The next game in this crazy BBL season is the game that has been given the green light late on Saturday night. The Stars are hosting the Scorchers at the Junction Oval which is in suburban Melbourne. While the focus is on Daily Fantasy Cricket, it is hard to put together a preview when at the time of publication, we do not know who has been infected and who is playing. The game is confirmed however, and we have another double header with this match starting at 3.30pm AEDT.

 

Draftstars have posted a $15,000+ contest for this match along with the usual mini, micro and high roller offerings.

 

 

We can look at the Scorchers first as they were not immune to the drama on New Year’s Eve. The Scorchers are missing one of the players of the tournament so far in Mitch Marsh and opener/wicketkeeper Josh Inglis to late call ups for the Ashes squad. Expect Cameron Bancroft to open and take the gloves along with Aaron Hardie returning to the side to take on the Marsh all-rounder roll. As mentioned in our previous preview for this game, Tymal Mills will return after resting against the Thunder, which feels so long ago. Their depth was tested at the start of the tournament, and they passed with flying colours, so I expect the loss of Marsh and Inglis will only be a blip on their way to a finals birth. If a game does go ahead, you may feel that Scorchers pieces are maybe overpriced on Draftstars but the value from Stars options will alleviate that.

 

Expected Scorchers Xl: Patterson, Bancroft, Munro, Turner, Evans, Hardie, Agar, Tye, Hatzoglou, Mills, Behrendorff.

 

Ok here will go the Stars have confirmed a 13-man squad for today's match:

Glenn Maxwell (c), Qais Ahmad, Lachlan Bangs, Hilton Cartwright, Joe Clarke (wk) Brody Couch, Xavier Crone, Ahmad Daniyal, Syed Faridoun, Tom O'Connell, Haris Rauf, Tom F Rogers, Charles Wakim

Draftstars have added the replacement players just in time and all at the minimum price. I am not going to attempt to name a predicted XI, let the news hounds figure that one out! Maxwell, Clarke, Rauf and Cartwright pick themselves here. You can take stabs at the min priced guys such as Daniyal and Faridoun but without clarity of the final XI, we are simply guessing. 

 

 

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Player Pool 

With the uncertainty of the final XI and the availability of players on Draftstars, let me pool players into the 'Loves', 'Don’t loves' and 'Who Knows' categories shall we!

 

Love It

Glenn Maxwell $22,200

Cameron Bancroft $12,900

Tymal Mills $14,100

Colin Munro $16,200

 

Don’t Love It

Haris Rauf $17,400

Joe Clarke $15,800

Brody Couch $11,900

 

Who Knows

Syed Faridoun $9,100

Ahmed Daniyal $8,800

Tom O’Connell $8,800

Andrew Tye $17,000

 

Suggested Draftstars Lineup  

 

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