The Big Bash League continues with one match in the competition on Friday as we begin to wind down the 2022 leg of the tournament. It comes from Geelong where the Melbourne Renegades take on the Sydney Sixers.
These two met earlier in the week when the Sixers ran out all too comfortable victors and they will be looking for a repeat of that outcome while the Renegades will be hoping to rebound with a win to avoid undoing their good start to the campaign.
Melbourne Renegades
It was a good start to the season for the Melbourne Renegades with them winning their opening three matches, a beginning which was all the more surprising when you consider how poorly they have played over the last few seasons. They looked like they had put those campaigns behind them but their last two outings have just raised concerns that those wins were purely a freak set of results. Two of those wins were against the Brisbane Heat which isn’t looking fantastic form right now either.
The good thing for the Renegades in these two recent defeats, if there is a good thing when it comes to losing, is that they won’t need to look too far to see where they have been going wrong. Their last two innings have seen them bowled out for 115 and 114 and you won’t be winning many matches with that sort of total on the board. On the face of it this is a decent Renegades batting unit so they need to be putting better totals up than that.
Sydney Sixers
The season of the Sydney Sixers has been the opposite to that of their opponents here. They stuttered out of the starting gate with a couple of defeats in which they weren’t really that competitive in but since then they have won three on the bounce without completely convincing in all departments. The Sixers have a wonderful recent record in this tournament and there are signs that they are building towards something special again.
The Sixers generally ride their bowling attack and that is what they did in the match against the Melbourne Renegades in Sydney at the beginning of the week. You wouldn’t really say we have seen the best of the Sixers with the bat at all this season. That top three still doesn’t really feel right although the left-right combination is generally one teams will go with. Nobody below Jordan Silk at five has many runs either so it isn’t a batting unit that is functioning brilliantly.
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Key Players
Shaun Marsh looked like he was just coming to the boil in the run chase in the previous match with the Sydney Sixers when he got out. That was his first hit out of the season so there is no reason he won’t show natural improvement here. If he does he could be key for the home side.
Josh Philippe took a while to get going for the Sydney Sixers in that reverse meeting but when he got a couple out of the middle of the bat he was soon flowing and the visitors will hope he can fire the innings into life here too.
Betting
When you consider that there were only 264 runs on a decent enough Sydney Cricket Ground wicket where there was a short boundary a couple of days ago it is a little surprising to see that the run line for this match is as high as 303.5 for this one. That is even more the case when we all saw the struggles batters had with the pitch in Geelong during the T20 World Cup and with the exception of Andre Russell they struggled when the Renegades played Brisbane Heat here.
There were only 276 runs in that match and that needed one of those assaults from Andre Russell for there to be that many. Since he has left the Renegades have been shot out for 115 and 114 on two pretty good pitches so their batting is entitled to struggle on a sluggish surface. The Sixers still haven’t put up more than 151/3 this term and they haven’t been playing on minefields either so that run line looks high, particularly when you consider that these are two decent attacks too.
Tips
Back Under 303.5 runs for a 3/10 stake at 1.83 with Betway
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