HOW THEY’LL FINISH
1 Brisbane Heat2 Melbourne Renegades3 Sydney Sixers4 Perth Scorchers5 Adelaide Strikers6 Hobart Hurricanes7 Sydney Thunder8 Melbourne Stars
1 BRISBANE HEAT
The Heat have a great advantage this season: a settled squad, which can’t be underestimated in this format. They’re climbers, and they’ll be able to build on their third placing in BBL 10.
Though they’ve lost Joe Burns, they still might have the inventive Marnus Labuschagne for the finals, if they make it that far. Clubbing CHRIS LYNN remains, and, relieved of the captaincy, might be free to open his shoulders with abandon. Tom Abell, the innovative and unorthodox English import, is an able smasher with a strike rate of 145. The other English signing, pocket dynamo Ben Duckett, joins him.
At the time of writing, we’re not…