Youngsters dominate the season's averages

The 2013 season marked a sea change in the club with the younger players taking over as a few of the old stalwarts took a back seat.

The batting was dominated by Brad and Jack Scriven and Seren Waters; Waters, at 23 by some way the oldest of the three. Brad Scriven may have failed to make a hundred but his 491 runs was the sixth-highest made in a season in the club’s history. Waters’ 406 runs put him tenth – and his 254 Cricketer Cup runs meant he has now scored more cup runs than anyone. Jack Scriven’s 368 runs included an unbeaten hundred at the Hogs, one of only three hundreds scored for the club this summer, Waters and a maiden century for Rob Cowdrey the others.

Six bowlers took ten or more wickets, the first time that the spoils have been so evenly divided for a long time. Seren Waters’ spin proved valuable in the Cricketer Cup, but the bowling of the season came at Shrewsbury when Matt Crump produced one of the finest spells in the club’s history to take 6 for 7 as the home side were routed for 33.

Eddie Hamilton, from the School 2nd XI, made a real mark in his first season and Charlie Clarence-Smith also made a good impression. Will Rollings, considerably faster than his father, looked a genuinely fast bowler and will undoubtedly be a key player in the years to come.