Sydney Thunder
Imported players
Table:
Sydney Thunder imported players in the Big Bash League

BBL
Player
Country

BBL06
Carlos Brathwaite
West Indies

BBL08
Jos Butler
England

BBL04
Cameron Delport
South Africa

BBL08
Anton Devcich
New Zealand

BBL03
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Sri Lanka

BBL01
Fidel Edwards
West Indies

BBL01 – BBL02
Chris Gayle
West Indies

BBL02
Martin Guptill
New Zealand

BBL08
Chris Jordan
England

BBL04 – BBL05
Jacques Kallis
South Africa

BBL04 +
Craig Kieswetter
England

BBL07
Mitchell McClenaghan
New Zealand

BBL01
Azhar Mahmood
Pakistan

BBL03
Ajantha Mendis
Sri Lanka

BBL03 and BBL06
Eoin Morgan
Ireland/England

BBL05
Henry Nicholls
New Zealand

BBL02
Matt Prior
England

BBL08
Joe Root
England

BBL04
Jason Roy
England

BBL05
Andre Russell
West Indies

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Carlos Ricardo Brathwaite ( born 18 July 1988 ) is a cricketer from Barbados and a former captain of the West Indies Twenty20 International ( T20I ) team .
Joseph Charles Buttler MBE ( born 8 September 1990 ) is an English international cricketer who is currently vice-captain of the England cricket team in limited overs cricket . A right-handed batsman , he usually fields as a wicket-keeper and has represented England in Test , One Day International ( ODI ) and Twenty20 International ( T20I ) cricket . He served as vice-captain of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup , becoming world champions for the first time in their history . He currently plays for Lancashire in English domestic cricket having previously played for Somerset . He also plays for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League ( IPL ) . Buttler holds the record for the fastest ODI century by an England player and is regarded as one of the best wicket-keeper batsmen in the world . Buttler 's ability to recognise and manipulate field placements of opposing teams and score all around the ground has seen him labelled as a 360-degree cricketer . Buttler enjoyed a prolific cricket record while at school , sharing a record-breaking opening partnership while at King 's College , Taunton in 2008 . The following season , his school lost only one of seventeen matches under his captaincy and he was named 2010 Young Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year . He made his Somerset first-team debut in 2009 after having played age-group cricket for the county . His performances led him to be selected to play for England at Under-19 level before he made his senior England debut in 2011 and his Test debut in 2014 .
Cameron Scott Delport ( born 12 May 1989 ) is a British-South African cricketer who plays in Twenty20 league tournaments . He was educated at Westville High School . He is a left-hand opening batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler . Delport also played for the Lahore Qalandars during the first edition of Pakistan Super League . He scored 227 runs at the average of 32.42 with the highest total of 78 . He was included in the KwaZulu-Natal cricket team squad for the 2015 Africa T20 Cup . In January 2018 , he was bought by the Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2018 IPL auction .
Anton Paul Devcich ( born 28 September 1985 in Hamilton ) is a New Zealand international cricketer , who plays limited over internationals . A left-handed batsman who occasionally bowls left-arm orthodox spin , at the domestic level he plays for Northern Districts .
Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan ( Sinhala : තිලකරත්න ඩිල්ෂාන් ; born on October 14 , 1976 ) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team . As the best rated Sri Lankan player in run-chases in ODI history , he is often regarded as one of the innovative and greatest ODI batsmen of all time . Dilshan is considered to be a rare example of a cricketer with notable skills in all aspects of the game , who can bat , bowl , field and keep wicket . He is an aggressive right-hand batsman who invented the scoop , which has come to be known as the Dilscoop , a shot that hits the ball over the keeper . Apart from being an opening batsman , he is also a capable off-break bowler . Energetic in the field , he usually fields at the point region . Dilshan made his Test and ODI debut during the Sri Lankan cricket team 's tour to Zimbabwe in 1999 . He is also the second cap for Sri Lanka in Twenty20 Internationals . He is the first cricketer in the history of the game to score hundreds in all formats as a captain . Dilshan won the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year award at the 2009 ICC Awards for his 96 off 57 ball shots against West Indies in the semi-final of the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 in England . He also won the man of the series trophy for his individual batting performances in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 tournament . He was also a key member of the team that won the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and was part of the team that made the finals of 2007 Cricket World Cup , 2011 Cricket World Cup , 2009 ICC World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC World Twenty20 .
