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Hossain was named the Hurricanes\u2019 BBL Player of the Year after his debut summer. Image \/ Getty<\/p>\nBangladeshi leg-spinner Rishad Hossain will return to the Hobart Hurricanes for a second Big Bash season, after finishing as the club\u2019s leading wicket-taker last summer.<\/p>\n
The signing pairs Hossain with Australian white-ball bowler Adam Zampa in the Hurricanes\u2019 spin attack for BBL|16.<\/p>\n
In his debut season, Hossain took 15 wickets from 12 matches at an average of 20.86 and an economy rate of 7.82, with best figures of 3-26.<\/p>\n
He was named the Hurricanes\u2019 BBL Player of the Year at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Hossain was named the Hurricanes\u2019 BBL Player of the Year after his debut summer. Image \/ Getty<\/p>\n
Hurricanes high performance general manager Salliann Beams said Hossain\u2019s determination to come back to Hobart played a significant role in getting the deal done.<\/p>\n
\u201cRishad made it really clear to us that he loved his time in Hobart last season and wanted to come back and that certainly meant a lot to us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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Hossain took 15 wickets from 12 matches in his first Big Bash season. Image \/ Getty<\/p>\n
\u201cOur list had taken a slightly different shape with the addition of Adam Zampa, but when a player of Rishad\u2019s quality is so determined to return to the Hurricanes, we wanted to explore every opportunity to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beams said the club now had \u201ctwo high-quality leg-spinners who bring different strengths\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdam has been one of the outstanding white-ball bowlers in world cricket for a long period of time, while we saw last summer just how dangerous Rishad can be through the middle overs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have both of them as part of our squad gives us enormous flexibility and adds another dimension to our bowling attack.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Hobart Hurricanes have confirmed their spin options ahead of BBL|16. Image \/ Getty<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes first picked Hossain in the BBL|14 draft, but Bangladesh Premier League commitments prevented him from joining the squad that season.<\/p>\n
He made his Big Bash debut last summer and played every game.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, the Hurricanes re-signed Tasmanian players Tim Ward, Marcus Bean and Iain Carlisle on one-year extensions and all-rounder Will Prestwidge for two seasons.<\/p>\n
All four are part of the Tasmanian Tigers program.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes\u2019 BBL|16 squad also includes Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Shai Hope, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Mitch Owen, Jake Weatherald and Beau Webster.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes play their first match of BBL16 against the Brisbane Heat at Ninja Stadium in Bellerive on December 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi leg-spinner Rishad Hossain will return to the Hobart Hurricanes for a second Big Bash season, after finishing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-929627","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\/929627","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=929627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}