BBL playerAustralia2018-19 to 2025-26
M Gilkes
Left-handed bat
M Gilkes, a batter, has played seven BBL seasons, all of them with Sydney Thunder.
The arrival
M Gilkes's first BBL season was 2018-19, with Sydney Thunder.
That first season brought 2 matches and 51 runs. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2021-22, for Sydney Thunder: 295 runs at an average of 21.1, striking at 124.0 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 124.7, with 2 fifties, and a highest score of 93.
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2025-26: 218 runs at a strike rate of 158.0, 25 runs per hundred balls quicker than the BBL as a whole that year.
One club
M Gilkes has spent the whole BBL career with Sydney Thunder, from 2018-19 to 2025-26, although 2020-21 passed without an appearance.
How the runs came
Across the career, M Gilkes has struck at 120.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 126.2, so M Gilkes has scored about 6 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time, a trade usually made for longer innings. 57% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 110 fours and 33 sixes.
Where it stands
M Gilkes has made 57 BBL appearances, the latest for Sydney Thunder in 2025-26.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 (BBL|08) | Sydney Thunder | 2 | 51 | 51 | 25.5 | 124.4 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2019-20 (BBL|09) | Sydney Thunder | 6 | 93 | 41 | 15.5 | 92.1 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2021-22 (BBL|11) | Sydney Thunder | 14 | 295 | 93 | 21.1 | 124.0 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2022-23 (BBL|12) | Sydney Thunder | 15 | 282 | 74* | 21.7 | 108.9 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2023-24 (BBL|13) | Sydney Thunder | 4 | 21 | 18 | 5.3 | 72.4 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2024-25 (BBL|14) | Sydney Thunder | 8 | 157 | 43 | 22.4 | 126.6 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2025-26 (BBL|15) | Sydney Thunder | 8 | 218 | 76 | 27.3 | 158.0 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Sydney Thunder: 2018-19 to 2025-26
Sources
- CricArcade BBL season statistics