Fidel Henderson Edwards ( born 6 February 1982 ) is a West Indian cricketer , who plays all formats of the game . A pace bowler , his round-arm action not unlike that of former fast bowler Jeff Thomson . He was spotted in the nets by Brian Lara and was called up for his Test debut against Sri Lanka after just one match for Barbados . Despite a promising start to his Test career , he has been injury prone and inconsistent . With an average of just under 40 in Test cricket , he has struggled to fulfil his early potential . He is the half brother of Pedro Collins .
Christopher Henry Gayle , OD ( born 21 September 1979 ) is a Jamaican cricketer who plays international cricket for the West Indies . Gayle captained the West Indies Test side from 2007 to 2010 . Considered as one of the greatest batsmen ever in Twenty20 ( T20 ) cricket , Gayle has set numerous records across all three formats of the game . He is the most capped player for the West Indies in international cricket and is the only player to score a triplet of centuries - a triple hundred in Tests , double hundred in ODIs and a hundred in T20Is . In February 2019 , Gayle announced that he would retire from ODIs after the 2019 Cricket World Cup . However , in June 2019 , during the Cricket World Cup , Gayle expressed his desire to play in the ODI matches against India in August , and possibly a Test match as well . Gayle last played in a Test match in September 2014 , against Bangladesh . In July 2019 , he was named in the West Indies ' ODI squad for their series against India . During the series against India , Gayle played in his 300th ODI , which includes three matches for the ICC World XI team . In the same match , Gayle also became the leading run-scorer for a West Indies batsman in ODI cricket . He went past Brian Lara 's record of 10,348 runs .
Martin James Guptill ( born 30 September 1986 ) is a New Zealand international cricketer who plays as an opening batsman in limited overs formats of the game . Guptill is the first cricketer from New Zealand and the fifth overall to have scored a double century in a One Day International match and holds the current record for the highest individual score in Cricket World Cup matches and the second highest score in One Day Internationals of 237 not out .
Christopher James Jordan ( born 4 October 1988 ) is a Barbadian-born English cricketer . He is a right-arm fast bowler and a late-order right-handed batsman . He plays for Sussex County Cricket Club in domestic cricket and has played for the England Cricket Team , mostly in the shorter formats of the game .
Jacques Kallis ( born 16 October 1975 ) is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer . As a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium swing bowler , Kallis is regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders of all time , and as South Africa 's greatest batsman . As of 2020 [ update ] he is the only cricketer in the history of the game to score more than 10,000 runs and take over 250 wickets in both ODI and Test match cricket ; he also took 131 ODI catches . He scored 13,289 runs in his Test match career and took 292 wickets and 200 catches . Kallis played 166 Test matches and had a batting average of over 55 runs per innings . From October to December 2007 , he scored five centuries in four Test matches . With his century in the second innings of the third Test against India in January 2011 , his 40th in all , he moved past Ricky Ponting to become the second-highest scorer of Test centuries , behind only Sachin Tendulkar 's 51 . Kallis was named Leading Cricketer in the World in the 2008 Wisden for his performances in 2007 in addition to being the ICC Test Player of the Year and ICC Player of the Year in 2005 . He has been described by Kevin Pietersen and Daryll Cullinan as the greatest cricketer to play the game , and along with Wally Hammond and Sir Garry Sobers is one of the few Test all-rounders whose Test batting average is over 50 and exceeds his Test bowling average by 20 or more . Kallis became the fourth player and first South African to score 13,000 Test runs the opening day of the first Test against New Zealand on 2 January 2013 . He was named one of the Wisden cricketers of the year in 2013 . He retired from Test and first-class cricket after playing in the second test against India at Durban in December 2013 ; Kallis scored his 45th Test hundred in this match , making him one of the few batsmen to score a century in his final Test .
