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The recently-concluded Australian Cricket Awards 2025 saw some of the top players of the country attend one of the most prestigious award ceremonies in Australia’s sporting industry. Despite the absence of most of the star Aussie players due to their ongoing series in Sri Lanka, the annual awards saw several cricketing athletes attend the event.
Australia’s rising star Matt Short was one among them. It is safe to say that Short has been in superb form of late. His career has seen an upward trajectory in the recent past with the batting all-rounder more or less sealing a spot in Australia’s white-ball side.
During an exclusive interview with Arvind Kalyana Krishnan during the Australian Cricket Awards 2025 in Melbourne for CricBlog, Short drew light on his current form, as well as his rise in international cricket. The opener spoke about how he received a lot of moral support from his partner, which subsequently enabled him to further establish himself in the cricketing world
Matt Short also had a lot of good things to say about Travis Head. He praised the left-handed batter, and drew light on how it feels to open the batting with him. Short stated that it was always “entertaining” to bat alongside the 2025 Allan Border Medal winner.
It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that Head has been in the form of his life in recent years. Moreover, several cricket pundits feel that Head is currently one of the best players going around. Besides, with Mitchell Marsh injured, there’s a good chance Head and Short will open the batting for Australia during the upcoming Champions Trophy.
Matt Short interview: Travis Head almost guarantees the team gets off to flyer
Below is the audio and transcript of our interview with Matt Short.
Arvind Kalyana Krishnan: Your meteoric rise in the last 12 months has been very nice. So if you were to summarise this season, what were you to say?
Matt Short: Yeah, it’s been a busy sort of 12-18 months. Probably 2 years to be fair. Actually, it’s funny….When I met my partner Madi, I sort of wasn’t playing any international cricket, or any cricket overseas or any tournaments. So when we met, it was like I told her that I’d be in Melbourne and not much travel and yeah, since meeting her it’s almost like skyrocketed. With trips overseas and sort of new teams and trips overseas and different tournaments around the world here and there. So it’s definitely been a big couple of years. Yeah, and also pretty busy with the young fellow. The 5-month-old back at home.
Arvind Kalyana Krishnan: Yeah, and Australia have Head (Travis Head) at the top, and there’s a huge likelihood that you can open with Head. So what goes through your mind when you open with Head, who’s been so good?
Matt Short: Yeah, it’s a pretty cool experience, actually. I’ve done it in Adelaide Strikers as well. So, had a bit of a taste of it with him. So yeah, when you’re standing on the other end with Trav, it’s pretty entertaining. He certainly takes a lot of the pressure off myself. A lot of the boys that bat with him…..you know you can sort of guarantee that he gets the team off to a flyer and kind of get to play that second fiddle when he’s out there. So yeah, hopefully get the opportunity to again bat with him and yeah, we’ll see what happens.
Australia’s Champions Trophy campaign kicks off on Saturday February 22 against archrivals England at Lahore.
