{"id":225010,"date":"2026-01-07T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/225010\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:20:08","slug":"sam-curran-joins-sixers-squad-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/225010\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Curran joins Sixers | Squad Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Sixers have named a 14-player squad for tomorrow\u2019s clash against the Melbourne Stars at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with international recruit Sam Curran joining the group.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off his player of the final performance in the DP World ILT20 2026 for the Desert Vipers, star import Sam Curran joins the Sydney Sixers squad for the duration of the home and away KFC BBL | 15 season.<\/p>\n<p>Curran comes into the squad in place of Kane Richardson, adding significant all-round depth and world-class experience.<\/p>\n<p>The England international is renowned for his impact with both bat and ball, having starred across formats for England and in major T20 leagues around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A left-arm seamer and aggressive batter, Curran brings versatility and match-winning capability to the already stacked Sixers line-up.<\/p>\n<p>The squad blends proven Big Bash experience with emerging talent as the Sixers prepare to take on one of the Title-favourites the Stars at one of cricket\u2019s most iconic venues.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Sixers Squad v Melbourne Stars<\/p>\n<p>Moises Henriques (c)<br \/>\nSean Abbott<br \/>\nBabar Azam<br \/>\nSam Curran<br \/>\nJoel Davies<br \/>\nBen Dwarshuis<br \/>\nJack Edwards<br \/>\nDaniel Hughes<br \/>\nHayden Kerr<br \/>\nBen Manenti<br \/>\nMitch Perry<br \/>\nJosh Philippe<br \/>\nLachlan Shaw<br \/>\nJordan Silk<\/p>\n<p>IN- Sam Curran<\/p>\n<p>OUT- Kane Richardson (omitted)<\/p>\n<p>The match will be played tomorrow at the MCG, with first ball scheduled for 7.10pm AEDT.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the Sydney Sixers on channel 7, 7+, Kayo Sports and Fox Sports Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sydney Sixers have named a 14-player squad for tomorrow\u2019s clash against the Melbourne Stars at the Melbourne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":{"0":"post-225010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}