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Name
Australian Big Bash League

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Established
2011 (13 years old)

First Recorded Event
2011-12-16

Current Season
2024-2025

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Cricket

Location
Australia

Gender
Male

TV Rights
US - Willow [2018-2022]

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26 Dec	Sydney Sixer	-	Melbourne St	7:05am
26 Dec	Perth Scorch	-	Brisbane Hea	10:15am
27 Dec	Adelaide Str	-	Hobart Hurri	8:15am
28 Dec	Sydney Thund	-	Melbourne St	8:15am
29 Dec	Brisbane Hea	-	Sydney Sixer	8:15am
30 Dec	Sydney Thund	-	Melbourne Re	8:15am
31 Dec	Adelaide Str	-	Perth Scorch	8:15am
01 Jan	Hobart Hurri	-	Sydney Sixer	5:00am
01 Jan	Brisbane Hea	-	Melbourne St	8:15am
02 Jan	Melbourne Re	-	Adelaide Str	8:15am
Results
23 Dec	Melbourne Re	143 - 144	Perth Scorch
22 Dec	Brisbane Hea	174 - 175	Adelaide Str
21 Dec	Hobart Hurri	156 - 155	Perth Scorch
21 Dec	Sydney Sixer	164 - 163	Sydney Thund
20 Dec	Adelaide Str	165 - 150	Melbourne St
19 Dec	Melbourne Re	78 - 74	Hobart Hurri
18 Dec	Melbourne St	162 - 163	Brisbane Hea
17 Dec	Sydney Thund	183 - 182	Adelaide Str
16 Dec	Sydney Sixer	169 - 172	Melbourne Re
15 Dec	Perth Scorch	150 - 146	Melbourne St

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The Big Bash League (known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, often abbreviated to BBL or Big Bash) is an Australian professional franchise Twenty20 cricket league, which was established in 2011 by Cricket Australia. The Big Bash League replaced the previous competition, the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, and features eight city-based franchises instead of the six state teams which had participated previously. The competition has been sponsored by fast food-chicken outlet KFC since its inception. It is one of the two T20 cricket leagues, alongside the Indian Premier League, to feature amongst the top ten domestic sport leagues in average attendance. The winner of BBL 10 (2020/2021) was the Sydney Sixers who beat the Perth Scorchers by 27 runs in the final. The Sydney Sixers successfully defended the title after winning it in the 2019/2020 season, after defeating the Melbourne Stars.

BBL matches are played in Australia during the summer; in December, January and February.

Out of the eight teams in the tournament, six have won the title at least once. The Perth Scorchers and the Sydney Sixers are the most successful teams in the league's short history, both having won the title three times including consecutively for two years. The other four teams which have won the title are the Adelaide Strikers, Melbourne Renegades, Brisbane Heat and Sydney Thunder. The current champions are the Sydney Sixers defeating the Perth Scorchers on 6 February 2021 at the Sydney Cricket Ground by 27 runs.

Before 2014, the top two teams in the tournament used to qualify for the Champions League Twenty20 tournament, which was an annual international Twenty20 competition played between the top domestic teams from various nations; it became defunct after the 2014 tournament.

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