{"id":330909,"date":"2025-12-23T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330909\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:27:08","slug":"big-bash-league-2025-26-results-sydney-thunder-beat-brisbane-heat-for-first-win-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330909\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bash League 2025-26 results: Sydney Thunder beat Brisbane Heat for first win of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sydney Thunder secured their first win of the Big Bash League season with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229061\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">34-run victory<\/a> over Brisbane Heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After being put into bat at Canberra&#8217;s Manuka Oval, the Thunder posted 193-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia opener Sam Konstas made 63 off 45 balls and Matthew Gilkes hit 76 off 48 as they put on 127 for the first wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s Sam Billings added 25 off 11 to help push the Thunder towards a challenging total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite chasing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c1kp201kmmjo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBL record 258<\/a> to beat Perth Scorchers on Friday, this time the Heat batters failed to fire as they could only reach 159-6 off their 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The centurions from their staggering chase &#8211; Jack Wildermuth and Matt Renshaw &#8211; were both bowled by Pakistan leg-spinner Shadab Khan for 14 and 43 respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All-rounder Shadab finished with impressive figures of 4-24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory moves Thunder above Heat into sixth on net run-rate. Both sides have won one and lost two of their opening three matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Thunder secured their first win of the Big Bash League season with a 34-run victory over Brisbane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-330909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330909","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=330909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}