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HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB Playing Records TTThirtiethThirtieth edition --- January 11161666 Also available on www.hertfordcricketclub.co.uk Compiled by Brian Box For the stories behind the statistics in this book, read ‘From Hartham to Lord’s’ , the story of Hertford Cricket Club. This is available from Brian Box 01992 303365 [email protected] All proceeds go to the Club £32 additional donations gratefully received £5.50 for postage and packaging, UK Against a background of events, both local and national, this book traces the history of the club from its origins in the 18th century to the present day ending with the trip to Lord’s in September 2010. ‘It’s a magnificent book . .’ ‘It is absolutely superb . .’ – Malcolm Ashton, Test Match Special ‘. could use it as a door stop.’ – Jonathan Agnew, TMS ‘You’ll be bowled over by this fascinating historical account.’ ‘I would heartily recommend this book . .’ – Andrew Franczak, Hertfordshire Mercury ‘This is the most comprehensive history of any club outside the first-class game that I have encountered.’ ‘ This the fiftieth book I have reviewed for the ACS and it would feature within my top ranked club histories and, indeed, in the top five historical books that I have so far reviewed. I wholeheartedly recommend it.’ – Reviewer, Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB RECORDS Contents 1. Introduction 2. Qualifications 3. Period Covered 4. History 5. Club Playing Records 5.1 Match Records 5.2 Wicket Partnerships 5.3 Best Performances 6. First Eleven 6.1. Seasonal record 6.2. Records against opponents 6.3. Highest & lowest match scores 6.4. Highest & lowest innings totals 6.5. Highest & lowest run rates 6.6. Biggest winning & losing margins 6.7. Extreme draws 6.8. Tied games 6.9. Two innings games 6.10. Sequences 6.11. League records 7. Second Eleven 7.1. Seasonal record 7.2. Records against opponents 7.3. Highest & lowest match scores 7.4. Highest & lowest innings totals 7.5. Highest & lowest run rates 7.6. Biggest winning & losing margins 7.7. Extreme draws 7.8. Tied games 7.9. Two innings games 7.10. Sequences 7.11. League records Jan. 16 S 0 - Page 1 HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB RECORDS 8. Third Eleven 8.1. Seasonal record 8.2. Records against opponents 8.3. Highest & lowest match scores 8.4. Highest & lowest innings totals 8.5. Highest & lowest run rates 8.6. Biggest winning & losing margins 8.7. Extreme draws 8.8. Tied games 8.9. Sequences 8.10. League records 9. Fourth Eleven 9.1. Seasonal record 9.2. Records against opponents 9.3. Highest & lowest match scores 9.4. Highest & lowest innings totals 9.5. Highest & lowest run rates 9.6. Biggest winning & losing margins 9.7. Extreme draws 9.8. Tied games 9.9. Sequences 9.10. League records 10. Fifth Eleven 10.1. Seasonal record 10.2. Records against opponents 10.3. Highest & lowest match scores 10.4. Highest & lowest innings totals 10.5. Highest & lowest run rates 10.6. Biggest winning & losing margins 10.7. Extreme draws 10.8. Tied games 10.9. Sequences 10.10. League records Jan. 16 S 0 - Page 2 HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB RECORDS 11. National Cup 12. “London Area” Standard Trophy 13. League Cup 14. “Evening Cup” 15. Hertgate Trophy 16. Geddings League 17. Chess Valley League 18. Cricket Week 19. Cricket Tours 20. Other Twenty/Twenty games 21. Other games 22. Development XI 23. Club Results 24. Wicket Partnerships 24.1. First Eleven 24.2. Second Eleven 24.3. Third Eleven 24.4. Fourth Eleven 24.5. Fifth Eleven 24.6. Others 24.7. Successful pairs 24.8. Individuals in century partnerships 24.9. Century partnerships in a season 24.10. Individuals in a season 24.11. Multiple Partnerships in a game by one Player 24.12. One sided partnerships 25. Individual Batting Records 25.1. List of centuries 25.2. Most centuries in a season 25.3. Highest scores by season 25.4. Highest aggregates 25.5. Highest aggregates in a season 25.6. Highest overall averages 25.7. Best seasonal averages 25.8. 