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Hobart hurricanes vs sydney thunder match highlights
The Hobart Hurricanes are an Australian professional men's Twenty20 cricket team based in Tasmania, Australia. They compete in Australia's Twenty20 domestic cricket competition known as The Big Bash League, representing Hobart. The Hurricanes play their home matches at Blundstone Arena. The Hurricanes wear a purple cricket uniform.
Contents
- Hobart hurricanes vs sydney thunder match highlights
- Hobart hurricanes vs brisbane heat highlights 23 january 2014 live cricket
- Inaugural season
- Other Seasons
- Team Song
- Records
- Domestic
- Notable Fans
- References
Hobart hurricanes vs brisbane heat highlights 23 january 2014 live cricket
Inaugural season
The Hobart Hurricanes's inaugural coach was Allister de Winter and their inaugural captain was Tim Paine.
The Hobart Hurricanes made a bright start to the inaugural Big Bash League season in 2011/12, winning their first game at the WACA Ground against the Perth Scorchers, making 140 before bowling out the Scorchers for 109, with the performance of fast bowler Ben Hilfenhaus resulting in his selection for the annual Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In the Hurricanes' second match they faced fancied favourites Sydney Sixers before inflicting a 42 run defeat on the Sixers at Bellerive Oval in Hobart. Their overseas Pakistani signee, Rana Naved-ul-hasan particularly bowled well in the death overs, while another overseas player, Owais Shah, batted very well. The team was always at the top two ranks of the tournament table, and easily entered the semis. Though the Hurricanes were outdone in the semis. Rana Naved-ul-hasan was the leading wicket taker in Big Bash League 2011–12, where he claimed 15 scalps for Hobart.
Other Seasons
The Hurricanes played a total of 8 games in the 2012-13 Big Bash League. They ended up losing 4 and winning the same the number of games. They finished the tournament in 6th position out of 8 teams. The Hurricanes qualified for the semi finals in 2013-14 Big Bash by just 1 point ahead of Brisbane Heat. They won the semi final against the Stars. They were outclassed by Perth Scorchers in the final by 39 runs. They finished as the runners-up, their best position so far. Ben Dunk was named the Man of the Tournament with 395 runs and Jonathan Wells was the young gun of the tournament. They only managed to win 3 games in the 2014-15 season and ended up 5th on the table.
Team Song
The Hurricanes were the first BBL franchise to have their own team song, the lyrics of which were written by Tim Paine performed to the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching Home. The lyrics to the song are as follows:
After the Champion's League was scrapped, the side unveiled a new second verse in BBL06:
The team also uses the song Rock You Like a Hurricane to lead the team onto the field, and Hurricane by Australian band Faker the anthem for team mascot Captain Hurricane.
Records
Hobart hold a number of batting records in the Big Bash competition. As of January 2017, Hobart hold the highest team score in the competition's history with 8/223. They also co-hold the third and fourth highest scores of 211 and 209. On top of this, the team hold the three highest run chases in Big Bash history.
Ben McDermott's score of 114 against the Melbourne Renegades in January 2017 is the second highest individual score in the competition's history, whilst the competition's leading wicket taker Ben Laughlin spent the first three seasons of the competition in Hurricane's colours before moving to the Adelaide Strikers.