BBL playerAustralia2011-12 to 2023-24
AJ Finch
Right-handed bat · Left-arm orthodox (occasional)
AJ Finch, a batter, played thirteen BBL seasons, all of them with Melbourne Renegades, and scored 3,310 runs, the 2nd-most in BBL history.
The arrival
AJ Finch's first BBL season was 2011-12, with Melbourne Renegades.
That first season brought 6 matches and 258 runs.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2022-23, for Melbourne Renegades: 428 runs at an average of 38.9, striking at 117.3 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 122.5, with 4 fifties, and a highest score of 76 not out. There were five seasons of 300 runs or more in all (2012-13, 2016-17, 2019-20, 2021-22 and 2022-23).
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2016-17: 354 runs at a strike rate of 155.3, 26 runs per hundred balls quicker than the BBL as a whole that year.
One club
AJ Finch spent the whole BBL career with Melbourne Renegades, from 2011-12 to 2023-24.
Bat, ball and method
Across the career, AJ Finch struck at 126.5. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 123.5, so AJ Finch scored about 3 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 57% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 292 fours and 118 sixes, the 4th-most sixes in BBL history.
With the ball, 6 wickets in 150 deliveries, at 8.20 runs an over against a league rate of 7.13 for the same seasons: 1.07 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.
The legacy
On the all-time BBL lists, among 526 players, AJ Finch finished 2nd for runs, 22nd for matches played and 4th for sixes.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 (BBL|01) | Melbourne Renegades | 6 | 258 | 72 | 43.0 | 132.3 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2012-13 (BBL|02) | Melbourne Renegades | 8 | 332 | 111* | 66.4 | 121.2 | 1/1 | 3 | 9.26 | – | 0 | ||
| 2013-14 (BBL|03) | Melbourne Renegades | 6 | 262 | 84* | 52.4 | 144.8 | 3/0 | 1 | 10.75 | – | 0 | ||
| 2014-15 (BBL|04) | Melbourne Renegades | 6 | 108 | 48 | 18.0 | 106.9 | 0/0 | 1 | 5.44 | – | 0 | ||
| 2015-16 (BBL|05) | Melbourne Renegades | 5 | 246 | 72 | 49.2 | 137.4 | 3/0 | 0 | 6.00 | – | 0 | ||
| 2016-17 (BBL|06) | Melbourne Renegades | 8 | 354 | 71 | 44.3 | 155.3 | 4/0 | 1 | 8.50 | – | 0 | ||
| 2017-18 (BBL|07) | Melbourne Renegades | 6 | 108 | 51 | 18.0 | 130.1 | 1/0 | 0 | 5.00 | – | 0 | ||
| 2018-19 (BBL|08) | Melbourne Renegades | 8 | 220 | 54 | 27.5 | 114.0 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2019-20 (BBL|09) | Melbourne Renegades | 9 | 363 | 109 | 45.4 | 132.5 | 3/1 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2020-21 (BBL|10) | Melbourne Renegades | 13 | 179 | 39 | 13.8 | 109.2 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2021-22 (BBL|11) | Melbourne Renegades | 10 | 386 | 82 | 38.6 | 125.7 | 4/0 | 0 | 10.00 | – | 0 | ||
| 2022-23 (BBL|12) | Melbourne Renegades | 15 | 428 | 76* | 38.9 | 117.3 | 4/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2023-24 (BBL|13) | Melbourne Renegades | 4 | 66 | 33 | 16.5 | 91.7 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Melbourne Renegades: 2011-12 to 2023-24
Sources
- CricArcade BBL season statistics