Labuschagne, Boland, Lyon and Khawaja to return in final BBL games after Ashes
Several Ashes heroes will return to BBL line-ups for the last games ahead of the finals including Scott Boland, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon and Usman Khawaja which will impact final XIs.
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The Sydney Sixers and Brisbane Heat named their 17-man squads for Wednesday’s early game at the Gabba, with Nathan Lyon ($89k BWL) and Marnus Labuschagne ($247k BAT/BWL) coming in for both sides.
The Sixers have named Jordan Silk ($79k BAT) who is “day-to-day” after a hamstring strain, while Steve O’Keefe ($145k BWL) is in the mix to return, along with Lyon.
Labuschagne comes into the Heat squad for Nathan McSweeney ($42k BAT/BWL) who’ll drop out of their XI.
Sixers: Abbott, Avendano, Bird, Christian, Dwarshuis, J.Edwards, M.Edwards, Henriques (c), Hughes, Kerr, Lyon, Murphy, Neil-Smith, O’Keefe, Philippe, Pope, Silk
Heat: Peirson (c), Bartlett, Bazley, Bryant, Cooper, Dooley, Duckett, Guthrie, Heazlett, Kuhnemann, Labuschagne, Lynn, Neser, Pfeffer, Prestwidge, Steketee, Swepson
The Sydney Thunder named a 19-man squad to play the Melbourne Renegades on Wednesday, with Usman Khawaja ($93k BAT) named to return after the Ashes.
The Gades hadn’t submitted their squad at the time of writing.
Thunder: Cook, Cutting, Davies, Doggett, Gilkes, Green, Hales, Hearne, Holt, Khawaja, McAndrew, Nair, Ross, Sams, Sandhu, J.Sangha T.Sangha, Tremain, Whiteman
The Melbourne Stars and Hobart Hurricanes named their squads for their Wednesday evening game at the MCG.
Syed Faridoun ($59k BWL) dropped out for the Stars making him a NPP loop option, while Scott Boland ($139k BWL) returns for the Hurricanes which will force someone out of Tuesday’s side.
Nathan Ellis ($150k BWL) and Joel Paris ($99k BWL) were both left out due to injury.
Stars: Burns, Cartwright, Clarke, Couch, C-Nile, Crone, Daniyal, Elliott, Hinchliffe, Larkin, Maxwell (c), O’Connell, Rainbird, Rowe, Stoinis, Webster, Zampa
Hurricanes: Bell, Boland, David, Handscomb, Jewell, Kann, Lamichhane, McDermott, Meredith, Owen, Parker, Rogers, Sanders, Short, Thompson, Wade (c), Wright
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