The 2018 Season

I found scores for all 13 matches in this year’s scorebooks and these will come out as part of the usual statistical bulletin in due course.  However, let's focus briefly on the club’s overall results relative to recent years.  These tell a story of declining quantity of play whilst our playing results improve.  Particularly shocking is that we managed to play barely half of the modest number of fixtures planned.

Playing Averages for 2017

I found scores for all 18 matches in this year’s scorebooks (I’m excluding the T20 match).  The club’s overall results were:

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

Summary of Playing Statistics

Riyas was best bowler based on overall rank for average, strike-rate and economy.  By this measure, Richie Leach is second, Nick Hill third and we have 7 players with averages of 20 or less.  Nick Turner bowled the most overs (72).

Nick Hill is the statistician’s best-bat nominee with an average of 143; Ronnie Khan is second best, but a long way behind on 47.

Most catches were taken Scooby Williams (6) and there were two stumpings this year after none last.

Jon Steward seems to have played the most matches after batting 12 innings, down from 21 in 2016.

Names in bold below are subscribing members.

Bowling

Qualification: 10 overs.

Player	Overs	Maidens	Wickets	Runs	Average	Strike Rate	Economy
Riyas	43.5	7	12	149	12.4	21.9	3.40
Leach, R	13	1	4	60	15.0	19.5	4.62
Kumar	21	0	5	79	15.8	25.2	3.76
Hill	10	1	3	49	16.3	20.0	4.90
Nufeil	58	7	14	256	18.3	24.9	4.41
Heard	68	14	14	242	17.3	29.1	3.56
Williams, L	46.2	6	10	200	20.0	27.8	4.32
Leach, J	26.2	1	7	147	21.0	22.6	5.58
Waqar	26.3	0	6	128	21.3	26.5	4.83
Turner	72	7	13	289	22.2	33.2	4.01
Grogan	43	3	11	246	22.4	23.5	5.72
Xavier	23	1	3	82	27.3	46.0	3.57
Chapman, W	17	0	4	103	25.8	25.5	6.06
Palmer, R	14.4	1	3	88	29.3	29.3	6.00
Williams, S	19	1	1	99	99.0	114.0	5.21
Neeson	16	0	0
Shanahan	8	1	1
Leadbetter	8	0	2
Kilford, M	7	0	0
Steward	4.5	0	6
Arshad	4	0	2
Tajpal	4	0	1
Godfrey	4	0	1
Chapman, A	3	0	1
Kilford, A	3	0	0
Hartley	3	1	0
Grand Total	566 1/2	52	124	2621	21.1	27.4	4.63

Batting

Qualification: 2 innings.

Nick Hill nails this year’s award but Tom Chapman made the most runs in the season, the most 50s and his personal top score for the club (102).  Our Duckman award for two ducks each goes jointly to Riyas (again!), Nick Turner, David Hartley and Jon Steward.

Player	Runs	Batting Pos.	Innings	Not Out	Fifty+	Best	Average
Hill	286	3.3	4	2	3	123	143.0
Khan	47	4.7	3	2	0	25	47.0
Chapman, T	362	3.9	9	1	5	102	45.3
Chapman, W	344	1.7	11	1	3	100	34.4
Williams, S	228	4.4	11	4	1	56	32.6
Shanahan	56	4.8	4	2	0	46	28.0
Nufeil	252	4.3	10	0	1	91	25.2
Gregory	48	3.0	2	0	0	27	24.0
Xavier	69	6.3	4	1	0	46	23.0
Williams, L	45	6.0	3	1	0	27	22.5
Kilford, M	60	3.7	3	0	0	45	20.0
Leach, J	116	5.4	7	1	0	34	19.3
Palmer, R	86	6.8	6	1	0	41	17.2
Turner	100	8.0	8	2	0	39	16.7
Waqar	58	7.0	5	1	0	28	14.5
Steward	168	2.8	12	0	1	56	14.0
Grogan	27	8.3	4	2	0	13	13.5
Vaughan	67	4.0	5	0	0	40	13.4
Leach, R	82	1.3	7	0	0	28	11.7
Kumar	35	8.0	5	2	0	13	11.7
Neeson	23	6.0	4	0	0	11	5.8
Riyas	11	10.3	3	1	0	11	5.5
Hartley	27	4.2	6	0	0	10	4.5
Jackson	1	11.0	2	1	0	1	1.0
Chapman, A	0	8.0	2	1	0	0	0.0
Shamil	60	2.0	1	1	1	60	∞
Arshad	50	3.0	1	0	1	50
Smith	38	2.0	1	0	0	38
Heard	15	9.6	5	5	0	8	∞
Rashid	10	6.0	1	1	0	10	∞
Jaffray	9	9.0	1	0	0	9
Palmer, O	3	8.0	1	0	0	3
Godfrey	2	10.0	1	0	0	2
Tajpal	1	4.0	1	0	0	1
Leadbetter	0	3.0	1	0	0	0
Kilford, A	0	6.0	1	0	0	0
Overall	2786	5.1	155	33	16	123	22.8

Catching

These aren’t the whole story as seven catches are not attributed.

Player Williams, S 6 Neeson 4 Williams, L 4 Heard 4 Turner 4 Khan 3 Vaughan 3 Leach, R 3 Waqar 3 Leach, J 3 Chapman, T 3

Stumpings

One for Ronnie, one for our old friend A.N.Other.

Andy Heard
25^th November 2017