The Big Bash League (also known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, and frequently abbreviated to BBL or Big Bash) is an Australian professional club Twenty20 cricket league founded by Cricket Australia in 2011. The Big Bash League replaced the prior competition, the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, and features eight city-based franchises rather than the past six state teams. Since its original conception, the competition has been endorsed by the fast food chicken chain KFC. It is one of two T20 cricket leagues, along with the Indian Premier League, to rank among the top ten domestic sport leagues in terms of average attendance. The Perth Scorchers won BBL 11 (2021/2022) by defeating the Sydney Sixers by 79 runs in the final.
BBL games are held in Australia during the summer months of December, January, and February. Six of the eight teams in the tournament have won the championship at least once. The Perth Scorchers are the most dominant team in the league’s short history, despite winning it four times, including two years in a row. The Sydney Sixers have earned the championship three to four times, including two years in a row. Adelaide Strikers, Melbourne Renegades, Brisbane Heat, and Sydney Thunder are the other four champions.
Prior to 2014, the tournament’s top two teams qualified for the Champions League Twenty20 tournament, an annual international Twenty20 competition between the top domestic teams from different nations. The Champions League Twenty20 was discontinued following the 2014 tournament.
Perth Scorchers
The Perth Scorchers are an Australian domestic Twenty20 franchise cricket team that plays in the Big Bash League and represents the Western Australian city of Perth (BBL). The Scorchers are the reigning BBL champions, managed to defeat the Sydney Sixers in the 2021-22 season’s final. They are also the most dominant team in BBL history, having won four championships and finishing second three times. In BBL02, they were crushed by the Brisbane Heat in their second final. They then won the next two championships in a row, and became the first team in the league’s short history to do so. These victories came in a last-ball thriller at Canberra’s Manuka Oval against the Hobart Hurricanes and the Sydney Sixers.
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Mickey Arthur was initially named coach, but resigned before the start of the 2011-12 season after being named coach of the Australian cricket team. Lachlan Stevens, his former assistant, took his place. Stevens was supplanted in November 2012 by Justin Langer. Following Langer’s appointment as Australian coach in May 2018, Adam Voges was designated as the new coach for the 2018-19 season.
Shaun Marsh, Michael Klinger, Cameron Bancroft, Mitch Marsh, Adam Voges, Ashton Turner, David Willey, Pakistani cricketers Yasir Arafat and Usman Qadir, Englishman Laurie Evans, iconic wrist spinner Brad Hogg, and pace bowlers Jason Behrendorff, Jhye Richardson, and Andrew Tye have all played for the Scorchers since their inception in the BBL.
The significant proportion of the initial Scorchers squad was drawn from the Western Australia cricket team, with the addition of West Australian Simon Katich and international imports Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa and Paul Collingwood of England. Despite his inability to play state or international cricket since the 2007-08 season, Brad Hogg was enrolled.
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The Scorchers got off to a bad start in the 2011-12 Big Bash League season, falling by 31 runs to the Hobart Hurricanes in their first game at the WACA Ground. They then won 5 games in a row to finish the season at the top of the table and secure a home final. The Scorchers then defeated the Melbourne Stars in the semi-finals by 11 runs before falling to the Sydney Sixers in the final by 7 wickets.
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