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Chairman:
  
Eddie McGuire

Capacity:
  
100,024

CLT20 wins:
  
Nil

Coach
  
Stephen Fleming

Color
  
Green

Founded
  
2011

Colours:
  
Green

BBL wins:
  
Nil

Captain
  
David Hussey

Arena/Stadium
  
Melbourne Cricket Ground

Chairperson
  
Eddie McGuire


Home ground:
  
Melbourne Cricket Ground

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The Melbourne Stars is an Australian Twenty20 cricket team based in Melbourne, Victoria that competes in Australia's Twenty20 competition, the Big Bash League. The Stars wear a green uniform and play their home matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the largest cricket stadium in the world.

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They are currently captained by Australian David Hussey and coached by former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming.

Mascot

Melbourne Stars Optus jumps in with 25 year sponsorship deal with Melbourne Stars

Starman & Starlet are the official mascots of the Melbourne Stars. In BBL|05 the Stars introduced a secondary mascot Steven Seagull after a seagull was struck with a cricket ball hit by Adam Voges during a Melbourne Stars and Perth Scorchers match in BBL|04 while the Stars were fielding.

Rivalries

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  • The Melbourne Derby – When the league began in 2011, Cricket Australia decided they would place two teams in Melbourne. With the core group of players for both sides coming from the Victoria cricket team, this rivalry automatically became widely anticipated in Melbourne. The derby between the new two teams Melbourne Stars and Melbourne Renegades quickly became hugely popular with big crowds flocking in to the derby matches at both of the MCG and the Docklands Stadium in Melbourne. In the fifth season, during the first leg of the two derbies at the MCG, it drew a record crowd of 80,883 which is the highest crowd for any domestic cricket match ever in the history of the sport.

    • Sponsors

    Melbourne Stars are sponsored by Optus, and National Storage in BBL06.

    BBL Sponsors:

    WBBL Sponsors:

    Women's Team

    The Melbourne Stars WBBL team is captained by Meg Lanning.

    Domestic


  • Big Bash:
  • Champions (0):
  • Runners-Up (1): 2015–16
  • Minor Premiers (1): 2013–14
  • Finals Series Appearances (6): 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
  • Wooden Spoons (0):

    • Imported players


  • Jade Dernbach – England (2011)
  • Luke Wright – England (2011–present)
  • Lasith Malinga – Sri Lanka (2012–2013)
  • Dimitri Mascarenhas – England (2012)
  • Mohammad Hafeez – Pakistan (2013)
  • Kevin Pietersen – England (2014–present)

    • Notable Fans

  • Andy Lee
  • Waleed Aly
  • Tom Turner
  • Niall Horan

    • References

    Melbourne Stars Wikipedia
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