Craig Kieswetter ( born 28 November 1987 ) is an English professional golfer and former cricketer who appeared in 71 matches for the England cricket team between 2010 and 2013 . Born and raised in South Africa , Kieswetter moved to England to complete his education , and began playing county cricket for Somerset in 2007 . Three years later , he made his international debut in a One Day International ( ODI ) against Bangladesh . A wicket-keeper batsman , he was considered a one-day specialist , and all his international appearances came in ODIs or Twenty20 Internationals . Kieswetter played junior cricket for Western Province until the age of 18 , but lack of opportunity led him to seek an alternative route in England . He studied at Millfield , where he was noticed by Somerset . The county 's lack of a strong wicket-keeper gave Kieswetter his opportunity , and he made his debut for the team early in the 2007 season . Through his Scottish mother , he qualified to play county cricket , and his performances soon generated discussion about his potential to play for England . Around this time , the captain of South Africa , Graeme Smith , invited him to return to play in South Africa but Kieswetter preferred to qualify for England . In early 2010 , Kieswetter achieved his target ; some strong performances for the England Lions , especially in a match against the senior England team , won him a place in the squad to face Bangladesh . His selection , along with the presence of other South African-born players in the England team , was criticised ; some commentators suggested there should be fewer foreign-born players in the team . Kieswetter scored his only international century in his third match , and a couple of months later he was the man of the match in the final when England won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 .
Mitchell John McClenaghan ( born 11 June 1986 ) is a New Zealand international cricketer who plays in limited over internationals . Domestically , he plays for Auckland in New Zealand . McClenaghan is a left-arm medium-fast bowler . He is the fastest bowler to take 50 wickets for New Zealand in One Day Internationals .
Azhar Mahmood Sagar ( Punjabi : اظہر محمود ساگر ; born 28 February 1975 ) is a British Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer . He was the bowling coach of the Pakistani national cricket team till 2019 . Previously , he played Tests and ODIs for Pakistan national cricket team and county cricket in England .
Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslow Mendis ( Sinhala : අජන්ත මෙන්ඩිස් ; born 11 March 1985 ) known as Ajantha Mendis is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played for Sri Lankan national cricket team in all three formats . He was known as the mystery spinner due to the unusual bowling action and widely regarded as one of the best limited over bowlers in the world arena . In August 2019 , he retired from all formats of cricket . Mendis made his One Day International debut against the West Indies at Port of Spain in 2008 and took 3 for 39 . He also played for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League . He holds the record for the quickest for 50 wickets in ODIs with 19 matches . His first Test Match was against India at Colombo on 23 July 2008 in which he returned match figures of 8-132 , thereby becoming the first Sri Lankan bowler to get an eight-wicket haul on Test debut . Mendis won the Emerging Player of the Year award at the ICC Awards ceremony held in Dubai in September 2008 . Until February 2017 , he was the only bowler to have taken six wickets in a Twenty20 International , and he has achieved the feat twice , claiming the world record figures of 6 wickets for 8 runs for Sri Lanka against Zimbabwe on 18 September 2012 . On 26 October 2012 Ajantha Mendis received the Sri Lankan order of Bantu , the highest civilian honour in Sri Lanka .
Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan CBE ( born 10 September 1986 ) is an Irish-born cricketer who captains the England cricket team in limited overs cricket . A left-handed batsman , he plays county cricket for Middlesex and has played for England 's Test , One Day International ( ODI ) , and Twenty20 International ( T20I ) teams . He previously played for the Ireland cricket team in ODIs , and was the first player to score an ODI hundred for two nations . His ability to hit boundaries at the end of innings sees him labelled as a finisher ; he is also among the most skilful exponents of the reverse sweep shot . After Alastair Cook was removed from the ODI captaincy on 19 December 2014 , Morgan was named as the England captain for the 2015 Cricket World Cup , having already captained England in ODIs and T20Is as a stand-in . He is the only England captain to have scored more than 4 ODI centuries . Under his captaincy , England won the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup , the first time they had won the tournament . As of December 2019 [ update ] , Morgan is the all-time leading run scorer and most capped player for England in ODI matches . He also holds the England record for the fastest fifty in ODIs and during the 2019 ICC World Cup he scored the highest number of sixes in an ODI innings , with 17 sixes against Afghanistan .
