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2014–15 Sydney Sixers season

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President
  
Stuart Clark

BBL
  
4th

CLT20
  
DNQ

2014–15 Sydney Sixers season

Coach
  
Trevor Bayliss (4th season)

Captain(s)
  
Brad Haddin (4th season)

Home ground
  
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

The 2014–15 Sydney Sixers season was the club's fourth consecutive season in the Big Bash League (BBL).

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Sydney Sixers came fourth overall after the regular season, qualifying for the finals series. The club reached the final at Manuka Oval in Canberra, but was defeated by 4 wickets on the last ball of the match by Perth Scorchers. The final was also the last match of Brett Lee's career as a cricketer.

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Champions League Twenty20

As the Sydney Sixers lost in the semi-finals to the Perth Scorchers, they did not qualify for the 2014 Champions League Twenty20 tournament.

Matches

Times shown are in Australian Western Standard Time (UTC+08) for Perth, Australian Central Daylight Time (UTC+10:30) for Adelaide, Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10:00) for Brisbane and Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11:00) for all remaining venues.

Finals

The top four teams from the group stage qualified for the semi finals.

Player Statistics

  • Statistics include all finals games
  • Key: Hover over heading for tooltips

    • Source: Cricinfo

    Popularity

    The 2014-15 Big Bash League season saw a significant increase in crowds as well as TV viewership on Network Ten for the Sydney Sixers matches. Major statistics for the season were as follows:

  • Total Sixers membership tally was 1915, an increase of 25% compared to 2013-14 season.
  • The crowd of 36,487 for the derby match against Sydney Thunder on January 22, 2015 was the highest ever in NSW domestic cricket history beating the previous record crowd of 32,823 set earlier in the season between the same teams.
  • Average home crowd of 24,023, an increase of 22% compared to 2013-14 season.
  • The Sixers matches during the Big Bash League had an average viewership of 1,000,072 for each game on TV. These are the highest average ratings for any sports club which is based in Sydney.

    • References

    2014–15 Sydney Sixers season Wikipedia
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