STBR Stats

After a super effort in the field, and then an opening partnership of 71 from Julian and Xavier, Popped Collars were in a position from which they surely should have stormed home for a comfortable win. But things fell apart. Badly. Rather than the remaining batting pairs putting on the required 35 runs, they instead totaled -1. Was this the biggest ever choke by the Collars?

We have seen weeks of various players battling it out for the team's highest individual score - but last night, Rian returned to the team and put a stop to the contest once and for all. After an insane few weeks of people putting on higher and higher scores, Rian posted the most insane of them all, in a game whose result was rather insane as well...

I think it's time I abandoned my attempt at summarising 2010 (it was going to be pretty boring anyway) and instead bring you a series of posts about how Popped Collars batters keep on breaking each others records. Here we go again...
It's not uncommon in cricket to see records set, and then quickly re-set by someone else. Note some of my favourite examples:

We interrupt the collection of "2010 summary" posts to bring you this breaking news... Last night saw Popped Collars annihilate Take That and set all manner of batting records along the way.

Take That were sent into bat by Brad who pondered the best way to counter the usual all-out attacking style of the opposition batters. Judicious choice of bowlers and some solid fielding (including a collection of good catches from Chris) saw the Collars succeed. Not only at restricting the dangerous batters, but also knocking off the weaker pairs at the end. Take That made just 57.

Last night saw the return of Pearson to the Popped Collars line-up. It also saw the return of our old mate Rob, who hasn't set foot on an indoor court for many years now. But because we love him so much, today's post is all about Pearson. He started his innings last night with 3 sevens in the first 2 overs, and from the sideline, we urged him to "Go for the record!".

So he did. And he got out a lot attempting it. And so the question arose... who has the lowest score while hitting the most sevens.

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.

During the one-season lifetime of our Friday night team, GG, there was often a need for our players to compete among themselves - because the opposition were not providing any challenge. The most common game was for the batters in a particular pair to see who could hit the most sevens in their four overs.

On the other side of the coin, Popped Collars, our "pro team", are occasionally excited about (or bagging out the opposition for) playing "pro-style indoor" - that is, hitting lots of safe twos.

So today I'm going to check out the most of each scoring shot that has been achieved by a batsman in an innings.