BBL playerAustralia2014-15 to 2025-26
MW Short
Right-handed bat · Right-arm fast
MW Short, an all-rounder, has played eleven BBL seasons for two clubs.
The arrival
MW Short's first BBL season was 2014-15, with Melbourne Renegades.
That first season brought 2 matches, 2 runs and 1 wicket. The best was still to come.
The peak
The high point with the bat was 2023-24, for Adelaide Strikers: 541 runs at an average of 60.1, striking at 149.9 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 127.0, with 6 fifties, and a highest score of 82. There were three seasons of 300 runs or more in all (2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24).
Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2024-25: 236 runs at a strike rate of 162.8, 31 runs per hundred balls quicker than the BBL as a whole that year.
With the ball, the best season was 2022-23, for Adelaide Strikers: 11 wickets at 6.60 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.28.
Club by club
2014-15 to 2017-18, Melbourne Renegades. 6 matches, 113 runs and 1 wicket.
2018-19 to 2025-26, Adelaide Strikers. 84 matches, 2,263 runs and 36 wickets.
2 spells with two clubs in all. The longest was with Adelaide Strikers, 2018-19 to 2025-26. 2015-16 is missing from the record: a season without a BBL appearance.
Bat, ball and method
Across the career, MW Short has struck at 136.6. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 125.9, so MW Short has scored about 11 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 57% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 190 fours and 101 sixes, the 9th-most sixes in BBL history.
With the ball, 37 wickets in 1,000 deliveries, at 7.16 runs an over against a league rate of 7.47 for the same seasons: 0.31 an over cheaper than the typical bowler of the time.
Where it stands
On the all-time BBL lists, among 526 players, MW Short stands 15th for runs and 9th for sixes. The story is still being written: 2025-26 was another season with Adelaide Strikers.
Season by season
| Season | Team | M | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50/100 | Wkts | Econ | Best | Ct | POTM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 (BBL|04) | Melbourne Renegades | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2.0 | 40.0 | 0/0 | 1 | 6.80 | – | 0 | ||
| 2016-17 (BBL|06) | Melbourne Renegades | 1 | 5 | 5* | – | 125.0 | 0/0 | 0 | 6.00 | – | 0 | ||
| 2017-18 (BBL|07) | Melbourne Renegades | 3 | 106 | 62 | 35.3 | 116.5 | 1/0 | – | – | – | 0 | ||
| 2018-19 (BBL|08) | Adelaide Strikers | 11 | 132 | 65 | 12.0 | 92.3 | 1/0 | 2 | 8.22 | – | 0 | ||
| 2019-20 (BBL|09) | Adelaide Strikers | 13 | 176 | 41 | 17.6 | 136.4 | 0/0 | 0 | 6.93 | – | 0 | ||
| 2020-21 (BBL|10) | Adelaide Strikers | 5 | 37 | 16 | 7.4 | 90.2 | 0/0 | 0 | 8.50 | – | 0 | ||
| 2021-22 (BBL|11) | Adelaide Strikers | 16 | 493 | 89 | 32.9 | 147.2 | 3/0 | 8 | 6.61 | – | 0 | ||
| 2022-23 (BBL|12) | Adelaide Strikers | 14 | 458 | 100* | 35.2 | 137.9 | 2/1 | 11 | 6.60 | – | 0 | ||
| 2023-24 (BBL|13) | Adelaide Strikers | 11 | 541 | 82 | 60.1 | 149.9 | 6/0 | 5 | 7.94 | – | 0 | ||
| 2024-25 (BBL|14) | Adelaide Strikers | 7 | 236 | 109 | 33.7 | 162.8 | 1/1 | 6 | 8.35 | – | 0 | ||
| 2025-26 (BBL|15) | Adelaide Strikers | 7 | 190 | 63 | 27.1 | 123.4 | 2/0 | 4 | 7.12 | – | 0 |
Franchise journey
- Melbourne Renegades: 2014-15 to 2017-18
- Adelaide Strikers: 2018-19 to 2025-26
Sources
- CricArcade BBL season statistics