This is the CRIC INFO 365 hub for the Big Bash League 2026-27. Every BBL post, from squad news to player profiles and match previews, is filed here.
Our BBL coverage goes deeper than most. Alongside match previews and predictions, we publish detailed player profiles for the league’s stars and rising names, with career stats broken down by format, BBL season by season records and the real stories behind their careers. We also publish ground guides explaining how each Australian venue plays in a T20 match.
Every profile is written from real reporting, such as official club features and ESPNcricinfo records, and where facts are not officially confirmed, we say so instead of guessing.
During the season, each match gets a preview with the likely playing 11, pitch notes, head to head records and a Dream11 team.
Use the Players and Grounds sub categories to browse profiles and venue guides, or scroll down for the latest BBL posts.
Quick Answer Lloyd Pope is an Australian leg spin bowler who plays for South Australia and Adelaide Strikers, best known for taking 8 wickets for 35 runs against England at the 2018 Under 19 World Cup, still the best bowling figures in the history of that tournament. He has taken 168 wickets across First-Class, List…
Quick Answer Jason Sangha is an Australian top order batter who plays for South Australia and Adelaide Strikers, best known for delivering South Australia’s first Sheffield Shield title in 29 years with an unbeaten 126 in the 2025 final. He has not yet played a Test, ODI or T20I for Australia, but he has represented…
Quick Answer Alex Carey is Australia’s first-choice wicketkeeper-batter, with a career that reads 48 Tests (2,333 runs, average 36), 85 ODIs (2,245 runs, average 35), and a T20I/BBL résumé built on over a decade with the Adelaide Strikers, whom he’s represented since 2016-17. He’s scored two Test centuries — including the first hundred by an…
Quick Answer Matt Short is an Australian batting all-rounder with 18+ ODIs (392 runs, HS 74) and 24 T20Is (416 runs, HS 66) for Australia, and one of the Big Bash League’s most decorated modern players — a career total of 94 matches, 2,459 runs at an average of 29.99 and a strike rate of…
The BBL 2025–26 season is played across eight main BBL home grounds — MCG (Melbourne Stars), SCG (Sydney Sixers), Marvel Stadium (Melbourne Renegades), The Gabba (Brisbane Heat), Adelaide Oval (Adelaide Strikers), Optus Stadium (Perth Scorchers), Blundstone Arena (Hobart Hurricanes), and Sydney Showground/GIANTS Stadium plus Manuka Oval (Sydney Thunder) — with a few neutral venues like…
Quick Answer Sydney Sixers head into BBL 2026-27 (BBL|16) in the middle of a genuinely chaotic off-season — the club has had three different head coaches within a single calendar year, and for the first time in over a decade, they don’t yet have a confirmed captain. After long-serving coach Greg Shipperd departed in January…
Quick Answer BBL 16 (the 2026-27 Big Bash League season) runs from 12 December 2026 to 26 January 2027, opening with a historic fixture outside Australia for the very first time — Melbourne Renegades vs defending champions Perth Scorchers at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. The contracting embargo lifted on 27 August 2026, and the…
Quick Answer Perth Scorchers head into BBL 2026-27 (BBL|16) as the tournament’s defending champions, with Ashton Turner continuing as captain and Adam Voges continuing as head coach — the most settled leadership pairing of any club in the league this off-season, at a time when both Melbourne franchises have gone into BBL|16 with brand-new head…
Quick Answer Melbourne Renegades head into BBL 2026-27 (BBL|16) in the middle of one of the most turbulent off-seasons of any club in the competition. Cricket Victoria spent much of mid-2026 planning to sell the Renegades franchise outright to a private investor as part of the BBL’s broader privatisation push, with Melbourne Stars set to…
Quick Answer Hobart Hurricanes head into BBL 2026-27 (BBL|16) under head coach Jeff Vaughan and captain Nathan Ellis, the pace bowler who has led the side to a maiden BBL title and now holds the best win percentage of any long-serving captain in the club’s history. The Hurricanes play home matches at Bellerive Oval (now…