzling.
How is he going to learn how to play sub continental pitches if he doesn’t get picked?
And yes @dxnerd been a long time since free to air has shown an overseas tour not in England.
Exactly. This is where the selectors need to show a bit of chutzpah. Like anything in life, learn by doing.
Fucking leave it alone. If I wanna watch baseball rules, I’ll watch baseball.
This is your major issue. Work this out first before you tinker with the rules.
If you were shocked by that, you won’t believe what the name of the country has been for the last 50 years.
Retaining international stars is something the BBL may never be able to solve, as it has to compete with South African T20 and Abu Dhabi T10 tournaments, as well as other overseas tours during the same period, which require players to put country ahead of T20 franchises.
I like to listen to wireless broadcasts from Van Diemen’s Land too.
I bet you wish the colony of New South Wales still includes those two islands across the ditch.
It would definitely lower the average temperature of NSW, as well as endowing it with much more snow.
Choice, bro?
