Cricket: The highly-anticipated Sydney smash at the SCG has been abandoned due to wild weather, leaving just one spot open in a final dash to the BBL finals.
SYD washout leaves 1 finals spot open | 00:50A place in the Big Bash finals is on the line tonight when the Perth Scorchers host the Adelaide Strikers at Perth Stadium.Get your first month for just $1.
For the home side, they’ll be without one of their greatest weapons, quick Jhye Richardson, whose summer ended during the week when heDespite Richardon’s absence, Adam Voges is still able to call upon one of the competition’s most experienced bowling attacks, spearheaded by Andrew Tye, Jason Behrendorff, and Lance Morris.
Regardless of result, tonight’s contest will be the last of young gun Cooper Connolly’s Big Bash season, with the competition’s second-highest run scorer set to link up with the Australian squad in Sri Lanka after receiving his maiden Test call-up.
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