The Stats Issue
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THE STATS ISSUE Before we get into the 2020 season statistics, some important news items: The Annual General Meeting of the Cheshire Women’s Cricket League will be held on Wednesday November 18 at 1930. Due the current health situation, this meeting will, for the first time, be conducted remotely via the Zoom platform. Please ensure your club is represented at the meeting, especially as there will be no need to travel to a meeting venue this year. The business of the meeting will include: • Reports from League Officers • Elections involving candidates wishing to stand for League Officer positions for the next 12 months. Please get in touch if you are interested in standing for: Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Press Officer, Web & Results Administrator, Fixtures Secretary, Senior Competitions Secretary, Rules & Disciplinary Secretary, Umpires & Scorers Representative, Welfare Officer • Assessment of applications from clubs wishing to join the League’s senior competitions for the first time in 2021. If you are aware of any interested clubs, please encourage them to get in contact to enquire as to the application process as soon as possible – ideally their applications would be received at least one week prior to the meeting. I am pleased to announce that League President Di Totty has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of the Cheshire Cricket Board for a period of two years, with a specific responsibility for the development of the women’s and girls’ game in Cheshire. CHESHIRE WOMEN’S LEAGUE THE LAST RESULT - Summer Series Development Division – September 20: Wistaston Village 73-7 (20; Toyin Higgins 13, Zoe Davies 13, Natalie Stevens 2-3, Jill Tildsley 2-15) (25pts) Langley 56-9 (20; Abbey Lamidey 16, Anna Bourne 3-4, Phoebe Howle 2-9) • A series of early wickets for Anna Bourne checked Langley’s reply early on and ensured it would be Wistaston, rather than their opponents, who finished the season with two wins from four. THE FINAL LEAGUE TABLES Summer Series Western Division P w wcn l lcn BatP BowlP NRR Pts 1 Porthill Park 8 7 1 0 0 0 0 2.39 200 2 Nantwich 8 4 0 4 0 6 11 0.36 117 3 Upton 8 4 0 4 0 3 13 -0.48 116 4 Chester Boughton Hall 8 3 0 5 0 11 12 -0.37 98 5 Oxton 8 1 0 6 1 12 17 -1.97 44 Porthill were convincing winners with a 100 per cent record and an 83-point lead in the final standings. After winning their early matches by large margins, Porthill didn’t always have things their own way in the batting department in the later stages of the season, but no team was able to truly get to grips with their varied bowling attack. Nantwich and Upton staged an exciting battle for the runners up spot as these two clubs maintained the excellent progress they have made in a short space of time. Summer Series Eastern Division P w l t c BatP BowlP NRR Pts 1 Stockport Trinity 8 7 1 0 0 2 5 1.32 182 2 Didsbury 8 6 1 1 0 0 0 1.53 165 3 Leigh 8 3 4 0 1 13 10 -0.41 106 4 Stockport Georgians 8 1 5 1 1 13 18 -0.59 79 5 Ashton-on-Mersey 8 1 7 0 0 15 15 -1.79 55 Trinity finally emerged triumphant by recording a dramatic and emphatic win in a final day winner takes all showdown against Didsbury, after it was Didsbury who narrowly won the first of the top of the table clashes some weeks earlier. Summer Series Development Division P w l BatP BowlP Pts NRR 1 Lindow 4 4 0 0 0 100 1.36 2 Chester Boughton Hall 2nd XI 4 3 1 3 3 81 1.37 3 Wistaston Village 4 2 2 10 4 64 -0.43 4 Langley 4 1 3 8 9 42 -1.11 5 Heaton Mersey & Cheadle 4 0 4 11 10 21 -1.15 It was another trophy winning season for undefeated Lindow after four victories by comfortable margins. THE BEST INDIVIDUAL MATCH PERFORMANCES Western Division Batting: 105, Evelyn Jones (Porthill Park), v Chester Boughton Hall 98, Evelyn Jones, v Upton 87, Evelyn Jones, v Nantwich 60, Lily Scudder (Upton), v Chester Boughton Hall 53, Philippa Dagger (Upton), v Oxton Bowling: 4-1, Bethan Robinson (Nantwich), v Oxton 4-6, Ali Cutler (Chester Boughton Hall), v Porthill Park 4-8, Ellie-Mae Davies (Porthill Park), v Chester Boughton Hall 4-10, Bethan Robinson, v Upton 3-0, Hannah Bratt (Nantwich), v Oxton Eastern Division Batting: 97, Roshini Prince-Navaratnam (Didsbury), v Ashton-on-Mersey 74, Ellie Mason (Stockport Trinity), v Ashton-on-Mersey 72, Roshini Prince-Navaratnam, v Stockport Georgians 71*, Jenny Dunn (Stockport Trinity), v Leigh 61*, Roshini Prince-Navaratnam, v Stockport Georgians 61, Carys White (Stockport Trinity), v Ashton-on-Mersey Bowling: 4-21, Emily Thomas (Stockport Georgians), v Stockport Trinity 3-4, Emma Royle (Stockport Trinity), v Leigh 3-6, Ellie Mason (Stockport Trinity), v Stockport Georgians 3-6, Millie Baldwin (Leigh), v Stockport Georgians 3-7, Amanda