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2007–08 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash
The 2007–08 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash was the 3rd season of the official Twenty20 domestic cricket in Australia. Six teams representing six states in Australia participated in the competition. The competition began on 31 December 2007 when the Queensland Bulls took on two-time champions the Victorian Bushrangers at the new Tony Ireland Stadium in City of Thuringowa, Thuringowa. Another match between the Western Warriors and the previous year's finalists the Tasmanian Tigers was held on the same day at the WACA Ground. This season comprised 15 regular matches, instead of twelve from the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash season 2006-07, 2006–07 season. This allowed each team to play every other team once. Table Teams received 2 points for a win, 1 for a tie or no result, and 0 for a loss. The top two teams, Western Warriors, Western Australia and Victorian Bushrangers, Victoria, played in the final at the WACA Ground in Perth. These two teams also qualified for the 1st edition of the Twenty2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket Australia
Cricket Australia (CA) is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the 'Australian Board of Control for International Cricket'. It is incorporated as an Australian Public Company, Company limited by guarantee, limited by guarantee. Cricket Australia operates all of the Australian national representative cricket sides, including the Australia national cricket team, Men's, Australia women's national cricket team, Women's and Australia national under-19 cricket team, Youth, Australia A cricket team, Australia A sides, along with various other national teams (such as Indigenous, disability or over-age teams) in conjunction with the relevant organisations. CA is also responsible for organising and hosting Test cricket, Test matches, one day internationals and Twenty20 International, T20 internationals in association with other nations, and scheduling home international fixtures. Background Cricket Australia is an adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadium Australia
Stadium Australia, currently known as Accor Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium located in the suburb of Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The stadium, which is sometimes referred to as Sydney Olympic Stadium, Homebush Stadium or simply the Olympic Stadium, was completed in March 1999 at a cost of Australian dollar, A$690 million to host the 2000 Summer Olympics. The Stadium was leased by a private company, the Stadium Australia Group, until the Stadium was sold back to the NSW Government on 1 June 2016 after NSW Premier Mike Baird, Michael Baird announced the Stadium was to be redeveloped as a world-class rectangular stadium. The Stadium is owned by Venues NSW on behalf of the NSW Government. The stadium was originally built to hold circa 115,000 spectators, making it the largest Olympic Stadium ever built and the second largest stadium in Australia after the Melbourne Cricket Ground which held more than 120,000 before its re-des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Watson
Shane Robert Watson (born 17 June 1981) is an Australian cricket coach, commentator and former cricketer who played for and occasionally captained the Australia national cricket team, Australian national cricket team between 2002 and 2016. He was an all-rounder who played as a right-handed Batting (cricket), batsman and a right-arm fast bowling, fast-medium bowler. He was ranked as the world's No. 1 all-rounder in Twenty20 Internationals (T20I) for 150 weeks, including an all-time record of 120 consecutive weeks from 13 October 2011 to 30 January 2014. He began playing during the Australian team's golden era in the early 2000s, and was the last player from this era to retire. In his time playing for Australia, Watson was part of their winning squad in the Cricket World Cup two times in 2007 Cricket World Cup, 2007, and 2015 Cricket World Cup, 2015 along with the ICC Champions Trophy twice in 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, 2006 and 2009 ICC Champions Trophy, 2009, with Watson named a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Crosthwaite
Adam John Crosthwaite (born 22 September 1984) is an Australian former professional cricketer who played for Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia as a wicket keeper. He was part of Australia's Under-19 World Cup win in 2002. Due to the emergence of Matthew Wade in the Victorian Side in 2010 Crosthwaite moved to New South Wales. He played for the Adelaide Strikers in the inaugural Twenty20 Big Bash League and moved to play for South Australia. He was member of the 2011–12 Ryobi One-Day Cup The 2011–12 Ryobi One-Day Cup was the 42nd season of official List A domestic cricket in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (contin ... winning team for South Australia. External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Crosthwaite, Adam 1984 births Australian cricketers Living people Victoria cricketers Adelaide Strikers cricketers Cricketers from Melbourne South Australia cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew McDonald (cricketer)
Andrew Barry McDonald (born 5 June 1981) is an Australian cricket coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the Australia national cricket team. He played for the Victoria and South Australia cricket teams, and had a short career playing for Australia. McDonald made his Test match debut in Sydney on 3 January 2009, against South Africa. He represented Australia at under 19 level and played for the Prime Minister's XI. He was captain of the Australian A XI which took on South Africa in 2012. He was an allrounder who batted right-handed and was a right-arm medium-fast bowler. McDonald As coach, he led Australia to winning the 2023 ICC World Test Championship Final and the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup. Early life McDonald was born in Wodonga, Victoria. Playing career McDonald started his first class career with 32 wickets in his first ten games in 2003–04. His best spell was 6 for 67 against Western Australia. He was struggling however with the bat and desp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Voges
