7 sevens. And more sevens.

A couple of weeks ago the Popped Collars racked up a big win (237-87), with only 6 players, over “6 & Out” (the team one of our occasional subs, Matt, plays for). After the game I noted in an email to team-mates a few records that we appeared to have set during the game. With my stats not up to date, however, I was unable to confirm that they were in fact records. I will do this now...

Potential record #1
Most sevens in a match by the team (14)
Status: Confirmed

Prior to this game, the most sevens we’ve hit in an innings is 12... and the most a team has hit against us is also 12... and they were both in the same game. Unfortunately for our opponents on that day (“Just 1 More”), they also fell victim to the most wickets we’ve taken in an innings (26), and we beat them 231-104.

Potential record #2
Most sevens in an over (4)
Status: Confirmed

Rian and Andrew (Pearson) not only slapped 4 of them off the final over of the innings, but in fact hit them from the final 5 balls of the innings (7,7,2,7,7). The only other time we’ve seen 4 sevens in an over was in the first game after our grand final win when we had a century partnership scored against us. In the final over of that partnership Sanjit get taken for 35 runs - including 3 sevens and an eight.

Potential record #3
Most sevens in a match by a player (7)
Status: Confirmed

Now this could be considered a bit dodgy by some, as Pearson batted twice in the match. But nevertheless, you can’t argue that hitting 7 sevens in a match is quite impressive. He hit 4 of them in his first bat, almost making our teams top score for the day, and then went in to bat a second time and racked up 3 more. The next best in a match (and also the equal-best in a single bat) is 4.

Potential record #4
Highest individual score without hitting a seven (38)
Status: Confirmed

While everyone else was hitting sevens, Xavier was taking the opposite approach. He hit 3 side-backs and 2 fives in his 38 runs, but never a seven. This beats the old record of 36 by 2 runs. The score of 36 has actually been made 9 times in Popped Collars matches, and 4 of those times have been seven-less.

Special mention here must go here to Andy, the owner of one of those old scores of 36 which I note still holds another, similar but more impressive, record. His particular 36 consisted of no back net scores at all! He faced:  3 dot-balls, 2 singles, 4 twos, 6 threes and 4 extras. The second best back-net-less score is 31.