William O'Brien
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Competitions
Registered with:
Melbourne Cricket Club · Ashburton Willows Cricket Club
Overall
Needs Work
17/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
26/100
Batting
Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling
Proficient
52/100
Representative pathway — 12 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Premier or state pathway — 83 matches (+10.0)
- ● Body of work — 84 imported matches (+1.7)
Critical recommendations
high
Batting
Getting starts but not surviving
Adjusted average of 7.5 over 32 innings. Focus on the first 15 balls: leave/defend percentages, judgement outside off stump.
medium
Batting
High duck rate
Out for 0 in 16% of imported innings. Build a repeatable start routine: watch the ball out of the hand, score first run with low-risk pushes.
Strengths
- ✓ Builds pressure with a tight economy of 3.43.
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 26 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling 52 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
- Level
- ×0.48 for the level played (2nd grade 24 · 3rd grade 48 · Club 1 · 4th grade 11). 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: 21 catches + 4 run outs (4 direct, 0 assisted) in 84 matches — 0.30 per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 32 innings at 7.5 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- 115 wickets in 78 matches bowled in (of 84 played) — 1.47 per match at 20.8, economy 3.43, strike rate 36.3.
Fielding — imported matches (84)
21
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.25
Catches / match
4
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
25
Total dismissals
0.3
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
166
Runs (32 inns)
7.46
Avg (adj)
65.5
Strike rate
34
High score
14
Not outs
11
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
115
Wickets (696.2 ov)
3.43
Economy
20.79
Average
112
Maidens
0.18
Extras / over
36.3
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 84 imported |
| Batting | 166 runs in 32 inns @ 7.46 (SR 65.5) |
| Milestones | 0×100, 0×50, HS 34, 5 ducks |
| Bowling | 115 wkts @ 20.79 (econ 3.43, SR 36.3) |
| Best / 5WI | 5-28 · 1 five-fors |
| Fielding | 21 ct, 4 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 25 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.25
Catches / match
0.3
Dismissals / match
Across 84 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 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 6 | 4.69 | 46.94 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021/22 | 4 | 4 | 46 | 34* | 11.5 | 124.32 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020/21 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 7* | 4.88 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019/20 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018/19 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3* | 2.22 | 41.67 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017/18 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 4.2 | 62.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016/17 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 25* | 18.75 | 833.33 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015/16 | 6 | 1 | 33 | 16 | 6.42 | 366.67 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 141.5 | 22 | 478 | 25 | 19.12 | 3.38 | 34 |
| 2021/22 | 93 | 14 | 338 | 11 | 30.73 | 3.63 | 50.7 |
| 2020/21 | 78.8 | 9 | 277 | 14 | 19.79 | 3.51 | 33.8 |
| 2019/20 | 101 | 19 | 335 | 19 | 17.63 | 3.32 | 31.9 |
| 2018/19 | 68.5 | 15 | 220 | 14 | 15.71 | 3.21 | 29.4 |
| 2017/18 | 90.8 | 15 | 322 | 12 | 26.83 | 3.54 | 45.4 |
| 2016/17 | 65.5 | 11 | 231 | 12 | 19.25 | 3.53 | 32.8 |
| 2015/16 | 57 | 7 | 190 | 8 | 23.75 | 3.33 | 42.8 |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021/22 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 2020/21 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019/20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018/19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017/18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016/17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015/16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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