Adam Charles Voges (, born 4 October 1979) is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer who played for the Australian national team at Test, One Day International (ODI), and Twenty20 International (T20I) level, and also captained Western Australia and Perth Scorchers in domestic cricket. Voges' Test match batting average of 61.87 is second among batsmen that have played a minimum of 20 innings behind Don Bradman. Voges was included in the 2016 ICC Test Match Team of the Year. From Perth, Western Australia, Voges excelled at cricket from an early age, attending the Western Australian Institute of Sport and playing for the Australian under-19 team. He made his first-class debut for Western Australia in the 2002–03 Sheffield Shield, and had established himself in the side by the middle of the decade, playing as a middle-order batsman and part-time left-arm orthodox bowler. Voges debuted for Australia during the 2006–07 Chappell–Hadlee Trophy, and played irregul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron White
Cameron Leon White (born 18 August 1983) is an Australian former Australia national cricket team, international cricketer who captained the national side in Twenty20 Internationals. A powerful middle order batsman and right-arm leg-spin Bowler (cricket), bowler, White made his first-class cricket debut as a teenager in the History of Australian cricket from 2000–01, 2000–01 season for the Victoria cricket team as a bowling all-rounder. During his time with Australia, White won the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. In 2003–04, he became Victoria's youngest ever captain at the age of 20 when he took over leadership of their one-day side, and the first-class captaincy followed the season after. International recognition came for the first time in 2005, but White found himself in and out of the side as the selectors and national captain Ricky Ponting looked for White to improve his bowling to play as a front-line spinner. Two successful winters with English county side Somerset Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as the 'G, is a sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the List of stadiums by capacity, eleventh-largest stadium globally, and List of cricket grounds by capacity, the second-largest cricket stadium by capacity. The MCG is within walking distance of the Melbourne City Centre, Melbourne CBD and is served by Richmond railway station, Melbourne, Richmond and Jolimont railway station, Jolimont railway stations, as well as the Melbourne tram route 70, route 70, Melbourne tram route 75, 75 and Melbourne tram route 48, 48 trams. It is adjacent to Melbourne Park and is an integral part of the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct. Since it was built in 1853, the MCG has undergone numerous renovations. It served as the main stadium for the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, as well a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bailey (cricketer, Born 1982)
George John Bailey (born 7 September 1982) is a former Australian cricketer, who played all formats for the Australia national cricket team, national team and Captain (cricket), captained the team in Limited overs cricket, limited-over formats. Domestically, Bailey played for the Tasmania cricket team, Tasmanian cricket team in all three domestic state competitions (the Sheffield Shield, Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament, One-Day Cup and KFC Twenty20 Big Bash) as well as the Hobart Hurricanes and Melbourne Stars in the Twenty20 Big Bash's successor, the Big Bash League, KFC Big Bash League. He has also played in the Indian Premier League and T20 Blast, and in Scotland with Grange Cricket Club. Bailey was a member of the Australian team that won the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Bailey was appointed as Twenty20 captain (cricket), captain of the Australian national cricket team, Australian national team in 2012, succeeding Cameron White prior to the two match series a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellerive Oval
Bellerive Oval, currently known as Ninja Stadium for Naming rights, sponsorship reasons, is a Cricket field, cricket oval and Australian rules football ground located in Bellerive, Tasmania, Bellerive, a suburb on the eastern shore of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. With a combination of seating and standing capacity of 20,000, it is the second-largest stadium in Tasmania, behind York Park in Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston, which holds 21,000 spectators. Bellerive Oval is the only Tasmanian venue that regularly hosts international cricket matches. The stadium serves as the home ground for the Tasmanian Tigers, Tasmania's state cricket team, and the Hobart Hurricanes, a Big Bash League franchise. It has hosted international Test cricket, Test matches since 1989 and One Day International, One-Day Internationals (ODIs) since 1988. In addition to cricket, Bellerive Oval is a secondary home ground for the North Melbourne Football Club, an Australian Football League (AFL) team that p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Harris (cricketer)
Daniel Joseph Harris (born 31 December 1979) is an Australian former cricketer who played for South Australia, Adelaide Strikers, Melbourne Renegades and the Deccan Chargers. Harris retired from professional cricket in 2014 to become a full-time doctor. Playing career Harris is a regular player for South Australia in all 3 forms of the game and played a pivotal role in helping the Redbacks win the 2010–11 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. His outstanding season was rewarded by being named the Australian Cricketers Association's Twenty20 Player of the Year. Harris was picked up by Deccan Chargers to play in Indian Premier League during the 2012 IPL player auction. Harris also signed with the Melbourne Renegades for the second season of the Big Bash League The Big Bash League (BBL), also known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Australia. Established in 2011 by Cricket Australia, the Big Bash League replaced the pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Oval
The Adelaide Oval is a stadium in Adelaide in the state of South Australia. It is located in the Adelaide Parklands, parklands. The venue is predominantly used for cricket and Australian rules football, but has also played host to rugby league, rugby union, soccer, and tennis, as well as regularly being used to hold concerts. Established in 1871, the structures and grounds underwent significant redevelopment between 2012 and 2014. It has three grandstands: Riverbank Stand, Eastern Stand, and Western Stand, and is known for its heritage-listed scoreboard, which stands alongside a new digital scoreboard. Australia's first stadium hotel, named the Oval Hotel, opened in 2024. Adelaide Oval has been headquarters to the South Australian Cricket Association since 1871 and South Australian National Football League, South Australian National Football League (SANFL) since 2014, and is managed by the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority. Adelaide Oval has hosted the AFL Women's Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
