Dominic Thornely

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Dominic Thornely
Australia
Personal information
Full name	Dominic John Thornely
Born	1 October 1978 (1978-10-01) (age 29)
	Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Height	1.97 m (6 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Role	Batsman
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2001 -	New South Wales
Career statistics
	FC	List A
Matches	68	84
Runs scored	4360	1927
Batting average	43.60	28.33
100s/50s	9/24	1/13
Top score	261*	107*
Balls bowled	3756	1701
Wickets	48	47
Bowling average	37.87	31.82
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	3/38	3/17
Catches/stumpings	46/-	28/-
As of 16 March 2008 Source: [1]

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

Thornley 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 represents Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League 2008.

[edit] External links

• Dominic Thornely Profile at Cricinfo

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