The Blog Re-read: Part 8 (and Career Stats Update)

And so, we have reached the end. I have now been back and read through all of the old posts and brought you what I think are the highlights. I hope you've all come across some interesting forgotten things. If not, bad luck (and maybe you should stop wasting your time reading the blog).
So here it is, the final part of The Great Blog Re-read....

In March this year I produced some beautiful graphs of our current players' batting and bowling performances. I've said before there needs to more pictures and stuff in the blog - these were a demonstration of why... they're just great.

We also went though another phase of struggling to a get a full team every week, and it brought about two more posts on a topic that had been discussed at least once before.

For a brief period of time, the word "disgraceful" became a fad. Lack of blog posts was disgraceful, performances on-field were declared to be disgraceful, and again there was a pair of posts on the subject. But like all fads, it died away quickly.

In a match in June, Gareth bowled so well that it was said that he won the game on his own.

Also around that time Andrew joined the team's regular-sub list, and had a strange start to his Popped career in the bowling stats. We also lost two matches due to shirt penalties...!

The 2014-15 season - the longest one ever - finally came to an end in June. And if this random post is anything to go by, so did my ideas for new blog posts...

As I tried to re-build a blog ideas list, the final months of 2015 were taken up with eight posts in a row full of reminiscing. I went back and read through all the old blog posts, re-capping the highlights. It was also used as a lead-up to another blog milestone, and was a way of "looking to the past" before moving into a new future.

And finally, in the blog of 15 December 2015, it was time for that "blog milestone" to be revealed, and it was accompanied by a shocking and mysterious announcement...

... oh ... hang on a minute ... that last bit hasn't happened yet ...

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Career Stats
I was going to update the career stats page this week and do another stat to put at the end of this post... but I was much further behind in the career stats that I thought (9 games, rather than 5)... so that's all I've done.

Some milestones of the last 9 games:

• Gareth has surpassed Brad as the all-time leading wicket taker
• Sanjit bowled his 500th over, and took his 400th wicket - not quite at the same time, his 400th wicket came off the last ball of his 499th over
• Trompf played his 50th Popped Collars game (probably about his 13,348th game of indoor cricket overall)

And some upcoming ones:

• Xavier to play his 300th innings next week (or tonight if required to bat twice for some reason
• Gareth to bowl his 500th over tonight
• Gareth is also only 25 runs short of 4,000