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Matthew Short

Cricket player · All-rounder · Australia

Matthew Short

Matthew Short appears in 60 matches with a full FairPlay scorecard (9 Oct 2025 to 24 Oct 2026). 1,931 runs in 65 innings. 38 wickets from 169.2 overs. 275 matches in FairPlay's recorded career data.

Player profile

Country
Australia
Role
All-rounder
Batting
Right-hand bat
Bowling
Right-arm off-break
Born
8 Nov 1995 Age 30
Recorded matches
27557 internationals

Matthew Short is an all-rounder from Australia with 275 matches in FairPlay's recorded data, including 57 internationals (2 Tests, 31 ODIs, 24 T20Is).

Batting: 7,974 runs across all recorded formats, with 8 hundreds and 51 fifties; the most runs came in T20 (league and domestic) cricket (3,725) and the highest recorded score is 134.

Bowling: 126 wickets in recorded matches, 64 of them in T20 (league and domestic) cricket, with 1 five-wicket haul.

Career figures by format

Summed over the seasons in FairPlay's data provider's records, mostly recent ones. Older seasons can be missing, so these totals may be lower than the official career record.

Matthew Short: batting and bowling figures by format in FairPlay's recorded data
FormatMatInnsRunsHSAvgSR100/50WktsBowl avgEcon5w
Test23493616.3343.40/0425.502.570
ODI31286387422.7987.00/5684.005.540
T20I24224166620.80150.20/1922.8911.441
T20 (league and domestic)1381273,72512131.84144.93/256427.117.610
100-ball22214547323.89144.60/3723.4310.470
First-class33581,78711933.0956.73/112835.043.100
List A252590513443.1098.22/6859.005.660

Avg is runs per dismissal; SR is runs per 100 balls; Bowl avg is runs per wicket; Econ is runs per over; 5w is five or more wickets in an innings.

Matthew Short at a glance

FairPlay holds 60 complete scorecards featuring Matthew Short, most recently for Australia (T20 and shorter, one-day, first-class).

In those matches Matthew Short batted 65 times for 1,931 runs at a strike rate of 101.47. The highest score was 121 not out off 56 balls against Washington Freedom.

With the ball: 38 wickets from 169.2 overs, an economy rate of 5.80. Best figures: 4 for 17 against MI New York.

How the 59 dismissals happened: caught 41, bowled 12, LBW 4, run out 1, stumped 1.

These matches were played at 24 different grounds.

Figures in FairPlay's scorecards

Batting
6561,931121*32.73101.4712/1
Bowling
49169.27982384/175.80

Match by match

Newest first. Dates in India Standard Time. * means not out.

