The Ground: The Sydney Cricket Ground offers a distinctive playing surface with short square boundaries (65-68m) contrasted against long straight boundaries (~79m). The venue has hosted 80 BBL matches with an average combined score of 281.83 runs, placing it in the moderate-scoring category.

The Pitch: This is perhaps the most spin friendly grounds in Australia. The pitch slows down in the 2nd innings, hence favoring the team batting first a little. Spinners enjoy bowling here with an economy of 7.16. Opening batsmen have a good success rate here with 37% of total team runs being scored by the openers across last 6 seasons.

Weather: Clear skies are expected with a 5% rain chance. Dew often comes in here in the 2nd innings.

Bowling: Leg Spinners and Left Arm Pacers do well at this venue and both teams have decent spinners. Sydney have Jaffer Chohan and Todd Murphy, both quality spinners. Adelaide will look to Lloyd Pope to bowl well. Sixer's bowling is much more balanced than Adelaide.

Batting: Overall it is a good batting wicket for those batsmen who build their innings. With a 50% boundary percentage, almost half of the team runs come in singles and doubles. Openers do well here as the ball comes on to the bat nicely early on in the innings. Adelaide have an explosive top order while Sixers bat deep with a clutch of all rounders. For adelaide, they will again look forward to Lynn and Short to give them a good start. Sixers welcome back veteran Jordan Silk, which adds depth to their batting.

Teams: Sixers play well at their home. Adelaide have been troubled by their weaker middle order batting in the last few seasons.

Toss Advantage : As per the ground stats, toss is not important at this venue. Teams batting 1st have a slight advantage and in the last 6 seasons, 16 matches have been won by batting 1st and 12 by batting 2nd. Anything over 180 should be defended and anything under 155 should be chased here.

Match Prediction: Considering all factors, Sydney Sixers are favorites to win today in a medium scoring match. We should see scores in the range of 160-170 in the 1st innings. 165 is the average 1st innings score here in the last 10-15 matches. Adelaide are heavily dependant on their top order for making runs whereas Sixers are a much more balanced team. They also have a very good home record.