Hobart Hurricanes
The Hobart Hurricanes is 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 Bellerive Oval[1] and are sponsored by MyState Financial[2] The Hurricanes wear a purple cricket uniform.[3]
Inaugural season
The Hobart Hurricanes's inaugural coach was Allister de Winter[4] 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.[5]
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.
2015/16 squad
Hobart Hurricanes at the
SCG on January 15, 2014
Honours
Domestic
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Tim Paine
2015–16 Hobart Hurricanes season
