A ten-game home-and-away Big Bash season is the “sweet spot” for the league and there’s rising momentum to see a shortened fixture introduced in as quickly as subsequent summer time.
There has been a lot debate concerning the size of the BBL season lately, with the competitors increasing to a 14-game double-round-robin format 4 seasons in the past.
In its first version, every crew performed seven regular-season matches, earlier than growing to eight per aspect for the subsequent 5 seasons after which 10 for a solitary summer time in 2017-18.
After his crew’s season ended with simply three wins, Melbourne Stars all-rounder Beau Webster firmly believes the 10-match configuration is the most effective one, with extra probability to show every sport in to an occasion.
“You get your big matches between the two Melbourne teams and Stars vs Sixers is obviously a big drawcard as well, so you place a lot more impact on every game,” Webster stated.
“The 14-game season is quite long and a lot of our international boys will tell you it’s a long time away in another country and they’re probably moving on to another tournament as well, so they end up spending months and months away from home.
“But I think we found a sweet spot with 10 games; the broadcasters and things like that come into it, but I would love to see a 10-game season, whether it’s next year or the year after, and really put an onus on every game and get those crowds building back up to the big numbers we know we can get here at the MCG and all around the country.
“We’re playing seven home games as opposed to four or five, something like that, and we probably lose a smaller venue in the Junction Oval and we only get games here at the ‘G where the crowds are going to build.
“It’s important to get the crowds back in and build back up to those numbers where the Big Bash has been before and I think it’s trending that way again.”
Despite producing one in every of their worst ever seasons, which noticed them win simply three video games and declare their second picket spoon, the Stars aren’t far off the tempo, based on Webster.
“Obviously Glenn Maxwell out of the team – top-order batter, four overs (of bowling) and a gun in the field is a very big hole to fill,” Webster stated.
“When we get him back next year, there’s four overs, some wizardry in the field and some hopefully match-winning knocks.
“A few changes here and there (to the squad), our internationals were quite good this year … we got a lot out of those guys.
“’Stoiny’ (Marcus Stoinis) missed a fair bit of cricket as well, which is another big hole in our team, so I don’t think we’re too far off in that middle order there, where we probably let ourselves down.
“We put Maxwell and Stoinis back in there and we start clicking in a few of these close games, we’ll be right up there next year.”
Originally revealed as Big Bash season must be minimize to 10 video games per crew
