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The Scorchers have certainly not chased International players as much as the other teams, instead preferring to develop local players and the results speak for themselves. Only 21 of the 83 players who have pulled on the orange jumper were from overseas, most of them from England and most were unspectacular. Laurie Evans is one exception but there was an unheralded Pakistan bowler with an interesting name (Yasir Arafat) who could lay claim to being the best import. He took 33 wickets over 3 seasons at a reasonable economy rate and was an excellent death bowler.
Many people may have forgotten that Pat Cummins played one season with the Scorchers (2014) but was in the middle of an injury period and only played 4 games

Scorchers on fire FMD.

They were on fire before AJ Pie was given the ball and the end result they allowed 2 bowlers to put on a record bbl 9th wicket partnership!
How Pie is still running around is mind boggling!

mikeh wrote:

The Scorchers have certainly not chased International players as much as the other teams, instead preferring to develop local players and the results speak for themselves. Only 21 of the 83 players who have pulled on the orange jumper were from overseas, most of them from England and most were unspectacular. Laurie Evans is one exception but there was an unheralded Pakistan bowler with an interesting name (Yasir Arafat) who could lay claim to being the best import. He took 33 wickets over 3 seasons at a reasonable economy rate and was an excellent death bowler.
Many people may have forgotten that Pat Cummins played one season with the Scorchers (2014) but was in the middle of an injury period and only played 4 games

Great post, thanks mikeh.  I’ve been a Scorchers fan since day 1, but can’t remember Cummins playing for us.  Oh well, old age does that to you!!

Great to see the Scorchers have added a couple of young West Aussies to their squad…and at the cost of an import.

I wonder if the Scorchers have had any thoughts of bringing in Joel Curtis as an injury replacement wicketkeeper for Josh Inglis?
He has scored a mountain of runs for the Perth Cricket Club and Western Australia.

With Perth Club teammate Jon Wells a member of the Renegades franchise, I wouldn't be surprised if they made a move for Curtis at some time. And the Scorchers will lose another run machine to the East.

Hey BH.... Andrew Pie did a great job closing out the match right?  Couldnt defend 15 in the last over FFS, Surely the guy is past it?
Real Character win for the Thunder after that sickening collision. Hopefully Cam and Daniel Sams are OK.
Pretty crucial defeat for the Scorcher when they seemed to have wrested back control after Warners dismissal

That was amateur hour by the Scorchers.
Dropped catches, sloppy keeping & fielding, poor captaincy to be behind the over rate yet again so less fielders allowed outside the circle for the last over but the real bewilderment is how on earth AJ Pie continues to get a game when they could be blooding young Jackson, Beardman etc????
But also to have him bowl the last over, Rutherford must have been giggling to himself!

As OTO said, surely Joel Curtis would be a better option as a keeper batsman than this pommy bloke. I assume they would be able to sign him to cover for Josh Inglis who is out for the rest of the BBL

Joel Curtis, Baxter Holt, Sam Whiteman are all WA based and far better keeper/batsmen than Hurst, whilst the other Pommy import Jennings cant even make the squad of 14 atm.
Piss poor overseas recruiting and they would be better off saving that money and investing it in local WA based talent!