DJM Short

The arrival

DJM Short's first BBL season was 2016-17, with Hobart Hurricanes.

That first season brought 8 matches, 198 runs and 2 wickets. The best was still to come.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2018-19, for Hobart Hurricanes: 637 runs at an average of 53.1, striking at 135.0 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 121.1, with 6 fifties, and a highest score of 96 not out. There were five seasons of 300 runs or more in all (2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22).

Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2016-17: 198 runs at a strike rate of 162.3, 33 runs per hundred balls quicker than the BBL as a whole that year.

With the ball, the best season was 2018-19, for Hobart Hurricanes: 10 wickets at 7.69 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.20.

Club by club

2016-17 to 2022-23, Hobart Hurricanes. 82 matches, 2,706 runs and 34 wickets.

2023-24 to 2024-25, Adelaide Strikers. 20 matches, 432 runs and 6 wickets.

2 spells with two clubs in all. The longest was with Hobart Hurricanes, 2016-17 to 2022-23.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, DJM Short struck at 127.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 125.2, so the scoring rate tracked the league's almost exactly. 59% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 305 fours and 107 sixes, the 6th-most sixes in BBL history.

With the ball, 40 wickets in 978 deliveries, at 8.15 runs an over against a league rate of 7.44 for the same seasons: 0.71 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time.

The legacy

On the all-time BBL lists, among 526 players, DJM Short finished 5th for runs, 24th for matches played and 6th for sixes.