William French

Batting – Top-Order Batter ACT Anchor / accumulator
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Registered with: Tuggeranong Valley Cricket Club · Marist College Canberra Cricket Club · Cricket ACT - Representative Teams · Cricket ACT
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Overall Needs Work
20/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding Needs Work
26/100
Batting Proficient
48/100
Bowling
Not enough data

Representative pathway — 12 pathway points in the overall rating

  • ● Premier or state pathway — 23 matches (+9.2)
  • ● Regional representative — 6 matches (+0.9)
  • ● Body of work — 95 imported matches (+1.9)

Critical recommendations

high Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work

Strike rate of 49.8 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 17% 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 (6 fifties, 0 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.

medium Fielding
Low overall fielding impact

0.20 dismissals per match across 95 matches. Add direct-hit and ground-fielding reps to turn half-chances into run outs.

Strengths

How these ratings are calculated
Overall
Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 26 × 40% · Batting 48 × 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
×0.56 for the level played (2nd grade 23 · 3rd grade 6). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
Form
Rated on the last 29 matches since 26 Oct 2024. Older cricket still shows in the career figures but does not count.
Fielding
Outfield: 16 catches + 3 run outs (0 direct, 3 assisted) in 95 matches — 0.20 per match.
Batting
1,370 runs in 92 innings, adjusted average 16.5, strike rate 49.8. Qualifies on the floors (avg ≥ 20, SR ≥ 40).
Bowling
Not rated: 22 wickets from 96.0 overs across 20 matches bowled in (of 95 played) — 0.23 per match, under the 0.25 floor. Bowls too rarely to judge.

Fielding — imported matches (95)

16
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.17
Catches / match
0
RO (direct)
3
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
19
Total dismissals
0.2
Dismissals / match

Batting — imported matches

1370
Runs (92 inns)
16.51
Avg (adj)
49.84
Strike rate
64
High score
10
Not outs
4
Median position
Century (100+) Fifty (50–99) Not out (under 50) Out (under 50)

Bowling — imported matches

22
Wickets (96 ov)
4.14
Economy
18.05
Average
9
Maidens
0.34
Extras / over
26.2
Strike rate

Dismissal pattern

Imported-match summary

Matches 95 imported
Batting 1370 runs in 92 inns @ 16.51 (SR 49.84)
Milestones 0×100, 6×50, HS 64, 16 ducks
Bowling 22 wkts @ 18.05 (econ 4.14, SR 26.2)
Best / 5WI 3-4 · 0 five-fors
Fielding 16 ct, 3 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 19 dismissals they were involved in.

Per-match fielding rate

0.17
Catches / match
0.2
Dismissals / match

Across 95 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 24 24 24 80 0 0
2025/26 18 1 291 62 17.06 49.66 2 0
2024/25 20 2 351 64* 19.31 50.36 2 0
2023/24 22 3 300 48 15.5 47.17 0 0
2022/23 31 4 404 62 14.71 68.71 2 0

Bowling

Season Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Avg Econ SR
2023/24 3 1 20 2 10 6.67 9
2022/23 93 8 377 20 18.85 4.05 27.9

Fielding

Season Ct WK Ct RO St Dismissals
2025/26 7 0 1 0 8
2024/25 1 0 0 0 1
2023/24 3 0 1 0 4
2022/23 5 0 1 0 6
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