Averages 2015 - Batsmen dominate as bowlers toil

Given that the cricket week on Jubilee was played out on some of the most batsmen-friendly pitches we have ever used, it is unsurprising that the 2015 averages make better reading for the batsmen than the bowlers.

Brad Scriven, who like his brother missed the early part of the summer, including the Cricketer Cup matches, through injury, scored the most runs thanks to an excellent cricket week in which he scored over 300 runs in four innings, including two hundreds.  The week also saw two of the most remarkable knocks. Mike Burgess slammed 131 in XX minutes on the Wednesday while Will Rollings – 52 runs in 13 OC matches going into the game against Buccaneers – broke Nigel’s Paul’s OC 52-year-old  record for the highest score .  Eds Copleston, returned from his sojourn to the USA, broke Paul’s record for the most career runs while his fourth OC hundred same 15 years after his third. In all, we scored nine hundreds in the season - easily a record, as were the six in the week.

The bowlers suffered, especially the seamers, and 52-year-old Michael Chetwode was the joint leading wicket-taker with the marginally younger Jack Scriven.  Scriven also managed one of our two five-wicket hauls, the other being Seren Waters’ 7 for 32 in a losing cause in the Cricketer Cup at Eton.

We fielded more players than usual, but it was heartening that a lot were recent leavers.

The averages are, regrettably, incomplete as we are still waiting for a copy of the scorecard from Millfield who have told us “it will appear at some point before the start of next season”. When it does, the records will be amended accordingly.

Qualification: Five matches or five wickets