Perth Scorchers have won the title of Big Bash League 2025-2026. This team, captained by Ashton Turner, defeated Sydney Sixers by 6 wickets in the title match. This is Scorchers’ sixth BBL title. Jhay Richardson and David Payne took 3-3 wickets for Scorchers in the title match. Chasing the target, Mitchell Marsh (44) and Finn Allen (36) gave a great start to the team by making a partnership of 80 runs for the first wicket.

Batting first in the final match of the Big Bash League played on Sunday, Sydney Sixers were all out for 132 runs. Steve Smith, Josh Philip and captain Moises Henriques scored 24-24 runs. Perth Scorchers made a brilliant comeback in the last 10 overs. After 14 overs, the score of Sydney Sixers was 94 runs for 3 wickets. It seemed that the score would comfortably reach 160, but due to continuous fall of wickets the team was limited to 132.

For Perth Scorchers, Jhye Richardson took 3 wickets for 32 runs in 4 overs. The same number of wickets were taken by David Payne, who gave only 18 runs in his spell of 4 overs.

SIX OF THE BEST IN THE WEST #BBL15 pic.twitter.com/GAmXVaylVs

— KFC Big Bash League (@BBL) January 25, 2026

Perth Scorchers won sixth BBL title

Chasing the small target of 133 runs, Mitchell Marsh and Finn Allen made a bright start, both making a partnership of 80 runs for the first wicket. Allen scored 36 runs in 22 balls, in which he hit 1 six and 4 fours. Allen was dismissed by Mitchell Starc, but perhaps it was too late. Aaron Hardy (5) and Ashton Turner (2), who came at number three, lost their wickets cheaply, although when Marsh was out, Perth came very close to victory. Marsh scored 44 runs in 43 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 4 fours.

CUTEST VIDEO OF THE DAY

– Captain Aston Turner received the winning medal from his kids in Big Bash. pic.twitter.com/pL2iTZxLVV

—Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) January 25, 2026

Ashton Turner created history

This is Perth Scorchers’ sixth Big Bash League title, the most by any team. Although no other team has ever won even 4 titles, Sydney Sixers is at second place with 3 titles. Ashton Turner has become the first captain in the history of the league to become champion 3 times.

Perth Scorchers and Sydney Sixers will face each other in the title match of Big Bash League 2025-26. Scorchers had topped the points table in the group stage, this team under the captaincy of Ashton Turner had won 7 out of 10 matches. Sixers were at second position in the table with 6 wins out of 10. Now both will face each other in the final. Know when and where the match will be telecast live in India?

In the playoffs, Perth Scorchers reached the finals by defeating Sydney Sixers, in which Finn Allen became the player of the match. Allen had scored 49 runs in 30 balls. Due to being in the top-2 in the group stage, the Sixers got another opportunity, in which the team reached the finals by defeating Hobart Hurricanes. Steve Smith had scored 65 runs in this match.

Finn Allen, playing for Scorchers, is second in the list of batsmen scoring the most runs in this edition, who can come on top in the final. Currently David Warner is at number one with 433 runs. Finn Allen has scored 430 runs in 10 innings.

Perth Scorchers Probable Playing 11

Mitchell Marsh, Finn Allen, Aaron Hardie, Josh Inglis (wk), Cooper Connolly, Ashton Turner (c), Laurie Evans, Jhye Richardson, Brody Couch, David Payne, Mahalie Beardman.

Probable playing 11 of Sydney Sixers

Daniel Hughes, Steve Smith, Josh Philippe (wk), Moises Henriques (c), Joel Davis, Lachlan Shaw, Jack Edwards, Ben Dwarhusi, Benjamin Manenti, Sean Abbott, Mitchell Starc.

When and where will the final of Big Bash League 2026 take place?

The final match of BBL 2025-26 will be held on Sunday, January 25 at Optus Stadium, Perth.

What time will the Big Bash League 2026 final start?

