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Mitch Marsh has blazed the second Big Bash League century of his career to help the Perth Scorchers break the Hobart Hurricanes’ winning run on home turf<\/p>\n
Hobart Hurricanes v Perth Scorchers | BBL|15<\/p>\n
Australia’s Twenty20 captain Mitch Marsh has flexed his muscle, whacking 102 off 58 balls in the BBL as the Perth Scorchers beat the Hobart Hurricanes by 40 runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hours after the T20 World Cup squad was locked in for the tournament beginning in February, Marsh hit 11 fours and five sixes on Thursday night in Hobart.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marsh finds top gear to power to second BBL hundred<\/p>\n
Marsh shared a 164-run partnership – the highest third-wicket stand in BBL history – with Aaron Hardie who also fired with a brutal unbeaten 94 from 43 balls with five sixes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Perth posted 3-229 with the Hurricanes reaching 9-189 in reply.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Opener Marsh brought up the second BBL century of his career in the 19th over, before being caught in the deep off Nathan Ellis in the last over.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The signs were ominous for the defending champions early. After Perth were sent in, Marsh dispatched the first ball of the innings onto the Ninja Stadium hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was given some lives by Matthew Wade, who grassed a tough diving chance when Marsh was on 18 and couldn’t glove a fast-flying edge off the spin of Rehan Ahmed when he was on 36.<\/p>\n
It was a timely knock for Marsh, who had only scored 25 across his first four BBL games.<\/p>\n
“I’ve actually felt pretty good in the games I missed out in,” Marsh told Fox Cricket post-match.<\/p>\n
“The key thing for me is when you miss out a couple of times is to stick to your routines. I know what works, certainly in this format, for me to be mentally good to go.<\/p>\n
“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a bit nervous … you always want to contribute and get going in a tournament.”<\/p>\n
Hardie went to town in the 12th over when he hit four boundaries and one six off Chris Jordan in an over that went for 26 runs.<\/p>\n
Hard-hitting Hardie hits career-best with the bat<\/p>\n
Highly rated in-form youngster Cooper Connolly, who is also part of Australia’s World Cup squad, was caught and bowled by Mitch Owen for just four.<\/p>\n
Hobart lost wickets at regular intervals in the chase but Nikhil Chaudhary (31 from 15) and Wade (29 from 14) provided some fireworks at the halfway point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Chaudhary holed out off the spin of Connolly in the 13th over, before Wade fell shortly afterwards in similar fashion a few deliveries after being bowled off a no-ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The result ended the Hurricanes (4-2) run of nine wins on home turf and secures Perth (3-2) third position on the table midway through their season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hobart missed the big hitting of Tim David who is out for the rest of the tournament with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
KFC BBL|15 standings<\/p>\n
Team<\/p>\n
\n Matches played\n <\/p>\n
M<\/p>\n
\n Wins\n <\/p>\n
W<\/p>\n
\n Losses\n <\/p>\n
L<\/p>\n
\n Ties\n <\/p>\n
T<\/p>\n
\n No results\n <\/p>\n
N\/R<\/p>\n
\n Net Run Rate\n <\/p>\n
NRR<\/p>\n
\n Deductions\n <\/p>\n
Ded.<\/p>\n
\n Total points\n <\/p>\n
PTS<\/p>\n
1
\n
\n Melbourne Stars Men
\n STA<\/p>\n
4
\n 4
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1.779
\n 0
\n 8<\/p>\n
2
\n
\n Hobart Hurricanes Men
\n HUR<\/p>\n
6
\n 4
\n 2
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0.017
\n 0
\n 8<\/p>\n
3
\n
\n Perth Scorchers Men
\n SCO<\/p>\n
5
\n 3
\n 2
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1.248
\n 0
\n 6<\/p>\n
4
\n
\n Adelaide Strikers Men
\n STR<\/p>\n
4
\n 2
\n 2
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0.395
\n 0
\n 4<\/p>\n
5
\n
\n Sydney Sixers Men
\n SIX<\/p>\n
5
\n 2
\n 3
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0.202
\n 0
\n 4<\/p>\n
6
\n
\n Brisbane Heat Men
\n HEA<\/p>\n
5
\n 2
\n 3
\n 0
\n 0
\n -1.019
\n 0
\n 4<\/p>\n
7
\n
\n Melbourne Renegades Men
\n REN<\/p>\n
4
\n 1
\n 3
\n 0
\n 0
\n -0.879
\n 0
\n 2<\/p>\n
8
\n
\n Sydney Thunder Men
\n THU<\/p>\n
5
\n 1
\n 4
\n 0
\n 0
\n -1.463
\n 0
\n 2<\/p>\n
Legend<\/p>\n
M: Matches played<\/p>\n
W: Wins<\/p>\n
L: Losses<\/p>\n
T: Ties<\/p>\n
N\/R: No results<\/p>\n
NRR: Net Run Rate<\/p>\n
Ded.: Deductions<\/p>\n
PTS: Total points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mitch Marsh has blazed the second Big Bash League century of his career to help the Perth Scorchers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-385332","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","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385332","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=385332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}