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Jonathan Howcroft

Big Bash League final: Renegades v Stars - as it happened

Melbourne Renegades celebrate winning BBL08
Melbourne Renegades celebrate winning BBL08 Photograph: Mark Dadswell/AAP

And here’s the match report for what was a truly remarkable Big Bash capitulation from the Stars:

That’s all you need from me for now. This will take some time to fully digest so keep your eyes peeled for further analysis elsewhere on the site.

Congratulations Melbourne Renegades. I don’t know how you did it, but you did.

Melbourne Renegades celebrate winning the Big Bash League title.
Melbourne Renegades celebrate winning the Big Bash League title. Photograph: Mark Dadswell/AAP

A guy in a short-sleeved shirt and a sleeve of tats just presented a glowing LED trophy to Aaron Finch. Lovely stuff.

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Christian, and the losing skipper Glenn Maxwell, have both said a few words. The Renegades are now receiving their medals in one of the better ceremonies of this kind I’ve seen.

Dan Christian - Player of the Final

38 not out with the bat at a crucial stage in the Renegades’ innings, then 2/33 with the ball - not to mention a couple of catches. If you want to win a T20 tournament, just get him in your side.

Dan Christian, BBL08 final player of the match.
Dan Christian, BBL08 final player of the match. Photograph: Mark Dadswell/AAP

Spare a thought for Eddie McGuire, two grand finals a few months apart that looked destined to go to sides he chairs...

I’m still struggling to process what just happened. The Stars were in control for 32 of the 40 overs. How did they capitulate so badly?

Renegades win by 13 runs

Melbourne Renegades, BBL08 champions.
Melbourne Renegades, BBL08 champions. Photograph: Mark Dadswell/AAP

20th over: Stars 132-7 (Zampa 17, Bird 4) Dan Christian, player of the match, has the honour of sending down the glory over. Zampa rages against the dying of the light with a six and a four, but it’s too little too late. One of the all-time collapses hands the Renegades the BBL08 title.

19th over: Stars 118-7 (Zampa 6, Bird 1) Gurney is too good to concede the kind of runs the Stars require, especially with tailenders at the crease. This is lap of honour stuff now for the Renegades.

28 required from the final over.

18th over: Stars 113-7 (Zampa 2, Bird 0) 89-0 after 12 overs. 113-7 after 18. Gee whizz.

And the burns keep coming. This is a zinger.

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WICKET! Bravo c White b Christian 3 (Stars 112-7)

Full toss on leg stump - rank awful stinky delivery - and somehow Bravo contrives to lob a thick edge into the covers where White takes a simple catch. There’ll be a 30for30 about the curse of the Stars, surely. The quality and experience they’ve had through that organisation, the opportunities they’ve created for themselves, but another season seems destined for failure, and this will hurt, a lot.

WICKET! Gotch c Harvey b Christian 2 (Stars 108-6)

This is like Oprah Winfrey giving away cars. Gotch the latest to hand the Renegades a scalp, chipping Christian straight to long-on. Marvel stadium is rocking. One can only imagine the colour of Eddie McGuire’s rage face right now.

WICKET! Maddinson c Finch b Gurney 6 (Stars 108-5)

Superb tight boundary-less over from Gurney. and it ends with the simple dismissal of Maddinson, ramping a delivery with no pace straight to the waiting Finch at short fine-leg. If the Stars blow this it will be an ugly autopsy. Handscomb’s rush of blood second ball, Dunk not reading the room, the volume of dot balls early... this has been a self-inflicted catastrophe. What a match this has turned into.

17th over: Stars 108-5 (Gotch 2)

16th over: Stars 101-4 (Maddinson 1, Gotch 1) The Stars are now skittish at the crease, doing all they can to nudge singles but the run-rate is creeping up towards 11 rpo and they need boundaries. What an astonishing turnaround in such a short space of time.

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WICKET! Maxwell c Harvey b Tremain 1 (Stars 99-4)

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!? Maxwell is gone now, shovelling a length delivery on leg stump up and into the hands of Harvey running in from the square leg boundary. This is barmy. Four wickets in 13 balls and the balance of power has swung wildly. Suddenly the rpo is just about ten and the Stars are without their top-order.

