Ben Cutting (born 30 January 1987 in Brisbane, Australia) is an Australian cricketer who plays as an all-rounder. Cutting represented Australia at the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka. Cutting played first-class cricket for the Queensland Bulls between 2007 and 2018. He is currently contracted to the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League, and also made an appearance as a substitute fielder in the First Ashes Test of 2006–2007 season at the Gabba against England. He currently plays First Grade for Souths.

Ben Cutting

Personal information
Full name	Benjamin Colin James Cutting
Born	(1987-01-30) 30 January 1987 (age 31) Sunnybank, Queensland, Australia
Nickname	Cutsey, Cutting Edge, Jim’s mowing
Height	192 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast-medium
Role	All-rounder
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2007–2018	Queensland
2011–present	Brisbane Heat
2013	Kings XI Punjab
2014	Rajasthan Royals
2016–2017	Sunrisers Hyderabad (squad no. 30)
2018–present	Mumbai Indians (squad no. 31)
First-class debut	12 October 2007 Queensland v Tasmania
Last First-class	7 March 2017 Queensland v Tasmania
List A debut	11 October 2009 Queensland v Western Australia
Last List A	17 October 2017 Queensland v Tasmania
Career statistics
Competition ODI FC LA T20 Matches 4 51 68 84 Runs scored 53 1,561 843 1,044 Batting average 26.50 23.65 20.07 21.30 100s/50s 0/0 1/7 0/2 0/0 Top score 27 109 98* 46 Balls bowled 216 8,597 3,448 1472 Wickets 6 170 98 64 Bowling average 31.60 28.41 30.97 34.44 5 wickets in innings 0 6 0 0 10 wickets in match n/a 0 n/a – Best bowling 3/45 6/37 4/27 3/24 Catches/stumpings 1/– 15/0 21/0 30/0
Source: Cricinfo, 3 April 2018

Cutting made his first-class cricket debut for the Queensland Bulls against Tasmania in the first Pura Cup game of the 2007/08 season and despite his first ball going for five wides, ended up taking three wickets including that of Michael Di Venuto. In 2009–10 Cutting was one of the competition's leading wicket takers, with 25 wickets from his first six matches, raising hopes that he may be selected to represent Australia in Test cricket. He finished the season as the leading wicket taker – 46 wickets at 23.91. This included a career best 6/37 against Tasmania, and led to speculation of a future international debut.

On 13 January 2013, Cutting made his ODI debut and on 26 January 2013 he made his T20 international debut. He currently plays for the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League and for the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League.

He first made a mark in Indian Premier League 2016 by finishing off the finals match in favour of the Sunrisers Hyderabad.

In August 2017, he was named in a World XI side to play three Twenty20 International matches against Pakistan in the 2017 Independence Cup in Lahore.

In January 2018, he was bought by the Mumbai Indians in the 2018 IPL auction.^[6]

On 3 April 2018, Cutting announced his retirement from first-class and List A cricket after a 12-year career in order to focus on his Twenty20 game and develop his new business.^[7] In September 2018, he was named in Nangarhar's squad in the first edition of the Afghanistan Premier League tournament.^[8]