These days, along with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the domestic T20 league Big Bash League is also being organized in Australia. So far, 5 group stage matches have been played in this tournament which started on 15th December. On December 20, the sixth match was played between Adelaide Strikers and Melbourne Stars. In this match held in Adelaide, Australian player Darcy Short created a ruckus with his stormy batting. He hit 8 fours and 2 sixes in his innings of 60 runs. With this, he achieved the feat of hitting 100 sixes in the history of the league. He has become only the 7th batsman to do so in BBL.

Short reached top-3

Chris Lynn holds the record for hitting most sixes in the history of BBL. He has hit 208 sixes in 121 matches. Ben McDermott is second with 123 sixes and Glenn Maxwell is third with 122 sixes. Darcy Short is seventh in this list with 101 sixes in 94 matches. Short completed his fifty in just 33 balls. He scored 60 runs in 41 balls at a strike rate of 142.

Thanks to this inning, Short has now achieved the feat of scoring 3000 runs in BBL. He is only the third batsman to do so in this league. Chris Lynn holds the record for most runs in the history of Big Bash League.

He has scored 3737 runs in 121 matches at a strike rate of 148. He is at second position after scoring 3311 runs with a strike of 131 in 107 matches. Now Short has also scored 3010 runs in 94 BBL matches at a strike rate of 131 and has come in the top-3 in this list.

Adelaide scored 165 runs

Melbourne Stars team won the toss and decided to bowl first. Adelaide Strikers, who came to bat first, did not have a good start. He lost his first wicket in the third over itself. After this, Darcy Short came to bat at number 3 and started scoring runs rapidly.

However, his team kept losing wickets at frequent intervals. Apart from Short's inning of 60 runs, Alex Ross scored 35 runs in 26 balls and James Beasley scored 16 runs. Apart from these three, no batsman could perform, as a result of which Adelaide team could score only 165 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs in the first innings.

However, his team kept losing wickets at frequent intervals. Apart from Short's inning of 60 runs, Alex Ross scored 35 runs in 26 balls and James Beasley scored 16 runs. Apart from these three, no batsman could perform, as a result of which Adelaide team could score only 165 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs in the first innings.