What are your ladder predictions for this season? (Including changes after finals)
Mine would be
Heat
Stars
Strikers
Thunder
Hurricanes
Renegades
Scorchers
Sixers
Fairly even teams though except for Scorchers and Sixers who have poor batting line ups with average batsmen and virtually zero depth.
Heat are a good chance with a lot of big hitters and fast scorers. Christian Lynn Reardon Milenko Cutting Flintoff Burns Hopes. Lots of all-rounders so they've have a long batting line up as well as having good bowlers with international experience.
I'm interested to see how the thunder go. Because on paper they've got a very good team this season. Good batting with Kallis Morgan Hussey Blizzard McDonald and good bowling with Cummins Nannes Sandhu and Hauritz. What's going to hurt them is having Chris Hartley in the team who is a terrible t20 batsman. If he plays they're basically playing with 10 players. Jake Doran does some keeping he'd be a better option.