2023–24 Big Bash League
Dates7 December 2023 – 24 January 2024
Administrator(s)Cricket Australia
Cricket formatTwenty20
Tournament format(s)Double round-robin and playoffs
Host(s)Australia
Participants8
Matches44
Official websitecricket.com.au/big-bash

The 2023–24 Big Bash League season or BBL|13 (also known as KFC Big Bash League 2023 for sponsorship reasons) will be the thirteenth season of the Big Bash League (BBL), the professional men's Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia. It is scheduled to take place from 7 December 2023 to 24 January 2024.[1][2]

Teams

Team Home ground/s (capacity) Captain/s Head coach
  Adelaide Strikers Adelaide Oval (53,583) Travis Head Jason Gillespie
  Brisbane Heat The Gabba (42,000) Usman Khawaja Wade Seccombe
  Hobart Hurricanes Bellerive Oval (20,000) Nathan Ellis[3] Adam Griffith
  Melbourne Renegades Docklands Stadium (48,003) Nic Maddinson David Saker
  Melbourne Stars Melbourne Cricket Ground (100,024) Glenn Maxwell Peter Moores
  Perth Scorchers Perth Stadium (60,000) Ashton Turner Adam Voges
  Sydney Sixers Sydney Cricket Ground (48,000) Moises Henriques Greg Shipperd
  Sydney Thunder Sydney Showground Stadium (22,000)
 Chris Green[4] Trevor Bayliss

Squads

Teams Squads
  Adelaide Strikers Travis Head, Chris Lynn, D'Arcy Short, Matt Short, Henry Thornton, Alex Carey, Wes Agar
  Brisbane Heat
  Hobart Hurricanes Riley Meredith, Tim David, Caleb Jewell, Mac Wright, Ben McDermott, Matthew Wade, Nathan Ellis, Mitchell Owen, Billy Stanlake, Patrick Dooley, Nikhil Chaudhary, Sam Heazlett, Peter Hatzoglou, Chris Jordan, Sam Hain, Corey Anderson, Liam Guthrie, Ian Carlisle
  Melbourne Renegades
  Melbourne Stars
  Perth Scorchers
  Sydney Sixers
  Sydney Thunder

Draft

The 2023–24 season players draft was held on 3 September 2023.[5][6][7][8][9]

Table of international draft selections[10]
Club Round Pick Player National side Notes
  Adelaide Strikers 1 1 Rashid Khan  Afghanistan Retention Pick, Withdrew[11]
2 10 Jamie Overton  England
3 23 Passed —
4 26 Adam Hose  England
  Brisbane Heat 1 7 Colin Munro  New Zealand
2 15 Sam Billings  England
3 18 Paul Walter  England
4 31 Passed —
  Hobart Hurricanes 1 4 Chris Jordan  England
2 11 Sam Hain  England
3 22 Corey Anderson  New Zealand
4 27 Passed —
  Melbourne Renegades 1 5 Quinton de Kock  South Africa
2 12 Mujeeb Ur Rahman  Afghanistan
3 21 Passed —
4 28 Passed —
  Melbourne Stars 1 2 Harry Brook  England Withdrew[12]
2 9 Haris Rauf  Pakistan
3 24 Passed —
4 25 Usama Mir  Pakistan
  Perth Scorchers 1 8 Passed —
2 16 Zak Crawley  England
3 17 Laurie Evans  England
4 32 Passed —
  Sydney Sixers 1 3 Tom Curran  England Retention pick
2 14 James Vince  England
3 19 Passed —
4 30 Rehan Ahmed  England
  Sydney Thunder 1 6 Alex Hales  England
2 13 Zaman Khan  Pakistan
3 20 Passed —
4 29 Passed —

Venues

Standings

Pos Team Pld W L NR Pts NRR
1   Adelaide Strikers 0 0 0 0 0 —
2   Brisbane Heat 0 0 0 0 0 —
3   Hobart Hurricanes 0 0 0 0 0 —
4   Melbourne Renegades 0 0 0 0 0 —
5   Melbourne Stars 0 0 0 0 0 —
6   Perth Scorchers 0 0 0 0 0 —
7   Sydney Sixers 0 0 0 0 0 —
8   Sydney Thunder 0 0 0 0 0 —
Source: ESPNcricinfo

Fixtures

On 6 July , Cricket Australia confirmed the full schedule for the tournament.[1]

Match 1
7 December 2023
19:15 (N)
Scorecard
v
Match 3
9 December 2023
19:15 (N)
Scorecard
v
Match 4
10 December 2023
19:15 (N)
Scorecard
v
Match 6
12 December 2023
19:15 (N)
v
Match 8
19 December 2023
19:15 (N)
v
Match 9
20 December 2023
19:15 (D/N)
v
Match 10
21 December 2023
19:15 (N)
v
Match 11
22 December 2023
19:15 (N)
v
Match 12
23 December 2023
15:00 (D/N)
v
Match 13
23 December 2023
19:15 (N)
v
Match 14
26 December 2023
18:05 (N)
v
Match 15
26 December 2023
21:15 (N)
v
Match 16
27 December 2023
19:15 (N)
v
Match 17
28 December 2023
19:15 (N)
v
Match 18
29 December 2023
19:15 (N)
v
Match 19
30 December 2023
19:15 (N)
v
Match 20
31 December 2023
19:15 (N)
v

Play-offs

Qualifier and KnockoutChallengerFinal
1QW
2
QL
3
4
19 January 2024
19:15 (D/N)
TBC
v
TBC
TBC
20 January 2024 (D/N)
TBC
v
TBC
TBC
22 January 2024 (D/N)
TBC
v
TBC
TBC

Final

24 January 2024 (D/N)
TBC
v
TBC
TBC

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "New-look BBL schedule to light up summer". Cricket.com.au. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "Early start, early finish for the BBL might see overseas players stay longer". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  3. ↑ "New Hurricanes captain Ellis hopes to end BBL trophy drought". ESPNCricInfo. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  4. ↑ "Experienced Green appointed Thunder skipper for BBL 13". cricket.com.au. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "Thunder and Stars win WBBL and BBL draft lotteries". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  6. ↑ "BBL13 Overseas player draft:the full list". Cricket.com.au. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  7. ↑ "BBL draft nominations=ESPNCricinfo". Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  8. ↑ "Ultimate guide to the 2023 Big Bash Drafts". Cricket.com.au. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  9. ↑ "BBL Draft recap: Stars take Ashes gun after Rashid retained". Cricket.com.au. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  10. ↑ "BBL Draft recap: Stars take Ashes gun after Rashid retained". cricket.com.au. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  11. ↑ "Rashid Khan withdraws from BBL 13 with back injury". ESPNCricInfo. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  12. ↑ "Harry Brook withdraws from the BBL". cricket.com.au. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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