STBR Stats

Continuing from last week, where we looked at the glory of bowling third-balls, it's now time to look at the unfortunate business of having to face them while in bat.

This is pretty much going to be a copy and paste of last week with the batting stats and commentary in place of the bowling ones.

While looking through the "third dot ball" stats, I found that there have been 6 occasions during Popped Collars history where there have been too many dot ball in a row. Obviously just times where the umpire has not noticed that he should call 'third ball' and has let an extra one go.

Four of them were split across consecutive overs, allowing 3 consecutive balls to be bowled with no score off them. The other two were 'double-score' balls which were not counted as two dots, as the rules of the Weston Competition said they should be.

Four of them were while we were batting - two of them while we were bowling. So we've actually got the better of it.

After seeing Brad send down consecutive dot balls and have the next one smacked to the back net, Andy proposed that was something that seemed to happen quite often.

This week's blog will check out all sorts of details relating to "third ball". And after I made a point of saying the 'consecutive balls' stats that I did last time, it turned out that this was even more tedious. But whatever...

The Popped Collars tonight dished up the first loss of the season for arch rivals 4-Skins. Arch rivals... perhaps. Or perhaps one could call us their 'bogey team'. The last time they lost a game was the grand final last season.

As the Popped Collars were out chasing down the 120 required for victory, Jake was on the sidelines asking the hard-hitting questions. Never has he been one to shy away from controversy, and tonight was no exception as he posed: "Has Brad done anything useful recently?"