KFC T20 Big Bash League 2015-16 Predictions: (MLR vs SYS) Melbourne Renegades vs Sydney Sixers Today Match 8 Prediction, Preview. Who will win the match? Renegades will play their 2nd match of Round 2 of BBL with Sixers. The match will start at 6 pm Local time and 1:40 PM Indian time. Venue of the match is Renegades home ground Docklands Stadium. This is their 1st home game in BBL05. Sixers next game will be against Stars on Dec 27.
Renegades start their Big Bash 5th season campaign with a win in opening match against Brisbane Heat. Sydney on the other side lost their opening match against Thunder in Sydney Derby and won the 2nd match Hurricanes with a big margin of runs. Sixers will be looking to keep the winning momentum ready. Both teams will look to reach the top of Big Bash Ladder by winning today’s encounter.
Melbourne Renegades vs Sydney Sixers Match 8 Prediction, Preview
Date: Dec 23, 2016, Wednesday
Time: 18:10 Local, 13:40 IST, 9:10 AM UK
Venue: Docklands Stadium, Melbourne
TV Channels: Channels 10(Aus), Sky Sports (UK, NZ), Star Sports (India, Pak)
Live Stream: StarSports.com
Sixers 13 Man Squad: Moises Henriques (c), Sean Abbott, Riley Ayre, Doug Bollinger, Johan Botha, Jackson Bird, Ryan Carters, Brad Haddin, Trent Lawford, Michael Lumb, Nic Maddinson, Jordan Silk, Stephen O’Keefe
Renegades 13 Man Squad: Aaron Finch (C), Tom Beaton, Dwayne Bravo, Tom Cooper, Xavier Doherty, Chris Gayle, Nathan Hauritz, Nathan Rimmington, Cameron Stevenson, Chris Tremain, Matthew Wade, Guy Walker, Cameron White
Match Prediction:
Renegades: They will look to destroy the Sixers with powerful batting lineup with players like Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Aaron Finch and Cameron White. Chris Gayle gets a good start in the opening match but failed to convert that into big score while Captain Finch and White able to score half centuries which is a plus point for Renegades. Wade and Bravo helped Renegades to reach to 181 in 20 overs.
Batting is definitely the strong point for MLR whereas Bowling is a concern for them. All the bowlers in the last match gave runs at an average of 7 runs per over.
Sixers: They didn’t start their 2015-16 BBL campaign with a win but still they come back in their 2nd match against Hurricanes. Batting is a big concern for Sixers as their main batsmen like Madison, Henriques will not able to perform till now. While Haddin played well against Hurricanes. Nathon Lyon took 5 wickets against Hurricanes and helped Sixers to register their 1st win. Team is expecting the same performance from Lyon against Renegades. They have quality bowlers which help them to face destructive batting Lineup of Renegades.
Renegades vs Sixers Head to Head:
- BBL01 – Renegades won by 8 wickets.
- BBL02 – Renegades won by 29 Runs
- BBL03 – Sixers won by 2 runs
- BBL04 – Sixers won by 8 wickets
So out of 4 matches, 2 won by Renegades and 2 won by Sixers. It’s a 50-50.
Final Today Match Prediction: Renegades will win the match due to the strong batting line-up.
