Bowlers Union

Cricket scoring – Wides and No-Balls (No runs made)

Cricket scoring – No-Balls with runs made ‘Off the bat’.

Saturday, January 18, 2020

Springfield cc Batting wagon wheels

June 2019. I've not got round to posting this till Jan 2020, so it's going to be a bit basic and I've not been able to find any images of the players and to be honest I'm not sure I took any.
Anyway, I do have the wagon wheels and the names.
The game was played on the ground here below "Admirals park". The ground's a pretty ground with a tiny little Pavilion. The ground is an odd shape and means that some matches are played with an exceptionally short boundary on the car park side, our game was played on the strip coloured green, so we played with this really short boundary. The ground slopes along its length with a pretty steep up hill run if you're bowling from the Park End. With the pavilion being so small, there are no toilets and you have to use some filthy ones in the park just outside the ground through the hedge in the bottom LH corner. But the teas were epic! Plus they were a nice bunch of blokes as well.

I have some vague memories of this game as it was one of the first games that I started to bowl Flippers as my stock ball in and I was suffering from a knackered knee. Given the fact that I had a bad knee and was coming in up a steep hill from the park end it didn't go that bad. The only bloke I really remember was this first bloke below because he didn't hold back! It may have been that it was a wicket that I'd taken that brought Muragesh to the crease. I'd opened the bowling and his innings was thankfully at the end of my spell having bowled 10 overs straight.

Bala Muragesh___________________________
This bloke came in at about no.4 or 5 and didn't hang about. Thankfully we managed to keep him at the park end and I think he may have been left-handed as I seem to recall him swinging across the line and putting the ball over the boundary on the leg-side and thankfully the leg-side was the longer one.

He was eventually caught with a cross-bat shot top edging it down towards 3rd man as indicated. I think the best advice is to keep the ball on or just outside of the off-stump.

Josh Vince__________________________
Not 100% sure I've got the name correct here, on my notes the name Vince is underlined as though I'm certain that part of the name is correct at least apologies if I've got it wrong. This bloke was one of their younger youth players. My notes say that he played well and scored 50 + runs, but as you can see from the wagon wheel, a lot of these runs came about through quick singles seemingly orchestrated by the other kid that he was batting with. The other kid (Harry Lloyd see below) was quicker and this led to this player eventually being run-out having almost been run-out several times during his 50.

As you can see a very correct player playing with a straight bat, so potentially an easy victim for any bowler that can get the ball to go both ways - a Wrist-spinner with a Wrong-un would be ideal.

Isaac Chalk______________________________
Another young player, my notes say this blokes around 16 years old and looking at his wagon wheel I'd guess he's a left-handed bat, but don't take that as gospel, my notes for this match are sketchy to say the least.

Harry Lloyd_____________________________
Harry Lloyd it seems was the driving force behind Josh Vince's 50. My notes say that he was like a little Jack Russel darting about, backing up and always looking for runs and in doing so putting the other bloke (Josh Vince) under pressure. Again another young player possibly under 16.

I don't think there are images, because these players were youth players. I did take pictures on the day as I shot images of he pavilion as it's pretty unique in that it's so small.

03.07.21 - Springfield cc 6th XI

This game was played at the 'Murrayfields ground' now probably known as the Basildon Sporting Village ground and it's been left to decline into a shadow of its former standard. There's no longer a square and the outfield is horrifically dangerous as it's so uneven, but then what do expect when you have a bunch of amateurs like BSV providing the facilities. All that's left is a uneven all weather wicket with holes in it.

The weather was a threat as I drove over to the ground with showers predicted. The first hour or so there were a couple of light showers that we played through. We won the toss and chose to bat. The 5th XI isn't my usual team, so I only knew a few of the blokes...

The contrast in the overall look of the teams was stark and more akin to the situation I've found myself in many a time with the 4th XI in that last 3 years or so. Our teams as you can see above - youthful with me in the middle the only old bloke. Included in our team 5 adults who all look like they're in their 30's? Whereas the opposition... 1 old bloke, 9 boys and one bloke who looked about 15 or 16. The outcome seemed obvious. But the approach of each team was very different. The captain Farhan (back row left) sent the adults out to bat and they went out swinging, not having a look with total disregard for the bowlers and yet these were decent bowlers. The inevitable happened and we lost the top 4 or so bats for next to no runs and it needed Fahran to come in and steady the ship with Reece (Back row, 2nd from right) and they got the scoreboard ticking over with singles and the occasional 2 and 4. We ended up with a respectable 140 + and given the potential bowling attack with these blokes it looked like tough task for Springfield.

