Mahli Beardman — Perth Scorchers | BBL Player Profile

Coaches plan around certainty, and Mahli Beardman is the Scorchers' nearest thing to it — a Australia bowler whose output rarely swings wildly from week to week.

New ball or death, the method barely changes — a repeatable action, a hard deck-hitting length, and changes of pace saved for the moment a batter commits.

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Ask him about Optus Stadium (Perth Stadium) and the answer is always practical: know your pockets, know your wind, know your twilight. Perth's furnace. The BBL|15 final drew 55,018 punters here on 25 January 2026 as the Scorchers beat the Sixers by six wickets to claim a sixth title.

Inside the Scorchers dressing room he shares the workload with Ashton Turner (the batter), Finn Allen (the wicketkeeper-batter), Jhye Richardson (the bowler), Bryce Jackson (the bowler), Ashton Agar (the all-rounder), Josh Inglis (the wicketkeeper-batter) — combinations that decide whether Perth Scorchers control the middle overs or chase the game. The calendar tests it early, with the Wed 13 Jan 2027 meeting with Melbourne Renegades and the Wed 30 Dec 2026 meeting with Sydney Thunder both on the slate.

He mentors without the title: the youngest squad members gravitate to his corner of the dressing room on hard nights. In the gym data the strength staff publish internally, his repeat-effort numbers sit near the squad's ceiling — the engine behind his late-innings output.

By the numbers around him: the Scorchers carry a 17-name primary group with 3 overseas signings, 6 championship(s) in the cabinet (2013-14, 2014-15, 2016-17, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2025-26), a home ground holding 61,266 people in Perth, and a captain, Ashton Turner, who has lifted silverware in this league before. Mahli Beardman is one of 7 bowlers in the group — a pecking order that December form will re-sort.

Circle his individual duels, too: Jimmy Peirson, the Heat wicketkeeper-batter, and Jordan Silk of the Sixers are the kind of head-to-heads that swing the fixtures between these clubs — small battles inside the big ones that coaches clip for Monday review.

December in this league smells of sunscreen and cut grass, and his routine leans into it: early nets before the heat, ice baths after, family in the stands when the calendar allows. Kit managers dread his packing list least of anyone: everything labelled, nothing borrowed, spikes cleaned the night before rather than the morning of. Home-city weeks are for the other life: school runs, a favourite coffee order the barista starts before he reaches the counter, and sleep in his own bed before a home fixture. The analysts' laptops say one thing about opposition bowlers; the old heads in the change room say another. He listens to both and trusts his eyes at the crease.

The ten-game sprint leaves no hiding places: Mahli Beardman will be judged on the marquee nights, and for the Scorchers none is bigger than a Furnace night at Optus Stadium. A sturdy December there sets up the whole campaign.

Full name	Mahli Beardman
Team	Perth Scorchers
Country	Australia
Role	Bowler
Wicketkeeper	No
Date of birth / age	Not yet verified from an official source — marked PENDING rather than guessed
BBL career stats	We are validating Mahli Beardman's complete BBL career line (matches, runs, wickets, fielding) against ESPNcricinfo. Until that check finishes, the honest entry is PENDING — the records hub carries the verified chart-toppers in the meantime. See the records hub.
X / Twitter	not publicly listed (no verified handle confirmed from a reliable source)
Squad status	BBL|15 squad member (latest completed season, checked 26 October 2026); BBL|16 signings tracked on the Scorchers team page

In BBL|16 he features across the Scorchers' run through the full fixture list — including the marquee nights that decide finals places.