{"id":916701,"date":"2026-10-05T06:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916701\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T06:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:58:12","slug":"hurricanes-re-sign-tim-ward-and-three-tasmanian-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/916701\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes re-sign Tim Ward and three Tasmanian teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tasmanian top order batter Tim Ward is one of four local players to re-sign with the Hobart Hurricanes after a breakthrough Big Bash season that included 90 runs from 49 balls.<\/p>\n

Ward, Marcus Bean and Iain Carlisle have each signed one-year extensions for BBL|16. All-rounder Will Prestwidge has committed for two seasons.<\/p>\n

All four are also part of the Tasmanian Tigers program.<\/p>\n

Ward is an established red-ball opener for Tasmania. He batted at the top of the order for the Hurricanes last summer and made 90 against the Sydney Thunder.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ward impressed last season with the bat and in the field. Image \/ Getty<\/p>\n

He said he was \u201cpretty proud of becoming a bit of an all-format player\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pretty intimidated by the white ball stuff, probably even up to the last three years, where I felt like I didn\u2019t have the skill set,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Will Prestwidge and Tim Ward have re-signed with the Hobart Hurricanes. Image \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

The left-hander said he went into his innings against the Thunder after a difficult first half of the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pretty shattered, thought I lost the game for the team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I just went out there and thought, I can\u2019t get any worse and just played my shots and things came off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ward said he could bat \u201canywhere from one to six\u201d this season. On re-signing, he said it was \u201calways Hurricanes for me\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"Prestwidge said the two-year deal was \u201cexactly what I was looking for\u201d. Image \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

Prestwidge, 24, played three games for the Hurricanes last season after joining from the Brisbane Heat. His new deal runs to the end of BBL|17.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back at last season, I didn\u2019t really see myself fitting in anywhere, to be honest,\u201d Prestwidge said.<\/p>\n

He said the two-year contract was \u201cexactly what I was looking for\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t looking to go anywhere else,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"\"All-rounder Will Prestwidge has committed to the Hurricanes for two seasons. Image \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes\u2019 BBL|16 squad now has 16 players, including Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Shai Hope, Beau Webster and Adam Zampa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tasmanian top order batter Tim Ward is one of four local players to re-sign with the Hobart Hurricanes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-916701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916701","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=916701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}