The Springfield boys did well, really well I thought against adult bowlers some who had a bit of pace. Nice straight bats, good defense and techniques. Our fielding was pretty good and if I don't say so myself I set the standard with full stretch diving stops getting my body in the way of the ball at mid-on, with both their captain and their batsmen commending my efforts.

Their bats were all solid and most of them made contributions, but the didn't get the runs to allow the captain and the older youth player to come in and finish the game for them and they fell short by about 40 runs or so, leaving me wondering why they hadn't opened the batting or at least been further up the order. Anyway here's their wagon wheels below. I didn't take any pictures because everyone gets to uptight about it, which is a real shame because in the future these kids might look back at the pictures if I'd taken them with good memories. (Pictures to be uploaded over coming days/months.

Check out my other posts here...

Cricket scoring – Wides and No-Balls (No runs made)

Cricket scoring – No-Balls with runs made ‘Off the bat’.

Hornchurch Athletic cc - Batting wagon wheels

Shaz Rehman

Shaz Rehman R/H bat, Hornchurch Athletic cc 3rd XI - 4th May at Holy Cross.

A first look at Shaz, was fairly short as he was dismissed Tom Jones - CT Abhishek Mishra for 13. The one 4 that he scored was the shot through the cover region. I'm writing this at the end of the week and I can't recall if I bowled at him or not. As he was dismissed cheaply today I can only work with the observations made on the day and as with most club players he's strong on the leg-side as the wagon wheel suggests. Approach-wise - relatively positive - looking to score fours, no evidence of nurdling the ball around looking for singles. Batted at No.6.

The weather for this game was awful - Freezing cold brisk northerly wind, cloudy interspersed with showers. We came off twice once for hailstones.

To be fair, this isn't a good representation of his batting, I have played against him before and this doesn't represent his abilities. Check playcricket and see if he has any stats or have a look around the T.Rippon website.

Update 6/7/20 - Found the wagon wheel for a game in July 2019 which I'd mislaid. This was played at one of their venues in Hornchurch. I've over-laid this wagon wheel with the one earlier in the year. The game in May is the blue lines and the July game is red.

Spencer Duke________________________

40 Overs game - Holy Cross - 4th May - 2019

Spencer Duke - Left-Handed Opening bat. In this game scored 64; bowled A.Mishra caught Tom Jones.

This was a miserable game played in freezing cold weather with brisk northerly wind. We came off twice at least for rain and hail-stones.

It was so cold I forgot to photograph the score board, but Hornchurch collate the scores and up-load to their website thankfully.

A good player with a good range of shots, not over expansive, a steady player that appears to value his wicket.

If anything slightly more shots on the leg-side, but had plenty of options through the off-side. The 4's were primarily scored through the leg-side.

I bowled against him and he got the better of me and the 4's on the leg-side would have been through the shorter boundary and may well have been off my bowling? I've already put it out of my mind as I bowled badly.

The main observation (this applies to all of the players in this game) was that if the bowling had been tighter and the line predominantly outside or around the off-stump, the runs wouldn't have come so easy and we may have been in the game. But, I guess that's a pretty universal approach in club cricket, but it's one that needs to be considered and one that you should be able to adopt and follow through with if you're getting smacked for 4's and 6's through the leg-side.

The wicket seemed to play okay and one of their bowlers who was a youngster of about 14 'Ethan' got some decent bounce out of it off of shorter seam up deliveries. I couldn't get the ball to turn off the wicket much, but that may have been my crap bowling. When I got the line right e.g. outside the off-stump I wasn't going for runs and the ball was hit predominantly to the fielders.

Definitely a player who's wicket you want cheaply.

Update July 2020

Found some old wagon-wheels from 2019 and have been able update Spencer Dukes.

This is here is an over-lay of the game in May 2019 (Above) and a game later in the year on July.

Looking at the 2 over-lapped it does look like he's predominantly scoring with sweep shots to through square-leg and backward square legs, so one of your better players might cover that area and the other area you need to have a good fielders in is the cover and extra cover. As mentioned above try and have your best bowler bowling on and around the off-stump and this should thwart his scoring.

