Tasmania play Victoria in the seventh game of the KFC Big Bash tournament at Hobart on Tuesday, January 11.

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Six matches into the KFC Big Bash T20 this season, and all the sides have played two games and won one. This makes the remaining four games that each side plays rather important for all the six teams in the competition, and makes it a more open tournament than the previous years.

Victoria (1/1 at Stan James) are the defending champions but their loss to South Australia was a big one. None of the Victorian batsmen, save Cameron White showed any spine in their chase against South Australia and Tasmania will look to take advantage of that chink in the armour – chasing good totals.

All but one game in the tournament have been won by the team batting first but the one that was lost was when Tasmania were bowled out for 118 against Queensland. They will depend heavily on the runs from Tim Paine, whose confidence would have rocketed up after being appointed the captain of the Australian Prime Minister’s XI side.

The other batsman who would look to get going in the tournament will be Mark Cosgrove, after having had a couple of ordinary games so far. Travis Birt is another player who will look to show his newly found IPL franchise, Delhi Daredevils, his worth and he should be another key player for the Tasmanian Tigers.

Victoria, on the other hand, will look to ensure that their batting does as good as it had in the previous editions. With players like Cameron White, David Hussey and Brad Hodge in their line-up, it isn’t much of a surprise that they have been doing well in the competition. However, a loss to Tasmania will make qualification difficult for the Bushrangers and it will be interesting to see how this much-vaunted batting line-up performs under pressure.

Tasmania may not be favourites (11/10 at SportingBet) to win this game but there isn’t much to choose from between the two teams given the stiffness of competition and the presence of foreign players like Ryan ten Doeschate and Rana Naved.