{"id":389139,"date":"2026-01-03T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389139\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:24:08","slug":"big-bash-league-2026-results-david-warners-130-in-vain-as-hobart-hurricanes-beat-sydney-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389139\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bash League 2026 results: David Warner&#8217;s 130 in vain as Hobart Hurricanes beat Sydney Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Warner&#8217;s unbeaten 130 was in vain as Hobart Hurricanes comfortably chased 206 to beat Sydney Thunder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/live\/cn4dneezdwet\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by six wickets<\/a> in the Big Bash League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warner struck 11 fours and nine sixes in his 65-ball knock as he made his highest Big Bash score &#8211; and the joint-fourth biggest in the tournament&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He dominated Thunder&#8217;s innings with Nic Maddinson adding 30 and Sam Billings 20 as they posted 205-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending champions Hurricanes got off to a superb start in the chase with Mitch Owen and Tim Ward putting on 108 in 51 balls for the first wicket. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Owen fell for 45 off 18 balls, but Ward continued and added 40 in 25 balls with England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed (16 off 14). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ward fell shortly after Rehan for a brilliant 90 off 49 balls, but Hurricanes only needed 49 off 35 balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben McDermott fell four balls later, after hitting two fours, but Matthew Wade (13*) and Nikhil Chaudhary (29* off 14) got Hurricanes over the line with 13 balls to spare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They move top of the table, although they have played two more games than Melbourne Stars in second. Thunder remain bottom with one win from six games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Warner&#8217;s unbeaten 130 was in vain as Hobart Hurricanes comfortably chased 206 to beat Sydney Thunder by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-389139","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\/389139","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=389139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}