The Hobart Hurricanes XI will compete in the Global Super League this July as winners of the BBL.

From 10 – 18 July 2025 in Guyana, the Hobart Hurricanes XI will play in this T20 tournament against four other teams from around the globe, aiming to become the champions of the second iteration of the GSL.

The timing of the tournament in the Caribbean allows the Hurricanes to send a strong team to the GSL as it is being played during the Australian domestic offseason and starts after the Major League Cricket T20 competition in the United States.

Hobart will become the second Australian team to play in this tournament, after Cricket Victoria finished second in last year’s competition, losing to Bangladeshi side the Rangpur Riders.

The initial tournament in 2024 was the first ever stand-alone professional cricket tournament in South America. It featured teams from Guyana (West Indies), England, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Australia.

Other teams confirmed as competitors this year are defending champions Rangpur Riders (Bangladesh) and Central Stags, reigning premiers of New Zealand’s Super Smash.

Lance Hamilton, Central Districts Cricket Chief Executive, said: “It’s been 15 years since the Stags competed overseas as a team and for the 2025 generation to have this opportunity to play in Guyana, against peer teams from around the globe, is a very special way for us to enter our 75th jubilee season as an organisation.”

Cricket Tasmania High Performance General Manager Salliann Beams is pleased that athletes within Cricket Tasmania’s system will have an offseason tournament to continue their white-ball development.

“The Guyana Global Super League provides our male playing group with another competition with real stakes to help prepare themselves for the rigours of the Australian domestic summer while continuing the development of their white-ball skills.

“With the international cricket calendar becoming increasingly more competitive, to be able to send a team to an overseas tournament in different conditions, against different opposition, will give our athletes a chance to test themselves further in the shorter format of the game.

“Our squad, while not public yet, will have a good blend of top-end talent and provide playing opportunities to players who we view as important aspects of our organisation in the coming years,” said Beams.

The announcement of the Hobart Hurricanes XI squad for the GSL in Guyana will be announced later this month.

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