"But my main focus and this does sound cheesy and cliché, but my main focus is the Renegades.”

Apart from representing the Renegades, Gurney has far more to celebrate with another Christmas and New Year in Australia. 

His wife and son will join him again, which will help with settling back into Melbourne life. He describes the city has feeling like home and will meet up with friends. 

There is a connection between his UK team, Nottinghamshire, and Victoria so has made friendships with players in the state.

Having already played a season in the BBL, Gurney enjoys the variety that playing in the different states brings.

In his comments about other cities, Gurney was quick not to take the line Kevin Pietersen did about Brisbane: “I like everywhere I’ve been in Australia.

"My overriding memory of Brisbane is it is incredibly hot and humid. But then, you go down to somewhere like Hobart, and it’s a lot quieter, but the scenery is just incredible.

"And then Sydney and Melbourne are obviously a lot more built up and cosmopolitan, and I love that as well.”

While putting in stellar performances in BBL08, Gurney attracted comments from Mark Waugh on the TV commentary.  Waugh described Gurney as looking like ‘Mr Bean’. 

Gurney was quick to agree and said himself he was a “professional cricketer playing with a 50-year-old accountant's body."

“Anyone that follows me on social media will know that I’m pretty thick-skinned and certainly took offence whatsoever to his comments," he told Inside Sport. "It was good-natured, and I had no issues with it at all, it was all banter as far as I’m concerned.

“You know, as I said a couple of times before, I grew up watching Mark Waugh play for Australia, so it’s still surreal for me having people like him, or Ricky Ponting sat in the commentary talking about me.

"So whether they’re calling me Mr Bean and saying I should be playing fourth grade or praising me, to have them sitting in the commentary talking about me is hugely flattering really.”

Gurney’s laid-back approach and white-ball prowess could help the Renegades go back-to-back.

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