{"id":436419,"date":"2026-01-25T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436419\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:19:07","slug":"big-bash-league-final-live-updates-perth-scorchers-battle-sydney-sixers-for-sixth-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436419\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bash League final live updates: Perth Scorchers battle Sydney Sixers for sixth title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Perth Scorchers and Sydney Sixers are the Big Bash\u2019s titans and the pair clash again in what is set to be another classic finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Scorchers got the job done in Tuesday\u2019s Qualifier in Perth as they saw off a red-hot Steve Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">But after the men in magenta powered past reigning champions Hobart Hurricanes in Friday night\u2019s Challenger, they bring good form back to Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Stay up to date with our live blog, with play to begin at 4.15pm WA time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Perth Scorchers and Sydney Sixers are the Big Bash\u2019s titans and the pair clash again in what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,22249,740,60180,588,85],"class_list":["post-436419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-big-bash-league","tag-cricket","tag-perth-scorchers","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436419","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=436419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}