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Great to see Corey Roccocholli having an impact for the Renegades last night. He should have taken 3 wickets in the one over if not for Fawad Amhed dropping an absolute soda behind the wicket!
Corey will be a vital cog in WA's push for the Shield given that Agar is going to India.

BH, agree with you mate - would not touch Stoines even if he offered to play for free, interested to read he wants to leave the UAE comp early to come back and hopefully play shield cricket for WA. move along

Agree also with you Miekh - was great to watch Roland bowl last night, I think the WA 4 day side is better with him bowling spin than Agar

That was an old fashioned pantsing today over in Adelaide against the Strikers.
Sheesh Hardie is hitting them well, hopefully he can continue it.

BH -Hardie and Inglis have to be elevated to the national T20 side.

Sunday night at home Vs the improving Renegades.Thats 3 games in 7 days, Sydney, Adelaide and now Perth.
I know the Wildcats do that all season.Wonder if the Scorchers might rest some players.

Payne has been one of the overseas recruits who has been able to slot in when needed and his 3 wickets set off the collapse yesterday. He may not get a berth in the finals series given that Berendorff and Richardson are expected back but it just demonstrates the depth of bowling that the Scorchers have. The team they put out against the Renegades tomorrow will probably depend on the result of the match between the two Sydney teams tonight. If the Sixers win, they will not want to risk their top spot and home final so they will select a full strength team in that case.

Yes, Payne has been very good and I'd have him in ahead of Kelly. With Richardson due back first week of the finals, it could see Morris missing out too...tough call for the selectors when it sounds like Hardie will start bowling soon after recovering from a muscle strain. Behrendorff, Richardson and Tye are all certainties so I guess we'll see how they mix and match the rest of the attack.

Agar hasn't set the world on fire so he must be under a bit of pressure if they want to stiffen up the middle order batting by bringing another specialist batsman at 7 with Turner and Hatza sharing the spinning duties.

What a bizarre game tonight. 6’s, blood, send off and intrigue.  Once again Eskinazi reminded me that I don’t know shit about batsmen.  A couple of things for sure, we need to play the Sixers at home and a lapse like tonight will cost the scorchers big time. 

Bancroft continues to show why he should be in every Scorchers team. I think the fielding was sloppy because they thought they had the game in the bag and they got complacent. Apparently Steve Smith is getting special dispensation to play in the final next Saturday even though Agar and Morris were not permitted to play last night because they are in the Australian squad. A tad inconsistent if true?

word on the street was Moris was unwell, and they are testing him for Covid.

11 players have been cleared to play the first week of BBL finals, pending selection.

Yes, Agar is one that can't play - makes sense he needs to bowl test match lines and speeds not T20 if he is going to be any good in India.