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WICKET! Dunk c Christian b Boyce 57 (Stars 99-3)

What is happening out there!? The Stars are imploding! Following Maxwell’s escape Dunk dumps Boyce straight down Christian’s throat at long-off. This is definitely game on now. Around the wickets the dot balls are stacking up and the run-rate is above nine rpo. Wowee!

15th over: Stars 99-3 (Maxwell 1)

Maxwell dropped!

Still on 0, Maxwell drives his fourth delivery to the diving White at cover but he shells a tough chance.

14th over: Stars 95-2 (Dunk 54, Maxwell 0) The crowd is suddenly into this, the Stars look a little edgy at the crease, and we could be set for a grandstand finale.

WICKET! Handscomb c Christian b Tremain 0 (Stars 94-2)

One brings two! Awful awful awful batting from Peter Handscomb, charging down the pitch to Tremain, mistiming a swipe over the offside, skewing a simple catch to Christian at cover. Is this suddenly a contest?

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WICKET! Stoinis b Boyce 39 (Stars 93-1)

Finch’s latest Hail Mary sees the ball land in Cameron Boyce’s hands - and it works! Stoinis goes for the big heave-ho, picks the wrong ball and the zing bails light up. Just the second delivery in three overs from Boyce that hasn’t gone for runs.

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Dunk 50 (from 38 balls)

12th over: Stars 89-0 (Dunk 50, Stoinis 37) Finch returns to his strike man Richardson, desperate for that opening, but the leading wicket-taker of BBL08 cannot force a breakthrough and is now bowled out with figures of 0/27. This is becoming a very serene procession for the Stars.

11th over: Stars 77-0 (Dunk 44, Stoinis 31) The creative Gurney back into the attack with his team desperate for a breakthrough but the Stars openers know they needn’t take any risks and they’re content just to dab the ball around Marvel Stadium and accept the easy runs on offer.

Ben Dunk is leading the Stars to victory in the Big Bash League final.
Ben Dunk is leading the Stars to victory in the Big Bash League final. Photograph: Mark Dadswell/AAP

10th over: Stars 72-0 (Dunk 40, Stoinis 30) Aaron Finch is getting visibly irate out there now, kicking the turf after failing to collect a potential run out opportunity. Stoinis makes him pay, cutting Christian for four. The Renegades have barely created a false stroke, let alone a chance so far. Routine stuff for the Stars, not the most thrilling spectacle.

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9th over: Stars 63-0 (Dunk 39, Stoinis 23) Once again Boyce sends down an over of five tame singles punctuated by a monster six, this time a straight hit from the blade of Stoinis. The Stars are cruising and the tension and atmosphere is ebbing out of Marvel Stadium.

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8th over: Stars 52-0 (Dunk 37, Stoinis 14) Dan Christian’s turn to see if he can repeat his heroics with the bat but with the Stars in such a patient mood opportunities to force breakthroughs are hard to come by. For comparison, at the same stage of their innings the Renegades were 51/4. The Stars have this under control, for now.

7th over: Stars 47-0 (Dunk 34, Stoinis 12) Time for spin and Cameron Boyce but it does not have the desired effect for the Renegades. Five dots are accompanied by the first six of the Stars’ innings, slapped lustily over midwicket by the assertive Dunk.

6th over: Stars 36-0 (Dunk 26, Stoinis 9) Richardson remains in the attack and he continues to be tight without looking overly threatening. The Stars continue to accumulate patiently, although if they stuff up this chase later on we could easily look back at this powerplay as an overly cautious waste of dot balls.

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5th over: Stars 33-0 (Dunk 24, Stoinis 8) Harry Gurney is the first bowling change but there’s nothing in his left-arm variations to worry the Stars openers who are happy to build into this run-chase.

4th over: Stars 29-0 (Dunk 23, Stoinis 5) For the third over out of four Dunk finds runs early in the over, three this time, setting a platform for the Stars. He backs that up with a crisp cut for four and some smart running to chip away at the Renegades’ 145.

