Hobart Hurricanes

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Hobart Hurricanes are an Australian professional men's Twenty20 franchise cricket team based in Hobart, Tasmania. They compete in Australia's domestic Big Bash League. The Hurricanes play the majority of their home matches at Blundstone Arena in Hobart,^[1] with additional home matches at the University of Tasmania Stadium in Launceston. The Hurricanes wear a purple cricket uniform.^[2]

History

Inaugural season

The Hobart Hurricanes' inaugural coach was Allister de Winter^[3] 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 favorites Sydney Sixers before inflicting a 42-run defeat on the Sixers at Bellerive Oval in Hobart. Rana Naved-ul-Hasan was the leading wicket taker in Big Bash League 2011–12, taking 15 wickets for the Hurricanes.^[4]

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 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 won 3 games in the 2014–15 season and ended up 5th on the table.

In July 2018, they were one of the six teams invited to play in the first edition of the Abu Dhabi T20 Trophy, scheduled to start in October 2018.^[5]

Season-by-season record

Year	League position	Result
2011–12	2nd	Semi-final loss
2012–13	6th	Did not qualify
2013–14	4th	Runner-up
2014–15	5th	Did not qualify
2015–16	7th	Did not qualify
2016–17	7th	Did not qualify
2017–18	4th	Runner-up
2018–19	1st	Semi-final loss
2019–20	4th	Eliminator loss
2020–21	6th	Did not qualify
2021–22	5th	Eliminator loss
2022–23	6th	Did not qualify

Current squad

The current squad of the Hobart Hurricanes for the 2023–24 Big Bash League season as of 7 September 2023.^[6]

• Players with international caps are listed in bold.

S/N	Name	Nationality	Date of birth (age)	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batters
8	Tim David	Australia	(1996-03-16) 16 March 1996 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm off spin
27	Sam Hain	England	(1995-07-16) 16 July 1995 (age 28)	Right-handed	—
	Sam Heazlett	Australia	(1995-09-12) 12 September 1995 (age 28)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
32	Caleb Jewell	Australia	(1997-04-21) 21 April 1997 (age 27)	Left-handed	—
33	Mac Wright	Australia	(1998-01-22) 22 January 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg spin
All Rounders
78	Corey Anderson	United States	(1990-12-13) 13 December 1990 (age 33)	Left-handed	Left-arm medium
	Nikhil Chaudhary	India	(1996-04-05) 5 April 1996 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Wicket-keepers
28	Ben McDermott	Australia	(1994-12-12) 12 December 1994 (age 29)	Right-handed	—
13	Matthew Wade	Australia	(1987-12-26) 26 December 1987 (age 36)	Left-handed	—
Pace bowlers
	Iain Carlisle	Australia	(2000-05-01) 1 May 2000 (age 23)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
72	Nathan Ellis	Australia	(1994-12-22) 22 December 1994 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Captain
	Liam Guthrie	Australia	(1997-04-09) 9 April 1997 (age 27)	Left-handed	Left-arm fast
34	Chris Jordan	England	(1988-09-04) 4 September 1988 (age 35)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
21	Riley Meredith	Australia	(1996-06-21) 21 June 1996 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast
16	Mitchell Owen	Australia	(2001-09-16) 16 September 2001 (age 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast medium
37	Billy Stanlake	Australia	(1994-11-04) 4 November 1994 (age 29)	Left-handed	Right-arm fast
Spin bowlers
48	Paddy Dooley	Australia	(1997-05-17) 17 May 1997 (age 26)	Left-handed	Left-arm wrist spin
	Peter Hatzoglou	Australia	(1998-11-27) 27 November 1998 (age 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg spin

Honours

• Big Bash:
  • Champions (0):
  • Runners-up (2): 2013–14, 2017–18
  • Minor premiers (1): 2018–19
  • Finals series appearances (6): 2011–12, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22
  • Wooden Spoons (0):

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.^[7] 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.

See also

• Cricket Tasmania
• Tasmania cricket team

References

External links

• Official website