Everyone's s**t batting

In the interest of fairness after our last blog, and with some particularly poor batting performances recently, today we're going to have a look at a bunch of bad batting stats (bowling next week). Normally, we celebrate quality, or are intrigued by the unusual - today, we're laughing at the unfortunate.

A few weeks ago, Popped Collars were comprehensively beaten by a top tier team who were playing their best for most of the game. Our innings included one exceptionally low partnership score, and three individual scores of negative double-figures. There were 3 "worst in career" performances in one game (2 individual scores, one partnership)

Worst in career
First up, here is a list of our regular players with their career lowest scores.

Player	Date	Opponents	Wickets	Score
Jake	21 Dec 09	501	7	-29
Jim	13 Sep 10	4Skins	8	-27
Rian	29 Jul 14	Toros	7	-27
Brad	8 Apr 14	Juicy Ham	8	-25
Andy	30 May 11	Pimp My Side	7	-22
Sanjit	29 Jul 14	Toros	6	-23
Gareth	6 Feb 12	Tuff Stuff	8	-21
Xavier	30 May 11	Pimp My Side	6	-20
Julian	27 Feb 12	Tuff Stuff	6	-19
Dan I.	17 Jun 14	[no team]	7	-19
Rajit	8 Jul 14	The Horsemen	7	-19
Omar	27 May 14	It's On Like Donkey Kong	6	-18
Matt	21 Aug 12	Choking Dogs	5	-17
Dan S.	4 Apr 11	ASG	4	-8

Jim's innings above is a classic that Brad remembers well. It was a semi-final in which we had restricted good opposition to just 107. Xavier and Julian had made a solid 39 for the opening pair, before J.Ragg went out and destroyed all hope of a grand final berth.

There are two games that feature twice in the list. Both Rian and Sanjit made their career lows just a few weeks ago in the punishing loss to Toros. Andy and Xavier also made their PWs (personal worsts) in a single game back in 2011... 5 of us made negative that game, as the team compiled their worst ever score of -31.

Rajit has the honour of making the lowest score in a game that we won. Omar and Matt also made their low-scores in winning games.

The lowest ever score is, of course, by "Rian gets The Nine" - he made -39. There have been 2 opponents make -30s: a non-regular player for the Old Blokes called Dean made a -37, and Bren, from The Boonies, made -30 way back in 2010.

Partnerships
Sanjit and Rajit recently smashed the record for our lowest ever partnership, with an outstanding total of -41. There was already a big gap between first and second (if you ignore "The Nine"), which now means the there are now several real standouts at the top (bottom?) of the list. Here's the lowest ever...

Batters	Opponents	Scores	Pair Score
Sanjit & Rajit	Toros	-23 & -19	-41
Andy & Pup	Pimp My Side	-22 & -11	-33
Matt & Rian ("9")	4Skins	8 & -39	-31
Julian & Omar	Donkey Kong	-5 & -18	-23
Rian & Tony	501	-7 & -14	-21
Jim & Rian	4Skins	-27 & 7	-20

Most wickets lost
Last week's game against the Bilibies we lost 29 wickets, despite making a total score of 89. It certainly felt like an awful lot of wickets, but it is a reasonable way short of being a record. It is equal 5th on our list of 'most wickets lost'. While it was 1 more wicket than the recent Toros game, another game against those same opponents earlier this year saw 30 wickets fall.

Opponents	Date	Total Score	Wickets
Pimp My Side	30 May 11	-31	36
Tuff Stuff	6 Feb 12	32	33
4Skins	28 Feb 11	-1	32
Toros	15 Apr 14	38	30
4 Skins	13 Sep 10	58	29
Tuff Stuff	21 Nov 11	52	29
Bilbies	12 Aug 14	89	29

Looking at that list, I wondered if it might be some kind of record number of runs scored (before deducting wickets) - but it's nowhere near it... all the records in that category are games where we scored 300+ and lost very few wickets.