Who will win Sydney Sixers vs Melbourne Renegades BBL 21st match?
The 21st match of the Big Bash League will be played between Sydney Sixers and Melbourne Renegades on January 9, 2017. The match will be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground and the live action will begin at 19:40 local time. Melbourne Renegades are set to be in action against Melbourne Stars before facing Sydney Sixers on Monday.
Read ahead for our prediction of the Sydney SIxers vs Melbourne Renegades match of the Big Bash League 2016-17.
Toss
There is a slight toss bias here as three of the last four BBL matches at the Sydney Cricket Ground have been won by the team that has batted first. The toss-winning skipper therefore may want to make first use of the batting conditions on Monday. Sydney Sixers have lost three of their last four matches at this ground batting second. So we don't recommend betting on the hosts if they are going to be chasing.
Sydney Sixers Team News & Playing 11
Team News
Sydney Sixers are most likely to not make any changes in their current squad for this match against Melbourne Renegades.
Key Players
Sam Billings, Moises Henriques, and Jason Roy have been scoring well for the team since the beginning and can be depended upon to lead the team to a big score. Daniel Hughes and Brad Haddin also batted well in the last match against Brisbane Heat. Sean Abbott has been the top bowler for Sydney Sixers and will be the player to look out for. Ben Dwarshuis and William Sommerville will also be expected to take wickets in this match.
Recent Form
Sydney Sixers have played 5 matches in this season up till now and have won 3 of them. They’re in the top 3 on the points table and are playing well. They’re playing in the opposite form they were in the last season and are expected to go a long way in the tournament.
Sydney Sixers Predicted XI
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Daniel Hughes, Jason Roy, Nic Maddinson, Sam Billings, Brad Haddin (wk), Moises Henriques (c), Johan Botha, Sean Abbott, Ben Dwarshuis, William Somerville, Henry Thornton.
Melbourne Renegades Team News & Playing 11
Team News
Apart from Dwayne Bravo’s farewell from the team because of a hamstring injury, no major changes are expected in the team for this match against Sydney Sixers.
Key Players
The batsmen have been performing well and are in good form this season of BBL. Cameron White, Aaron Finch, and Marcus Harris have been scoring well and will hopefully help the team put up a big score on the board. Melbourne Renegades have good bowlers who can give some tough competition to the opponents. Sunil Narine, Brad Hogg, and Tom Cooper have been performing well and are most likely to continue their form in this match as well.
Recent Form
Melbourne Renegades are in the top 4 teams on the points table currently and are doing fairly well. The team has the potential to go a long way in the tournament.
Melbourne Renegades Predicted XI
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Sunil Narine, Aaron Finch (c), Marcus Harris, Cameron White, Trent Lawford, Tom Cooper, Peter Nevill (wk), Chris Tremain, Cameron Stevenson, Brad Hogg, Callum Ferguson.
Sydney Sixers vs Melbourne Renegades Head to Head
A total of five matches have been played between these two teams till date of which three have been won by the Sydney Sixers and two by the Melbourne Renegades. The Sixers have won the last three matches against the Renegades and one of these matches was played at the SCG.
Sydney Sixers vs Melbourne Renegades Prediction
While Sydney Sixers do have the advantage of playing Melbourne Renegades in familiar conditions, they will at the same time be wary of the fact that they haven't been doing too well at the SCG of late. In the last five matches they have played at this ground, they have only been able to muster a single win, and this is going to make the Renegades more optimistic.
As far as the Renegades are concerned, they too have issues of their own to resolve. Though their spin trio of Narine, Hogg and Cooper are doing a terrific job with the ball, their seamers have been pretty mediocre so far and they are likely to be targeted by the Sixers.
Both teams have capable players on their rosters and either can beat the other on a given day. However, Sydney Sixers proved themselves superior to Melbourne Renegades on the last three occasions and we predict the hosts to record yet another win against them on Monday.
Jan 09, 2017
14:10 IST / 8:40 GMT
Sydney Cricket Ground - Sydney, Australia
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