By Karthik Iyengar
Reviewed by Anjali DeshmukhSydney Thunder appear in 7 of our Big Bash League tables, from 2016/17 to 2025/26, with 36 wins and 46 defeats from 84 league matches. Their best finish in this set is 3, in 2020/21; their lowest is 8, in 2016/17, 2025/26.
Across those 84 matches they scored 12217 runs and conceded 12604. By net run rate their strongest season here was 2020/21 at +0.828, the weakest 2025/26 at -1.170 — a measure that ignores how close the finishes were. They did not take the title in any of the seasons we hold complete.
Season by season
League-stage record by season
Season | Pos | P | W | L | NRR | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8 / 8 | 10 | 2 | 8 | -1.170 | 4 | |
4 / 8 | 14 | 7 | 7 | -0.742 | 14 | |
3 / 8 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0.828 | 16 | |
4 / 8 | 14 | 6 | 7 | -0.067 | 13 | |
6 / 8 | 14 | 6 | 7 | -0.013 | 13 | |
6 / 8 | 10 | 4 | 6 | -0.044 | 8 | |
8 / 8 | 8 | 3 | 5 | -0.600 | 6 |
All Big Bash League points tables
Who played in 2025/26
These are the 18 players who actually took the field for Sydney Thunder in the 2025/26 season, read from the ball-by-ball archive rather than from a squad announcement. Names appear in scorecard form, as the match records write them.
AP O'Connor
CJ Green
CT Bancroft
DA Warner
DJ Willey
DR Sams
M Gilkes
N McAndrew
NJ Maddinson
O Davies
R Hadley
RJW Topley
S Konstas
SW Billings
Shadab Khan
T Sangha
TD Andrews
WA Agar