3rd over: Stars 17-0 (Dunk 15, Stoinis 2) Better from Richardson, keeping the circumspect Stoinis honest with a first-class line and length. The Stars’ inability to rotate the strike is a bit of a concern. There have been eight dot-balls already, many the product of a lack of intent.

2nd over: Stars 14-0 (Dunk 13, Stoinis 1) Chris Tremain shares the new ball but he suffers the same fate as Richardson, offering too much room to Dunk and his free swing of the bat sends the ball behind point for four. Dunk then almost gives his wicket away, using way too much bottom hand to a defensive prod, lobbing the ball dangerously close to mid-on. There’s little strike rotation so aside from that boundary it’s a decent over for the Renegades.

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1st over: Stars 9-0 (Dunk 8, Stoinis 1) Four first ball! Wide length delivery from Kane Richardson, Ben Dunk throws his hands at it and the thick edge flies high and safely down to third man. The second ball is a cleaner hit but the cover drive is intercepted by the sweeper. The remainder of the over is safe accumulation. The Stars are up and running confidently.

Right, the Renegades are out in the field, Marcus Stoinis and Ben Dunk are joining them, the run-chase will begin any second.

Renegades 145

The Stars will chase 146 for victory. Despite being off the pace for most of the innings the Renegades will not feel too unhappy with the state of play thanks to Tom Cooper and Dan Christian. The Stars didn’t bowl exceptionally well but took wickets early and in Adam Zampa and Sandeep Lamichhane had a pair of bowlers the Gades didn’t really know what to do with. A third spinner for Green Melbourne might have done even more damage.

Join us shortly for the run-chase.

Dan Christian steered the Renegades from disaster to a decent total in the Big Bash League final.
Dan Christian steered the Renegades from disaster to a decent total in the Big Bash League final. Photograph: Mark Dadswell/AAP

20th over: Renegades 145-5 (Cooper 43, Christian 38) Bravo begins the final over with an inch perfect yorker that Christian can only dig out for a single. Another yorker another single, then Christian swipes and misses a length delivery before Bravo executes another yorker that cannot be hit beyond the infield. 15 runs from 16 largely death over deliveries for Bravo, but oh boy, those numbers are dented by a mighty six from Cooper, swinging hard across the line. Another yorker looks to have wrapped up the innings but Bravo then tries to affect a run out, misses, and concedes overthrows! Somehow the Renegades make it to a competitive 145.

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19th over: Renegades 133-5 (Cooper 33, Christian 36) Worrall begins his final over with a stinky wide full toss that Christian larrups over cover for four. Cooper then helps himself to six by helping a leg-stump half-volley over midwicket. Four more follows with a leg-stump full toss. Worrall ends with 0/37, figures dented by a disastrous 17-run final over.

18th over: Renegades 116-5 (Cooper 21, Christian 31) Christian knocks Bravo for a single first ball, prompting the West Indian to come around the wicket to the right-handed Cooper, finding three dot balls in a row with the awkward change of angle - length, then short, then full - superb death bowling. Cooper eventually gets off strike with a toe end to the keeper but he was a strong run out risk if Handscomb could have hit the far set of stumps. Bravo tidies up a terrific over with a single.

This partnership has built a foundation for the Renegades, can they accelerate to a defendable score?

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17th over: Renegades 113-5 (Cooper 20, Christian 29) Worrall returns and he begins with one-dot-one, putting the pressure on the Renegades to manufacture a boundary - and Dan Christian does exactly that! Stepping to leg he shovels out a yorker that skims just over the fingers of the leaping extra-cover sweeper for six. What a shot! Decent over for the Reds, 11 from it.

Resuming our chat from pregame...

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Tom Cooper has kept the Renegades ticking over in a difficult innings against the Stars.
Tom Cooper has kept the Renegades ticking over in a difficult innings against the Stars. Photograph: Mark Dadswell/AAP

16th over: Renegades 102-5 (Cooper 17, Christian 21) Here we go! The first ball of the final 30 - all pace remember - goes for four, ramped expertly by Cooper. That’s followed up by a succession of easy singles and a hard run two.

