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The 2018–19 Big Bash League season or BBL|08 was the eighth season of the KFC Big Bash League, the professional men's Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia. The tournament started on 19 December 2018. Adelaide Strikers were the defending champions. The competition was extended to a full home and away season for the first time, with each team to play each other twice at both a home venue and away venue. This consists of 56 regular season matches, two semi-final fixtures and the final. For this season of the tournament, the toss was replaced by a bat flip, with "roofs and flats" used instead of heads or tails.

The season saw Cameron Bancroft's return to professional cricket, following his involvement in the ball-tampering scandal in March 2018.

The title was won by Melbourne Renegades, who defeated Melbourne Stars at the Marvel Stadium.

Teams

Venues

Adelaide	Alice Springs	Brisbane	Canberra	Geelong
Adelaide Oval	Traeger Park	The Gabba	Manuka Oval	GMHBA Stadium
Capacity: 53,583	Capacity: 7,200	Capacity: 42,000	Capacity: 12,000	Capacity: 34,000
Matches: 7	Matches: 1	Matches: 5	Matches: 2	Matches: 2
Hobart	Adelaide Alice Springs Brisbane Canberra Geelong Hobart Launceston Melbourne Perth Sydney Gold Coast Moe			Gold Coast
Blundstone Arena				Metricon Stadium
Capacity: 20,000				Capacity: 25,000
Matches: 5 + 1 final				Matches: 3
Perth				Launceston
Optus Stadium				University of Tasmania Stadium
Capacity: 60,000				Capacity: 21,000
Matches: 7				Matches: 2
Moe	Melbourne		Sydney
Ted Summerton Reserve	Marvel Stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground	Spotless Stadium	Sydney Cricket Ground
Capacity: 7,500	Capacity: 48,003	Capacity: 100,024	Capacity: 22,000	Capacity: 48,000
Matches: 1	Matches: 5 + 2 final	Matches: 5	Matches: 5	Matches: 7

Teams and Standings

Points table

League progression

• Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed.
• Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (playoffs) to see the match summary.

Match summary

• Note: Results listed are according to the home (horizontal) and visitor (vertical) teams.
• Note: Click on a result to see a summary of the match.

League stage

Round 1

Match 1

• Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to field.
• Max Bryant (Brisbane Heat) made his T20 debut.
• Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Brisbane Heat) made 27 runs, the highest score by a number 11 batsman in T20's and in the history of BBL.
• Jimmy Peirson and Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Brisbane Heat) made the highest last wicket partnership (of 45) in the history of BBL.

Match 2

• Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.
• Will Sutherland (Melbourne Renegades) made his T20 debut.

Match 3

• Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.
• Melbourne Stars were set a target of 90 runs from 8 overs due to rain.
• Travis Dean (Melbourne Stars) made his T20 debut.

Match 4

• Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to bat.
• Jack Edwards and Lloyd Pope (Sydney Sixers) both made their T20 debuts.

Round 2

Match 5

• Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.
• Match was reduced to 19 overs per side due to rain.

Match 6

• Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.
• Cameron Valente (Adelaide Strikers) made his T20 debut.

Match 7

• Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field.

Match 8

• Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field.
• Jonathan Cook (Sydney Thunder) made his T20 debut.

Round 3

Match 9

• Perth Scorchers won the toss and elected to field.

Match 10

• Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.

Match 11

• Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field.

Match 12

• Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.
• Mackenzie Harvey (Melbourne Renegades) and Ben Manenti (Sydney Sixers) both made their T20 debuts.

Round 4

Match 13

• Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field.

Match 14

• Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to bat.

Match 15

• Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field.
• Justin Avendano (Sydney Sixers) made his T20 debut.

Match 16

• Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.
• Jonathan Merlo (Melbourne Stars) made his T20 debut.

Round 5

Match 17

• Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to bat.

Match 18

• Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.

Match 19

• Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field.

Match 20

• Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 6

Match 21

• Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.

Match 22

• Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to bat.

Match 23

• Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.

Match 24

• Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain stopped play during Sydney Thunder's innings.

Round 7

Match 25

• Perth Scorchers won the toss and elected to field.
• Aaron Hardie (Perth Scorchers) made his T20 debut.

Match 26

• Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.

Match 27

• Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.

Match 28

• Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 8

Match 29

• Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.

Match 30

• Perth Scorchers won the toss and elected to field.
• Cameron Green (Perth Scorchers) made his T20 debut.

Match 31

• Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.
• Tom O'Connell (Melbourne Stars) made his T20 debut.

Match 32

• Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.

Round 9

Match 33

• Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to bat.
• Jack Prestwidge (Brisbane Heat) made his T20 debut.
• A flood light failure stopped play during Brisbane Heat's innings.

Match 34

• Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field.
• David Moody (Hobart Hurricanes) made his T20 debut.

Match 35

• Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.

Match 36

• Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.

Round 10

Match 37

• Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to bat.

Match 38

• Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to field.

Match 39

• Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to field.

Match 40

• Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field.
• Josh Philippe scored the highest individual score for the Sixers in BBL history with 86*, surpassing Daniel Hughes and Nic Maddinson, who had both previously scored 85.
• Philippe and James Vince also scored the highest second-wicket partnership in BBL history, scoring 167*. This was also the highest partnership for any wicket by the Sixers.

Round 11

Match 41

• Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to field.
• Nick Hobson (Perth Scorchers) and Matthew Gilkes (Sydney Thunder) both made their T20 debuts.

Match 42

• Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.

Match 43

• Perth Scorchers won the toss and elected to field.

Match 44

• Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field.
• Jarrod Freeman (Hobart Hurricanes) made his T20 debut.

Round 12

Match 45

• Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field.

Match 46

• Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to bat.
• Baxter Holt (Sydney Thunder) made his T20 debut.

Match 47

• Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to field.

Match 48

• Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.
• Matthew Kuhnemann (Brisbane Heat) and Clint Hinchliffe (Perth Scorchers) both made their T20 debuts.
• Josh Lalor (Brisbane Heat) took a hat-trick.
• Chris Lynn (Brisbane Heat) became the leading run-scorer in the Big Bash League with 1,945 runs.

Round 13

Match 49

• Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field.
• Sydney Sixers were set a revised target of 124 runs from 19 overs due to rain. This was further reduced to 84 runs from 12 overs.

Match 50

• Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.

Match 51

• Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.
• Michael Klinger (Perth Scorchers) regained his record of the leading run-scorer in the Big Bash League with 1,947 runs. Chris Lynn of the Brisbane Heat had over taken Klinger two nights prior.

Match 52

• Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.

Round 14

Match 53

• Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.

Match 54

• Perth Scorchers won the toss and elected to bat.

Match 55

• Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced to 19 overs per side due to rain.

Match 56

• Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field.

Play-offs

Semi-final 1

• Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.

Semi-final 2

• Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.

Final

• Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.

Statistics

Most Runs

Most Wickets

Attendances

TV audience

This was the first BBL season featuring the new cricket broadcasting rights deal made between Cricket Australia, Fox Sports Australia and Seven Network. Fox Sports broadcast all 59 matches from the BBL season on their new Fox Cricket channel, with 16 of those broadcast exclusively. Channel Seven will be broadcasting 43 matches, including all finals fixtures. For these 43 matches Channel Seven were the “Host Broadcaster” and did the toss and player of the match.

•   League matches broadcast by both Fox Cricket and Channel Seven.
•   League matches broadcast exclusively by Fox Cricket.
•   Semi-finals and final broadcast by both Fox Cricket and Channel Seven.

See also

• 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season

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External links

• Official website

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