Dominic Thornely
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Dominic John Thornely (born 1 October 1978) in Albury, New South Wales, is an Australian cricketer who plays for the New South Wales Blues in Australian domestic cricket.
Thornley made his debut for the Blues aged 25 and made his maiden First class century with 143 against Victoria at Newcastle. He would go on to receive Australia A selection in his debut season.
He had an outstanding 2004-05 series in the Pura Cup scoring 1065 runs at 62.65 with 4 centuries. NSW would go on to win the competition. His highest score of 261 was made against Western Australia at the SCG and in it he beat the record of David Hookes for most sixes in an Australian domestic game with 11. Another record came in his 219-run stand for the last wicket with Stuart MacGill. MacGill only contributed 27 of those runs.
He played country cricket with Surrey in 2005 and has signed on to play for Hampshire for the winter of 2007.
