BBL playerAustralia2013-14 to 2025-26
AJ Turner
Right-handed bat · Right-arm leg-break (occasional)
AJ Turner, a batter, has played thirteen BBL seasons, all of them with Perth Scorchers.
The arrival
AJ Turner's first BBL season was 2013-14, with Perth Scorchers.
That first season brought 6 matches, 77 runs and 1 wicket. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2022-23, for Perth Scorchers: 381 runs at an average of 42.3, striking at 153.6 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 122.5, with 4 fifties, and a highest score of 84 not out. There were three seasons of 300 runs or more in all (2018-19, 2021-22 and 2022-23).
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2025-26: 176 runs at a strike rate of 202.3, 70 runs per hundred balls quicker than the BBL as a whole that year.
With the ball, the best season was 2016-17, for Perth Scorchers: 5 wickets at 7.26 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.65.
One club
AJ Turner has spent the whole BBL career with Perth Scorchers, from 2013-14 to 2025-26.
Bat, ball and method
Across the career, AJ Turner has struck at 144.2. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 125.2, so AJ Turner has scored about 19 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 54% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 168 fours and 105 sixes, the 7th-most sixes in BBL history.
With the ball, 18 wickets in 362 deliveries, at 7.01 runs an over against a league rate of 7.45 for the same seasons: 0.44 an over cheaper than the typical bowler of the time.
Where it stands
On the all-time BBL lists, among 526 players, AJ Turner stands 14th for runs, 5th for matches played and 7th for sixes. The story is still being written: 2025-26 was another season with Perth Scorchers.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-14 (BBL|03) | Perth Scorchers | 6 | 77 | 32* | 25.7 | 137.5 | 0/0 | 1 | 9.50 | – | 0 | ||
| 2014-15 (BBL|04) | Perth Scorchers | 9 | 81 | 37 | 11.6 | 122.7 | 0/0 | 4 | 5.71 | – | 0 | ||
| 2015-16 (BBL|05) | Perth Scorchers | 3 | 20 | 19 | 20.0 | 133.3 | 0/0 | 0 | 5.00 | – | 0 | ||
| 2016-17 (BBL|06) | Perth Scorchers | 10 | 123 | 44* | 20.5 | 136.7 | 0/0 | 5 | 7.26 | – | 0 | ||
| 2017-18 (BBL|07) | Perth Scorchers | 11 | 252 | 70 | 31.5 | 160.5 | 3/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2018-19 (BBL|08) | Perth Scorchers | 14 | 378 | 69 | 31.5 | 128.1 | 3/0 | 0 | 7.00 | – | 0 | ||
| 2019-20 (BBL|09) | Perth Scorchers | 7 | 86 | 36 | 12.3 | 102.4 | 0/0 | 0 | 6.00 | – | 0 | ||
| 2020-21 (BBL|10) | Perth Scorchers | 15 | 228 | 39 | 22.8 | 144.3 | 0/0 | 0 | 8.50 | – | 0 | ||
| 2021-22 (BBL|11) | Perth Scorchers | 14 | 357 | 69 | 32.5 | 149.4 | 2/0 | 2 | 7.23 | – | 0 | ||
| 2022-23 (BBL|12) | Perth Scorchers | 15 | 381 | 84* | 42.3 | 153.6 | 4/0 | 2 | 7.25 | – | 0 | ||
| 2023-24 (BBL|13) | Perth Scorchers | 2 | 19 | 19* | – | 111.8 | 0/0 | 0 | 3.00 | – | 0 | ||
| 2024-25 (BBL|14) | Perth Scorchers | 10 | 240 | 66* | 34.3 | 145.4 | 1/0 | 1 | 6.57 | – | 0 | ||
| 2025-26 (BBL|15) | Perth Scorchers | 7 | 176 | 99* | 44.0 | 202.3 | 1/0 | 3 | 1.00 | – | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Perth Scorchers: 2013-14 to 2025-26
Sources
- CricArcade BBL season statistics