Karunakaran Niroshan
Batting – Top-Order Batter
VIC
Balanced scorer
📈 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.
Or search manually:
No players found — check the spelling, or try part of the name.
Teams played for
Competitions
Registered with:
Melbourne Blues Sports Club · Melbourne Lions Sports Club · Knox Churches Cricket Club · Melbourne Sixers Sports Club · Box Hill North Super Kings Cricket Club · Hartley Cricket Club · Victorian Cavaliers Sports Club · Icon Stars · Sandown Park Cricket Club · Eagles Cricket Club (VIC)
Overall
Needs Work
6/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
9/100
Batting
Proficient
51/100
Bowling
Not enough data
Representative pathway — 1 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Body of work — 63 imported matches (+1.3)
Critical recommendations
medium
Batting
Not converting fifties into hundreds
Only 11% of 50+ scores become hundreds (8 fifties, 1 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.
info
Fielding
Fielding is a selection weapon
0.48 catches per match is elite for this level — keep it visible by taking the hardest catching positions in big games.
Strengths
- ✓ Scores quickly (SR 90.3) without sacrificing consistency.
- ✓ Proven ability to go big — 1 hundred(s), best of 150.
- ✓ Safe hands — 30 catches in 63 matches (0.48 per match), a genuine selection asset.
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 9 × 40% · Batting 51 × 30% · Bowling not rated (weight redistributed). 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 18). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
- Form
- Rated on the last 18 matches since 26 Oct 2024. Older cricket still shows in the career figures but does not count.
- Fielding
- Keeping: 20 catches + 1 stumpings + 0 run outs (0 direct, 0 assisted) in 63 matches — 0.33 dismissals per match.
- Batting
- 1,456 runs in 61 innings, adjusted average 26.2, strike rate 90.4. Qualifies on the floors (avg ≥ 20, SR ≥ 40).
- Bowling
- Not rated: 7 wickets from 24.0 overs across 7 matches bowled in (of 63 played) — 0.11 per match, under the 0.25 floor. Bowls too rarely to judge.
Fielding — imported matches (63)
10
Ct (field)
20
Ct (WK)
0.48
Catches / match
0
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
1
Stumpings
31
Total dismissals
0.49
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
1456
Runs (61 inns)
26.22
Avg (adj)
90.35
Strike rate
150
High score
6
Not outs
3
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
7
Wickets (24 ov)
6.21
Economy
21.29
Average
2
Maidens
0.67
Extras / over
20.6
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 63 imported |
| Batting | 1456 runs in 61 inns @ 26.22 (SR 90.35) |
| Milestones | 1×100, 8×50, HS 150, 6 ducks |
| Bowling | 7 wkts @ 21.29 (econ 6.21, SR 20.6) |
| Best / 5WI | 3-38 · 0 five-fors |
| Fielding | 30 ct, 0 RO, 1 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 31 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.48
Catches / match
0.49
Dismissals / match
Across 63 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 12 | 1 | 241 | 62 | 21.76 | 115.31 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024/25 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 28 | 19 | 200 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023/24 | 5 | 0 | 121 | 62 | 24.2 | 142.35 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022/23 | 8 | 2 | 196 | 57* | 30.63 | — | 2 | 0 |
| 2021/22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019/20 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 26 | 26 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017/18 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 20 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015/16 | 17 | 1 | 547 | 150 | 34.07 | — | 2 | 1 |
| 2014/15 | 13 | 2 | 267 | 62* | 23.7 | — | 1 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 18 | 2 | 116 | 7 | 16.57 | 6.44 | 15.4 |
| 2022/23 | 6 | 0 | 33 | 0 | — | 5.5 | — |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024/25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017/18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015/16 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 2014/15 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
Pathway benchmark
How does Karunakaran compare?
Year-by-year, aligned by age — against Sam Konstas or any player you pick.