🏅🛡️ Matthew Gale (42)

All-Rounder – Bowling U17 (2000/01) VIC Anchor / accumulator
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Registered with: Bayswater Cricket Club · Ringwood Cricket Club · Sunshine Coast Scorchers · Melbourne BBL · Victoria · Flinders Cricket Club · QLD · Northern Suburbs District Cricket Club · KFC T/20 Challenge Teams · KFC T/20 Challenge
Age: Born on/after 1 Sep 1983 (inferred from U17 eligibility, 2000/01 season)
Green Shield: 0 season(s) played · last GS year 1999/00 (ages out of U16 after this)
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🏏 Century highlight
103* off 126
Men's First Grade Competition · 2016/17 · 13×4, 3×6 · SR 82

Ball-by-ball detail isn't available for this match, so the innings worm and shot breakdown aren't shown.

Overall Advance
57/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding Proficient
35/100
Batting Proficient
48/100
Bowling Proficient
46/100

Representative pathway — 52 pathway points in the overall rating

  • ● State representation (+12)
  • ● First-class, BBL or international — 16 matches (+16.0)
  • ● National championships — 6 matches (+9.0)
  • ● Premier or state pathway — 254 matches (+10.0)
  • ● Body of work — 329 imported matches (+5.0)

Critical recommendations

high Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work

Strike rate of 59.2 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.

medium Batting
Not converting fifties into hundreds

Only 4% of 50+ scores become hundreds (22 fifties, 1 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.

medium Bowling
Tight but not threatening

Economy of 3.17 is excellent but a wicket every 41 balls is slow. Develop a genuine wicket-taking variation and attack the stumps more.

Strengths

  • ✓ Proven ability to go big — 1 hundred(s), best of 103.
  • ✓ Builds pressure with a tight economy of 3.17.
  • ✓ Dangerous ground fielder — involved in 21 run outs.
How these ratings are calculated
Overall
Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 35 × 40% · Batting 48 × 30% · Bowling 46 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
Level
×0.71 for the level played (National competition 22 · 1st grade 245 · 2nd grade 7 · 3rd grade 2 · Club 53). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
Form
No match in the last 2 years, so not ranked. The rating shown is from the career.
Fielding
Outfield: 84 catches + 21 run outs (21 direct, 0 assisted) in 329 matches — 0.32 per match.
Batting
5,004 runs in 290 innings, adjusted average 20.1, strike rate 59.2. Qualifies on the floors (avg ≥ 20, SR ≥ 40).
Bowling
509 wickets in 302 matches bowled in (of 329 played) — 1.69 per match at 21.7, economy 3.17, strike rate 41.1.

Fielding — imported matches (329)

84
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.26
Catches / match
21
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
1
Stumpings
106
Total dismissals
0.32
Dismissals / match

Batting — imported matches

5004
Runs (290 inns)
20.11
Avg (adj)
59.17
Strike rate
103
High score
48
Not outs
7
Median position
Century (100+) Fifty (50–99) Not out (under 50) Out (under 50)

Bowling — imported matches

509
Wickets (3487.5 ov)
3.17
Economy
21.69
Average
745
Maidens
0.07
Extras / over
41.1
Strike rate

Dismissal pattern

Imported-match summary

Matches 329 imported
Batting 5004 runs in 290 inns @ 20.11 (SR 59.17)
Milestones 1×100, 22×50, HS 103, 33 ducks
Bowling 509 wkts @ 21.69 (econ 3.17, SR 41.1)
Best / 5WI 7-80 · 12 five-fors
Fielding 84 ct, 21 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 106 dismissals they were involved in.

Per-match fielding rate

0.26
Catches / match
0.32
Dismissals / match

Across 329 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
2022/23 4 1 121 88* 37.81 110 1 0
2020/21 14 1 502 98 38.42 275.82 4 0
2019/20 12 1 218 55* 19.68 660.61 1 0
2018/19 12 3 260 81 27.08 62.05 1 0
2016/17 18 5 298 103* 21.15 79.26 0 1
2015/16 17 4 189 63* 13.73 53.09 1 0
2014/15 15 3 344 66 27.52 77.3 2 0
2013/14 12 5 150 30 17.71 52.82 0 0
2012/13 20 2 256 76 14.08 55.05 1 0
2011/12 16 6 215 69* 18.48 68.91 1 0
2010/11 13 1 270 57 22.37 67.33 1 0
2009/10 18 2 151 40* 9.32 45.21 0 0
2008/09 10 0 204 55 20.4 73.65 1 0
2007/08 21 3 339 66* 18.45 277.87 1 0
2006/07 16 4 351 56 27.42 5014.29 1 0
2005/06 14 0 390 75 27.86 — 4 0
2004/05 25 4 386 28 17.91 — 0 0
2003/04 15 0 205 58 13.67 — 1 0
2002/03 9 0 108 67 12 — 1 0
2001/02 7 3 47 17 9.59 — 0 0
2000/01 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Bowling

Season Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Avg Econ SR
2022/23 5 0 30 1 30 6 30
2020/21 107.2 12 456 14 32.57 4.26 45.9
2019/20 188.8 35 647 37 17.49 3.43 30.6
2018/19 124.5 39 326 16 20.38 2.62 46.7
2016/17 202.7 49 749 37 20.24 3.7 32.9
2015/16 157.7 33 616 31 19.87 3.91 30.5
2014/15 178.7 34 566 19 29.79 3.17 56.4
2013/14 170 34 589 20 29.45 3.46 51
2012/13 332.5 86 1,038 44 23.59 3.12 45.3
2011/12 181.2 35 596 38 15.68 3.29 28.6
2010/11 125.3 31 333 21 15.86 2.66 35.8
2009/10 154.2 35 536 23 23.3 3.48 40.2
2008/09 109 19 304 18 16.89 2.79 36.3
2007/08 204.5 54 571 33 17.3 2.79 37.2
2006/07 120 18 344 17 20.24 2.87 42.4
2005/06 172 27 559 23 24.3 3.25 44.9
2004/05 433.3 92 1,238 60 20.63 2.86 43.3
2003/04 238 50 670 25 26.8 2.82 57.1
2002/03 120 30 342 14 24.43 2.85 51.4
2001/02 132 28 411 18 22.83 3.11 44
2000/01 31 4 119 0 — 3.84 —

Fielding

Season Ct WK Ct RO St Dismissals
2022/23 1 0 0 0 1
2021/22 1 0 0 0 1
2020/21 6 0 3 0 9
2019/20 6 0 1 0 7
2018/19 7 0 2 0 9
2016/17 1 0 1 0 2
2015/16 4 0 0 0 4
2014/15 8 0 1 0 9
2013/14 6 0 1 0 7
2012/13 5 0 1 0 6
2011/12 5 0 0 0 5
2010/11 1 0 3 0 4
2009/10 7 0 0 0 7
2008/09 3 0 0 0 3
2007/08 9 0 0 0 9
2006/07 2 0 2 0 4
2005/06 3 0 3 1 7
2004/05 0 0 1 0 1
2003/04 4 0 2 0 6
2002/03 4 0 0 0 4
2001/02 1 0 0 0 1
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