The 2014–15 Big Bash League season or BBL|04 was the fourth season of the Big Bash League (BBL), the top-class Twenty20 cricket competition in Australia. The season ran from 18 December 2014 to 28 January 2015, two weeks longer than the previous season.
Perth Scorchers won back-to-back titles by defeating Sydney Sixers by four wickets in the final. It was hosted at Canberra's Manuka Oval. Jacques Kallis of Sydney Thunder was named Player of the Tournament, scoring 235 runs and taking six wickets, and Jason Behrendorff of Perth Scorchers was named Young Gun of the Tournament after taking 15 wickets.
Squads Adelaide StrikersBrisbane HeatHobart HurricanesMelbourne RenegadesMelbourne StarsPerth ScorchersSydney SixersSydney Thunder Johan Botha (c) Jono Dean Travis Head Brad Hodge Jon Holland Hamish Kingston Ben Laughlin Trent Lawford Tim Ludeman Kieron Pollard Gary Putland Kane Richardson Alex Ross Chadd Sayers Craig Simmons Shaun Tait Ryan ten Doeschate Adam Zampa Michael Neser James Hopes (c) James Bazley Joe Burns Daniel Christian Ben Cutting Ryan Duffield Andrew Flintoff Jason Floros Peter Forrest Cameron Gannon Mitchell Johnson Chris Lynn Alister McDermott Simon Milenko Jimmy Peirson Nathan Reardon Mark Steketee Daniel Vettori Shane Watson Samuel Badree Nick Buchanan George Bailey (c) Travis Birt Cameron Boyce Tim Bresnan Xavier Doherty Ben Dunk Evan Gulbis Alex Hales Ben Hilfenhaus Michael Hill Ryan Lees Joe Mennie Dom Michael Tim Paine Sam Rainbird Jake Reed Darren Sammy Shoaib Malik Timm van der Gugten Beau Webster Jonathan Wells Sean Willis Shakib Al Hasan Aaron Finch (c) Ben Ashkenazi Tom Beaton Dwayne Bravo Tom Cooper Alex Doolan Fawad Ahmed Andrew Fekete Callum Ferguson Jayde Herrick Peter Nevill Aaron O'Brien James Pattinson Nathan Rimmington Ben Rohrer Andre Russell Jesse Ryder Matthew Short Lega Siaka Peter Siddle Matthew Wade Nicholas Winter Cameron White (c) Michael Beer Jackson Bird Scott Boland James Faulkner Luke Feldman Peter Handscomb John Hastings David Hussey Alex Keath Clint McKay Glenn Maxwell Kevin Pietersen Rob Quiney Clive Rose Marcus Stoinis Daniel Worrall Luke Wright Adam Voges (c) Ashton Agar Jason Behrendorff Michael Carberry Hilton Cartwright Nathan Coulter-Nile Brad Hogg Michael Klinger Simon Mackin Mitchell Marsh Shaun Marsh James Muirhead Joel Paris Ashton Turner Andrew Tye Sam Whiteman Yasir Arafat Brad Haddin (c) Sean Abbott Josh Anderson Doug Bollinger Ryan Carters Trent Copeland Ben Dwarshuis Moises Henriques Brett Lee Michael Lumb Nathan Lyon Nic Maddinson Steve O'Keefe Jordan Silk Steve Smith Mitchell Starc Riki Wessels Michael Hussey (c) Ahillen Beadle Aiden Blizzard Pat Cummins Jake Doran Chris Green Chris Hartley Nathan Hauritz Daniel Hughes Jacques Kallis Craig Kieswetter Josh Lalor Andrew McDonald Eoin Morgan Dirk Nannes Kurtis Patterson Gurinder Sandhu Chris Tremain Usman Khawaja
League stage There were 32 matches played during the group stage of the fourth edition of the Big Bash League.Big Bash League 2014-15 To address poor attendances and late finishing matches most matches started half an hour earlier, with matches in this time slot now 07:10pm AEDST. However, some matches including the final still started at 07:40pm AEDST.
Points table
Match summary
Matches
Play-offs
Semi-final 1 The top four teams from the group stage qualified for the semi-finals.
Semi-final 2
Final The winners of the 2 semi-finals qualified for the finals.
Statistics +Most runsPlayer Team Runs Michael Klinger Perth Scorchers 326 Kevin Pietersen Melbourne Stars 293 Nic Maddinson Sydney Sixers 284 Jordan Silk Sydney Sixers 272 Michael Carberry Perth Scorchers 266
+Most wicketsPlayer Team Wickets John Hastings Melbourne Stars 16 Jason Behrendorff Perth Scorchers 15 Yasir Arafat Perth Scorchers 15 Andrew Tye Perth Scorchers 14 Two players 13 Source: BigBash
References
External links Official fixtures Big Bash League, 2014/15 on ESPN Cricinfo