Sydney Showground Stadium average score in T20: Highest successful T20 run chase at Sydney Showground

Sydney Showground Stadium in Sydney will be hosting the BBL match between Sydney Thunder and Adelaide Strikers later today. This will be the first match of this BBL season at this ground.

Sydney Thunder started the tournament with a thrilling win over Melbourne Stars, and they would want to take merits from that game. Although, the batting of the side could not play at their best in the last match, and this is an area to improve for them.

Adelaide Strikers registered a solid win in their first match, and they have a really good team this season. With players like Chris Lynn, Jake Weatherald, Matthew Short, etc in batting and Rashid Khan in bowling, this team looks excellent.

Sydney Showground Stadium average score in T20

Sydney Showground Stadium serves as the home ground to Sydney Thunder, and in terms of Men’s T20s, this ground has also only hosted BBL games. This is not a natural cricketing venue and is mostly used for hosting different kinds of events. Apart from BBL, this ground has hosted WBBL games as well.

A total of 28 BBL games have been played here, where 15 matches have been won by the teams batting first, and 13 have been won by the chasing teams. The average 1st innings T20 score at this ground is 151 runs, which proves that this is a difficult batting track.

Highest successful T20 run chase at Sydney Showground

The highest successful T20 run chase at this ground has been achieved by Melbourne Renegades against Sydney Thunder in 2016. Sydney Thunder scored 173/5 in the 1st innings, where Usman Khawaja and Shane Watson scored their respective half-centuries. DJ Bravo took a couple of wickets for the Renegades.

Melbourne Renegades achieved the target in 19.2 overs, where Cameron White scored a half-century, and he got decent support from DJ Bravo, Chris Gayle and Tom Cooper. The Renegades side was full of star players, and it is certainly tough to achieve big targets here.