{"id":337147,"date":"2025-12-26T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337147\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T20:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:51:13","slug":"big-bash-league-2026-results-hobart-hurricanes-sneak-past-perth-scorchers-in-big-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337147\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bash League 2026 results: Hobart Hurricanes sneak past Perth Scorchers in Big Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending champions Hobart Hurricanes edged to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229064\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four-wicket win<\/a> over Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending champions Hurricanes were chasing 151, but slipped to 39-3 before Tim David crashed 42 off 28 balls in a stand of 63 with Nikhil Chaudhary (34 off 30).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, David had to retire hurt with an apparent hamstring injury that will cause concern to Hurricanes for the rest of the tournament and Australia with February&#8217;s T20 World Cup in mind. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hurricanes needed 48 off 33 balls when David retired and then lost England all-rounder Rehan Ahmed for seven. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They required 31 from the final three overs and Macalister Wright (22 not out) shared 35 in 18 balls with Chris Jordan (15).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jordan was dismissed with two required but captain Nathan Ellis came to the crease and hit his first ball for four to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scorchers posted 150-8 from their 20 overs with New Zealand&#8217;s Finn Allen making 43 off 23 balls, while Bangladesh&#8217;s Rishad Hossain claimed 3-33. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win sees Hurricanes join leaders Melbourne Stars on six points, while Scorchers are fourth despite a second successive defeat.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champions Hobart Hurricanes edged to a four-wicket win over Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League. Defending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-337147","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\/337147","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=337147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}