Michael Ford
Bowling – First-Change Bowler
NSW
Anchor / accumulator
📈 Journey
📊 Rankings
Merge duplicate records
Search for this player's other accounts and combine them into one player. Records that share a match can never be merged.
Likely same player — one-click merge
play.cricket
Michael Ford
NSW · 72 matches ·
50% match
play.cricket
Michael Ford
NSW · 31 matches ·
50% match
play.cricket
Michael Ford
NSW · 20 matches ·
25% match
play.cricket
Michael Ford
NSW · 15 matches ·
25% match
Or search manually:
No players found — check the spelling, or try part of the name.
Teams played for
Competitions
Registered with:
St Ives Wahroonga Cricket Club
Overall
Needs Work
6/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
16/100
Batting
Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling
Proficient
51/100
Representative pathway — 1 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Body of work — 46 imported matches (+0.9)
Critical recommendations
high
Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work
Strike rate of 54.0 means long dot-ball chains and pressure on partners. Drill singles into gaps, soft-hand placement, and calling.
medium
Batting
High duck rate
Out for 0 in 11% of imported innings. Build a repeatable start routine: watch the ball out of the hand, score first run with low-risk pushes.
Strengths
- ✓ Builds pressure with a tight economy of 3.72.
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 16 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling 51 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
- Level
- ×0.30 for the level played (Club 16). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
- Form
- Rated on the last 16 matches since 26 Oct 2024. Older cricket still shows in the career figures but does not count.
- Fielding
- Outfield: 12 catches + 1 run outs (1 direct, 0 assisted) in 46 matches — 0.28 per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 36 innings at 20.0 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- 58 wickets in 41 matches bowled in (of 46 played) — 1.41 per match at 20.2, economy 3.72, strike rate 32.6.
Fielding — imported matches (46)
12
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.26
Catches / match
1
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
13
Total dismissals
0.28
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
631
Runs (36 inns)
19.96
Avg (adj)
53.95
Strike rate
101
High score
5
Not outs
5
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
58
Wickets (315 ov)
3.72
Economy
20.22
Average
42
Maidens
0.1
Extras / over
32.6
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 46 imported |
| Batting | 631 runs in 36 inns @ 19.96 (SR 53.95) |
| Milestones | 1×100, 2×50, HS 101, 4 ducks |
| Bowling | 58 wkts @ 20.22 (econ 3.72, SR 32.6) |
| Best / 5WI | 4-23 · 0 five-fors |
| Fielding | 12 ct, 1 RO, 0 st |
All figures from imported scorecards only.
Further analysis
Batting form
Running not-out-adjusted average across innings (chronological).
Score distribution
How often each scoring band is reached — a read on consistency.
Scoring tempo
Runs vs balls faced per innings; line = a strike rate of 100.
Bowling form
Economy per spell (chronological) with the career economy as a baseline.
Wicket accumulation
Cumulative wickets across spells — the shape of their wicket-taking.
Fielding contribution
Breakdown of the 13 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.26
Catches / match
0.28
Dismissals / match
Across 46 imported match(es).
Season by season
Seasons run 1 September – 31 August. Imported scorecards only.
Batting
| Season | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50 | 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 33.33 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025/26 | 4 | 0 | 40 | 13 | 10 | 58.82 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024/25 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 5.28 | 73.33 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023/24 | 11 | 1 | 188 | 99 | 18.64 | 569.7 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022/23 | 15 | 3 | 374 | 101 | 29.92 | — | 1 | 1 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 17 | 3 | 83 | 5 | 16.6 | 4.88 | 20.4 |
| 2025/26 | 45 | 1 | 221 | 6 | 36.83 | 4.91 | 45 |
| 2024/25 | 72 | 19 | 191 | 11 | 17.36 | 2.65 | 39.3 |
| 2023/24 | 84.2 | 9 | 348 | 21 | 16.57 | 4.13 | 24 |
| 2022/23 | 96.8 | 10 | 330 | 15 | 22 | 3.41 | 38.7 |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024/25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023/24 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 2022/23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pathway benchmark
How does Michael compare?
Year-by-year, aligned by age — against Sam Konstas or any player you pick.