15th over: Renegades 91-5 (Cooper 11, Christian 17) The Renegades’ trial by spin is over. Lamichhane finishes with 0/16 from his complement. Cooper is fortunate not to be run out but Maxwell’s effort bounces over the stumps after hitting a trampoline just on the edge of the square.

Expect the Gades to tee-off now in the five remaining overs of pace bowling.

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14th over: Renegades 85-5 (Cooper 7, Christian 15) Zampa ends with 2/21 from his four overs. Pick of the bowlers so far despite being taken downtown in his first set of six. Renegades dealing in singles for the time being.

13th over: Renegades 80-5 (Cooper 6, Christian 11) Dwayne Bravo’s turn to roll his arm over and he gets away with about the worst ball you could imagine going for a single, Cooper unable to dispatch the loopy leg-stump full toss. The luck changes soon after though, Bravo beating Christian for pace with a bumper, finding the edge, but the ball is just too high and hot for the leaping Handscomb.

Like Return To Oz, everything is turning green in the Big Bash final.
Like Return To Oz, everything is turning green in the Big Bash final. Photograph: Mark Dadswell/AAP

12th over: Renegades 71-5 (Cooper 5, Christian 3) Well aware of the match situation Maxwell is now employing spin from both ends. Three dots, three singles from Lamichhane’s third over. The Renegades are in quicksand.

11th over: Renegades 68-5 (Cooper 4, Christian 1) The Renegades are clueless against Zampa, repeatedly yorking themselves and ending up in all sorts of awkward body positions at the crease. Ricky Ponting on comms explains how the Renegades are statistically the poorest players of spin in the competition, and you can see why.

WICKET! Harvey b Zampa 14 (Renegades 65-5)

Zampa’s back, and boy is he back! Harvey had no idea what he was doing with that wrong ‘un, playing down a couple of wrong lines before hearing the fateful death rattle. Superb bowling, not the best indication of Harvey’s ability against leg-spin.

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10th over: Renegades 65-4 (Harvey 14, Cooper 2) Back to seam for the Stars with Stoinis replacing Zampa. Mic’d up in the field Ben Dunk explains how the Stars are looking to take the pace off the ball, mix up their deliveries and keep the Renegades from establishing any rhythm. It’s a strategy that has worked well so far but not so much in this over with Harvey finding runs from most deliveries, including a controlled pull for four.

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9th over: Renegades 57-4 (Harvey 7, Cooper 1) Better from the Renegades, Harvey sweeping Lamichhane for four then rotating the strike with Cooper to keep the scoreboard ticking over. Stars still very much on top though.

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8th over: Renegades 51-4 (Harvey 2, Cooper 1) Just two runs and a wicket from Zampa’s second over. Excellent comeback following the battering he took in his first over.

WICKET! White LBW Zampa 12 (Renegades 49-4)

Oh dear. This is turning into a nightmare for the Renegades. White is the latest to go, beaten all ends up by a skiddy quicker ball, the first of Zampa’s second over.

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7th over: Renegades 49-3 (White 12, Harvey 1) More spin, this time Lamichhane, and his wrong ‘un beats Harvey twice in a row. A single brings White on strike but he’s not interested in forcing the issue, accepting a dot and a single. Harper then almost perishes from the final ball of the over, lobbing a limp edge just short of point. This is not looking good for the Renegades.

What also didn’t look good was Finch absolutely battering a white Bunnings chair with his bat on his way down the race following his dismissal.

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WICKET! Finch run out (Bird) (Renegades 47-3)

6th over: Renegades 47-3 (White 11) Finch has the bit between his teeth now, welcoming Bird to the crease for his third over by lofting him back over his head for four. White ups the ante, cutting with brute force for six over point, the ball barely climbing above head height. But hold on, what have we here? FINCH RUN OUT AT THE NON-STRIKER’S END OFF BIRD’S BOOT! That is wild. How unlucky can you get? White strikes a firm drive, Bird extends his right foot in his follow through, the ball clips his laces, diverts onto the stumps and Finch is a metre from his ground. That is a game turning moment.

