HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB Playing Records Twenty-fifth edition - November 10 Also available on www.hertford.play-cricket.com Compiled by Brian Box 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 match scores 6.4. Lowest match scores 6.5. Highest innings totals 6.6. Lowest innings totals 6.7. Highest run rates 6.8. Lowest run rates 6.9. Biggest winning margins 6.10. Biggest losing margins 6.11. Extreme draws 6.12. Tied games 6.13. Two innings games 6.14. Sequences 6.15. League records 7. Second Eleven 7.1. Seasonal record 7.2. Records against opponents 7.3. Highest match scores 7.4. Lowest match scores 7.5. Highest innings totals 7.6. Lowest innings totals 7.7. Highest run rates 7.8. Lowest run rates Nov. 10 S 0 - Page 1 HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB RECORDS 7.9. Biggest winning margins 7.10. Biggest losing margins 7.11. Extreme draws 7.12. Tied games 7.13. Two innings games 7.14. Sequences 7.15. League records 8. Third Eleven 8.1. Seasonal record 8.2. Records against opponents 8.3. Highest match scores 8.4. Lowest match scores 8.5. Highest innings totals 8.6. Lowest innings totals 8.7. Highest run rates 8.8. Lowest run rates 8.9. Biggest winning margins 8.10. Biggest losing margins 8.11. Extreme draws 8.12. Tied games 8.13. Sequences 8.14. League records 9. Fourth Eleven 9.1. Seasonal record 9.2. Records against opponents 9.3. Highest match scores 9.4. Lowest match scores 9.5. Highest innings totals 9.6. Lowest innings totals 9.7. Highest run rates 9.8. Lowest run rates 9.9. Biggest winning margins 9.10. Biggest losing margins 9.11. Extreme draws 9.12. Tied games Nov. 10 S 0 - Page 2 HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB RECORDS 9.13. Sequences 9.14. League records 10. Fifth Eleven 10.1. Seasonal record 10.2. Records against opponents 10.3. Highest match scores 10.4. Lowest match scores 10.5. Highest innings totals 10.6. Lowest innings totals 10.7. Highest run rates 10.8. Lowest run rates 10.9. Biggest winning margins 10.10. Biggest losing margins 10.11. Extreme draws 10.12. Tied games 10.13. Sequences 10.14. League 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 Nov. 10 S 0 - Page 3 HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB RECORDS 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 runs in a season 25.9. 750 runs, or more, in a season 25.10. 500 runs, or more, in a season 25.11. Centuries 25.12. Fifties 25.13. Centuries in a season 25.14. Fifties in a season 25.15. Not Outs 25.16. Not Ins 25.17. 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) Nov. 10 S 0 - Page 4 HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB RECORDS 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 wickets in a season 26.15 75 wickets, or more, in a season 26.16 50 wickets, or more, in a season 26.17 7 wickets, or more, in an innings 26.18 5 wickets, or more, in an innings 26.19 Most times 7 wickets, or more, in an innings in a season 26.20 Most times 5 wickets, or more, in an innings in a season 26.21 Runs conceded 26.22 Runs scored per wicket taken 26.33 Era comparison 27. Fielding Records 27.1 Most catches 27.2 Most catches in a season 27.3 30 catches in a season 27.4 20 catches, or more, in a season 27.5 10 catches, or more, in a season 27.6 Wicketkeepers, most victims 27.7 Most victims in a season 28. Doubles 28.1 Career 28.2 Season 28.3 Match 28.4 Wicketkeepers 28.5 Triples 29. Combined Records 29.1 Highest points total 29.2 Highest points total in a season 29.3 Highest overall points average 29.4 Best seasonal points average Nov. 10 S 0 - Page 5 HERTFORD CRICKET CLUB RECORDS 29.5 100 points in a season 29.6 75 points, or more, in a season 29.7 50 points, or more, in a season 30. Top of averages by season 30.1 First Eleven 30.2 Second Eleven 30.3 Third Eleven 30.4 Fourth Eleven 30.5 Fifth Eleven 30.6 Other Matches 30.7 Tops with Bat & Ball 30.8 Awards 31. Appearances 31.1 Career span 31.2 Career highest 31.3 Season highest 31.4 Centurions 32. Summaries of Current Players 33. Hertfordshire at Hertford 33.1 Matches 33.2 Hertford Players 33.3 Playing records Nov. 10 S 0 - Page 6 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 1st XI games – from that date cup matches moved to Sundays. Pre- war, cricket weeks were listed as 1st 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 1st 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. 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.