1000, 750 & 500 runs in a season 25.9. Centuries & Fifties Jan. 16 S 0 - Page 3 HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB RECORDS 25.10. Centuries & Fifties in a season 25.11. Not Outs 25.12. Not Ins 25.13. Era comparison 26. Individual Bowling Records 26.1 Best bowling performances 26.2 Best bowling by season 26.3 Hat tricks 26.4 Most 7+ wicket performances in a season 26.5 Bowling partnerships 26.6 Leading wicket takers 26.7 Most wickets in a season 26.8 Best averages (runs/wicket) 26.9 Best seasonal averages 26.10 Best striking rate (balls/wicket) 26.11 Best seasonal striking rate 26.12 Best economy rate (runs/over) 26.13 Best seasonal economy rate 26.14 100, 75 & 50 wickets in a season 26.15 7 wickets & 5 wickets in an innings 26.16 Most times 7 or 5 wickets in an innings in a season 26.17 Runs conceded 26.18 Runs scored per wicket taken 26.19 Era comparison 27. Fielding Records 27.1 Most catches 27.2 Most catches in a season 27.3 30, 20 and 10 catches in a season 27.4 Wicketkeepers, most victims 27.5 Most victims in a season 28. Doubles 28.1 Career 28.2 Season 28.3 Match Jan. 16 S 0 - Page 4 HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB RECORDS 28.4 Wicketkeepers 28.5 Triples 29. Top of averages by season 29.1 First Eleven 29.2 Second Eleven 29.3 Third Eleven 29.4 Fourth Eleven 29.5 Fifth Eleven 29.6 Other Matches 29.7 Tops with Bat & Ball 29.8 Awards 30. Appearances 30.1 Career span 30.2 Career highest 30.3 Season highest 30.4 Centurions 31. Summaries of Current Players 32. Hertfordshire at Hertford 32.1 Matches 32.2 Hertford Players 32.3 Playing records Jan. 16 S 0 - Page 5 HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB RECORDS 1. INTRODUCTION These records contain all the historical data provided by research undertaken by Lawrie Wright and Brian Box and from an early history of Hertford Cricket Club written by Aubrey Baker in 1940. The main source of information has been the local paper and data for earlier years is therefore not complete. An old score book of the late 1880's has provided a detailed cameo of that era and fortunately includes the batting details of the high scoring game against Cheshunt. Other books exist for the late 1930’s and some for the 1940’s. Current records are compiled from statistics produced by David Williams at the end of each season and the scorebooks available back to around 1960. Modern times Team performances are given separately. "Other games" are not included. These "other games" are currently midweek games, tours and cricket week fixtures. When a Bank Holiday Monday fell within a cricket week, the Monday games are included with the appropriate eleven (usually the first). Cup records are listed separately for each competition and from 2000 are also included as 1 st XI games – from that date cup matches moved to Sundays. Pre- war, cricket weeks were listed as 1 st XI games and have been included as such. For individual performances, separate records are produced for each eleven and an "All Eleven" set which combines the performances of individual players across the separate elevens (including other games). Cup records were all included in "other games" up to and including 1999. From 2000 the major cup competitions, 45 and 50 over matches, are included in first eleven statistics. As mentioned above, the matches are now played on Sundays. Also, cricket week games etc. were included in 1 st XI averages in the nineteen fifties and have been left there, though the results are listed separately. A player may have an entry in the All Elevens section but fail to get a corresponding entry under a particular eleven. This will occur if the performances in the separate elevens did not merit an inclusion, due to insufficient games say, whereas the total performance did. The other games, midweek & tour matches etc. are included in the players overall statistics at the end. ‘Other games’ has now been extended to cover T20 matches. The advent of scorecards on the website has enabled differentiation between catches taken in the field and behind the stumps. This differentiation has been applied from season 2003 onwards. Prior to that year, wicketkeepers were credited with catches when they took a spell in the outfield and the occasional keeper’s catches were counted with his fielding ones. Under team and individual records where more than one column appears, the first covers all data available, the others cover limited time periods such as the last 5 years. The choice of period will depend on the usefulness of information provided. Where a score may logically count twice, for example a hundred may count as a fifty and a total of 800 runs count as over 500 and over 750, then this has been done. Thus an entry of 5 fifties in a year may in fact be 4 fifties and a century. Doing it this way is, I feel, more informative. The winning and losing margins by wickets are ranked in order of r/w where r is the target score and w is the number of wickets lost. If no wickets were lost then 1.5r is used for ranking. Thus a nine wicket win chasing 160 is better than a ten wicket win chasing 100 but less than a ten wicket win chasing 110.