STBR Stats

Welcome everyone to a series of blogs looking back at the past posts here on PoppedStats. Over the next 8 posts I'm going to go back and read all the previous articles here, uncovering some forgotten classics, finding inspiration for future posts, and more. For each installment of this series I will be re-reading about 20 previous posts and using them as inspiration for a new post. Perhaps pointing out some "highlights" that you might like to go back and read again yourself, perhaps doing some new stats or re-doing some old stats.

In the beginning, there was a team, and the captain said "Let us take this game a bit more seriously". And there was the Popped Collars. And we saw that it was good. And we kept stats, and started a blog. Readers of this blog know much of the story from that point on - mostly because many readers of this blog are the people that have been playing for that team since then.

But what about before the beginning? What was this team that became the Popped Collars?
This is something I've been planning to do for a while, and after working on it a bit at a time I now have enough to do a bit of a write-up. The information will be on a separate and permanent page which I will update if/when I gather more information, or if/when others provide me with more.

Tonight, the Popped Collars return to where they began. After playing at Lyneham, and now Kaleen, we now prepare to return to the Weston Indoor Sports centre.

A few intriguing questions and stats were proposed for the latest blog post. The one I choose to look at today is batting hat-tricks and consecutive wickets lost... if only because it gives me an excuse to share with you an olde indoor cricket memory of mine. Enjoy.

Rian, once again, offers the inspiration for today's post by suggesting something unrelated to statistics. After the infamous organisational skills of the NICC were displayed yet again on Friday night, Rian asked for a list of some of the great stuff-ups of everyone's "favourite" indoor cricket centre.

While such disorganisation has been common, I am struggling to recall any such incidents that would stand out as being "great". In fact, there's been so many minor stuff-ups that I can't really remember any of them specifically.

I'm therefore gunning for something more exciting, and something that all of you, my dedicated readers, can contribute to. A list of the "greatest" moment in indoor cricket... or at least, moments in the history of indoor cricket that we have been involved with.

Post a comment, or send me an email reminding me of (or describing, if for some reason I wasn't around at the time) some of the great indoor cricket tales.

It could be a thrilling match, an epic individual performance, an unlikely turn of events, a humerous off-court anecdote, an extraordinary single moment in time, a classic ongoing gag, a memorable character from the past... or whatever else you feel is appropriate. It could be from Popped Collars, or any of its predecessor teams - or from any other team or time in our, or your, past.

I already have a short list that I am compiling on my own, but I would appreciate anything that others have to say. Having played somewhere in the vicinity of 500 games of indoor in my life, and umpired another couple of hundred, I'm bound to forget plenty of the best parts.

...and more stats shall be coming later in the week, after tonight's Popped Collars game!