I've got virtually records of the July 9th game, but Spencer Duke has written up a report that you can find here

There's a couple of other batsmen, but there's so little info even looking on their website I've not been able to identify their full names.
N.Rowe (N.03)?

"Paul" (No.4)

Lee Carter R/H bat Not much on Lee, I didn't get a copy of the score book, so not sure of where he came in to bat - definitely in the top 5 though and looked to be positive.

Check out some of my other posts here...

Cricket scoring – Wides and No-Balls (No runs made)

Cricket scoring – No-Balls with runs made ‘Off the bat’.

Harlow Town cc - Batting wagon wheels

Taylor Wood No.4

Taylor Wood - Harlow Town cc 2nd XI

I encountered Taylor in August 2018 having been drafted in to our 2nd XI team. We went onto the field with several 4th XI players and a man short as well. Needless to say the outcome of the game wasn't pretty.

Taylor batted at No.4 and looked pretty good. Looking at his Play cricket data here he doesn't have any particular weaknesses with regards being dismissed - roughly a 50/50 split between bowled and caught. Only a 2% incidence of being stumped.

The image above are his scoring areas...

With the make of the team being as described above, there were obvious weak areas in the field and Taylor was able to identify and exploit these. In particular our bloke at No.3; when the ball glanced off the bat finer, being slightly further out you'd have hoped we'd have had a bloke there that could have stopped it. The regular 2nd XI team would have dealt with it easily, but because we had old blokes like me and small boys playing Wood was able to guide the ball through there with ease. The bowling attack was medium/medium fast with the bowlers seeing good bounce and carry in the wicket. I didn't get to bowl and fielded at 6, dropping one that was hit straight at me - off the middle of the bat and another breaking through my fingers over my head. In this game Wood didn't face any spin at all.

At the end of the game I spoke to him briefly and explained what I'd be doing with this blog post when I asked to get the photo of him and in that conversation having explained that I was a wrist-spinner he said "Funnily enough I always get out to spinners".

With regards ideas as to how to bowl at a Left-Handed player like this...

As I recall, he played the shots down the ground with a straight bat, in part because our bowling was pretty good. The shots through the point and square-leg regions were the shorter balls that he was more than up to playing - targeting the leg-side. You can see that despite the fact that the shortest boundary was on his off-side, virtually no shots were played through that area. Looking at the scoring analysis for the game, there were a lot of wides that I'm assuming were leg-side, so perhaps the bowling was targeting the leg-stump region?

My field therefore, is set for the classic approach of bowling on a good length outside of his off-stump, trying to drag him out wide looking to get the edge and a catch on the off-side at 2,3,4 and 5. He obviously sees himself as a being a leg-side player as a lot of his shots targeted that area and there may be a need to adapt the field and accommodate that scenario if it arises, giving yourself either more protection or the potential to get wickets with something that is more conventional, see here for the classic Peter Philpott field for left-handers.

The theory here, is based on the fact that he says he struggles against spin and that in our game he played no shots what-so-ever in the space between (8) mid-off and (5) Backward-point. So, with this field we're saying here's this space with no fielders except for (7) Silly mid-off, you've got pretty much 4's all day long if you bring out your cover-dive/lofted cover-drive. (11) Mid-wicket is potentially in the game, I fielded here as mentioned and got my hand to at least two balls, but a more athletic player would have had him, so I would have one of your more agile catchers in this position.

The two blokes at mid-on and mid-off need to be good athletic ground fielders as they're definitely going to be in the game. Similarly (10) Fine leg, needs to be agile and a decent catcher, I'd start with him out and bring him up if it looks like a catch is going to be on. Only make such moves if it looks like it's more of an attacking option.

Please note - You set these fields at your own risk. The owner of the blog is in no way responsible for you getting carted around the park for 4's and 6's. Seek professional advice and guidance if in doubt.

Check out my other posts here

Cricket scoring – Wides and No-Balls (No runs made)

Cricket scoring – No-Balls with runs made ‘Off the bat’.

Further data from play cricket

Southend EMT cc - Batting wagon wheels

Steve Laflin No.3

This bloke doesn't play in the T-Rippon League, but I've included him anyway.

Laflin has records that go back to 1983 He's played 174 and had 165 innings at an average of 24.15. That's included 28 not outs and he's scored 3308 runs (As of 2019). The records show 15 x 50's and 1 x 100 with the score being 105. His contribution to team runs equates to 12.63%. Most popular form of dismissal - bowled at 39% followed by 36% caught. A low LBW count of 3.03% and according to play cricket he's never been stumped! In this game he batted at 3, so perhaps he's not usually around when the keeper comes up to the stumps at the bowling changes?

