{"id":277045,"date":"2025-11-22T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277045\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:20:07","slug":"womens-big-bash-league-sophia-dunkleys-half-century-helps-sydney-sixers-inflict-first-defeat-on-hobart-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277045\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Big Bash League: Sophia Dunkley’s half-century helps Sydney Sixers inflict first defeat on Hobart Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sophia Dunkley’s half-century helped Sydney Sixers inflict a first defeat on Hobart Hurricanes in the Women’s Big Bash League.<\/p>\n

England batter Dunkley hit eight fours in her 46-ball knock as she top scored in the Sixers’ total of 147-9.<\/p>\n

Ellyse Perry chipped in with 28 while Sixers skipper Ash Gardner hit 25.<\/p>\n

Heather Graham finished the pick of the Hobart bowlers with 4-29 while England skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt claimed 2-22.<\/p>\n

Lizelle Lee and Danni Wyatt-Hodge, who made 17, got the Hurricances off to a flyer with a 43-run stand for the first wicket.<\/p>\n

Gardner wrestled back the initiative when she had Lee trapped lbw for 28 before Sciver-Brunt was bowled by Maitlan Brown for two.<\/p>\n

Nicola Carey’s breezy 22 and Elyse Villani’s unbeaten 42 off 31 balls kept the Hurriances in the hunt.<\/p>\n

But Gardner, who bagged 4-36, closed out the game with Maitlan Brown as Hobart were bowled out for 136 – 11 runs adrift with eight balls left unbowled.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hurriances remain top of the WBBL table on 10 points while the Sixers climb up to third on six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophia Dunkley’s half-century helped Sydney Sixers inflict a first defeat on Hobart Hurricanes in the Women’s Big Bash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-277045","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\/277045","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=277045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}