{"id":264809,"date":"2025-11-15T19:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264809\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:25:05","slug":"wbbl-2025-results-caoimhe-bray-stars-as-sixers-beat-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264809\/","title":{"rendered":"WBBL 2025 results: Caoimhe Bray stars as Sixers beat Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sixteen-year-old Caoimhe Bray took a hat-trick as Sydney Sixers beat city rivals Thunder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229185\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by 24 runs<\/a> in the Women&#8217;s Big Bash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bray, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c7744e58y31o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">became the tournament&#8217;s youngest player last season<\/a>, removed Australia&#8217;s Phoebe Litchfield at the end of the seventh over, before getting Sri Lanka&#8217;s Chamari Athapaththu and Laura Harris with the first two balls of the ninth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the seventh hat-trick in the history of the WBBL, and the first since 2021. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chasing 143, Thunder recovered from 49-7 to finish on 118-8, with Lucy Finn top-scoring with 49 not out off 34 balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Sixers posted 143-9 with England&#8217;s Sophia Dunkley top-scoring with 43 off 35 balls and Alyssa Healy 26 off 15 balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sixers move second in the table, while Thunder are seventh after three defeats in three games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen-year-old Caoimhe Bray took a hat-trick as Sydney Sixers beat city rivals Thunder by 24 runs in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-264809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}