The Melbourne Renegades have named a 14-player squad for their opening match of BBL|15, with five players in line to make their club debut in Monday’s showdown with the Heat at Geelong’s GMHBA Stadium.<\/p>\n
Off-season recruits Jason Behrendorff, Muhammad Rizwan and Caleb Jewell are all named in a Renegades squad for the first time, alongside recently signed pair Andrew Tye and Matthew Spoors.<\/p>\n
Captain Will Sutherland will lead a strong core of returning players, with explosive batters Jake Fraser-McGurk, Josh Brown and Tim Seifert set to play key roles at the top of the order alongside Rizwan.<\/p>\n
Young guns Ollie Peake and Harry Dixon add further firepower, entering the season as familiar faces to Renegades fans after making strong impressions across recent campaigns.<\/p>\n
All-round depth comes through Hassan Khan and Spoors, providing flexibility with both bat and ball, while the bowling attack is bolstered by significant experience, with Behrendorff and Tye forming a versatile pace group alongside Gurinder Sandhu and Fergus O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n
Two notable omissions from the opening squad include Adam Zampa who is unavailable for personal reasons and Tom Rogers who continues to make steady progress in his recovery from a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n
The Final XI will be confirmed at the toss.<\/p>\n
Melbourne Renegades’ Squad v Brisbane Heat<\/p>\n
Will Sutherland (C)
Jason Behrendorff
Josh Brown
Harry Dixon
Jake Fraser-McGurk
Caleb Jewell
Hassan Khan
Fergus O\u2019Neill
Ollie Peake
Muhammad Rizwan
Gurinder Sandhu
Tim Seifert
Matthew Spoors
Andrew Tye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Melbourne Renegades have named a 14-player squad for their opening match of BBL|15, with five players in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-347635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}