Hobart Hurricanes

Hobart Hurricanes

Personnel
Captain	Nathan Ellis
Coach	Jeff Vaughan
Team information
Colours	Purple
Founded	2011
Home ground	Bellerive Oval York Park
History
BBL wins	0
Official website	Official Website
T20 kit

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 Ninja Stadium in Hobart,^[1] with additional home matches at the University of Tasmania Stadium in Launceston. The Hurricanes wear a purple cricket uniform.^[2]

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]

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]

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The Hurricanes are only one of only 2 teams in the Men’s BBL, along with the Melbourne Stars to never win a Big Bash title, and along with the Adelaide Strikers, the only team to never collect a wooden spoon. As a result of this, the Hurricanes are the only team to never collect a wooden spoon or win the Big Bash

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
58	Charlie Wakim	Australia	(1991-07-09) 9 July 1991 (age 33)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
33	Mac Wright	Australia	(1998-01-22) 22 January 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg spin
All Rounders
	Nikhil Chaudhary	India	(1996-04-05) 5 April 1996 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
22	Rishad Hossain	Bangladesh	(2002-07-15) 15 July 2002 (age 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg spin
16	Mitchell Owen	Australia	(2001-09-16) 16 September 2001 (age 23)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast medium
Wicket-keepers
16	Jake Doran	Australia	(1996-12-02) 2 December 1996 (age 27)	Left-handed	Left-arm medium
47	Shai Hope	West Indies	(1993-11-10) 10 November 1993 (age 31)	Right-handed	—
32	Caleb Jewell	Australia	(1997-04-21) 21 April 1997 (age 27)	Left-handed	—
28	Ben McDermott	Australia	(1994-12-12) 12 December 1994 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
13	Matthew Wade	Australia	(1987-12-26) 26 December 1987 (age 36)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
Pace bowlers
	Iain Carlisle	Australia	(2000-05-01) 1 May 2000 (age 24)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
72	Nathan Ellis	Australia	(1994-12-22) 22 December 1994 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Captain
34	Chris Jordan	England	(1988-09-04) 4 September 1988 (age 36)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
21	Riley Meredith	Australia	(1996-06-21) 21 June 1996 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast
37	Billy Stanlake	Australia	(1994-11-04) 4 November 1994 (age 30)	Left-handed	Right-arm fast
Spin bowlers
48	Paddy Dooley	Australia	(1997-05-17) 17 May 1997 (age 27)	Left-handed	Left-arm wrist spin
	Peter Hatzoglou	Australia	(1998-11-27) 27 November 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg spin

• 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):

The current administration and support staff of the Hobart Hurricanes for the 2024–25 Big Bash League season as of 23 June 2024.

• Source:

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.

• Cricket Tasmania
• Tasmania cricket team

• Official website