Glenn Maxwell is taking his Big Bash talents to the bush

THE Big Bash is going bush after confirmation the Melbourne Stars will move another home game away from the MCG this summer to play a historic match for points in Moe. The Stars will clash with the Adelaide Strikers at Moe’s Ted Summerton Reserve, which can accommodate up to 10,000 spectators, on January 23. It means the Stars will play just five of 14 games in the expanded BBL fixture list at the MCG having also locked in a home game at Metricon Stadium on the Gold Coast against the Sydney Thunder.
Two gaps were left in the BBL schedule when it was announced, one for each Melbourne team, with the Stars now going to Moe and cross-town rivals the Renegades likely to take one game to Geelong. The Stars are yet to confirm their captain for this campaign, after John Hastings left to join the Sydney Sixers, and the two international players to replace Kevin Pietersen and Luke Wright have not been announced.It’s believed English leg-spinner Adil Rashid and West Indian star Dwayne Bravo are likely to fill take those spots.

Root, Buttler Join Sydney Thunder for Big Bash League 2018-19

England's Test captain Joe Root and vice-captain Jos Buttler have agreed a deal to play for Sydney Thunder in the first half of the 2018-19 Big Bash League.Both players will be available for seven games that fall between England's winter tours to Sri Lanka and the West Indies.Root went unsold in the lucrative Indian Premier League auction in January and has played just 12 T20 matches since
England's defeat by West Indies in the World T20 final in April 2016 due to a combination of his Test commitments and poor form.By contrast, Buttler is one of most in demand players in the world in the short form of the game and is fresh from hitting his first Test century in England's third test defeat to India.Buttler starred for the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL this year and returns to Sydney Thunder after scoring 202 runs in six innings during last year's Big Bash.

Joe Root and Jos Buttler agree Sydney Thunder stint

England Test captain Joe Root and vice-captain Jos Buttler will play for Sydney Thunder in this winter's Twenty20 Big Bash League in Australia. Root has not played in an overseas T20 competition before and the 27-year-old went unsold in the Indian Premier League auction in January.Buttler, also 27, played six times for the Thunder in 2017-18 and previously played for Melbourne Renegades.The 2018-19 Big Bash runs from 18 December to 17 February.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has cleared Root and Buttler to play in the first half of the tournament as it falls between winter tours to Sri Lanka and West Indies.Root has played only 12 T20 matches since England's defeat by West Indies in the World Twenty20 final in April 2016, with eight for his country and four for Yorkshire.He was rested for the T20 tri-series against Australia and New Zealand earlier this year and dropped for the deciding T20 against India in July.