It’s over. It’s done. Finished. The end. Following the final T20 game between Australia and India on 31 January 2016, the gates to the Sydney Cricket Ground have now shut and the sun has set on another tremendous summer of cricket. But not to worry – from my estimate it is only about 10 months […]
Month: January 2016
Two teams. Two trophies. One Club.
I now have a much better understanding on how the universe works. For the last 5 years, Sydney Thunder fans have looked at the Big Bash table, wondering why it couldn’t be our team playing in the finals. Why we hadn’t won a Premiership. Wondering when our moment in the sun would come. And yesterday […]
48 hours left to get behind Batting for Change!
You may remember a couple of weeks ago we wrote a story about Batting for Change. If you missed it, you can check it out here. Batting for Change has 48 hours left to reach it’s fundraising total. We would love if you could share the story and the below video with all your networks!
We did it!
We did it. After our most successful start to a BBL season in the history of the Sydney Thunder, last night, with the Adelaide Strikers defeating the Melbourne Renegades, it was confirmed. The Sydney Thunder will be competing in the finals, in both the men and women’s competition. This is a tremendous feat which deserves […]
Falling in love with the Sydney Thunder
On Saturday night something funny happened. Not ‘ha ha funny’ but a kind of odd funny. I was on my way to one of the most beautiful grounds in the world, the Sydney Cricket Ground, to watch the Sydney Thunder take on the Sydney Sixers. Our last game of the regular season. The game was […]
The age of disposable cricketers
I was at the Sydney Smash at the SCG this last weekend with my friend, Lucy. We were sitting in the Ladies’ Pavilion, watching the Thunder crush the Sixers, when Lucy said something along the lines of, “I miss the good old days – you know, with Hussey, and Hayden, McGrath and Warne. Cricketers these […]
Thunder v Sixers – What sporting rivalries are made of!
Fate has a funny little way of operating doesn’t it? If you had spoken to me at the end of December, I would have told you that my Sydney Thunder were dead certainties to play in the Big Bash Finals this year. We had won our first 3 games (our best start to a BBL […]
BBL v Test Cricket – what’s the difference?
Let’s be honest. Cricket can be a confusing game. Getting a handle on the simpler aspects of the game is fairly simple. Once I got my head around how many balls were bowled in an over, the different ways that a batsmen could be dismissed and what LBW meant, I could very happily watch and […]
Introducing Batting for Change
Each day I am reminded of how lucky I am to live in a country as special as Australia. A country largely free from excessive violence. A country which promotes and supports democracy and freedom of speech. Largely, a country of opportunity. Although we live in a country of opportunity, in terms of gender diversity, […]
Painting the town green!
Perhaps very few of you were expecting a blog from me before our game this Thursday night against the Perth Scorchers. After all, the Sydney Thunder have not started 2016 in the best of form with back-to-back losses to the Hobart Hurricanes and the Brisbane Heat. But… I am resilient – I am a Sydney […]