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Big Bash League in numbers: All the stats you need to know

Kevin Pietersen and David Hussey of the Melbourne Stars embrace after winning the Big Bash League Semi Final
Image: Kevin Pietersen (left) was one of six England players to take part in this year's tournament

The dust settles on another magnificent season of the Big Bash League in Australia, with Sydney Thunder crowned the winners on Sunday.

That is the most important outcome of the competition, but there are plenty more stats and figures to dig your teeth into from another thrilling tournament.

Here are some of the best...

11,013 - total runs scored (an increase of 875 from BBL04)

412 - total wickets taken (down by 12 from last year)

163 - the average first innings score in BBL05

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Brisbane Heat's Chris Lynn hit a remarkable five sixes in a row against Melbourne Stars

376 - sixes hit

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27 - sixes hit by tournament-topping Brisbane Heat skipper Chris Lynn

30 - runs hit by Chris Lynn off one Ben Hilfenhaus over - hitting five successive sixes - against the Melbourne Stars at the MCG                         

18 - the most number of wickets taken by Clint McKay for the Thunder

Usman Khawaja celebrates his second century of the tournament
Image: Usman Khawaja celebrates his second century of the tournament

5 - centuries hit in the tournament, two of which were by Usman Khawaja in only four games played

5 - number of wins that the Thunder had recorded in the previous four BBL seasons

6.44 - balls faced by batsmen per boundary hit

8.19 - runs per over achieved throughout the tournament (up from 7.82 last season)

171 - the opening partnership shared by Shaun Marsh and Michael Klinger in beating Melbourne Renegades by 10 wickets - a world record for any team winning by that margin

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Chris Gayle hit the joint-fastest T20 half century ever equalling Yuvraj Singh and doing so off just 12 balls

12 - balls faced by Chris Gayle to his half-century for the Renegades against the Adelaide Strikers 

186.86 - Andre Russell's strike-rate for the Thunder

56 - runs scored by Travis Head off the last 15 balls of the innings (strike-rate 373.33) as Strikers beat Sydney Sixers on New Years Eve

57 - runs conceded by Sean Abbott from his 3.3 overs in the same game, the most runs conceded in the tournament

11 - the fewest runs conceded by Chris Tremain for the Renegades and Daniel Worrell for Stars from their respective four overs

Adil Rashid: bowled Michael Carberry and Mitchell Marsh
Image: Adil Rashid had an impressive first sting for the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash

4 - number of times Yorkshire's Adil Rashid conceded less than a run a ball from his four over spells for the Adelaide Strikers

6 - English players appearing in this years tournament (Michael Carberry, Michael Lumb, Kevin Pietersen, David Willey, Luke Wright and Rashid)

131 - players appearing in BBL05 (53 of them or 40.4 per cent were aged 30 or more)

33y 52d - the average age of the Thunder team in the final at the MCG, the oldest team to ever contest a final anywhere in T20 history

117m - the distance in metres of Dan Christian's six over the roof at the Gabba for the Hurricanes

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Hobart Hurricanes all-rounder Dan Christian hits a six out of the ground in their Big Bash Match against Brisbane Heat at the Gabba

80,883 - the crowd at the MCG for the Melbourne Derby between the Stars and Renegades, the biggest ever BBL attendance

1,030,494 - total attendances across the 35 matches in BBL05 (an increase of 206,665 on BBL04)

29,442 - the average BBL attendance

0 - number of overs lost to the weather across all 35 games

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