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5th over: Renegades 36-2 (Finch 8, White 5) Time for spin, and time for Finch to launch at Zampa, slapping him disdainfully over cover for four. The follow up is also destined for the fence but it clatters into the non-striker White who executes some tidy fielding for his former side. The big Bear makes up for it later with an easy as you like four over cover. The Renegades needed that over, can they build on it?

4th over: Renegades 25-2 (Finch 2, White 0) Huge partnership now for the Renegades. Two senior batsmen at the crease with a rebuilding job on their hands. The Stars haven’t bowled unplayably but the occasion appears to have got to both Harris and Harper.

WICKET! Harper c&b Bird 6 (Renegades 25-2)

Bird is the word (sorry, not sorry)! Harper has batted like a drunk on rollerskates in his short innings and it eventually comes to a tame end, limply mistiming a pull straight back into bowler’s hands. Stars shining brightly at Marvel Stadium.

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3rd over: Renegades 22-1 (Finch 1, Harper 5) Harper opens his account with a late cut-cum-outside edge that’s 50-50 honours between batsman and bowler. Worrall does have a slip and a gully but they were bisected. Worrall responds with an outrageous back of the hand wrong ‘un that Harper does well to keep out. He is a superb craftsman Worrall, the curved run-up, the old school swing, the ultra-modern varieties, and he has a huge shout declined for LBW (Harper probably just outside the line of off stump) but the Renegade No 3 should have been run out in the same motion but the shy from Bird at gully missed with the batsman miles out of his ground. Couple of let-offs for the Reds.

2nd over: Renegades 16-1 (Finch 0, Harper 0 ) That wasn’t a great over from Bird but the Stars will be delighted with the early wicket.

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WICKET! Harris c Handscomb b Bird 12 (Renegades 16-1)

Jackson Bird shares the new ball. He’s regarded as something of an Aaron Finch specialist, but a leg-bye gets the Australian white ball skipper off strike immediately. The match-up with Harris suits the Gades much better. Bird slides a couple of wides across the left-hander then drops a couple in his arc, the first slapped straight for four, the second carted to cow corner for a couple. Harris then reacts to the change in field by stepping to leg and using the width to cut for four behind point.

The adrenaline eventually gets him though, Bird sending down an off-cutter that Harris tries to launch into Bourke Street but succeeds only in spiralling a top-edge high into the sky, Handscomb calmly making the ground to pouch a catch over his shoulder.

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1st over: Renegades 3-0 (Harris 2, Finch 0) Semi-final hero Daniel Worrall begins with a wide outside off stump but things improve significantly from there, with just three coming from the opening over. Two tight dot balls follow the wide then the bowler shifts from over to around the wicket. Eventually the change of angle allows Marcus Harris to milk a couple off his pads, prompting Worrall to return back over and find another dot. Good start for the Stars.

The teams are out on the Marvel Stadium turf. It’s warm and humid in Melbourne today, the pitch looks a beauty, the arena is maybe two-thirds full. Let’s get it on.

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This is a typically excellent thread from Russell Degnan looking into attendances during BBBL08. “This season has been BAD,” Degnan writes. “Last season was poor (across all venues, remember, it is adjusted to the average), but this season is well down on that. Excluding a couple of days around NYE (the showpiece games) the crowds started poorly and got worse.”

I’m also very much here for Jim Maxwell’s hot takes on Shane Warne’s commentary. In case you missed it, the doyen teed off on the Fox Sports pundit during the Renegades semi-final on Friday night, doubling down in an an interview with Fairfax. “I think he often sounds like a punter in a pub, not a commentator,” Maxwell stated with typical brevity and accuracy.

Or players in dodgy adverts, like this beauty featuring Stars coach Stephen Fleming.

Or this spicy piece of work from former Stars skipper now Renegade Cameron White. This also fits into another specific niche of mine regarding actors in adverts who are trying to make it look like they’re eating something when they’re not.

