The 2016–17 Big Bash League season or BBL, 06 was the sixth season of the KFC

Big Bash League The Big Bash League (BBL), also known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Australia. Established in 2011 by Cricket Australia, the Big Bash League replaced the previous competitio ...

, the professional men's

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domestic

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competition in Australia. The tournament ran from 20 December 2016 to 28 January 2017. The format of the tournament was identical to previous seasons with each team played eight group-stage matches, four at home and four away, before the top four ranked teams progressed to the semi-finals.

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won the title, defeating

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by nine wickets in the final to claim their third title.

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was named player of the tournament for the second consecutive season, scoring 309 runs from just five matches. The leading run-scorer was Ben Dunk of

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, who scored 364 runs over the season. The leading wicket-taker was

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of Sydney Sixers, who took 20 wickets from ten matches. He was also named the best player under 25 in the tournament.

Pre-season

League stage

A total of 32 matches were played during the group stage.

Points table

Match summary

Matches

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Play-offs

Semi-final 1

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Semi-final 2

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Final

Statistics

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ESPNcricinfo
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TV audience

BBL games are currently broadcast in Australia by the free-to-air

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. Following are the television ratings for 2016–17 BBL season in Australia.Mediaweek Australia
twitter.com/MediaweekAUS. Retrieved on 21 December 2016 The Super Over of the second semi final match drew ratings of 1,720,000 nationally, and 1,250,000 in the 5 metro cities.Wed TV #BBLSemis #TENsport SF 2: Brisbane Heat v Sydney Sixers
twitter/MediaweekAUS. Retrieved on 26 January 2017

References

External links

Official fixtures
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2016–17 Big Bash League