Matthew "Matt" William Short (born 8 November 1995) is an Australian cricketer. He represents
Victoria at state level and plays for the
Adelaide Strikers in the
Big Bash League (BBL). He previously played for the
Melbourne Renegades.
Short made his
one day debut on 20 July 2014 for the
Australia National Performance Squad
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against
South Africa A
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, as part of the
Australia A Team Quadrangular Series in 2014
The Australia A Team Quadrangular Series in 2014 was a List A cricket tournament that was held in Darwin, Australia, between the teams Australia A, India A, South Africa A and Australia's National Performance Squad
The National Performance Squ ...
. He made his
first-class debut for
Cricket Australia XI on 29 October 2015 in a tour match against the
New Zealanders as part of
New Zealand's tour to Australia.
He scored his maiden first-class century playing for
Cricket Australia XI in a tour match against
England at Townsville in mid-November 2017, scoring 51 in the first innings and then 134 not out in the second. He also took 4/103 with the ball.
For the
2021/22 BBL season (BBL11), Short moved from the middle order to open the batting, finishing the season with the second most sixes (26) and third-most runs (493). Strikers captain Peter Siddle said of the move: "Last year was all about finding a position for him because he’s been thrown around for a few years and hasn’t been able to lock down a spot ... We found that spot for him last year and he got all the confidence from being at the top of the order. He’s fearless and we saw that against the Sixers."
On 5 January 2023, captaining the Strikers in
Peter Siddle's absence, Short made his maiden century in the
Big Bash League
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, scoring 100* from 59 balls in the highest run chase in BBL history (230 runs). Bowling himself for 4 overs, he also had figures of 1/34. On 30 January 2023, Short was named BBL12 Player of the Tournament at the Australian Cricket Awards.
In March 2023, he was brought in by
Punjab Kings for the
2023 Indian Premier League
The 2023 Indian Premier League, also known as IPL 16 or, for sponsorship reasons, Tata IPL 2023, will be the sixteenth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 cricket league established by the Board of Control for C ...
as an injury replacement for
Jonny Bairstow.
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Living people
1995 births
Cricketers from Victoria (state)
Cricket Australia XI cricketers
Melbourne Renegades cricketers
Victoria cricketers
Adelaide Strikers cricketers
Australian cricketers
Northern Superchargers cricketers
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