{"id":374228,"date":"2026-01-17T00:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374228\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:10:24","slug":"big-bash-league-2026-results-steve-smith-hits-century-as-sixers-beat-thunder-in-sydney-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374228\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bash League 2026 results: Steve Smith hits century as Sixers beat Thunder in Sydney derby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Smith hit a brilliant 100 from 42 balls as Sydney Sixers survived a late collapse to beat city rivals Sydney Thunder by five wickets<\/a> in the Big Bash.<\/p>\n

The former Australia skipper smashed nine sixes as he shared a blistering 141-run opening stand with Babar Azam (47 from 39 balls) in reply to Thunder’s 189-6.<\/p>\n

The Sixers were cruising at 141-0 after 12 overs and, despite losing 5-28 to slip to 169-5, they got over the line with 16 balls to spare.<\/p>\n

It meant that David Warner’s superb unbeaten 110 from 65 balls came in vain as the Thunder fell to their eighth defeat in 10 matches.<\/p>\n

Without Warner, the game at the Sydney Cricket Ground could have been over far quicker with Nic Maddinson’s 26 the next highest score.<\/p>\n

England all-rounder Sam Curran was the pick of the Sixers bowlers with 3-28 from his four overs.<\/p>\n

A chase of 190 could have been tricky but Smith and Babar quickly went about taking the game away from the Thunder.<\/p>\n

After Babar was dismissed at the start of the 13th over, Smith proceeded to bring up his fifth T20 century from 41 balls.<\/p>\n

However, he was stumped from the next ball he faced as the Sixers lost five wickets in 3.3 overs.<\/p>\n

But any hopes of a dramatic Thunder victory soon faded as Lachlan Shaw and Jack Edwards put on an unbroken 22 from 10 balls with the latter sealing the win with a towering six.<\/p>\n

A fourth win in five games puts the Sixers fourth on 11 points, two behind leaders Hobart Hurricanes, while the Thunder stay bottom on four points.<\/p>\n

Sixers’ game against Brisbane Heat on Sunday is effectively a shootout for a play-off spot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Smith hit a brilliant 100 from 42 balls as Sydney Sixers survived a late collapse to beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-374228","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\/374228","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=374228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}