Match notes: Sydney Thunder v Bangladesh Cricket Board XI, 16 Dec 2016
https://www.instagram.com/p/BOEhKokgOL-/ On December 16 2016 Sydney Thunder played a Bangladesh Cricket Board XI at Spotless Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park in a Twenty20 warmup match. For Bangladesh it was preparation for their tour of New Zealand, for the Thunder it was a pre-season game for BBL06.
Sydney Thunder BBL07 player assessment
Sydney Thunder are out of BBL07 following their defeat by the Melbourne Renegades on Wednesday January 24. They will finish either in sixth or seventh place with a 4-6 win-loss record in the first expanded season where each team play ten games.
2017 A personal year in cricket in pictures
In 2017 I have seen some extraordinary events on the cricket field, and by way of a personal retrospective of the year, here through some of my own smartphone * photography is a recap of some of my highlights:
Sydney Thunder v Sydney Sixers 19 Dec 2017
Big Bash League 2017-18 #BBL07: Spotless Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park, 19 December 2017 Sydney Sixers 9/149 (20), Sydney Thunder 5/150 (20) Sydney Thunder won with 0 balls to spare. Scorecard https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc4K2gXAZk6/ Video highlights from cricket.com.au
WBBL Sydney Thunder v Sydney Sixers, 10 Dec 2017
Womens Big Bash League #WBBL03, Match 3 Sydney Thunder v Sydney Sixers North Sydney Oval, 10 December 2017 Sydney Sixers won with 8 balls in hand Scorecard https://www.instagram.com/p/Bcgit8iAjmB/
WBBL Sydney Thunder v Melbourne Renegades, 9 Dec 2017
Womens Big Bash League #WBBL03, Match 1 Sydney Thunder v Melbourne Renegades North Sydney Oval, 9 December 2017 Sydney Thunder won by 11 runs Scorecard https://www.instagram.com/p/Bcdupz2g-2J/
The grim trial of strength that went mainstream: women’s Test cricket
Before the Australian women’s cricket team played their touring England counterparts in Brisbane in December 1934, the following directive appeared in the Courier Mail: No one in the press or elsewhere paid any attention to this instruction, and the first women’s Test match concluded at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground on New Year’s Eve 1934, […]
2015: A year in cricket (or at least the start of it)
January 1, Kirribilli House, Sydney. Two of these three men still had their job at the end of the year: Blame John Howard for starting the annual New Year's Day lunch that led, in 2015, to this: pic.twitter.com/IeP3GCmAJm — Rick Eyre on cricket (@rickeyrecricket) January 1, 2015 Statement from Kieran Powell about his absence from […]