{"id":197032,"date":"2025-10-08T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197032\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:00:14","slug":"tasmanian-cricketer-nathan-ellis-welcomes-big-bash-final-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197032\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian cricketer Nathan Ellis welcomes \u2018Big Bash final\u2019 baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathan Ellis is making the most of time at home with his newborn son, knowing a punishing summer cricket schedule looms that will barely allow him time to catch his breath.<\/p>\n

The Australian fast bowler and Hobart Hurricanes skipper became a father on September 26 when partner Connie gave birth to \u201cBig Bash final baby\u201d Reggie Roy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been an amazing 10 days,\u201d Ellis said. \u201cDefinitely a bit of a deer in the headlights for the first few nights.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old missed three matches in New Zealand to be there for the birth, with Cricket Australia and Cricket Tasmania granting him compassionate leave.<\/p>\n

\"\"Nathan Ellis is the captain of the Hobart Hurricanes. Image \/ Instagram<\/p>\n

But the break is short-lived. A relentless schedule awaits with a home series against India, the Big Bash title defence, tours of Pakistan and a T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom now, for me personally, it\u2019s cricket, cricket, cricket,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Nathan Ellis acknowledges luck played a role in their BBL success. Image \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

The upcoming India series looms large, with Ellis set to play his first ODI cricket in Australia outside the Top End series \u2013 followed by five T20 internationals.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny time you play India, it\u2019s an exciting prospect,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re putting yourself up against the best in international cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n

A T20 match in Hobart carries extra meaning for the Tasmanian quick.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hold Hobart pretty close to my heart, so any chance I get to play down here for Australia, I circle that one in the calendar,\u201d Ellis said.<\/p>\n

As for defending the Big Bash crown, Ellis is keeping things in perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t look at us and say we\u2019re so much better than anyone else,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Nathan Ellis with his son Reggie Roy. Image \/ Instagram<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played some really good cricket. We had some luck. We won every game at home. I won a lot of tosses and we were really lucky with injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now in peak physical shape, Ellis credits better workload management after learning \u201cthe hard way\u201d about saying yes to everything.<\/p>\n

While shield cricket remains close to his heart, Ellis has made peace with his white-ball focus.<\/p>\n

\u201cTest cricket is probably not on the horizon, so my sole focus is to play for Australia for as long as I can in the T20 and the one-day space,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Ellis is making the most of time at home with his newborn son, knowing a punishing summer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-197032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}