{"id":384939,"date":"2026-01-01T15:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384939\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:20:08","slug":"big-bash-2026-results-mitch-marsh-century-sets-up-perth-scorchers-win-over-hobart-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384939\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bash 2026 results: Mitch Marsh century sets up Perth Scorchers win over Hobart Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s Mitch Marsh crashed 102 off 58 balls to set up a comfortable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229071\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">40-run win<\/a> for Perth Scorchers over Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marsh hit 11 fours and five sixes at the top of the order as he made his highest Big Bash score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He put on 164 with Aaron Hardie (94 not out off 43 balls) for the third wicket as Scorchers posted 229-3 &#8211; the seventh-highest total in Big Bash history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending champions Hurricanes slipped to 70-4 in reply and were unable to recover, eventually finishing on 189-9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nikhil Chaudhary top-scored with 39, while Ashton Agar was the pick of the Scorchers&#8217; bowlers with 3-38. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scorchers move to third in the table with the win, while Hurricanes remain second with four wins in six matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Mitch Marsh crashed 102 off 58 balls to set up a comfortable 40-run win for Perth Scorchers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-384939","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\/384939","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=384939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}