BBL playerAustralia2015-16 to 2025-26
CT Bancroft
Right-handed bat · Right-arm off-break (occasional)
CT Bancroft, a batter, has played eleven BBL seasons for two clubs.
The arrival
CT Bancroft's first BBL season was 2015-16, with Perth Scorchers.
That first season brought 5 matches and 136 runs.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2022-23, for Perth Scorchers: 357 runs at an average of 51.0, striking at 135.7 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 122.5, with 4 fifties, and a highest score of 95 not out.
Club by club
2015-16 to 2022-23, Perth Scorchers. 61 matches and 1,594 runs.
2023-24 to 2025-26, Sydney Thunder. 18 matches and 419 runs.
2 spells with two clubs in all. The longest was with Perth Scorchers, 2015-16 to 2022-23.
How the runs came
Across the career, CT Bancroft has struck at 118.7. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 125.5, so CT Bancroft has scored about 7 runs per hundred balls slower than the typical batter of the time, a trade usually made for longer innings. 44% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 148 fours and 49 sixes.
Where it stands
On the all-time BBL lists, among 526 players, CT Bancroft stands 25th for runs. The story is still being written: 2025-26 was another season with Sydney Thunder.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 (BBL|05) | Perth Scorchers | 5 | 136 | 72 | 45.3 | 130.8 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2016-17 (BBL|06) | Perth Scorchers | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | – | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2017-18 (BBL|07) | Perth Scorchers | 5 | 194 | 75* | 48.5 | 121.3 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2018-19 (BBL|08) | Perth Scorchers | 11 | 298 | 87* | 33.1 | 121.1 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2019-20 (BBL|09) | Perth Scorchers | 13 | 290 | 51 | 29.0 | 109.4 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2020-21 (BBL|10) | Perth Scorchers | 7 | 156 | 58* | 39.0 | 126.8 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2021-22 (BBL|11) | Perth Scorchers | 8 | 163 | 45 | 20.4 | 102.5 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2022-23 (BBL|12) | Perth Scorchers | 11 | 357 | 95* | 51.0 | 135.7 | 4/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2023-24 (BBL|13) | Sydney Thunder | 9 | 230 | 74 | 25.6 | 111.1 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2024-25 (BBL|14) | Sydney Thunder | 4 | 105 | 70* | 35.0 | 122.1 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2025-26 (BBL|15) | Sydney Thunder | 5 | 84 | 61 | 16.8 | 101.2 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Perth Scorchers: 2015-16 to 2022-23
- Sydney Thunder: 2023-24 to 2025-26
Sources
- CricArcade BBL season statistics