BBL playerAustralia2016-17 to 2024-25
J Weatherald
Left-handed bat
J Weatherald, a batter, played nine BBL seasons, all of them with Adelaide Strikers.
The arrival
J Weatherald's first BBL season was 2016-17, with Adelaide Strikers.
That first season brought 7 matches and 117 runs. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2020-21, for Adelaide Strikers: 433 runs at an average of 36.1, striking at 134.1 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 127.9, with 3 fifties, and a highest score of 80 not out. There were four seasons of 300 runs or more in all (2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21).
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2023-24: 202 runs at a strike rate of 161.6, 35 runs per hundred balls quicker than the BBL as a whole that year.
One club
J Weatherald spent the whole BBL career with Adelaide Strikers, from 2016-17 to 2024-25.
How the runs came
Across the career, J Weatherald struck at 127.3. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 125.6, so the scoring rate tracked the league's almost exactly. 63% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 216 fours and 85 sixes.
The legacy
On the all-time BBL lists, among 526 players, J Weatherald finished 18th for runs.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 (BBL|06) | Adelaide Strikers | 7 | 117 | 52 | 16.7 | 127.2 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2017-18 (BBL|07) | Adelaide Strikers | 12 | 383 | 115 | 31.9 | 122.8 | 3/1 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2018-19 (BBL|08) | Adelaide Strikers | 14 | 328 | 82 | 23.4 | 125.2 | 3/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2019-20 (BBL|09) | Adelaide Strikers | 15 | 407 | 83 | 29.1 | 131.3 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2020-21 (BBL|10) | Adelaide Strikers | 15 | 433 | 80* | 36.1 | 134.1 | 3/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2021-22 (BBL|11) | Adelaide Strikers | 13 | 213 | 51 | 17.8 | 104.4 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2022-23 (BBL|12) | Adelaide Strikers | 4 | 18 | 10 | 4.5 | 78.3 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2023-24 (BBL|13) | Adelaide Strikers | 7 | 202 | 80* | 40.4 | 161.6 | 2/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2024-25 (BBL|14) | Adelaide Strikers | 5 | 75 | 40 | 15.0 | 127.1 | 0/0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Adelaide Strikers: 2016-17 to 2024-25
Sources
- CricArcade BBL season statistics