Melissa Akers
Bowling – Second-Change Bowler
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Competitions
Registered with:
West Torrens Cricket Club · Port Adelaide Cricket Club · Gepps Cross Cricket Club · Adelaide Turf Cricket Association · Adelaide Cricket Club · Pooraka Cricket Club · Eyre Royals Cricket Club
Overall
Needs Work
16/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
17/100
Batting
Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling
Strong
~39/100
discounted — banded on wickets per match
Representative pathway — 6 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Premier or state pathway — 12 matches (+4.8)
- ● Body of work — 69 imported matches (+1.4)
Critical recommendations
high
Batting
Vulnerable to the straight ball
18 of 34 dismissals are bowled/LBW — likely playing across the front pad or leaving a gate. Work on a straighter bat path and head position over the ball.
medium
Batting
Not converting fifties into hundreds
Only 0% of 50+ scores become hundreds (14 fifties, 0 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.
Strengths
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 17 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling 39 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
- Level
- ×0.69 for the level played (1st grade 9 · 2nd grade 3 · Club 3). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
- Form
- Rated on the last 15 matches since 27 Oct 2024. Older cricket still shows in the career figures but does not count.
- Fielding
- Outfield: 10 catches + 6 run outs (2 direct, 4 assisted) in 69 matches — 0.23 per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 64 innings at 40.2 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- 34 wickets in 51 matches bowled in (of 69 played) — 0.67 per match at 18.9, economy 4.28, strike rate 26.5.
Fielding — imported matches (69)
10
Ct (field)
2
Ct (WK)
0.17
Catches / match
2
RO (direct)
4
RO (assist)
2
Stumpings
20
Total dismissals
0.29
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
1753
Runs (64 inns)
40.23
Avg (adj)
66.19
Strike rate
73
High score
30
Not outs
1
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
34
Wickets (150 ov)
4.28
Economy
18.88
Average
10
Maidens
0.57
Extras / over
26.5
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 69 imported |
| Batting | 1753 runs in 64 inns @ 40.23 (SR 66.19) |
| Milestones | 0×100, 14×50, HS 73, 2 ducks |
| Bowling | 34 wkts @ 18.88 (econ 4.28, SR 26.5) |
| Best / 5WI | 3-11 · 0 five-fors |
| Fielding | 12 ct, 6 RO, 2 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 20 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.17
Catches / match
0.29
Dismissals / match
Across 69 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 14 | 2 | 187 | 51* | 15.27 | 48.32 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023/24 | 7 | 2 | 211 | 73* | 38.76 | 83.4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022/23 | 14 | 9 | 469 | 61* | 55.04 | 136.34 | 5 | 0 |
| 2021/22 | 10 | 7 | 277 | 53* | 47.09 | 1319.05 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020/21 | 18 | 10 | 609 | 65* | 52.63 | 790.91 | 5 | 0 |
| 2015/16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | — | 7 | — |
| 2024/25 | 31 | 2 | 109 | 4 | 27.25 | 3.52 | 46.5 |
| 2023/24 | 19 | 2 | 80 | 8 | 10 | 4.21 | 14.3 |
| 2022/23 | 44 | 4 | 187 | 12 | 15.58 | 4.25 | 22 |
| 2021/22 | 17.2 | 2 | 74 | 3 | 24.67 | 4.31 | 34.3 |
| 2020/21 | 36.8 | 0 | 178 | 7 | 25.43 | 4.83 | 31.6 |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2023/24 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022/23 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 2021/22 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020/21 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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