sign a two-year deal with the Hurricanes<\/a> last month.<\/p>\nDespite losing Caleb Jewell as part of a trade with the Melbourne Renegades, Hobart have made two big signings in the off-season, securing the services of Beau Webster and Jake Weatherald for BBL|15.<\/p>\n
Webster rejoins the Hurricanes after making his T20 debut for the club in BBL|06, while Weatherald’s move to Tasmania is now complete, having played for the Tigers in the One-Day Cup and Sheffield Shield competitions for the past two seasons.<\/p>\n
Both men bringing plenty of power and experience to an already strong and proven Hurricanes squad.<\/p>\n
With 15 of a possible 18 list spots filled for the upcoming season, Owen believes the Hurricanes are well placed to lift the BBL trophy again on January 25, 2026.<\/p>\n
“I feel like we couldn’t be in a better position,” he said. “I think everyone is excited to (have the opportunity) to go back-to-back.”<\/p>\n
Contracted for BBL|15:\u00a0Rehan Ahmed (contracted until BBL|15), Iain Carlisle (BBL|15), Nikhil Chaudhary (BBL|17), Tim David (BBL|16), Nathan Ellis (BBL|17), Rishad Hossain (BBL|15), Chris Jordan (BBL|15), Ben McDermott (BBL|17), Riley Meredith (BBL|17), Mitch Owen (BBL|17), Billy Stanlake (BBL|17), Matthew Wade (BBL|16), Jake Weatherald (BBL|16), Beau Webster (BBL|17), Mac Wright (BBL|15)<\/p>\n
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Ins:\u00a0Jake Weatherald (Strikers), Beau Webster (Stars)<\/p>\n
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Out:\u00a0Caleb Jewell (Renegades)<\/p>\n
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Uncontracted:\u00a0Marcus Bean, Paddy Dooley, Jake Doran, Cameron Gannon, Peter Hatzoglou, Shai Hope, Waqar Salamkheil, Charlie Wakim, Tim Ward<\/p>\n
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Internationals:\u00a0Rehan Ahmed (England), Rishad Hossain (Bangladesh), Chris Jordan (England)<\/p>\n
Since winning BBL|14 in January, Owen has played in multiple T20 competitions including the SA20, Indian Premier League (IPL), Pakistan Super League (PSL) and Major League Cricket (MLC).<\/p>\n
Yet the 23-year-old still rates the Big Bash as one of his favourite competitions in world cricket.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve said at most tournaments that I can’t wait to get back and play for the Hurricanes,\u201d said Owen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe atmosphere that built up through last year, and then obviously that final was amazing, and I can’t wait to see what happens this year. Hopefully it’ll stack on top of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hobart open their season against the Sydney Thunder in a rematch of the BBL|14 Final on December 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sign up now to get pre-sale access and the first chance to buy tickets to the blockbuster BBL|15 season, exclusive pre-sale starts August 12<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hero of the BBL|14 Final believes his club ‘couldn’t be in a better position’ heading into a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-43874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43874","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=43874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}