Punching Above Their Weight

[Grayson]

We must all have one. Which member of your team is scoring more runs than their skills suggest, or taking wickets frequently when they really shouldn't be.

My nominee is Rhys Thay, my wicketkeeper. His batting is proficient/wonderful yet he averages just shy of 50 in level III OD this season. The concentration certainly helps.

Who is yours?

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Mitchell Ramsden


Batting M I R n.o. Ave SR HS C st 50s 100s
Season 12 5 92 3 46.00 80.00 54 0 0 1 0
Career 129 62 1229 26 34.14 78.08 83 28 0 8 0

Is only a proficient-superb bat. Is helped by good stamina and experience though. Has seen me home in countless tight games. Absolute legend.

 

[Napster]

The one and only Sutherland

OD

Batting M I R n.o. Ave SR HS C st 50s 100s
Season 12 10 427 3 61.00 95.96 130* 1 0 2 1
Career 42 36 1909 10 73.42 92.81 164* 5 0 9 7

FC

Batting M I R n.o. Ave SR HS C st 50s 100s
Season 9 9 946 3 157.67 81.06 245 3 0 3 3
Career 23 34 2238 6 79.93 75.08 245 9 0 7 8

Only a comp/comp and probably my 6th best batsman, but consistently beating everyone in averages, and won loads for us.

 

[MrB]

All about the proficients! Carlos Askew is proficient/exceptional but topped the averages for me last season and is steady at 42.67 this season which is 2nd behind Richie and compares favourably to Saj, Curtis and Lamey who all have better primaries but are stuck in the 20's.

Once Lamey is up to speed with WK I was going to sell Askew but i might just keep him as a specialist bat for dodgy pitches!!

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Batting wise it's probably

Mushtaq Ricketts

Batting M I R n.o. Ave SR HS C st 50s 100s
Season 14 14 466 1 35.85 67.54 59 3 0 5 0

He's only Strong / Respectable but does a pretty reasonable job opening the batting.

On the bowling front it's probably

Priyankara Prasad

Bowling O M R W Ave SR Econ Best 5wi
Season 111 9 503 19 26.47 35.05 4.53 4-10 0

Only Proficient / Proficient but can back it up with Competent XP, never seen him get really collared, and has a habit of chipping in with valuable wickets.

 

[loz]

Super Scotty Rautenbach- comp/resp bat and WK. Opens in OD and comes in at 6 in FC. Scores quickly and scores often, + is a real match-winner late on.

career averages: 54.32 (OD) 56.45 (FC)

not a bad signing for 5k, all things considered.

 

[MrB]

Ricketts

Kinda figures in relation to the thread title.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

If he was punching above his weight, he'd be a super-super-heavyweight :)