Hobart Hurricanes

Hobart Hurricanes
Personnel
Captain Australia George Bailey
Coach Australia Adam Griffith
Australia Ben Rohrer
Team information
Colours      Purple
Founded 2011
Home ground

Blundstone Arena

University of Tasmania Stadium
Capacity

19,500

21,000
History
BBL wins 0
Official website: Official Website
Official Facebook Page

T20 kit

2017-18 Hobart Hurricanes season

The Hobart Hurricanes are an Australian professional men's T20 cricket team based in Tasmania, Australia. They compete in Australia's domestic T20 cricket competition known as The Big Bash League, which is a league where many international players compete. Their team represents Hobart. The Hurricanes play their home matches at Blundstone Arena.[1] The Hurricanes wear a purple cricket uniform.[2]

History

Inaugural season

Perth Scorchers taking on Hobart Hurricanes at #TheFurnace in 2011

The Hobart Hurricanes's 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 favourites 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 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 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]

Year-By Year Record

Year Finishing Position Finals
BBL01 2nd Semi Final loss
BBL02 6th DNQ
BBL03 4th Runners Up
BBL04 5th DNQ
BBL05 7th DNQ
BBL06 7th DNQ
BBL07 4th Runners Up

Sponsors

Years Kit Manufacturers Chest Sponsor Breast Sponsor
BBL01 KooGa PKF Blundstone
BBL02 Discover Tasmania
BBL03 Blundstone The Smith Family
BBL04 Majestic Athletic Zap Fitness Blundstone
BBL05 Chemist Warehouse MyState
BBL06 Hotels Combined
BBL07 Tassal
BBL08 Cadbury
  • In BBL07, Tassal appears as the chest sponsor for home games, while MyState appears as the chest sponsor for away games.

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 (as of BBL06) are as follows:[6]

The purple army's on the march again, again.
The purple army's on the march again, again.
We bat, we bowl, we take control,
We play the game with guts and soul
The purple army's on the march again.
The Hurricanes have won the game again, again.
The Hurricanes have won the game again, again.
We'll knock 'em down, we'll win the fight.
We'll sing our victory song tonight.
The Hurricanes have won the game again, again!

The song's original second verse, prior to BBL06, made reference to the now defunct T20 Champions League:

The Hurricanes have won the game again, again.
The Hurricanes have won the game again, again.
The champion's league is in our sight,
We'll knock 'em down and win the fight.
The Hurricanes have won the game again, again!

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.

D'Arcy Short's unbeaten 122 off 69 balls against the Brisbane Heat in January 2018 is the highest individual score in BBL history, while Ben McDermott's score of 114 against the Melbourne Renegades in January 2017 is the third 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.

In 2017-18, D'Arcy Short broke the competition record for the most individual runs in a season, scoring 465 runs in the first seven games of the season. The record broke Shaun Marsh's previous record of 412 runs in less games than Marsh's BBL02 record.[7]

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold

S/N Name Nat. Date of birth (age) Batting style Bowling style Notes
Batsmen
10George BaileyTasmania7 September 1982Right-handedRight-arm mediumCaptain & International Cap
15Alex DoolanTasmania29 November 1985Right-handedInternational Cap
-Nathan ReardonQueensland11 September 1984Left-handedRight-arm mediumInternational Cap
All-rounders
5James FaulknerTasmania29 April 1990Right-handedLeft arm fast mediumInternational Cap
31Clive RoseTasmania13 October 1989Right-handedLeft-arm orthodox
24Simon MilenkoTasmania24 November 1988Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
23D'Arcy ShortWestern Australia9 August 1990Left-handedLeft-arm orthodox
29Hamish KingstonTasmania17 December 1990Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
77James BazleyQueensland8 April 1995Right-handedRight-arm medium
22Jofra ArcherEnglandBarbados1 April 1995Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumOverseas Player
Johan BothaSouth Africa2 May 1982Right-handedRight-arm off breakOverseas Player
Wicketkeepers
27Tim PaineTasmania8 December 1984Right-handedRight-arm mediumInternational Cap
28Ben McDermottTasmania12 December 1994Right-handedRight-arm medium
64Matthew WadeTasmaniaVictoria (Australia)26 December 1987Left-handedRight-arm mediumInternational Cap
Pace bowlers
6Tom RogersTasmania3 March 1994Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
12Riley MeredithTasmania21 June 1996Left-handedRight-arm fast-medium
35Aaron SummersTasmania24 March 1996Right-handedRight-arm fast
43Sam RainbirdTasmania5 June 1992Right-handedLeft-arm fast-medium
44Jake ReedVictoria (Australia)28 September 1990Right-handedRight arm fast-medium
56Tymal MillsEngland12 August 1992Right-handedLeft-arm fastOverseas Player
-David MoodyWestern Australia28 April 1995Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium

Captains

Name Span Matches Win Loss Nr
Xavier Doherty 2011-2014 9 5 4 0
George Bailey 2012 – present 29 14 14 1
Tim Paine 2013-2017 29 12 17 0

Honours

Domestic

International Players

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cricket Tasmania (n.d), Ground History, Cricket Tasmania, retrieved 12 October 2013, <"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-19. Retrieved 2014-10-14. >
  2. ↑ "New Twenty20 Big Bash league to feature teams in pink, orange and purple as tradition is abandoned". Fox Sports (Australia). 6 April 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
  3. ↑ Allister de Winter coach of Hobart Hurricanes
  4. ↑ http://blogs.bettor.com/Derbyshire-sign-Rana-Naveed-for-2012-season-Cricket-News-Update-a129445
  5. ↑ "Abu Dhabi to host teams from six countries in T20 tournament". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  6. ↑ http://www.hobarthurricanes.com.au/video/hurricanes-team-song/2014-01-07
  7. ↑ https://www.cricket.com.au/news/darcy-short-breaks-bbl-record-most-runs-hobart-hurricanes-brisbane-heat/2018-01-15
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