After Getting a record win against Brishbane Heats side in front of their record crowd Hobart Hurricanes will now host No.8 team of league table Melbourne Renegades on Wednesday.Hosts have chased down record target of 209 runs with a over to spare.While Renegades gave disastrous performance with bat to record lowest ever total of Big Bash League.So obviously Both team have different levels of confidence.George Bailey's men will be aiming win again at home to keep moving towards the top four finish while Renegades sitting at bottom can hope to improve only from here in all department with not so much hope left to go beyond group stages.
Team News - Following the departure of their caribbean players both team has made several changes to their squad.English experienced bowling All-rounder Tim Bresnan comes to the squad while dropped for last match clash paceman Ben Hilfenhaus and hard hitting batsman Michael Hill come into the 13-man squad in place of Darren Sammy,Joe Mennie and Timm van der.This will also be Alex Hales last match in League before he joins England team for World Cup Preparations. Renegades will also be missing two of their West Indies players Dwayne Bravo, Andre Russell who are gone for international duties.And Renegades have bring All rounders for All rounders in squad. Shakib Al Hasan, Ben Stokes will replace them.
Fast bowler James Pattinson is injured and Peter Siddle is released by Australian Cricket Board to join Renegades.
After the Last Match performance of vulnerable Melbourne Renegade side its very hard to see them improve so soon to achieve win.Though the new inclusions are promising specially leftarmer spin of Shakib will be exciting to see.Skipper Finch will need to step up with a impact performance to boost team confidence while hosts will not be looking to try too different things here and with the tournament already having some surprising outcomes we expecte one more here from Renegades side with some surprising performance.
Prediction - Melbourne Renegades to win!!