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Tayla Vlaeminck and Ben McDermott have secured the Hobart Hurricanes’ W/BBL Players of the Tournament honours, with the award recipients being announced at the Cricket Tasmania Awards Night in Hobart this evening.
The annual Awards Night recognised a wide array of achievements and performances across all levels of the Cricket Tasmania high performance program throughout the 2021-22 season, including a 3-2-1-style vote count to determine the Hurricanes Player of the Tournament awards.
Fit and firing for WBBL|07 after sitting out the previous tournament with injury, Tayla Vlaeminck was a woman on a mission, displaying exceptional consistency and providing a constant threat through all 14 fixtures. Using her blistering pace, Vlaeminck took 13 wickets at 22.38, highlighted with best figures of 3-21 against the Perth Scorchers. Her economy of 6.06 was the ninth best in the competition, and one of the standouts among pace bowlers, with her efforts earning her a place in the League’s Team of the Tournament – the only Hurricane to receive the honour in WBBL|07.
There’s not much else to be said about Ben McDermott’s BBL|11 campaign that hasn’t been mentioned already – it was simply extraordinary. Our power-hitter made history by making centuries in back-to-back innings – becoming the first player in the BBL to do so – with knocks of 110* against the Adelaide Strikers and 127 against the Melbourne Renegades. Leading the entire competition with a total of 577 runs at an average of 48.08 and a strike rate of 153.86, McDermott smashed 46 fours and 29 sixes on his way to winning the BBL|11 Player of the Tournament award. McDermott’s exceptional BBL form led into a very successful white ball tour with the Australia, team in Pakistan, in which he notched yet another century; his first in green and gold.
The Hobart Hurricanes are an Australian professional men’s Twenty20 cricket team based in Hobart, Tasmania. Competing in the Big Bash League, they primarily play at Blundstone Arena and also host some matches at University of Tasmania Stadium in Launceston. The team wears a purple uniform.
