Hobart Hurricanes Team: Squad, Results, Stats & Schedule

Hobart Hurricanes are Cricket Tasmania's men's Big Bash League team. Founded for the competition's 2011 launch, they represent Hobart and the wider state in purple, with Bellerive Oval—currently branded Ninja Stadium—as their principal home.

The Hurricanes finished third in the BBL|15 league stage with six wins, three losses, one no-result, 13 points and a +0.331 net run rate. They beat Melbourne Stars by three runs under a rain-adjusted DLS chase in the Knockout, then lost the Challenger to Sydney Sixers by 57 runs.

That Challenger run followed the club's first championship in BBL|14. Hobart had previously finished runners-up in BBL|03 and BBL|07 and led the league table in BBL|08 before a semi-final defeat. BBL|16 gives them four Hobart home games and one Launceston home game.

No. Cricket Australia's 26 July list confirms ten Hurricanes contracts: Nathan Ellis, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Mitch Owen, Nikhil Chaudhary, Beau Webster, Jake Weatherald, Matthew Wade, Tim David and Billy Stanlake.

The list also places BBL|15 overseas players Rehan Ahmed, Rishad Hossain and Chris Jordan among the uncontracted group at that cutoff. A completed prior-season roster therefore cannot be carried forward as the new overseas group.

Contract status confirms a place on the current list, not availability for every match or selection in the XI. Hobart's later signings and match squads must supply those answers.

Hobart earned 12 points from six league wins and one point from the rain-affected no-result against Sydney Sixers. The calculation is 6 × 2 + 1 = 13.

The three defeats supplied no points, and BBL|15 did not use a bonus-point column. Hobart's +0.331 net run rate accompanied the total but did not add to it.

The later Knockout win lifted the overall season record to seven wins, four losses and one no-result. Finals results do not alter the ten-match league table, which stayed at 6-3-1.

Melbourne Stars needed 85 from seven overs after a second rain interruption. They finished on 81/4, so Hobart won the Knockout by three runs under the DLS method.

A target is one run above the score needed to tie. Subtracting the chasing score and that tie run gives the official margin: 85 - 81 - 1 = 3.

The raw innings were 114/5 from ten overs and 81/4 from seven. Comparing those totals without the revised target would exaggerate the margin and misdescribe the match.

No. Only first-placed Perth and second-placed Sydney Sixers entered the Qualifier with a double chance. Third-placed Hobart hosted fourth-placed Melbourne Stars in a sudden-death Knockout.

The three-run win sent Hobart to the SCG two days later because the Qualifier loser, Sydney Sixers, hosted the Challenger. The Sixers made 198/8 and dismissed Hobart for 141 to end the Hurricanes' title defence.

Third place therefore delivered one home elimination match, not two lives or a home path to the final. That distinction explains why a winning final in Hobart was followed by an away elimination game.

No. Four home fixtures are at Ninja Stadium in Bellerive, Hobart, while the 9 January match against Adelaide Strikers is at UTAS Stadium in Launceston.

The Launceston match is still a Hurricanes home game because the club represents Tasmania and controls the home allocation. Venue city and home-away status answer different questions.

Hobart's release describes it as the men's team's return to UTAS Stadium for the first time since BBL|13. The full schedule therefore shows five home matches across two Tasmanian cities, not five matches inside Hobart.