According to Indian time, the final match of BBL will start at 1:45 pm, the toss will take place half an hour before.

Where will the Big Bash League 2026 final be telecast live?

The final match of BBL 2025-26 will be telecast live on Star Sports Network channel in India.

On which app to watch the Big Bash League 2026 final?

Perth Scorchers vs Sydney Sixers, Big Bash League final match will be live streamed in India on JioHotstar app and website.

The video of Australian wicketkeeper batsman Alex Carey with his daughter is going viral. In this video that surfaced, Alex Carey’s daughter was scared because of the fireworks, but the Australian cricketer calmed his daughter down by hugging her. This incident happened on January 11 in the Big Bash League, when Alex Carey was about to take the field for Adelaide Strikers. Alex Carey had a strong performance in the Ashes 2025-26 series. He had scored 323 runs in 8 innings including one century and 2 fifties.

Father hugged his daughter, love overflowed

Before the start of the match in the Adelaide ground, the Adelaide Strikers team was about to come to the field for fielding. There are fireworks before the start of the match, but Alex Carey’s younger daughter looked scared. Seeing all this, Alex Carey came running to the field and hugged his daughter and calmed her down.

For this, Alex Carey is being praised a lot on social media. One person called him a ‘family man’ who, apart from playing on the cricket field, is also handling the responsibilities of being a father. However, a fan took this incident negatively and called for a ban on firecrackers.

The fireworks were a little too loud for Alex Carey’s daughter Clementine, who just wants Mum pic.twitter.com/vJ2oEPwq0I

— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) January 11, 2026

Alex Carey’s storm, still the team lost

Adelaide Strikers faced Perth Scorchers on 11 January. Batting first, the Perth team had scored a huge score of 232 runs. Mitchell Marsh played a stormy innings of 88 runs for Perth. In reply, Alex Carey and Matthew Short added 93 runs for the first wicket for Adelaide Strikers. Short scored 52 runs, while Alex Carey scored 71 runs in 39 balls. In this innings he hit 7 fours and 2 sixes. Despite this innings of Carey, the Strikers team lost the match by 32 runs.

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The 26th match of the ongoing edition of Big Bash League was played between Perth Scorchers and Melbourne Renegades in Perth on Wednesday. The result of this exciting match came on the last ball, 19 year old Oliver Peake gave victory to his team Melbourne Renegades by hitting a six on the last ball.

Oliver PK received the Player of the Match award, he played an important role in the victory of Melbourne Renegades by scoring unbeaten 42 runs in 30 balls. In this innings, he hit 1 six and 4 fours, the six was hit on the last ball when his team needed 4 runs on 1 ball to win.

OLI PEAKE!! He hits a SIX to win the game off the final ball! #BBL15 pic.twitter.com/2jZ2lFecdg

— KFC Big Bash League (@BBL) January 7, 2026

Everyone was surprised to see Oliver PK’s shot

Aaron Hardy bowled the last over for Perth Scorchers. 4 runs were required from one ball to win. In such situations, even good batsmen get nervous. Normally no batsman does in this situation what Oliver PK did, he went wide and played the shot to fine leg. It was quite risky, but he was fortunate that the ball and bat made good contact. The ball went for a six and Melbourne Renegades won the match by 4 wickets.

Perth Scorchers were bundled out for 127.

Perth Scorchers, who came to bat first after losing the toss, did not have a good start; 3 wickets had fallen at the score of 49. Aaron Hardy scored the maximum 44 runs for the team, 5 batsmen could not even touch double figures. Gurinder Sandhu took maximum 4 wickets for Melbourne Renegades. He gave 28 runs in his spell of 4 overs. Hassan Khan took 2 wickets, Will Sutherland and Jason Behrendorff took 1 wicket each.

This is the third win for Melbourne Renegades. With 6 points, the team is at sixth position in the points table of Big Bash League. This is the third defeat of Perth Scorchers. The team is at second place in the table with 8 points.