BBL playerAustralia2011-12 to 2020-21
CJ Ferguson
Right-handed bat · Right-arm off-break (occasional)
CJ Ferguson, a batter, played nine BBL seasons for three clubs.
The arrival
CJ Ferguson's first BBL season was 2011-12, with Adelaide Strikers.
That first season brought 5 matches and 68 runs. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2018-19, for Sydney Thunder: 442 runs at an average of 34.0, striking at 131.9 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 121.1, with 1 hundred and 1 fifty, and a highest score of 113 not out. There were three seasons of 300 runs or more in all (2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21).
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2016-17: 183 runs at a strike rate of 147.6, 18 runs per hundred balls quicker than the BBL as a whole that year.
Club by club
2011-12 to 2013-14, Adelaide Strikers. 13 matches and 209 runs.
2014-15 to 2016-17, Melbourne Renegades. 15 matches and 348 runs.
2017-18 to 2020-21, Sydney Thunder. 52 matches and 1,325 runs.
3 spells with three clubs in all. The longest was with Sydney Thunder, 2017-18 to 2020-21. 2015-16 is missing from the record: a season without a BBL appearance.
How the runs came
Across the career, CJ Ferguson struck at 121.0. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 124.1, so CJ Ferguson scored about 3 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time, a trade usually made for longer innings. 46% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 157 fours and 41 sixes.
The legacy
CJ Ferguson made 80 BBL appearances, the last for Sydney Thunder in 2020-21.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-12 (BBL|01) | Adelaide Strikers | 5 | 68 | 41 | 13.6 | 106.3 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2012-13 (BBL|02) | Adelaide Strikers | 6 | 114 | 52 | 19.0 | 104.6 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2013-14 (BBL|03) | Adelaide Strikers | 2 | 27 | 22 | 13.5 | 90.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2014-15 (BBL|04) | Melbourne Renegades | 8 | 165 | 40 | 23.6 | 110.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2016-17 (BBL|06) | Melbourne Renegades | 7 | 183 | 39 | 30.5 | 147.6 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2017-18 (BBL|07) | Sydney Thunder | 6 | 102 | 37 | 20.4 | 102.0 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2018-19 (BBL|08) | Sydney Thunder | 14 | 442 | 113* | 34.0 | 131.9 | 1/1 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2019-20 (BBL|09) | Sydney Thunder | 17 | 376 | 73* | 28.9 | 124.5 | 3/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2020-21 (BBL|10) | Sydney Thunder | 15 | 405 | 61* | 31.2 | 118.8 | 3/0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Adelaide Strikers: 2011-12 to 2013-14
- Melbourne Renegades: 2014-15 to 2016-17
- Sydney Thunder: 2017-18 to 2020-21
Sources
- CricArcade BBL season statistics