Perth Scorchers fast bowler Lance Morris is hopeful a string of early home matches in KFC BBL|16 can get the Club\u2019s title defence off to a fast start.<\/p>\n
The Scorchers bid for a seventh BBL title will commence with a landmark clash against Melbourne Renegades at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Saturday 12 December.<\/p>\n
After returning from the historic clash in India, the Scorchers will finish the month with three home games at The Furnace.<\/p>\n
Hobart Hurricanes, Melbourne Stars and Sydney Thunder will venture west for matches against the reigning champions on Sunday 20 December, Saturday 26 December and Wednesday 30 December respectively.<\/p>\n
Morris said the fixture provided the Scorchers a golden opportunity to build early momentum.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got an awesome opportunity to play some exciting cricket in front of our home crowd that offers a pretty big advantage,\u201d Morris told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe like to think Optus is a bit of fortress for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we will be well placed after having a decent stint at home.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Scorchers will play two games at Optus Stadium in the New Year against Brisbane Heat and Melbourne Renegades on Monday 4 January and Wednesday 13 January.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s fixture release follows the announcement of the season opener in Chennai last week, which will be the first BBL game played outside of Australia.<\/p>\n
Morris said the Scorchers would be well suited to playing in Indian conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been fortunate enough to travel over there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we are also lucky enough to have some guys that have played IPL cricket recently and done well in Ingo (Josh Inglis), Cooper Connolly and Mitch Marsh.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving those players to lean on for advice will go a long way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two trips to Sydney and one to both Brisbane and Adelaide await the Scorchers in the second half of the tournament between 2 and 16 January.<\/p>\n
Morris said he was looking forward to the opportunity to being back in orange this season after missing BBL|15.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t get to play last year, but being at home games felt like the team culture was in a really good place,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Everyone is enjoying playing for the Perth Scorchers.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perth Scorchers fast bowler Lance Morris is hopeful a string of early home matches in KFC BBL|16 can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-801623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801623","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=801623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}