The 2018–19 Big Bash League season or BBL|08 was the eighth season of the KFC Big Bash League, the professional men's Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia. The tournament started on 19 December 2018. Adelaide Strikers were the defending champions. The competition was extended to a full home and away season for the first time, with each team playing each other twice at both a home venue and away venue. For this season of the tournament, the toss was replaced by a bat flip, with "roofs and flats" used instead of heads or tails.
Matches
Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to field. , Max Bryant (Brisbane Heat) made his T20 debut. , Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Brisbane Heat) made 27 runs, the highest score by a number 11 batsman in T20's and in the history of BBL. , Jimmy Peirson and Mujeeb Ur Rahman (Brisbane Heat) made the highest last wicket partnership (of 45) in the history of BBL.
Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field. , Will Sutherland (Melbourne Renegades) made his T20 debut.
Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field. , Melbourne Stars were set a target of 90 runs from 8 overs due to rain. , Travis Dean (Melbourne Stars) made his T20 debut.
Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to bat. , Jack Edwards and Lloyd Pope (Sydney Sixers) both made their T20 debuts.
Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field. , Match was reduced to 19 overs per side due to rain.
Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field. , Cameron Valente (Adelaide Strikers) made his T20 debut.
Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field.
Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field. , Jonathan Cook (Sydney Thunder) made his T20 debut.
Perth Scorchers won the toss and elected to field.
Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.
Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field.
Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field. , Mackenzie Harvey (Melbourne Renegades) and Ben Manenti (Sydney Sixers) both made their T20 debuts.
Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field.
Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to bat.
Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field. , Justin Avendano (Sydney Sixers) made his T20 debut.
Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field. , Jonathan Merlo (Melbourne Stars) made his T20 debut.
Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to bat.
Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.
Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field.
Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to bat.
Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.
Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to bat.
Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.
Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to field. , Rain stopped play during Sydney Thunder's innings.
Perth Scorchers won the toss and elected to field. , Aaron Hardie (Perth Scorchers) made his T20 debut.
Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.
Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.
Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to bat.
Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.
Perth Scorchers won the toss and elected to field. , Cameron Green (Perth Scorchers) made his T20 debut.
Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field. , Tom O'Connell (Melbourne Stars) made his T20 debut.
Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.
Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to bat. , Jack Prestwidge (Brisbane Heat) made his T20 debut. , A flood light failure stopped play during Brisbane Heat's innings.
Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field. , David Moody (Hobart Hurricanes) made his T20 debut.
Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field.
Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.
Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to bat.
Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to field.
Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to field.
Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field. , Josh Philippe scored the highest individual score for the Sixers in BBL history with 86*, surpassing Daniel Hughes and Nic Maddinson, who had both previously scored 85. , Philippe and James Vince also scored the highest second-wicket partnership in BBL history, scoring 167*. This was also the highest partnership for any wicket by the Sixers.
Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to field. , Nick Hobson (Perth Scorchers) and Matthew Gilkes (Sydney Thunder) both made their T20 debuts.
Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.
Perth Scorchers won the toss and elected to field.
Hobart Hurricanes won the toss and elected to field. , Jarrod Freeman (Hobart Hurricanes) made his T20 debut.
Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field.
Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to bat. , Baxter Holt (Sydney Thunder) made his T20 debut.
Adelaide Strikers won the toss and elected to field.
Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field. , Matthew Kuhnemann (Brisbane Heat) and Clint Hinchliffe (Perth Scorchers) both made their T20 debuts. , Josh Lalor (Brisbane Heat) took a hat-trick. , Chris Lynn (Brisbane Heat) became the leading run-scorer in the Big Bash League with 1,945 runs.
Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field. , Sydney Sixers were set a revised target of 124 runs from 19 overs due to rain. This was further reduced to 84 runs from 12 overs.
Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.
Melbourne Stars won the toss and elected to field. , Michael Klinger (Perth Scorchers) regained his record of the leading run-scorer in the Big Bash League with 1,947 runs. Chris Lynn of the Brisbane Heat had over taken Klinger two nights prior.
Melbourne Renegades won the toss and elected to field.
Brisbane Heat won the toss and elected to field.
Perth Scorchers won the toss and elected to bat.
Sydney Thunder won the toss and elected to field. , The match was reduced to 19 overs per side due to rain.
Sydney Sixers won the toss and elected to field.
TV audience
This was the first BBL season featuring the new cricket broadcasting rights deal made between Cricket Australia, Fox Sports Australia and Seven Network. Fox Sports broadcast all 59 matches from the BBL season on their new Fox Cricket channel, with 16 of those broadcast exclusively. Channel Seven will be broadcasting 43 matches, including all finals fixtures. For these 43 matches Channel Seven were the “Host Broadcaster” and did the toss and player of the match.
League matches broadcast by both Fox Cricket and Channel Seven. , League matches broadcast exclusively by Fox Cricket. , Semi-finals and final broadcast by both Fox Cricket and Channel Seven.
