{"id":5277,"date":"2023-01-17T19:51:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T14:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=272475"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:12:11","slug":"bbl-12-steve-smiths-maiden-ton-breaks-record-as-he-becomes-the-first-player-of-sydney-sixers-to-achieve-a-three-figure-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/bbl-12-steve-smiths-maiden-ton-breaks-record-as-he-becomes-the-first-player-of-sydney-sixers-to-achieve-a-three-figure-score\/","title":{"rendered":"BBL 12: Steve Smith\u2019s maiden ton breaks record as he becomes the first player of Sydney Sixers to achieve a three-figure score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian star Steve Smith\u00a0reached the three-figure mark for the first time in BBL history and\u00a0\u00a0b<strong>ecame just the fourth cricketer to score a hundred in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the Big Bash League (BBL). <\/strong>David Warner, Chris Gayle, and Shane Watson are other three cricketers to achieve this epic record.<\/p>\n<p>The Sydney Sixers paid $250K for Smith, who represented Australia in the home series against South Africa. Smith has proven to be a wise financial decision for the team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a knock it's been from Steven Smith!! \ud83d\udcaf<\/p>\n<p>His best ever T20 performance \u2013 and he's still going! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBL12?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BBL12<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oPAIjpOPa8\">pic.twitter.com\/oPAIjpOPa8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KFC Big Bash League (@BBL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBL\/status\/1615278369045897219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At Coffs Harbour\u2019s International Sports Stadium, the former Australian captain, a player for Sydney Sixers in the top Twenty20 league, smashed\u00a0an amazing\u00a0century off just 56 balls against Adelaide Strikers. <strong>In addition to being the first century by a Sixers player in BBL history, it was Smith\u2019s highest score in the BBL<\/strong>. Smith scored 101 runs off 56 balls by hitting seven sixes and five fours.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian star Steve Smith\u00a0reached the three-figure mark for the first time in BBL history and\u00a0\u00a0became just the fourth cricketer to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4644,2],"tags":[1037,3475,349,1152],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbl","category-cricket","tag-bbl","tag-bbl12","tag-steve-smith","tag-sydney-sixers"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43395,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions\/43395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}