Few wickets, few runs

Another story from a few games back. Xavier bats with fill-in player Asif. Xavier plays a fairly regular kind of innings, except that he doesn't face many balls, and Asif continually gets run out off the few balls he does face. Xavier ends up with a score of 5, despite only losing 1 wicket himself. The claim is that this is the lowest score made by someone only getting out once.

Here are the highest and lowest scores, sorted by number of wickets lost...

Big pairs letting the team down

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?

Who needs a full team?

With 2 consecutive weeks with no game for the Popped Collars, we all need something to fill the indoor cricket void. So here we go, with 7 short posts - 1 per day for the next week, leading up to our next game (presumably) next Tuesday night.

Today's Stat of the Day, as requested by Brad, is to look at the team's results based on how many players we have.

Eight players is a full team, and most of the time we have had that many. Although it does often feel that we have a disproportionately good record when we are missing players - which should be a disadvantage.

End Of Season 2011/12: The Team

And so ends another season of indoor cricket for the Popped Collars. The fifth season for the team - but only the fourth complete season, because we abandoned the Weston 2011 season before it was over. Of those 4 seasons, we have made 3 grand finals, and this was the first time we have lost the deciding game. Not that this was an unexpected result, given the stats from throughout the season.

Low contributions to winning sides

Last week's game was an absolute thriller, with Rian's bowling, and a top bit of fielding by Brad on the back net on the last ball, saving the game for the Popped Collars on the last 3 balls. However, after the game, Gareth was all about his own personal performance... for the poor quality, rather than the good, that his stats showed. He scored -15 with the bat, and went for 41 runs from his two overs bowled, for a contribution of -56. Thus he asked the question:

What is the lowest contribution by a player on a winning team?