Dominic Thornely

Dominic Thornely

Personal information
Full name	Dominic John Thornely
Born	1 October 1978 (1978-10-01) (age 33) Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Height	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm medium, Right-arm off spin
Role	Batsman
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2001-	New South Wales
2005	Surrey
2007	Hampshire
2008 -	Mumbai Indians
Career statistics
Competition	FC	List A
Matches	80	94
Runs scored	5070	2249
Batting average	42.96	29.20
100s/50s	10/29	2/14
Top score	261*	108
Balls bowled	4390	1839
Wickets	54	50
Bowling average	38.20	32.02
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	3/38	3/17
Catches/stumpings	49/-	31/-
Source: [1], 17 August 2009

Dominic Thornely is an Australian cricketer who plays for the New South Wales Blues in Australian domestic cricket.

Thornely made his debut for the Blues aged 25 and made his maiden First class century with 143 against Victoria at Newcastle. He would go on to receive Australia A selection in his debut season.

He had an outstanding 2004-05 series in the Pura Cup scoring 1065 runs at 62.65 with 4 centuries. NSW would go on to win the competition. His highest score of 261 was made against Western Australia at the SCG and in it he beat the record of David Hookes for most sixes in an Australian domestic game with 11. Another record came in his 219-run stand for the last wicket with Stuart MacGill. MacGill only contributed 27 of those runs.

He played country cricket with Surrey in 2005 and for Hampshire in 2007. He represented Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League 2008 season.

External links

• Dominic Thornely Profile at Cricinfo

Persondata
Name	Thornely, Dominic
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1 October 1978
Place of birth	Albury, New South Wales
Date of death
Place of death