Sydney: Sam Billings will turn out for Sydney Thunder once again after re-signing with the franchise for the 2021-22 season of the Big Bash League. Billings had a productive outing last season with Thunder, scoring 260 runs in 10 innings at an impressive strike rate of 142.The 30-year-old will once again join forces with fellow countryman Alex Hales, who set the BBL on fire last season by finishing the tournament as the leading run-scorer. The two players will link up with the former England coach Trevor Bayliss, who became Thunder’s head coach earlier this year by signing a three-year deal.
After finishing third last season, Billings is hopeful of his franchise gunning for the title this time around. In my first experiences with Sydney Thunder last season there were obviously positive signs but we didn’t finish where we wanted to, or could finish, Billings said. ‘There is no reason we can’t take another step forward and go close to the title’.