{"id":363337,"date":"2026-01-10T20:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363337\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:39:15","slug":"big-bash-2026-results-sam-harpers-fine-form-continues-as-stars-beat-renegades-in-melbourne-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363337\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bash 2026 results: Sam Harper&#8217;s fine form continues as Stars beat Renegades in Melbourne derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Harper continued his brilliant Big Bash season as he guided Melbourne Stars to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229082\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-wicket win<\/a> against Melbourne Renegades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old made an unbeaten 81 to get Stars to their target of 167 with 25 balls to spare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He hit eight fours and four sixes in his 51-ball knock and returned to the top of the run-scorers chart with 356, at an average of 89. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He put on 89 for the first wicket with Tom Rogers and then shared an unbroken 78 with Glenn Maxwell (20* off 12). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Renegades posted 166-7 from their 20 overs with opener Josh Brown making 80 off 50 balls. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No other batter made it past 23 though and that left Renegades short of a competitive total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marcus Stoinis was the pick of the Stars bowlers, picking up 3-33, while Pakistan&#8217;s Haris Rauf claimed 2-31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win sees Stars consolidate second place, while Renegades are seventh, two points off the play-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Harper continued his brilliant Big Bash season as he guided Melbourne Stars to an eight-wicket win against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-363337","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\/363337","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=363337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}