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Matthew Short

Australian cricketer (born 1995)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Matthew William Short is an Australian international cricketer who represents the Australia national team in limited overs cricket. A right-handed top-order batter who bowls right-arm off break, Short plays for Victoria at state level, captains the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League and plays for the Chennai Super Kings in Indian Premier League.

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“Matthew Short” enters the record as australian cricketer (born 1995). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Matthew, Short and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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“Matthew Short” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Matthew, Short and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Matthew Short” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.