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The Big Bash League (also known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, and commonly shortened to BBL or Big Bash) is a professional club Twenty20 cricket league in Australia founded in 2011 by Cricket Australia. The Big Bash League, which replaced the previous competition, the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, features eight city-based franchises as opposed to the previous six state teams. The competition has been supported by the fast food chicken chain KFC since its founding. Along with the Indian Premier League, it is one of two T20 cricket leagues that rank amongst some of the 10 leading domestic sport leagues in terms of average attendance. The Perth Scorchers won the BBL 11 (2021/2022) final by vanquishing the Sydney Sixers by 79 runs.
In Australia, BBL games take place during the summer months of December, January, and February. 6 of the tournament’s eight teams have won the title at least once. But besides winning the league four times, including two years in a row, the Perth Scorchers are the most dominant team in its brief history. The Sydney Sixers have won the title three to four times, including twice in a row. The other four champions are Adelaide Strikers, Melbourne Renegades, Brisbane Heat, and Sydney Thunder.
Even before to 2014, the top two teams in the tournament received recognition for the Champions League Twenty20 tournament, an annual international Twenty20 rivalries between the top domestic teams from various nations. Following the 2014 tournament, the Champions League Twenty20 was halted.
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Perth Scorchers
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The Perth Scorchers are an Australian domestic Twenty20 franchise cricket team that reflects the Western Australian city of Perth in the Big Bash League (BBL). The Scorchers are the undisputed BBL champions, having defeated the Sydney Sixers in the final of the 2021-22 season. They are also the most dominant team in BBL history, with four championships and three second-place finishes. In BBL02, they were defeated in the second final by the Brisbane Heat. They then managed to win the next two titles in a row, becoming the league’s first team to do so. These victories came in a last-ball thriller against the Hobart Hurricanes and the Sydney Sixers at Canberra’s Manuka Oval.
Mickey Arthur was designated coach at the start of the 2011-12 season, but resigned before the start of the season after being declared coach of the Australian cricket team. His former assistant, Lachlan Stevens, took his place. Justin Langer took over for Stevens in November 2012. After Langer was named Australian coach in May 2018, Adam Voges was named the new coach for the 2018-19 season.
Since the Scorchers’ inception in the BBL, Shaun Marsh, Michael Klinger, Cameron Bancroft, Mitch Marsh, Adam Voges, Ashton Turner, David Willey, Pakistani cricketers Yasir Arafat and Usman Qadir, Englishman Laurie Evans, iconic wrist spinner Brad Hogg, and pace bowlers Jason Behrendorff, Jhye Richardson, and Andrew Tye have all played for them.
With the inclusion of West Australian Simon Katich and international imports Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa and Paul Collingwood of England, a considerable percentage of the initial Scorchers squad was attracted from the Western Australia cricket team. Brad Hogg was engaged despite his refusal to score state or international cricket since the 2007-08 season.
In their first game at the WACA Ground, the Scorchers were defeated by the Hobart Hurricanes by 31 runs in the 2011-12 Big Bash League season. They then won five straight games to complete the season on top of the table and safeguard a home final. The Scorchers then annihilated the Melbourne Stars by 11 runs in the semi-finals before falling to the Sydney Sixers by 7 wickets in the final.
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