BCJ Cutting

The arrival

BCJ Cutting's first BBL season was 2012-13, with Brisbane Heat.

That first season brought 8 matches, 69 runs and 13 wickets at 5.77 an over. The best was still to come.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2020-21, for Sydney Thunder: 280 runs at an average of 46.7, striking at 149.7 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 127.9, and a highest score of 34 not out.

Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2018-19: 249 runs at a strike rate of 146.5, 25 runs per hundred balls quicker than the BBL as a whole that year.

With the ball, the best season was 2012-13, for Brisbane Heat: 13 wickets at 5.77 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 6.81. Two seasons brought 12 wickets or more (2012-13 and 2018-19).

Club by club

2012-13 to 2019-20, Brisbane Heat. 78 matches, 1,200 runs and 63 wickets.

2020-21 to 2022-23, Sydney Thunder. 36 matches, 509 runs and 8 wickets.

2 spells with two clubs in all. The longest was with Brisbane Heat, 2012-13 to 2019-20.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, BCJ Cutting struck at 136.5. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 124.3, so BCJ Cutting scored about 12 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 62% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 126 fours and 94 sixes.

With the ball, 71 wickets in 1,668 deliveries, at 8.01 runs an over against a league rate of 7.35 for the same seasons: 0.66 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.

The legacy

On the all-time BBL lists, among 526 players, BCJ Cutting finished 12th for matches played and 13th for sixes.