BBL|13 is less than a month away so we’ll be rolling out our weekly Form Guide every Monday, looking across international, domestic and club cricket, with Jhye Richardson’s return from injury topping our list.
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FORM GUIDE
We’ll start this week in WA Premier Cricket where Jhye Richardson ($247k BWL) returned from a shoulder injury for Fremantle on Saturday in the first day of their two-day game against Claremont-Nedlands.
Richardson opened the bowling and got through 12 overs – with his workload likely managed – taking 1-35. As a result, he appears on track to be fully available for BBL|13, although note he didn’t play in Sunday’s T20s so he’ll likely keep having his workload managed.
Elsewhere in WA Premier Cricket, Scorchers spinner Hamish McKenzie ($42k BWL) backed up his recent 8fa with 7-73 for Subiaco Floreat against Wanneroo on Saturday. With doubts about Ashton Agar’s Round 1 BBL availability, he’s shooting into relevance having made his WA Marsh Cup debut last weekend.
Cooper Connolly has returned from a toe injury, playing in both games over the weekend for Scarborough, meaning he’s in the mix for that no.7 slot for the Scorchers too as an all-rounder who bowls spin.
Stars bat Hilton Cartwright’s ($92k BAT) relevance may grow following Harry Brook’s England call-up – ruling him out of the early BBL rounds – and the big-hitting batsman smoked 48* from 27 balls for South Perth with three fours and three sixes in their T20 on Sunday.
Strikers recruit D’Arcy Short ($67k BAT) took 2-24 and then belted 57 from 35 deliveries for Willetton in a potential return to form.
In Queensland club cricket, Heat opener Josh Brown ($88k BAT) only made 18 from 17 balls for Northern Suburbs, caught by new Hurricanes recruit Sam Heazlett, who’d made 58 for Redlands.
Hurricanes wicketkeeper-bat Ben McDermott ($88k BAT/WKP) was dismissed for a golden duck for Gold Coast, while Heat spinner Matt Kuhnemann made 57 off 99 with the bat. Xavier Bartlett made 22 off 29.
There wasn’t much of note from NSW, Victoria or SA club cricket, while Strikers gun Matt Short made 81* from 88 balls to lead Victoria past Tasmania in the Marsh Cup on Saturday.
In red-ball cricket, Heat bat Nathan McSweeney was the talking point with a century continuing his good form, plus three wickets across the two innings, as SA beat Queensland.
Internationally at the World Cup, Glenn Maxwell ($118k BAT/BWL) reinforced his status as genuine SC BBL must-have at $118k in Round 1 after blasting an heroic 201* from 128 balls in Australia’s three-wicket win over Afghanistan on Tuesday.
Strikers spinner Rashid Khan ($132k BWL), meanwhile, has been putting a good run of form, taking 2-44 and 2-37 in back-to-back games from 10 overs each against semi-finalists Australia and South Africa respectively, plus a swashbuckling 35* with the bat against the Aussies. At $132k in Round 1, with a Round 2 double, Rashid seriously needs to be considered, given what damage he can do.
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