D'Arcy Short hits highest score in Big Bash history with 122no for Hobart against Brisbane
Left-hander smashes 122no from 69 balls, with eight sixes and as many fours in match featuring controversial dismissal
Wednesday 10 January 2018 14:31, UK
D'Arcy Short hit the highest score in Big Bash League history with an unbeaten 122 from 69 balls for Hobart Hurricanes against Brisbane Heat.
Short thrashed eight sixes and as many fours as he topped the 117 from 60 deliveries Luke Wright struck for Melbourne Stars against Hobart in January 2012. SCORECARD
The 27-year-old brought up his ton - the first by any batsman in the Big Bash this season - from 63 balls with a six in the 19th over at the Gabba and then cleared the ropes three times in a row in the final over, the third of which saw him pass Wright's total.
Short has been the form batsman in the Big Bash this campaign - the left-hander hammered back-to-back nineties against Sydney Thunder and Adelaide Strikers earlier this month and is the leading run scorer in the competition with 406 in six games at an average in excess of 81.
The Hurricanes batsman has blasted 20 sixes in that time, six clear of his closest competitor, Perth Scorchers' Ashton Turner, who has hit 14.
Speaking before the tournament, Short, who hit two half-centuries for Hobart in last year's Big Bash, said: "I will go out and have some fun, try and relax while doing it and we should be all right.
"I've been hitting the ball probably better than I have been the last couple of years," he added. Big Bash bowlers will probably agree!
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Hobart won a thrilling game by three runs after restricting Heat to 176-8 in reply to their 179-4, with Dan Christian caught by Jofra Archer at long-on off the final ball looking for what would have been a match-winning boundary - Short chipping in with an economical 1-20 with his left-arm spin.
However, there was controversy in Heat's run chase with Alex Ross out obstructing the field - the third umpire ruling that Ross had intentionally blocked the ball with his body as it arrowed towards the stumps.
Archer's throw was missing the wicket before deflecting off Ross and hitting the stumps - Ross had grounded his bat so was not run out but was then given out in contentious fashion.
