Hurricanes down Heat in Hobart

The match in one tweet: The #CaneTrain is back on the rails! @HurricanesBBL put shocking opening round loss behind them to pinch 20-run win as @HeatBBL slump to 0-2

The hero: Tim Paine reminded those who had forgotten why he was once Australia's first-choice wicketkeeper and one-day opening batsman with a glittering 87 from 58 balls. Paine was brutal on the short ball, dispatching anything remotely dragged down to the rope or over it, and in two cases, out of the ground. It was the right-hander's highest BBL score, and he even gloved a few catches to boot.  

WATCH: Tim piles on the paine

The sidekick: Dan Christian was Robin to Paine's Batman, perfectly complementing his skipper with ball in hand and in the field. Playing against his former BBL club, Christian snared the big wickets of Lendl Simmons and Peter Forrest, both caught behind to his 'keeper-captain. If that wasn't enough, the talented allrounder held on to a super catch, just, in the deep to remove dangerman Chris Lynn. 

WATCH: Christian's quartet of catches

The style: T20 cricket houses some of the most aggressive and more agricultural hitters in the world, but Kumar Sangakkara showed tonight that grace still has a place in the shortest format of the game. As elegant through backward point as he was surgical over infield on the off-side, the Sri Lankan legend was a pleasure to watch and erased memories of his first-ball duck against Sydney Sixers. 

WATCH: Sangakkara's sublime knock

The catch: Christian's effort, one of four, was sublime.  Sprinting to get under the ball, the real key to this catch was Christian's presence of mind after the ball bounced out of his hands to catch the rebound and remove the dangerous Heat skipper. 

WATCH: Christian's juggling catch

The shot(s): Paine's monsters over square leg and out of Blundstone Arena. The first one went 93m, the second 96m. And you could probably put all of Sangakkara boundaries in here too. They were all class. 

WATCH: Heat feel the Paine

The consolation efforts: Ben Cutting was the pick of the Heat bowlers with 1-32 off four overs, while Jason Floros's 23-ball 42 and Nathan Reardon's 41 off 32 deliveries provided fireworks but needed a big score like Paine's. 

WATCH: Floros finds form

The stat: In what's turning out to be a one of the most watched BBL seasons on record, tonight's crowd of 14,848 was the highest attendance for a Hurricanes match, surpassing the previous mark of 14,744 against the Heat last summer.

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The wash-up: Hobart get their season back on track while Brisbane stay rooted to the bottom of the table. The Heat now head to Perth to play the Scorchers on Boxing Day before heading home to host the Hurricanes on December 29.