STBR Stats

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.

With the closing down of the National Indoor Cricket Centre, the Popped Collars have been forced to move. With dwindling players numbers, it was off to play the 6-a-side competition in Kaleen. Two weeks ago was the team's first match at the new venue - so here is a blog post full of small quick stats and stories from those first two matches.

Back with one of my previous indoor cricket teams, this was one of my favourite stats. So I'm going to round out the week of posts with it.

When the team (or player) was in poor batting form, we would pull out this particular stat, and challenge people to try to set new records. It mostly worked quite well, as long as people were actually interested in attempting to achieve it. I always say about indoor batting: "If you don't get out while you're batting, you will make a decent score", and that's what this stat is about.

How long a streak of balls-faced can a player accumulate in between losing wickets?

The streak counts across innings and matches - so, for example, if you manage to play half a dozen consecutive innings without losing a wicket, you could rack up 100 or so deliveries faced.

Another story from a few games back. Xavier bats with fill-in player Asif. Xavier plays a fairly regular kind of innings, except that he doesn't face many balls, and Asif continually gets run out off the few balls he does face. Xavier ends up with a score of 5, despite only losing 1 wicket himself. The claim is that this is the lowest score made by someone only getting out once.

Here are the highest and lowest scores, sorted by number of wickets lost...

Stat Of The Week, as requested by Rian. Most wickets lost by a batsman in an innings, while still making a positive score.

While the stats database is not completely up to date, I can give the answer to the question based on what I've got entered at the moment.

Rian claims that his 7 wickets lost tonight, while making a total score of 6, is close to the record. (He also claims that he actually got out 8 times, but I know he didn't... because I've got it on video!)

Last week it was an untouchable high score. This week, it was success in chasing down the fabled and elusive achievement... "The 9". Rian managed to fall victim to every one of the 9 types of wicket that exist in indoor cricket in a tension filled and highly entertaining four overs.

Brad, trust me, it was completely coincidental, and simply a case of some atrocious batting from Rian. There is clearly no need for you to read the rest of the post.

Everyone else, feel free to read on...

Following on from yesterday's match-report, today I present some specific stats, facts and figures from the match. A few records were set, or came very close to being set - mostly of the unsuccessful variety. However, several goals were achieved and milestones reached during the game to ensure that it wasn't all bad... just the result of the game was. The individual performances are shown in the "stat of the week" section on the left of the page.