In the game here indicated by the wagon wheel he scored 29 runs, which doesn't correlate to my diagram, but this is a basic indication of his scoring areas and has been gleaned from a diagram I did 2 years ago when I started putting this blog together. If you read on there's further indications of where his scoring areas are...

I've bowled against Steve a few times now and got him once a couple of years ago. He looks to go big with almost every ball and the one time I did get him was at his own ground in Southend - caught deep mid-off by my son Joe in a 4th XI match.

He has a few shots in the locker, the predominant straight drive mainly on the off-side as indicated by his wagon wheel diagram below, a decent late cut through backward of point/Gully region and one that's not indicated here, because I remembered being the victim off it in one of the previous games... a Leg-glance down to fine leg which he gets a decent amount of bat on that cost me a few too many 4's.

Wagon wheel. This is the scoring zones for Laflin during the game In this game I remembered the Leg-glance shot and made sure I kept it off his legs -so watch out for that when bowling to him. As you can see if you don't give him a chance and you bowl off-side you can easily negate that shot.

He doesn't come out of his crease too much if at all, I didn't see him doing it,but he may take a step forward, as I recall their were some stumping opportunities that our wicket keeper looked interested in.

Bowling plan

Key to this plan is not to bowl leg-side and deny him those leg-side off the hip glances that run away for 4. With that option taken out of the equation he looks to hit straight down the ground. With the ball spinning you'll be in the game as he looks to hit it hard either through the fielders or over the top. He does play it late and this is where he is susceptible. The fuller balls are driven hard through the off-side hence 8, 7 and 9's positions.

In the last game (Wagon wheel) he took a calculated risk and played several late cuts through point/backward point, in part because the fielders I had there. (They were not Paul Collingwood-esque) He was put down 3 or 4 times in that area! Additionally, when the ball turned more than he was expecting, he was getting fat edges through that region as well.

In the game thatI got him, the captain (Lee Dutton) positioned my son Joe slightly left of the deep mid-off in-line with the '9' but close to the boundary and then said to me to bowl with more over-spin (Top-Spinner). Again, Laflin was looking to drive the ball late through the mid-off region and with the over-spin it didn't get there - instead it dipped at the last moment and he was already playing through the shot and scooped up high for Joe to pouch it moving to the off-side a little.

Summary

Bowl off-side
Have someone who can catch whose quick on their toes at deep mid-off.
Bowl your stock Leg-Break
The wickets will probably come at point/backward point, Gully and slips if you're varying the flight, speed and amount of turn you get off the wicket - from a thick edge.

More data and stats for Laflin here

__________________________________________________________________________________________

Richard Hawkins_______________________

The wagon wheel here is based on Hawkins facing Wayne Morgan (Medium fast) and me. Wayne's field was different to mine and as far as I can recall he was bowling at the stumps and the majority of the leg-side runs were scored off of Waynes bowling.

Having never bowled at Hawkins before or at least not recalling having done so, I went with the same strategy that I was using for the bloke at the other end Laflin - bowling on and outside of the off-stump.

With me he stayed in his crease and played with more caution as opposed with Wayne, who he walked down the wicket to and hit it off his legs.

Similarly anything I bowled that was erring towards being being middle, he was on those and looking to score through the leg-side.

You can see from the wagon wheel below that he seemed to be restricted to two zones which is unusual, I spoke to him about it and he didn't give much away, I think he alluded to struggling with the variable bounce.

Richard Hawkins - Wagon Wheel

Given that this looks so easy to deal with and set a field to, I'd be cautious with implementing a plan that addresses it and going with the idea rigidly. I'd start with something that works with this wagon wheel, but be ready to adapt to the situation that arises. It's a shame in a way as I wont get to play against him again as I'm in a different league now, but it would have been interesting to see if these are really his strongest regular shots?

The plan

I'm writing this almost 4 months later using some very minimal notes taken on the day. I don't recall his shots on the off-side and whether they were high-risk in the air shots or thick edges like Laflin's . I know the fielders were less than agile that day for us and I had a number of opportunities go to hand but not clung on to. So, if you implement this plan get your most agile and athletic blokes at 5,6 and 8. Your fastest and most likely to dive and stop the ball bloke at 3 at deep mid-wicket.