Gettins (Ashton-on-Mersey), v Stockport Georgians (Emma Royle’s 7-13 for Stockport Trinity’s men’s 2nd XI was the 7th best bowling analysis in all of Cheshire club cricket in 2020) Development Division Batting: 51, Michelle Hesslegrave (Lindow), v Chester Boughton Hall 2nd XI 46*, Claire Ashoworth (Lindow), v Wistaston Village 44*, Charlotte Appleyard (Heaton Mersey & Cheadle), v Wistaston Village 41*, Jen Regan (Wistaston Village), v Lindow 38, Nicky Jarvis (Wistaston Village), v Chester Boughton Hall 2nd XI Bowling: 4-12, Jenny Wallace (Langley), v Chester Boughton Hall 2nd XI 3-3, Bethan Morris (Chester Boughton Hall 2nd XI), v Langley 3-4, Anna Bourne (Wistaston Village), v Langley 3-6, Jo Seddon (Lindow), v Heaton Mersey & Cheadle 3-9, Lily Beckley (Lindow), v Chester Boughton Hall 2nd XI THE BEST BATSMEN – WESTERN DIVISION Total Runs – Batting Award Evelyn Jones (Porthill Park) 343 Ali Cutler (Chester Boughton Hall) 191 Becky Cripwell (Porthill Park) 170 Beth Hughes (Nantwich) 151 Madi Hudson (Nantwich) 150 Average Evelyn Jones 114.33 Becky Cripwell 28.33 Seren Smale (Chester Boughton Hall) 28.25 Madi Hudson 25.00 Ali Cutler 23.88 Evelyn Jones was well ahead of the other batsmen in the division, and the season would end with her illustrating her class by making big runs at a higher level in the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Trophy. Although the league season was curtailed to just eight matches this year, and Jones herself played just five before departing to play in the Trophy, her runs aggregate of 343 is still amongst the top 20 totals in a CWCL season. (To make the lists below for best bowling average, economy rate and strike rate, there was a requirement to have bowled at least 20 overs in the Western and Eastern Divisions and eight overs in the Development Division) THE BEST BOWLERS – WESTERN DIVISION Total Wickets – Bowling Award Bethan Robinson (Nantwich) 14 Ellie-Mae Davies (Porthill Park) 13 Freya Davies (Oxton), Hannah McGowan (Upton), Philippa Dagger (Upton) 11 (With 10 wickets for Chester Boughton Hall 1st XI plus five more for the 2nd XI in the Development Division, Gemma Rose was the league’s leading wicket taker of 2020) Bethan Robinson was undoubtedly one of the major young breakthrough players of 2020, and she finished with 14 wickets even though she only took wickets in four different matches – in addition to the 4-1 and 4-10 performances mentioned above, she also contributed spells of 3-9 and 3-10. Average Ellie-Mae Davies 3.38 Bethan Robinson 3.86 Becky Cripwell 4.11 Hannah Bratt (Nantwich) 6.43 Phillippa Dagger 7.55 Ellie-Mae Davies finished with the best average across all of the league divisions, and also finished in second spot in the Western Division for total wickets, economy rate and strike rate. Economy Rate Emily Stones (Porthill Park) 1.65 Ellie-Mae Davies 1.69 Becky Cripwell 1.80 Ali Cutler (Chester Boughton Hall) 1.98 Philippa Dagger 2.02 Emily Stones’ miserly contributions were rewarded with just two wickets, compared to the 13 taken by her team-mate Ellie-Mae Davies. Strike Rate Bethan Robinson 11.14 Ellie-Mae Davies 12.00 Becky Cripwell 13.67 Hannah Bratt 17.86 Freya Davies (Oxton) 18.18 THE BEST FIELDERS – WESTERN DIVISION Fielding Dismissals (Fielding Catches & Run Outs) – Fielding Award Molly Price (Oxton) 7 (6c, 1ro) Evelyn Jones (Porthill Park), Emily Stones (Porthill Park) 6 (all caught) Emily Renshaw (Oxton), Ellen McGowan (Upton), Nicole Fisher (Chester Boughton Hall), Lily Scudder (Upton), Georgia Norman (Porthill Park) 4 Wicketkeeping Dismissals (Wicketkeeping Catches & Stumpings) – Wicketkeeping Award Libby Clifton (Porthill Park) 8 (4c, 4st) Tessie Nickson (Oxton) 5 (3c, 2st) Seren Smale (Chester Boughton Hall) 4 (1c, 3st) THE BEST BATSMEN – EASTERN DIVISION Total Runs – Batting Award Roshini Prince-Navaratnam (Didsbury) 338 Ellie Mason (Stockport Trinity) 216 Carys White (Stockport Trinity) 166 Jenny Dunn (Stockport Trinity) 145 Beth Caunce (Ashton-on-Mersey) 108 Average Roshini Prince-Navaratnam 84.50 Jenny Dunn 48.33 Mishel Jeena (Didsbury) 46.00 Ellie Mason 43.20 Emily Thomas (Stockport Georgians) 35.67 THE BEST BOWLERS – EASTERN DIVISION Total Wickets – Bowling Award Emma Royle (Stockport Trinity) 12 Amanda Gettins (Ashton-on-Mersey) 10 Amelia Sammons (Ashton-on-Mersey) 9 Millie Baldwin (Leigh), Poppy Donohue (Leigh) 8 Average Emma Royle 4.25 Hannah Jones (Didsbury) 4.83 Amanda Gettins 8.50 Millie Baldwin 9.50 Poppy Donohue 9.88 Economy Rate Hannah Jones 1.21 Emma Royle 1.24 Zara Matthews (Didsbury) 2.00 Kasey Bentham (Leigh) 2.03 Lucy Neill (Stockport Georgians) 2.25 The records of the players ranked third to fifth here are certainly impressive enough, but the consistent performances of Hannah Jones and Emma Royle truly stand out.