The cricket fans are ready to witness yet another big battle of BBL T20. The 3rd Match of Big Bash League 2020-21 is scheduled to play between Melbourne Stars and Sydney Thunder on Saturday, 12th December 2020 at Manuka Oval, Canberra. We are posting safe, accurate, and secure today match prediction for all matches of BBL free.

Melbourne Stars was the best top-performing team of the previous season of BBL T20 till the league stage. They won 10 out of 14 matches and were leading the points table after the end of league stage matches. They were beaten by Sydney Sixers in the qualifier match but they beat Sydney Thunder in the Challenger match and made their way to the final but were beaten by Sydney Sixers in the grand final of BBL 9. They had acquired the services of some giants players of the T20 format of cricket and are known as one of the best teams of this tournament. Glenn Maxwell is going to leading this team who is in excellent form as we had observed in the recent series against India.

The batting order of Melbourne Stars is strong at least on papers. Clint Hinchliffe, Nic Maddinson, Will Pucovski, Nick Larkin, Hilton Cartwright, Marcus Stoinis, Ben Dunk, Nicholas Pooran, and Andre Fletcher will be leading the batting order of the Stars with the skipper Glenn Maxwell. Like the batting, the bowling unit of Melbourne Stars is also strong as compared to the other teams. Nathan Coulter-Nile, Lance Morris, Tom O Connell, Billy Stanlake, Adam Zampa, Zahir Khan, Jackson Coleman, Dilbar Hussain, and Liam Hatcher are going to lead the bowling department of the Stars.

The performance of the Sydney Thunder was not impressive in this previous edition of the Big Bash League. They could manage to win just six out of 14 matches played at the league stage. They were laying at the 5th position on the points table after the end of the league stage matches. The management of the Thunder had made some changes in their squad for this edition of the BBL T20. Callum Ferguson is going to lead this team. The batting order of this team is strong at least on papers. Alex Hales, Usman Khawaja, Alex Ross, Jason Sangha, Oliver Davies, and Arjun Nair are going to lead the batting order of the Thunder.

Matthew Gilkes, Sam Billings, and Baxter Holt are the wicket-keeper batsmen for the Sydney Thunder. The bowling unit of the Thunder is good at least on papers. Ben Cutting, Chris Green, Daniel Sams, Jonathan Cook, Brendan Doggett, Nathan McAndrew, Tanveer Sangha, Chris Tremain, and Adam Milne have to lead the bowling unit of the Thunder.

Melbourne Stars are also overall a strong team as compared to the Sydney Thunder at least on papers. According to our match prediction, Melbourne Stars are the favorite team who will win this match. There are many factors that make Melbourne Stars a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• Melbourne Stars have a strong batting order in the side
• Melbourne Stars have a strong bowling unit in the side which is in excellent form
• Sydney Thunder will be playing without some of its key batsmen who are on national duty
• Both teams have a strong batting order on the side at least on papers

Melbourne Stars is full of experienced and young players of the t20 format. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitter of the t20 format is part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today match for Melbourne Stars have been increased. The equation of who will win today cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

Melbourne Stars have a 56% chance to win this match
Sydney Thunder has 44% chances to win this match

The toss will play an important role in the decision of all matches of Big Bash League. Having a good total on the board is always a big advantage in these kinds of big matches. According to our toss prediction, the team who will win the toss may choose to bat first.

The 3rd Match of Big Bash League 2020-21 is going to be held at the Manuka Oval, Canberra. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting. The track is slower than the others we have seen and helps the spinners quite a bit. We are hoping that the surface is bound to get slower and be a bit more difficult for batting in this match. A score of 185 is going to be tough to chase.

The weather forecast in Canberra is predicting some clouds around on match day but the weather forecast does not predict rain. We should be able to have a full uninterrupted match.

Dream11 Prediction for Melbourne Stars vs Sydney Thunder, 3rd Match. After checking the latest player’s availability, the Dream 11 Team for this match of Melbourne Stars vs Sydney Thunder, is mentioned under.

Date: Saturday, 12th December 2020
Time: 05:05 AM GMT / 04:05 PM LOCAL / 10:35 AM IST

Stadium: Manuka Oval
Location: Canberra, Australia
Opened: 1929
Capacity: 13,550
Known as: Manuka Oval. Previously known as Manuka Circle Park
Dimensions: 179m long, 150m wide
Ends: Pool End, Mall End
Time Zone: UTC +11:00
Home to: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Pri
Other Sports: it is home to Australian Rules Football
Floodlights: Yes
Curator: Brad Van Dam

Total matches: 11
Matches won batting first: 5
Matches won bowling first: 5
Average 1st Inns scores: 151
Average 2nd Inns scores: 120
Highest total recorded: 195/3 (20 Ov) by RSAW vs THAIW
Lowest total recorded: 82/10 (19.1 Ov) by THAIW vs RSAW
Highest score chased: 151/3 (18.3 Ov) by AUS vs PAK
Lowest score defended: 161/7 (20 Ov) by IND vs AUS

Jonathan Cook, Ben Cutting, Oliver Davies, Brendan Doggett, Callum Ferguson (c), Matthew Gilkes, Chris Green, Alex Hales, Usman Khawaja, Nathan McAndrew, Arjun Nair, Alex Ross, Daniel Sams, Jason Sangha, Tanveer Sangha, Chris Tremain.