If you look at the wagon wheel diagram above, you'll see that the position of the cut strip meant that the furthest boundary was on the leg-side. Despite this, Hawkins was constantly looking to get the ball through the zone marked B. This is despite the fact that we had our younger and better fielders on that side. But, to be fair his shots that side were executed with power and accuracy. He looks to be far stronger playing leg-side shots.

Therefore, with me, he was having to hit against the spin with the ball dipping with variable bounce. This produces opportunities for the ball to be top-edged and I had at least one almost caught at 10 on the wagon wheel diagram (Lee Dutton). Initially, when thinking about this I had 9 and 10 pushed further back, but I'd start with them in this position exactly for a top-edge because he does want to hit the ball through the leg-side.

So, with this in mind, I'd be bowling outside of the off-stump varying the amount of turn and mixing leg-breaks and top-spinners. If you have a straight ball (Orthodox back-spinner) or a Big Leg-Break that you can get to land on the smooth side so that it skids on, these will be really useful balls as would a Wrong-Un, as these would give him another thing to worry about. I have a Flipper that I don't use that much as I need far more practice with it. But I was bowling so well in this spell I used it a couple of times with limited success. Any of these variations with the potential to target the off-stump or come in from out-side of off, would be really useful in this situation. The other thing to do is to bowl from different positions on the crease, but I would be cautious about looking to attack from around the wicket into the legs.

Summary

Bowl an off-stump/outside off-stump line.
Use strongest fielders on the off-side
Have your fastest and best ground-fielder at deep square leg

Check out some of my other posts here

Cricket scoring – Wides and No-Balls (No runs made)

Cricket scoring – No-Balls with runs made ‘Off the bat’.

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Brookweald cc - Batting wagon wheels

This was another of those games where you turn up and you ask the opposition something like - "What's your batting order"? the response you get is bunch of blokes who scoff at the idea that they have any batsmen inferring that they can't bat and then this happens...

No1. Hallahan_________________________________________________________________

This bloke did say at the end having scored 211, this had been his first century and that his previous high score had been 80 something. He eventually fell having been stumped off of John 'Moondog' Bedford's off-breaks.

Initially he wasn't able to get going against my son Joe Thompson (Opener) and he said at the end "Yeah the opener was good - really good - best I've come up against all this season". Joe was hit for a few 4's through trying variations. If he'd stuck to his usual line and length he'd have gone for very few runs. Of all our bowlers it was Chris Debond's that he liked the best (The blue lines on the wagon-wheel).

If you look at the wagon-wheel you can see the majority of the runs especially the 6's and 4's were all scored through the on-side. All the 4's against Joe in his first spell were balls that were on the off-stump or wider, similarly Sam Good's bowling was commended by the same batsman as all of his balls on or around the off-stump caused him problems. It was only when he strayed straighter or leg-side that the 4's came.

Here's the end of Hallahan's innings, Double click on the image below.

No.2Wolfe______________________________________________________________

Double click on the video below to see Wolfe's dismissal at the hands of my son Joe Thompson.

No.3 Sims__________________________________________________

Double click to open the video of Sim's dismissal by Sam Good.

Bat No.4 - Climpson ___________________________

Swettenham No.5
_____________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________
Nepali No.6

56 views 15/3/19

Check out some of my other posts here

Cricket scoring – Wides and No-Balls (No runs made)

Cricket scoring – No-Balls with runs made ‘Off the bat’.

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Benfleet cc - Batting Wagon wheels

Joe Owen

Joe Owen - More of a bowler than a batsman, In the game I played against them he was the best player with both bat and ball, so deserves a plan.

You should check him out on Play cricket with regards his bowling as he's very effective and yet he's only about 17 or 18 (2019). He's accurate and it's a case of - you miss - I hit. So be very wary - he deserves some respect - play straight and watch for his variations. I faced him at Benfleet cc on the pitch furthest from their pavilion - late Aug 2017, on a wicket that offered little in the way of turn, so the ball wasn't doing much. Our best batsman Frank McLeod who watches the ball out of the hand said that he was bowling cutters, finger-spin and an over-spun leg-break, getting the ball to deviate either side of the bat, but nothing that was too worrying. What he was doing though, was every ball was at the stumps forcing you to play the ball. He varied the speed, length and flight massively, but still got it on a difficult length. But watching from the boundary it looked like slow medium pace.

