Final Word: Captains, weather, super PODs, Rd 11

Round 10 of Supercoach BBL started and ended in a flash, with four games in two days. It was a strange week where I found lots of teams were stuck with an unfavourable line-up filled with batting only option. This of course deters from the general strategy in loading your squads with allrounders and bowlers who are far safer players. The reason being for the large number of batter-only picks was that a stack of injuries and resting’s in the past week altered trade plans quite substantially. Also, with the likes Steve Smith, David Warner, Travis Head and Alex Carey returning, there were some popular trade-in options from the batt