🏅 Sam Croft (22)
★ Div 1 Rep
Bowling – First-Change Bowler
U15 (2018/19)
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Competitions
Registered with:
Country Barwon · Geelong Cricket Club · Newtown & Chilwell Cricket Club · Victoria · Cricket Victoria Country Cup · CV Emerging Players Program
Age:
Born on/after 1 Sep 2003
(inferred from U15 eligibility, 2018/19 season)
Green Shield:
0 season(s) played
· last GS year 2019/20 (ages out of U16 after this)
Overall
Needs Work
28/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
34/100
Batting
Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling
Proficient
33/100
Representative pathway — 29 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● State representation (+12)
- ● Division 1 representative (+4)
- ● Premier or state pathway — 34 matches (+10.0)
- ● Body of work — 154 imported matches (+3.1)
Critical recommendations
high
Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work
Strike rate of 48.8 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 12% of imported innings. Build a repeatable start routine: watch the ball out of the hand, score first run with low-risk pushes.
medium
Batting
Not converting fifties into hundreds
Only 0% of 50+ scores become hundreds (8 fifties, 0 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.
medium
Bowling
Tight but not threatening
Economy of 3.27 is excellent but a wicket every 48 balls is slow. Develop a genuine wicket-taking variation and attack the stumps more.
Strengths
- ✓ Builds pressure with a tight economy of 3.27.
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 34 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling 33 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
- Level
- ×0.54 for the level played (2nd grade 23 · 3rd grade 11). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
- Form
- Rated on the last 34 matches since 26 Oct 2024. Older cricket still shows in the career figures but does not count.
- Fielding
- Outfield: 39 catches + 7 run outs (6 direct, 1 assisted) in 154 matches — 0.30 per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 128 innings at 15.3 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- 107 wickets in 126 matches bowled in (of 154 played) — 0.85 per match at 26.3, economy 3.27, strike rate 48.3.
Fielding — imported matches (154)
39
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.25
Catches / match
6
RO (direct)
1
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
46
Total dismissals
0.3
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
1571
Runs (128 inns)
15.34
Avg (adj)
48.83
Strike rate
72
High score
32
Not outs
6
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
107
Wickets (860.8 ov)
3.27
Economy
26.27
Average
123
Maidens
0.06
Extras / over
48.3
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 154 imported |
| Batting | 1571 runs in 128 inns @ 15.34 (SR 48.83) |
| Milestones | 0×100, 8×50, HS 72, 15 ducks |
| Bowling | 107 wkts @ 26.27 (econ 3.27, SR 48.3) |
| Best / 5WI | 5-62 · 1 five-fors |
| Fielding | 39 ct, 7 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 46 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.25
Catches / match
0.3
Dismissals / match
Across 154 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 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 22 | 11.5 | 29.87 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025/26 | 18 | 6 | 271 | 39* | 20.07 | 69.13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024/25 | 15 | 2 | 246 | 56 | 18.59 | 50.72 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023/24 | 2 | 0 | 71 | 71 | 35.5 | 208.82 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022/23 | 14 | 1 | 189 | 66 | 14.46 | 57.45 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021/22 | 9 | 0 | 85 | 30 | 9.44 | 37.78 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020/21 | 11 | 3 | 61 | 19 | 7.06 | 40.13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019/20 | 8 | 6 | 25 | 10 | 5.47 | 53.19 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018/19 | 11 | 4 | 54 | 36 | 6.69 | 36.49 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017/18 | 6 | 0 | 40 | 21 | 6.67 | 38.46 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016/17 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 65 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015/16 | 10 | 7 | 99 | 17* | 16.83 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2011/12 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2009/10 | 1 | 0 | 57 | 57 | 57 | — | 1 | 0 |
| 2005/06 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 7 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2004/05 | 1 | 1 | 36 | 36* | 36 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2002/03 | 15 | 2 | 201 | 60 | 15.19 | — | 1 | 0 |
| 2001/02 | 2 | 0 | 90 | 72 | 45 | — | 1 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 11 | 0 | 47 | 1 | 47 | 4.27 | 66 |
| 2025/26 | 139 | 19 | 483 | 17 | 28.41 | 3.47 | 49.1 |
| 2024/25 | 107 | 22 | 300 | 11 | 27.27 | 2.8 | 58.4 |
| 2023/24 | 25 | 8 | 57 | 2 | 28.5 | 2.28 | 75 |
| 2022/23 | 134.8 | 17 | 506 | 10 | 50.6 | 3.75 | 80.9 |
| 2021/22 | 80 | 13 | 233 | 9 | 25.89 | 2.91 | 53.3 |
| 2020/21 | 119.8 | 11 | 421 | 11 | 38.27 | 3.51 | 65.4 |
| 2019/20 | 75 | 12 | 280 | 11 | 25.45 | 3.73 | 40.9 |
| 2018/19 | 67.2 | 2 | 227 | 7 | 32.43 | 3.38 | 57.6 |
| 2017/18 | 34 | 7 | 77 | 12 | 6.42 | 2.26 | 17 |
| 2016/17 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 13 | 4.33 | 18 |
| 2015/16 | 29 | 1 | 82 | 10 | 8.2 | 2.83 | 17.4 |
| 2008/09 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 18 |
| 2005/06 | 15 | 4 | 33 | 0 | — | 2.2 | — |
| 2004/05 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 22 | 3.14 | 42 |
| 2002/03 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 3.67 | 1.57 | 14 |
| 2001/02 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 0 | — | 2.5 | — |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 2024/25 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2022/23 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021/22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020/21 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2019/20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018/19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2004/05 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002/03 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| 2001/02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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