The second version of the BBL draft offered some attention-grabbing techniques and themes on Sunday evening and groups appeared to have a greater deal with on the draft mechanics and their very own methods after the novelty and unknowns of final yr's inaugural draft. Here are six of the important thing takeaways.

Availability wasn't a significant fear

All the discuss coming into the draft was that BBL golf equipment would prioritise the supply of abroad gamers above all else to the purpose the place a number of golf equipment hinted they'd solely take ILT20 gamers who may play all 10 house and away video games, as an alternative of gamers signed up for the SA20 that begins earlier in January, or gamers who had been prone to have worldwide responsibility through the BBL. That state of affairs didn't eventuate.

Three golf equipment solely take two abroad

The WBBL draft was suffering from passes within the third and fourth rounds as seven of the eight golf equipment solely took two abroad gamers because of the bespoke direct nomination rule. There was the same spate of passes within the BBL draft regardless of no such rule being in play. But golf equipment had been allowed to take solely two abroad after which signal a 3rd at a later stage, offered the participant had nominated for the draft. Melbourne Renegades, Perth Scorchers and Sydney Thunder all took this feature. The main motive for less than taking two gamers is flexibility.

One of the negatives of the draft from a membership perspective is that they're locked into signing a participant in September when a lot can change when it comes to accidents and availability between now and the beginning of the event in December. The detrimental from the BBL's perspective is the later rounds of the draft can fall flat when there are extra passes than anticipated. It could also be one thing the BBL wants to have a look at subsequent yr.

Loyalty stays valued regardless of retention being examined

Eight gamers - Vince, Munro, Billings, Rauf, Adam Hose, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Alex Hales, and Laurie Evans - returned to their earlier membership and not using a retention choose wanted. Only two had been used to retain Rashid and Curran, and solely 4 gamers - Hain, Jordan, Brook and Crawley - had been chosen by a brand new membership. Despite the BBL wanting extra participant motion, loyalty, familiarity, and tradition stay robust forces among the many BBL golf equipment in choosing abroad gamers.

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