Adelaide Strikers

And it's 2026.

We don't want to join and follow a new team again if a new investor comes in and goes, we're going to change the Adelaide Strikers to the Adelaide Super Kings or whatever it ends up being.

And we become yellow and blue.

That's not what...

I'm just looking at his list of clubs here he's played for.

Uh, the Adelaide Strikers, that's way back in BBL 6.

Then he played with the Thunder.

He played with the Scorchers.

[chuckles] Um, it's, it's always a bit different, the perspectives.

Um, and I noticed Gemma Barsby, who for a long time played for the Adelaide Strikers of the WBBL, I, did I read right? She's going to the Sydney Thunder, Manners.

That's a good signing.

So there you go.

...

he was at the Adelaide Strikers in-

Yeah

... you know, um, many years ago.

There's plenty going on upstairs and on the calendar.

The Adelaide Strikers have a new recruit.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I got a new housemate.

And I think the competition can really turn into, like, a powerhouse one and where it should be, and it's probably not where it wants to be at the minute.

And, um, I look forward over the next few years hopefully that changing, and, and, and Stokesy's the start of that.

So well done to the Adelaide Strikers.

Exactly.

How do you reckon it'll go? Do you reckon, uh, the Aussie fans will, uh, will warm to him?

[laughs] I mean, it's the same with Ben Stokes and, uh, the Adelaide Strikers, right?

Yeah.

I mean, I've spoken to a few, um, friends of mine who are massive Strikers fans who are going, "Ugh." They, they're kind of divided i-in their head in terms of like, you know, they're so used to booing Ben Stokes, but I guess in a couple of months' time, they might have to go to the Adelaide Oval...