DateMatch
24 Oct 2026Tasmania v VictoriaBat 70 (91) · Bowl –
19 Oct 2026Tasmania v VictoriaBat 17 (27) & 17 (33) · Bowl 0/6 (1)
12 Oct 2026Victoria v South AustraliaBat 15 (20) · Bowl 2/35 (6)
7 Oct 2026Victoria v South AustraliaBat 31 (35) & 6 (15) · Bowl 0/36 (13)
25 Sept 2026Victoria v New South WalesBat 46 (52) · Bowl 0/20 (4)
19 Sept 2026Queensland v VictoriaBat 8 (6) · Bowl 1/31 (6)
12 Aug 2026Welsh Fire v London SpiritBat 0 (3) · Bowl –
9 Aug 2026Sunrisers Leeds v Welsh FireBat 43 (29) · Bowl –
5 Aug 2026Manchester Super Giants v Welsh FireBat 71 (47) · Bowl 0/11 (0.5)
3 Aug 2026Welsh Fire v Southern BraveBat 60* (41) · Bowl 2/13 (0.5)
29 Jul 2026Welsh Fire v Trent RocketsBat 36 (26) · Bowl –
25 Jul 2026Welsh Fire v MI LondonBat 8 (9) · Bowl –
22 Jul 2026Southern Brave v Welsh FireBat 20 (15) · Bowl 1/5 (1.4)
17 Jul 2026San Francisco Unicorns v Washington FreedomBat 121* (56) · Bowl 0/12 (1)
16 Jul 2026San Francisco Unicorns v Los Angeles Knight RidersBat 94* (62) · Bowl 1/18 (2)
12 Jul 2026Seattle Orcas v San Francisco UnicornsBat 43 (36) · Bowl 1/35 (3)
11 Jul 2026San Francisco Unicorns v Los Angeles Knight RidersBat 43 (30) · Bowl 1/26 (3)
9 Jul 2026MI New York v San Francisco UnicornsBat 19* (25) · Bowl 3/24 (4)
6 Jul 2026San Francisco Unicorns v MI New YorkBat 21 (20) · Bowl 4/17 (4)
5 Jul 2026Washington Freedom v San Francisco UnicornsBat 39 (34) · Bowl 0/15 (2)
29 Jun 2026San Francisco Unicorns v Washington FreedomBat 34* (26) · Bowl 1/12 (2)
27 Jun 2026San Francisco Unicorns v Seattle OrcasBat 10 (7) · Bowl 2/12 (2)
25 Jun 2026San Francisco Unicorns v Texas Super KingsBat 28 (16) · Bowl 1/19 (2)
21 Jun 2026Texas Super Kings v San Francisco UnicornsBat 31 (19) · Bowl 2/25 (4)
20 Jun 2026Los Angeles Knight Riders v San Francisco UnicornsBat 30 (20) · Bowl 1/8 (1)
11 Jun 2026Bangladesh v AustraliaBat 0 (4) · Bowl –
9 Jun 2026Bangladesh v AustraliaBat 0 (1) · Bowl 0/14 (3)
4 Jun 2026Pakistan v AustraliaBat 0 (2) · Bowl 1/23 (7)
2 Jun 2026Pakistan v AustraliaBat 15 (24) · Bowl 3/36 (8)
30 May 2026Pakistan v AustraliaBat 55 (76) · Bowl 0/11 (3)
21 May 2026Gujarat Titans v Chennai Super KingsBat 24 (14) · Bowl –
18 Apr 2026Sunrisers Hyderabad v Chennai Super KingsBat 34 (30) · Bowl 0/38 (3)
30 Mar 2026Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super KingsBat 2 (7) · Bowl 0/1 (0.1)
5 Mar 2026Tasmania v VictoriaBat 40 (57) & 14 (16) · Bowl –
21 Feb 2026Western Australia v VictoriaBat 35 (43) · Bowl 0/16 (3)
16 Feb 2026Western Australia v VictoriaBat 42 (66) & 12 (23) · Bowl 0/0 (1)
1 Feb 2026Pakistan v AustraliaBat 2 (4) · Bowl 1/31 (3)
31 Jan 2026Pakistan v AustraliaBat 27 (23) · Bowl 0/16 (1)
29 Jan 2026Pakistan v AustraliaBat 5 (4) · Bowl 0/23 (2)
17 Jan 2026Adelaide Strikers v Melbourne RenegadesBat 30 (22) · Bowl 0/5 (1)
13 Jan 2026Melbourne Stars v Adelaide StrikersBat 8 (10) · Bowl –
11 Jan 2026Adelaide Strikers v Perth ScorchersBat 52 (31) · Bowl 1/21 (2)
9 Jan 2026Hobart Hurricanes v Adelaide StrikersBat 2 (4) · Bowl 0/25 (3)
6 Jan 2026Adelaide Strikers v Sydney ThunderBat 4 (4) · Bowl 0/27 (3)
4 Jan 2026Perth Scorchers v Adelaide StrikersBat 31 (21) · Bowl 0/32 (4)
31 Dec 2025Adelaide Strikers v Brisbane HeatBat 19 (27) · Bowl 1/1 (0.4)
27 Dec 2025Brisbane Heat v Adelaide StrikersBat 63 (39) · Bowl 2/13 (3)
23 Dec 2025Adelaide Strikers v Melbourne StarsBat 56 (42) · Bowl 0/27 (2.1)
17 Dec 2025Sydney Sixers v Adelaide StrikersBat 15 (11) · Bowl 1/8 (1)
4 Dec 2025Victoria v Western AustraliaBat 62 (111) & 62 (82) · Bowl 0/26 (7) & 4/57 (20)
2 Dec 2025Victoria v Western AustraliaBat 5 (13) · Bowl 0/39 (6)
22 Nov 2025Queensland v VictoriaBat 25 (17) & 54 (85) · Bowl 1/9 (4)
8 Nov 2025Australia v IndiaBat – · Bowl –
6 Nov 2025Australia v IndiaBat 25 (19) · Bowl –
2 Nov 2025Australia v IndiaBat 26* (15) · Bowl 0/13 (1)
31 Oct 2025Australia v IndiaBat 0 (1) · Bowl –
25 Oct 2025Australia v IndiaBat 30 (41) · Bowl 0/29 (4)
23 Oct 2025Australia v IndiaBat 74 (78) · Bowl 0/23 (3)
19 Oct 2025Australia v IndiaBat 8 (17) · Bowl 0/17 (1)
9 Oct 2025South Australia v VictoriaBat 12 (19) · Bowl 0/21 (6)

Victoria's next match

Victoria v Western Australia, Sheffield Shield, 11 Nov 2026 at Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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