The Blog Re-read: Part 2 (and Third-Dots)

Continuing to reminisce about the Popped Collars past, today I re-examine the next 18 blog posts, taking us to the end of 2010. During this time, the stats started to flow on the blog, and there will undoubtedly be a few good ones that could be re-examined. Rather than do them all in these posts, I will add them to the list on the blog suggestions page. Don't forget, you can add your own suggestions there as well!
July 2010 was the first time it was noted that Gareth is the star wicket-taker for the team. Of course, in more recent times he has put in some stellar bowling performances - but it has been going on since the beginning.

There were a couple of blogs about who improved their performance when raging - but when Sanjit came out on top for batting, and Xavier for bowling, I decided that what I was measuring was probably nothing to do with rage!

Then a couple of blogs about the title of "Jackpot Master" - something that used to be common phrase /title among the players, but hasn't been heard discussed for many years now. Time to bring it back?

I then tried to run a 'competition' to crown the "Greatest Moment In Indoor Cricket". Perhaps at the end of this re-reading of the blog I will create a list of the "Greatest Moments Of The Popped Collars" and we can vote on that.

The Friday night spin-off team, GG, won the premiership in their first and only season. The crazy antics of the grand final (in particular, of our over-enthusiastic opponents) were written about in detail on the blog.

The main team were not so lucky, going down to the 4Skins in their semi-final, helped along by a score of -27 from Jim Ragg - an innings Brad apparently remembers all too well. He can surely be partially forgiven given he took 4/-14 with the ball. His stats for the match even got most of their own blog post.

And before I leave today...


BONUS STAT: Third Dot Balls

A couple of weeks ago, Matt and Raj batted together against Juicy Ham and found themselves "third ball" on a massive seven occasions! Surely this is a record for a pair...

Pair	Date	Team	Opponents	Third Balls
Matt / Raj	15/9/15	Popped Collars	Juicy Ham	7
Joel / Zac	13/12/10	SNAFU	Popped Collars	6
Gareth / Rian	18/4/11	Popped Collars	Pidge's Coup	6
Chris / Dave	25/6/10	Chase Was	GG	6

After that list, there are then 13 occurrences of having 5 third-balls in a pair.

Congratulations, Matt and Raj on your new record!