As a consequence two of our more aggressive batsmen fell foul to him - simply through not showing any respect for him from what I could see. Our better batsman dealt with him fine, but was dismissed by the bowler at the other end. When he got back he said that Owen was a good bowler and that anyone going out there to face him needs to be exceptionally watchful.

Here's his bowling stats...

In-game analysis

As a batsman - he was okay, as you can see from my pitch diagram and based on other people's observations he either favoured or only has pull-shot that he's happy to play. The obvious conclusion looking at this and from the results of bowling at him is not to bowl legside. We were playing with 9 blokes, so setting a field was a little tricky and many of these runs could be negated by having your better players at fine-leg about 1/2 to 1/3rd of the way in from the boundary as the shots were in the air. Similarly a bloke at square leg, in a more conventional position and another bloke at deep mid-wicket sweeping. In theory, then cutting off his runs and dependent on the need to make runs he's going to be forced to play through the off-side which he did on a few occasions playing straight drives bringing the potential to find the edge of the bat.

I found on that wicket the ball didn't turn much at all and didn't see anyone else turn it in any significant way. Although, as I said in the account of the match here I wasn't getting any real spin on the ball, so on a better day it might turn? If it is turning and you're able to bowl a reasonable line, the usual mantra applies... keep the ball off of anywhere leg-side, if you're able to do that, you're going to cause him problems, especially if you've got either a top-spinner, wrong-un or a ball that goes on. With the ball not turning, he struggled to get the ball through the covers (B) with the fielder intercepting the ball the majority of the time, again this will need to be one of your players that's willing to put their body on the line and dive around a little.

With the field set like this I reckon you're going to cut off most of his primary shots as well as reducing the run rate and keeping him on-strike. Anything that is a little off-line on the leg-side he is going to look to pull, so the potential for a wicket is there for that shot. But a stock Leg-Break on the off-stump varying flight, speed and the amount of spin is going to cause problems... edging it through to either the keeper or slips or with a variation such as a Top-Spinner cramping him up the close in fielders and you yourself are going to be in with a chance.

The other thing you might want to consider if you're a risk-taker and the game is either set in your favour or requires a more attacking approach is the tempter approach...

With this field, you do need to be bowling well, getting the ball on an off-stump line. Leave both areas A and B empty. The idea here is that you'd be tempting Owen to try and drive the ball through the off-side, or revert to a higher risk approach and attempt to fetch the ball from the off-side looking to hit it through zone B. Again, I reckon this may work if it entices him into playing aggressively looking to hit fours through the empty regions A and B. Combine stock Leg-Breaks with over-spun Leg-Breaks and Top-Spinners. 11 and 6 need to be your fastest and more agile fielders and six might mover round into a more mid-wicket position. I think this might induce a miss-hit leading edge of the bat that'd be caught by the close in fielders or if he manages to get something on it - one that might go up in the air a long way for the fielders at 11 and 6.

John Hearn

Update March 2020 during the Coronovirus pandemic. With a bit more time on my hands I've had another look at the Benfleet page and updated it and hopefully added a bit more info. Much of it gleaned from the Play cricket website - John's details can be found here but there's a summary below. In the game these notes are from he scored 47.

His records on play cricket go back to 1995, so he's experienced. He played well in our game as you can see from his wagon wheel. He was able to manoeuvre the ball into the gaps with some really nice shots. The late cuts I thought were pretty deft.

At no point did he look like he was going to get himself out and as you can see he had a good cover-drive. Unfortunately I didn't write this up at the time and I've had to play catch up, so some of this may be a bit vague. As I recall he didn't move his feet that much, but played me with soft hands fending the ball off into the pitch if it looked threatening - he may have stepped or reached forwards to the ball, but never left his crease and historically if the Play Cricket data is correct he's only been stumped twice since 1995. Anything loose and he had the ability to manuovre the ball into very precise gaps. Several of my balls went through the 3rd man zone via a nice little late cut that he has.

At the end of the 2019 season he averaged 28.3. Over the time he's played he scored 44 x 50's and 23 x 100's. His contribution to the side is 12.84% of the team runs and has an all time high score of 120.

How to get him out

Historically he's been caught 45.5% of the time and bowled 29% of the time. In 2019 this changed a bit - Bowled 44.4% of the time and Caught 22% of the time.

Check out some of my other posts here...

Cricket scoring – Wides and No-Balls (No runs made)

Cricket scoring – No-Balls with runs made ‘Off the bat’.