STBR Stats

After last week's semi-final loss, I thought it was time for another end-of-season blog. But today's game is a "consolation final", and therefore still part of the previous season. So instead, here's a few random little bits and pieces that I've thought about or been asked about over the last few weeks and months.

When two batters step in to start their innings, there is always the discussion of who will face the first ball. Some like to play a quick game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, some regular pairs like to take turns, and sometimes its just a matter of whoever steps in first gets to choose an end.

Back at Weston, where the first ball is worth double runs, the decision was more important than now - but how important is it anyway? Here's the stats based on who faces the ball of each pair.

As I seem to often do lately, here's a small unrelated aside to start with. Sanjit's run of bowling without taking a wicket came to an end during last week's game. After Brad put down one chance early, Sanjit passed Julian's 4th, 3rd and 2nd placed performances. His streak ended at 62 balls with a classic "full toss at the top of middle stump" which the batter swung at wildly, and missed. Andy's 72 ball record still stands tall.

Carrying on from yesterday when I said I had some ideas for things to check out with partnerships, here's just one of those ideas. Do our batsmen perform better or worse when they are in with their regular batting partner? For example, surely Brad and Sanjit drag each other down and up respectively.

Just a quick little one today. Partly because I don't have so much time, and partly because I'm running out of more exciting ideas. A few people have asked before about partnership stats, so here's a start.

There's a bunch of other things I can think of to do with the partnership numbers - I'll check them out on the weekend. For the moment, here's the basics for our most common batting pairs (at least 5 times batted together)

Here's something interesting that happened a couple of weeks ago:
Popped Collars batted first with Jules and X posting the highest partnership for the team. When the opposition came into bat, they successfully chased that high skin, but lost all of the other three.

Has such a thing happened before?