{"id":372653,"date":"2025-12-26T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372653\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:54:09","slug":"sydney-sixers-vs-melbourne-stars-live-blog-updates-match-centre-teams-sean-abbott-returns-news-videos-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372653\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sixers vs Melbourne Stars live blog, updates, match centre, teams, Sean Abbott returns, news, videos, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stars weapon Tom Curran delivered a masterclass in new ball bowling, while the Sixers collapsed late in their innings to post a total of 144.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the order, Curran beat the bat three times and continued to back himself, pitching the fifth delivery of his first over up to a batsmen very capable of slapping him through the covers.<\/p>\n<p>MATCH CENTRE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/cricket\/match-centre\/BBL2025-260111\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Sixers vs Melbourne Stars live scores, teams, videos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766715493_96_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The only place to stream every match of the 2025\/26 KFC BBL LIVE is on FOX CRICKET, available on Kayo Sports. | <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=cricket&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkcricket-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-cri-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But instead, Pakistani superstar Babar Azam knicked the ball which was swallowed by Glenn Maxwell at second slip in a huge early breakthrough for the Stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gave the ball the opportunity to swing,\u201d Brad Haddin said.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Sydney\u2019s batsmen were not up to the task and after losing Moises Henriques at 4\/103, they were all out for only 41 more runs.<\/p>\n<p>Catch all the action below in our live blog, if you can\u2019t see it <a href=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/live\/fox-sports-australia\/BBL2025-260111?v=2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">click here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PRE-MATCH WRAP<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers are set to receive a huge boost for their Stars clash, with the BBL\u2019s most prolific wicket-taker returning from injury as the Sydney team in pink look to turn their campaign around.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Abbott, who was sidelined due to a hamstring injury sustained in a Sheffield Shield clash, has been passed fit and will take the field.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has 175 BBL wickets to date, 14 more than AJ Tye, while boasting an average of 20.16 across his 124 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers lost the first two games of their fresh campaign, but bounced back strongly in their last outing with a win over their cross-town rivals, the Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>However, they have also lost Todd Murphy, who was called into the Australian Ashes squad for the Boxing Day Test.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars, meanwhile, have been in fine form, winning their first two games in dominant fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Tongue takes boxing day 5fer | 02:34<\/p>\n<p>First they bested the reigning champions with an eight-wicket win, chasing down 158 with 24 balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Then they beat the Strikers, reeling in their total of 155 with 11 balls to spare and six wickets in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stars weapon Tom Curran delivered a masterclass in new ball bowling, while the Sixers collapsed late in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-372653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372653","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=372653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}