COVID-19 Lockdown

A picture from the ground that I took today, a warm Sunday afternoon in May. There is a game of cricket going on here, but it's not what I would have expected at this point in the calendar. But then, 2020 is no normal year, and I think there's a long way to go before any kind of normality returns to our world.

Playing Averages for 2018

I found scores for all 13 matches in this year’s scorebooks, barely half of the 25 planned.  The club’s overall results were:

Result	2018		2017		2016
Played	13		18		26
Won	9	69 %	11	61 %	13	50 %
Drawn	0		0		1	4 %
Lost	4	31 %	6	33 %	10	38 %
Tie	0		0	6 %	2	8 %
No Result	0		1		0
Cancelled by us	4		4		4
Cancelled by them	5		4		7
Cancelled (weather)	3		2		3

Summary of Playing Statistics

Riyas was once again the best bowler (qualification: 12 overs) based on overall rank for average, strike-rate and economy.  By this measure, Nick Turner is second, Francis third and Jim Shanahan fourth.  Nick once again bowled the most overs (52), 2 balls more than James Leach.

Woody is the statistician’s best-bat nominee (qualification: 3 innings) with an average of 122.5; Nick Hill is second best on 82.5, and Francis third on 57.

Most catches were once again taken Scooby Williams (7) with Rob Palmer second on 5.   Paul Vaughan made the only stumping.

Richie Leach played 11 of the 13 matches played, with James next best on 10 followed by Nick Turner and Woody on 9.

14 of us were members this year, mostly by paying a subscription: Alan Kilford, Andy Chapman, Andy Heard, Chris Grogan, Cormac Neeson, David Hartley, Jim Shanahan, Jon Steward, Lyn Williams, Mike Butt, Nick Turner, Peter Kemp, Richie Leach and Rob Palmer.

Bowling

Player	Overs	Maidens	Wickets	Runs	Average	Strike Rate	Economy
Turner	52	8	13	239	18.4	24.0	4.60
Leach, James	51.4	6	7	294	42.0	44.3	5.69
Williams, Lyn	50	2	8	233	29.1	37.5	4.66
Grogan	47	3	6	191	31.8	47.0	4.06
Heard	45.2	8	7	176	25.1	38.9	3.88
Riyas	30	9	9	95	10.6	20.0	3.17
Chapman, Tom	26	1	6	128	21.3	26.0	4.92
Xavier	25	3	5	74	14.8	30.0	2.96
Palmer, Rob	24.4	3	6	162	27.0	24.7	6.57
Neeson	23	2	9	129	14.3	15.3	5.61
Anand	18	2	4	91	22.8	27.0	5.06
Shanahan	12.5	1	6	66	11.0	12.5	5.28
Palmer, Olly	9	0	2	64
Kilford, Alan	8	0	0	79
Leach, Richie	7	0	1	49
Joe	7	0	2	43
Waqar	5	1	0	13
Hill	5	0	0	27
Elliott	3	0	2	10
Williams, Scooby	3	0	1	24
Chapman, Woody	2	0	0	22
Kilford, Matt	1	0	0	8
	455.1	49	94	2,217	23.6	29.1	4.87

Batting

Player	Runs	Batting Pos.	Innings	Not Out	Fifty+	Best	Average
Chapman, Tom	338	1.2	9	2	3	100	48.3
Shanahan	338	5.0	8	1	2	83	48.3
Chapman, Woody	245	1.0	3	1	2	100	122.5
Vaughan	193	1.8	4		2	90	48.3
Hill	165	5.3	3	1	2	59	82.5
Leach, James	156	5.8	9	1	0	44	19.5
Williams, Scooby	155	5.0	6	1	1	83	31.0
Leach, Richie	117	4.6	11	4	1	53	16.7
Xavier	114	8.0	3	1	1	61	57.0
Steward	97	4.5	6	1	1	50	19.4
Kilford, Matt	54	3.7	3		0	32	18.0
Palmer, Rob	46	7.0	5	2	0	17	15.3
Heard	39	10.8	4	2	0	13	19.5
Neeson	37	7.0	4		0	22	9.3
Gregory	31	3.0	1		0	31
Riyas	25	7.5	2		0	25
Grogan	21	7.8	5	2	0	11	7.0
Williams, Lyn	19	8.5	4	1	0	10	6.3
Turner	19	9.3	6	1	0	14	3.8
Hartley	18	6.0	5	1	0	9	4.5
Dean	14	3.0	1		0	14
Kilford, Alan	10	6.0	1		0	10
Waqar	10	4.0	1		0	10
Anand	8	6.0	3	1	0	5	4.0
Emma	4	5.0	1	1	0	4
Katie	0	6.0	1	1	0	0
	1,936	5.4	83	17	13	100	29.3

No Duckman award for this year as several players made two apiece.

Catching

7: Scooby;

5 Rob Palmer;

4 Jim Shanahan;

3 Hartley, Lyn, James Leach

2 Matt Kilford, Paul Vaughan

1 Tom Chapman, Nick Turner, Cormac, Heard, Steward, Grogan, A.N.Other.

Andy Heard
16^th March 2019