The statistics for the Prime Minister’s XI series of matches for 2017/18.

PM’s XI Stats Summary 2017-18

Trivia for the 2017/18 Prime Minister’s XI Match.

Prime Ministers XI Trivia 2017-18

After only seven matches, spinners seem to be dominating the Big Bash League 07.

Other than Andrew Tye, spinners such as Michael Beer, Ashton Agar, Fawad Ahmed and import Rashid Khan from Afghanistan are dominating the competition. It seems that rather than what the pundits thought that T20 cricket would spell the death of spinners, it is in fact generating a rebirth of the art.

Across the analysis that I have done it seems that spinners are dominating each section.

All stats in these analysis have a minimum of 20 balls bowled.

Highest Percentage of dot balls bowled:

In terms of dot balls bowled as a percentage, spinners have only four of the top ten performances.

Highest Percentage of singles conceded:

When looking at the number of singles conceded as a percentage of balls bowled, spinners take six of the top ten positions including the top two with Ashton Agar having over 72% of his deliveries being singles.

Highest Percentage of dot balls and singles conceded bowled:

But when combining the dot balls bowled and singles conceded, it is where the spinners are dominating – four out of the top five, six out of the top ten and seven out of the top eleven are all spinners.

With regard to Ashton Agar, all but two of his deliveries bowled so far have been dot balls or gone for a single.

It also becomes more evident when you look at boundaries conceded. Only 2.08% of Michael Beer’s deliveries have gone for a four or a six. Seven of the nine bowlers who have conceded less than ten percent of their deliveries for a boundary are spinners. After Beer it is then Fawad Ahmed (4.17), Mitchell Swepson (6.12), Stephen O’Keefe (8.16), Rashid Khan (8.33), Johan Botha (8.33) and Adam Zampa (9.09) are spinners with less than 10% of their deliveries going for boundaries. Only Jofra Archer (8.33) and Andrew Tye (8.70) are the only pacemen under 10%.

Today Mitchell Starc created history and served an ominous Ashes warning by taking two hat tricks in the same match in the Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia at Hurstville Oval.

By doing this, Starc became the first person since 1978/79 to take two hat tricks in the same first-class match. He is also the first person to do this in an Australian first-class match.

He is also the third Australian to do this, after Albert Trott for Middlesex in 1907 and Jimmy Matthews in a Test Match in England in 1912.

The players who have achieved this feat are:

Alfred Shaw for Nottinghamshire against Gloucestershire at Nottingham in 1884.

Albert Trott for Middlesex against Somerset at Lord’s in 1907. Trott took four wickets in four balls in this match.

Jimmy Matthews for Australia against South Africa at Manchester in 1912.

Charlie Parker for Gloucestershire against Middlesex at Bristol in 1924.

Roly Jenkins for Worcestershire against Surrey at Worcester in 1949.

JS Rao for Services against Northern Punjab at Amritsar in 1963/64. Rao took two separate hat tricks in this match.

Amin Lakhani for Combined XI against Indians at Multan in 1978/79.

Mitchell Starc for New South Wales against Western Australia at Hurstville in 2017/18.

Former ACT and Weston Creek Molonglo Cricket Club all rounder Tom Rogers will make his first-class debut for Tasmania in the second round of the Sheffield Shield season starting tomorrow. Rogers comes in for Andrew Fekete who has withdrawn from the squad for the match with a foot injury and Rogers has been diverted from making his Futures League debut for Tasmania to making his first-class debut against Queensland at Bellerive Oval.

Tom Rogers will become the 31st player to make his first-class debut after playing for the ACT. The initial first-class player from the ACT to play first-class cricket was Fred Johnston who played for New South Wales while a teacher in Canberra. The last player to play first-class cricket from the ACT was Aaron Ayre who made his debut for Victoria in 2015/16.

In addition to the 31 players to play first-class cricket, Greg Rowell (New South Wales, Tasmania & Queensland), Jason Floros (Queenland), Daniel King (Oxford University) & Ashley Ross (South Australia) have played first-class cricket but only represented the ACT at Youth Representative level.

He will also be the fifth player from the Weston Creek Molonglo club to play first-class cricket. The others being Michael Bevan, Huntley Armstrong, Jack Smith, and John Rogers who is Tom’s brother. They will also become the first set of brothers to play first-class cricket after playing for the ACT.

The list of first-class cricketers from the ACT are below:

Today in ACT Premier 1st Grade cricket, Blake Dean reached a unique milestone in Premier Cricket around the country. In what is believed a first, Blake Dean became the first player to hit a half century batting both left and right handed.

Dean, who has previously represented the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League, opened the batting for Weston Creek Molonglo making 57 runs off 60 deliveries, hitting 6 fours and 2 sixes. He shared a century opening partnership with Josh Myburgh, who made 54 off 86 deliveries.

This was the first time that Blake had played a ACT 1st Grade match batting both right and left handed. Last weekend he played in the ACT Twenty20 Competition known as the Konica Minolta Regional Cup making 72 runs in the three matches played over the weekend.

Originally from Bathurst, Blake has played 1st Grade in Sydney for University of NSW in 2008/09 before moving to Canberra to play for Queanbeyan, Tuggeranong Valley and now for Weston Creek Molonglo. He spent the previous season honing his craft in second grade as a left handed batsman, starting the Southpaw Project which he has documented his journey through social media. In addition to batting right and left handed, he also bowls spin left and right handed. A truly unique cricketer.

The release of the ACT 1st Grade Statistical Guide for the 2017/18 season.

ACT 1st Grade Statistical Guide 2017-18

On October 8, 2017, Peter Nevill equalled the world record for the most dismissals in a innings for a List A match.

Playing for New South Wales against the Cricket Australia XI at Hurstville Oval in the JLT Cup, Nevill completed eight dismissals with six catches and two stumpings.

He equalled the record jointly held by Derek Taylor of Somerset, Steve Palframan of Boland and James Pipe of Worcestershire.

It broke the record for an innings in Australia where it was held by a number of people with six dismissals. In fact, no Australian has taken more than six dismissals in an innings anywhere in the world.

Below is a list of the Most Dismissals in a List A match

The Australian Country Cricket Championships for 2016/17 for both the male and female divisions.

ACCC Statistics 2016-17

ACCC Womens Statistics 2016-17

The Weston Creek Molonglo Cricket Club 1st Grade Statistical Guide for 2017/18.

WCMCC 1st Grade Statistical Guide 2017-18