Matt Kirkwood
Bowling – First-Change Bowler
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Competitions
Registered with:
Bulldogs Cricket Club · Euroa Cricket Club · North Albury Cricket Club · Benalla Junior Cricket Association
Overall
Needs Work
7/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
33/100
Batting
Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling
Proficient
59/100
Representative pathway — 0 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Body of work — 20 imported matches (+0.4)
Critical recommendations
high
Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work
Strike rate of 43.8 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 14% of imported innings. Build a repeatable start routine: watch the ball out of the hand, score first run with low-risk pushes.
Strengths
- ✓ Genuine wicket-taker — bowling average of 15.3.
- ✓ Builds pressure with a tight economy of 3.23.
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 33 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling 59 × 30%. 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 20). 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: 6 catches + 2 run outs (2 direct, 0 assisted) in 20 matches — 0.40 per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 21 innings at 16.2 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- 20 wickets in 12 matches bowled in (of 20 played) — 1.67 per match at 15.4, economy 3.23, strike rate 28.5.
Fielding — imported matches (20)
6
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.3
Catches / match
2
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
8
Total dismissals
0.4
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
275
Runs (21 inns)
16.21
Avg (adj)
43.82
Strike rate
32
High score
5
Not outs
4
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
20
Wickets (95 ov)
3.23
Economy
15.35
Average
18
Maidens
0.08
Extras / over
28.5
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 20 imported |
| Batting | 275 runs in 21 inns @ 16.21 (SR 43.82) |
| Milestones | 0×100, 0×50, HS 32, 3 ducks |
| Bowling | 20 wkts @ 15.35 (econ 3.23, SR 28.5) |
| Best / 5WI | 4-80 · 0 five-fors |
| Fielding | 6 ct, 2 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 8 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.3
Catches / match
0.4
Dismissals / match
Across 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014/15 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 15.38 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013/14 | 3 | 1 | 90 | 32* | 40 | 54.22 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012/13 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8* | 8 | 114.29 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011/12 | 3 | 1 | 38 | 20 | 16.89 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2010/11 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2.5 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2008/09 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2006/07 | 7 | 1 | 108 | 31 | 17.63 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2005/06 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 | — | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014/15 | 24 | 7 | 80 | 4 | 20 | 3.33 | 36 |
| 2013/14 | 15 | 4 | 55 | 5 | 11 | 3.67 | 18 |
| 2012/13 | 26 | 4 | 55 | 2 | 27.5 | 2.12 | 78 |
| 2011/12 | 9 | 0 | 51 | 5 | 10.2 | 5.67 | 10.8 |
| 2010/11 | 18 | 3 | 53 | 3 | 17.67 | 2.94 | 36 |
| 2008/09 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 13 | 4.33 | 18 |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013/14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010/11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008/09 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006/07 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
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