Henry Michael Nicholls ( born 15 November 1991 ) is a New Zealand cricketer who represents the New Zealand national team and plays for Canterbury in domestic first-class cricket . He has two older brothers , one of whom , Willy Nicholls , is a media correspondent for the Black Caps and White Ferns . He has also been the captain of the reserve A side since 2017 .
Matthew James Matt Prior ( born 26 February 1982 ) is an South african-English former cricketer , who played for England in Test cricket and for Sussex in domestic cricket . He was a wicket-keeper and his aggressive right-handed batting enabled him to open the innings in ODI matches , even when he made very limited appearance in shorter forms of the game . With an international Test debut score of 126 , Prior became the first English wicket-keeper to hit a century in his debut match in early 2007 . His glovework , however , was criticised . Despite a successful tour of Sri Lanka with the bat , Prior 's keeping was less successful , and he was dropped from the team for the 2008 tour of New Zealand . He returned for the 2008 series against South Africa , and was retained into 2009 , where he became the second-fastest England keeper to reach 1,000 Test runs , behind Les Ames . In his role as wicketkeeper , Prior has been described as ' a big talker behind the stumps ' but has argued that this approach is different from the behaviour that saw him criticised during the 2007 tour by India ; 'Ninety-five percent of the time , my chat is about geeing up our bowlers and the fielding unit . ' He retired in June 2015 from all forms of professional cricket due to a recurring Achilles tendon injury .
Joseph Edward Root MBE ( born 30 December 1990 ) is an English international cricketer who is the current captain of the England Test team . He also represents Yorkshire domestically . He is currently ranked eighth in Test batting and eighth in ODI batting rankings according to the ICC Player Rankings , having previously been ranked the best Test batsman . Root was part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup . He was originally a right-handed opening batsman and occasional off-spinner , with a similar playing style to former England captain Michael Vaughan . However , he has played the majority of his cricket for England in the middle order . He made his debut for England in the 2012 Test series in India and made his ODI and Twenty20 International debuts on the same tour , before scoring his maiden Test century at his home ground of Headingley the following spring against New Zealand . On the occasion of England 's 1000th Test in August 2018 , he was named in the country 's greatest Test XI by the ECB .
Jason Jonathan Roy ( born 21 July 1990 ) is a South African-born English cricketer who plays for England in all formats , and for Surrey County Cricket Club in domestic cricket . He was a part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup , and he holds the record for the highest individual One Day International ( ODI ) innings by an England batsman . Roy is currently ( October 2019 ) ranked tenth in ODI batting , and seventeenth in T20I batting rankings according to the ICC Player Rankings . Born in South Africa , Jason Roy moved to England with his family when he was 10 years old . He is a right-handed batsman who opens in limited over cricket and plays in the middle order in first-class matches . He made his Twenty20 International debut against India in September 2014 , his ODI debut against Ireland in May 2015 and his Test debut against Ireland in July 2019 . He was the first batsman to be given out for obstructing the field in T20I history .
Andre Dwayne Russell ( born 29 April 1988 ) is a Jamaican professional cricketer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest T20 player of all time . Russell plays internationally for the West Indies and for Jamaica in West Indian domestic cricket as an all-rounder . He has played in over 300 Twenty20 matches for a range of sides in leagues throughout the world . Widely regarded as one of the most powerful strikers of the ball in limited-overs cricket and the most destructive of batsmen in T20I and ODI cricket , Russell scored a century in a record 40 balls in the 2018 Caribbean Premier League and took a hat-trick in the same match , becoming the second player to take a hat-trick and score a century in the same Twenty20 match .