{"id":356365,"date":"2025-08-19T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356365\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:44:11","slug":"konstas-signs-four-year-extension-with-sydney-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356365\/","title":{"rendered":"Konstas signs four-year extension with Sydney Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> BIG BASH LEAGUE <\/p>\n<p>           <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cursor-pointer\" height=\"396\" width=\"595\" alt=\"Growing up supporting Thunder, Konstas said batting alongside veteran David Warner was a great learning curve for him last season\" title=\"Growing up supporting Thunder, Konstas said batting alongside veteran David Warner was a great learning curve for him last season\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/growing-up-supporting-thunder.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Growing up supporting Thunder, Konstas said batting alongside veteran David Warner was a great learning curve for him last season \u00a9 Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Sam Konstas has extended his contract with BBL side Sydney Thunder until the 2029 edition, the club confirmed on Tuesday (August 19). <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> At 19, Konstas is already a Under-19 World Cup winner and has played Test Cricket for Australia. He also hit the headlines on his Big Bash League debut when he smashed a 20-ball fifty, the fastest ever for Thunder while also becoming the youngest to reach the landmark in the competition&#8217;s history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Growing up supporting Thunder, Konstas said batting alongside veteran David Warner was a great learning curve for him last season. &#8220;I remember being a fan in the stands watching my heroes like Davey (Warner), Michael Hussey and Andre Russell play for Thunder, so to extend for another four seasons is very exciting,&#8221; Konstas said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8220;Batting with Davey last season was a great learning opportunity for me because he&#8217;s very strategic in the way that he goes about things. I felt like I had a lot of clarity and freedom to play my game. We&#8217;ve got an exciting group again which now includes Shadab (Khan). I feel like this is the year we&#8217;re going to dominate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Thunder&#8217;s General Manager Trent Copeland said that offering Konstas a deal was one of the easiest decisions ahead of the new season. &#8220;Since I started in this role, it&#8217;s been remarkable to watch Sam&#8217;s progression,&#8221; Copeland said. &#8220;This time last year he hadn&#8217;t played a BBL match, and to go from that to breaking records on debut &#8211; alongside his growth across other formats &#8211; shows just how far he&#8217;s come. This deal is huge in terms of tenure, and we see it as part of a journey that will hopefully make him a Thunder player for life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8220;This extension not only rewards Sam&#8217;s progression and his lifelong love of the club, but also tells our fans that when we have talent, we&#8217;re going to do our best to keep them in Thunder colours. Bring on the trophy this season, with Sam right there alongside Davey Warner and the boys lifting it up.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> \u00a9 Cricbuzz <\/p>\n<p>     RELATED STORIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIG BASH LEAGUE Growing up supporting Thunder, Konstas said batting alongside veteran David Warner was a great learning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-356365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115054554258569597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}