As always, you can keep me company during today’s action. Anything in-play is best shared via Twitter - @JPHowcroft- but there should be time for me to handle the occasional email as well - jonathan.howcroft.freelance@theguardian.com.

What kind of things do I like to receive? Interviews like this with a young Aaron Finch from 2010 that reveals how messy his house is, please and thank you.

Apologies to international readers or those from interstate (in particular The Guardian’s own Sam Perry) but the local dimension to this final inevitably has an AFL angle. Each club is chaired by an influential figure in Australian Rules football, the Stars since inception by Collingwood president Eddie McGuire, the Renegades since 2015 by Hawthorn legend Jason Dunstall.

McGuire has been instrumental in the formation of the Stars, championing their star-studded squad building and glitzy image. Back in 2011 in an in-depth feature by Fairfax’s Chloe Saltau, McGuire laid out his ambition to the inaugural playing group back when T20 was still seen as something of a hit and giggle sideshow.

“This might be a good gimmick, that’s how it might be seen by some. It might be a bit of extra pocket money for you guys, but we’re a sporting club and we’re here to f---in’ win. Let’s get that right from the get-go. Whatever’s required, we’ll put in. I’m not wasting my time, I’ve got other things to do in my life and so have you guys. We want to win, we want to get the best crowds in, we want to win financially, we want to win spiritually, we want to win with facilities, we want this to be one of the best cricket clubs in the world from day one.”

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Today’s final pits plenty of friends and erstwhile colleagues against one another, both among the playing groups and backroom teams. None is more significant than the duel between the two skippers, Glenn Maxwell and Aaron Finch. State and international teammates for many years, the pair are former housemates and remain firm friends. As recently as yesterday they shared a coffee in their local cafe in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

Expect some creative, jocular, and very pointed sledging from these former housemates during the Big Bash final.
Expect some creative, jocular, and very pointed sledging from these former housemates during the Big Bash final. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

Stars XI

One change for the Stars with Jackson Bird returning to the bowling attack in place of all-rounder Evan Gulbis.

Renegades XI

The Renegades are unchanged from their semi-final triumph.

Stars with the bat flip and elect to bowl

Preamble

Good afternoon and welcome to live OBO coverage of the Big Bash League final between Melbourne Renegades and Melbourne Stars from Marvel Stadium. The first ball will be bowled at 2.45pm local time.

Despite a quarter of Big Bash franchises residing in Victoria it’s taken until the eighth instalment of the BBL for the trophy to find its home in Melbourne. It just remains to be seen whether the shiny glowing crucible thingumajig is dressed in red or green ribbons.

By virtue of finishing higher on the ladder (second place, compared to the Stars’ fourth) Renegades have home ground advantage. This means today’s match is being played at Docklands Stadium, a venue that has proven difficult to score at this season, creating a series of chaotic contests. That is of course until Friday’s semi-final when Renegades timed their high-scoring chase to perfection.

The venue’s old dry drop-ins have allowed Renegades’ bowling attack to shine. Kane Richardson is the competition’s leading wicket-taker, while Cameron Boyce has the fourth-best economy rate for bowlers that have sent down at least 40 overs. By contrast only one Renegade batsman, Sam Harper, features in the top-20 run scorers.

For much of the summer the Stars looked unlikely candidates to make the postseason, and form suggested the powerful Hurricanes would blow them away in the semis, but individuals have stood up at crucial times. Daniel Worrall’s performance with the ball in Hobart was impressive enough to spark talk of an Ashes call-up, while for the second game in a row skipper Glenn Maxwell showed on his day he is unplayable. Before that the regular season was all about Marcus Stoinis, averaging almost 55 with the bat the all-rounder also snared the second-most wickets for the Stars.

It’s been a long old season, and the short turnaround between the semis and final hasn’t done the hype machine any favours, but around 40,000 fans are expected to turn up for this one; and we all know crosstown rivalries add an extra touch of spice.

Who will be the first Melbourne side to lift the Big Bash League trophy, red, or green?
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