Melbourne Stars vs Sydney Sixers Prediction: Sixers have not lost last eight games against Stars

Melbourne Stars will welcome Sydney Sixers in the 31st game of the Big Bash League at Melbourne Cricket Ground. The away side has dominated Melbourne in Big Bash League. Will this domination continue or will Melbourne conjure up something to end it?

Melbourne Stars Form

The Stars are not having a good capaign in the BBL. They are sitting at the bottom of the table with four points in seven games. They lost the most recent game by 33 runs against Renegades. Melbourne were good with ball in the hand restricting Renegades to only 141 runs with Trent Boult and Luke Wood getting two wickets to their name. They were not good with the bat though with only Nick Larkin standing at the end with undefeated 48 runs to see his side lose the game by 33 runs. The Stars will take the field with a motivation to get out of the bottom of the table.

Melbourne Stars Predicted lineup

HWR Cartwright, Nick Larkin, MP Stoinis, Campbell Kellaway, Tom Rogers, BJ Webster, JM Clarke, Trent Boult, NM Coulter-Nile, L Wood, A Zampa(C)

Sydney Sixers Form

The Sixers are enjoying a great BBL. After losing their first game, they bounced back and are doing fairly well in the competition. Moises Henriques lead side is sitting in third place with nine points. The last game against Brisbane Heat was washed down due to rain but they were attacked by Heats' batters scoring 147 runs in 13 overs. The Sixers will need to iron up their bowling before going up against the Stars.

Sydney Sixer's possible lineup

Daniel Hughes, JC Silk, JM Vince, Sean Abbott, DT Christian, Moises Henriques(C), Hayden Kerr, JR Philippe, Ben Dwarshuis, CJ Jordan, Izharulhaq Naveed

Melbourne Stars vs Sydney Sixers expert tips

The pitch will be lively and will assist the batters. The average score of the team batting first is 194 runs in the last five games which indicated this game will be a huge scoring one as well. Sixers have dominated Stars in the last eight meetings in the competition and we expect the same form to continue in this game as well.