The 2018–19 Big Bash League season or BBL, 08 was the eighth season of the KFC
Big Bash League
The Big Bash League (known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, often abbreviated to BBL or Big Bash) is an Australian professional club Twenty20 cricket league, which was established in 2011 by Cricket Australia. The Big Bash Le ...
, the professional men's
Twenty20
Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innin ...
domestic
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
competition in Australia. The tournament started on 19 December 2018.
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
The Melbourne Renegades are an Australian professional men's Twenty20 franchise cricket club based in Melbourne, the capital city of the Australian state of Victoria. They compete in the Australian Twenty20 cricket competition, the Big Bash ...
, who defeated
Melbourne Stars at the
Marvel Stadium
Docklands Stadium, also currently known by naming rights sponsorship as Marvel Stadium, is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the Docklands area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Construction started in October 1997 and was ...
.
Teams
Venues
Points table
Fixtures
Round 1
Match 1
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Match 2
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Match 3
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Match 4
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Round 2
Match 5
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Match 6
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Match 7
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Match 8
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Round 3
Match 9
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Match 10
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Match 11
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Match 12
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Round 4
Match 13
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Match 14
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Match 15
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Match 16
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Round 5
Match 17
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Match 18
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Match 19
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Match 20
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Round 6
Match 21
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Match 22
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Match 23
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Match 24
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Round 7
Match 25
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Match 26
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Match 27
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Match 28
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Round 8
Match 29
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Match 30
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Match 31
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Match 32
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Round 9
Match 33
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Match 34
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Match 35
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Match 36
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Round 10
Match 37
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Match 38
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Match 39
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Match 40
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Round 11
Match 41
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Match 42
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Match 43
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Match 44
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Round 12
Match 45
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Match 46
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Match 47
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Match 48
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Round 13
Match 49
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Match 50
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Match 51
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Match 52
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Round 14
Match 53
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Match 54
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Match 55
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Match 56
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Knockout Phase
Semi Finals
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Semi Final 1
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Semi Final 2
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Final
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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
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of ...
. 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
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2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season
The 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season or WBBL, 04 was the fourth season of the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL), the semi-professional women's Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia. The tournament ran from 1 December 2018 to 26 ...
References
External links
Official website
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Big Bash League
The Big Bash League (known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, often abbreviated to BBL or Big Bash) is an Australian professional club Twenty20 cricket league, which was established in 2011 by Cricket Australia. The Big Bash Le ...
Big Bash League
The Big Bash League (known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, often abbreviated to BBL or Big Bash) is an Australian professional club Twenty20 cricket league, which was established in 2011 by Cricket Australia. The Big Bash Le ...
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