Joshua Benson (32)

Fielding – Wicketkeeper-Batter U16 (2009/10) VIC Anchor / accumulator
📈 Journey 📊 Rankings 🎥 Video 4
Merge duplicate records
Search for this player's other accounts and combine them into one player. Records that share a match can never be merged.
Likely same player — one-click merge
play.cricket
Joshua Benson
— · 1 matches · 25% match
Or search manually:
No players found — check the spelling, or try part of the name.
Records to merge — pick the master
Teams played for
Competitions
Registered with: Country Gippsland · Melbourne Cricket Club · Sale Cricket Club · Old Melbourne Grammar Cricket Club · Sale-Maffra Cricket Association
Age: Born on/after 1 Sep 1993 (inferred from U16 eligibility, 2009/10 season)
Green Shield: 0 season(s) played · last GS year 2009/10 (ages out of U16 after this)
View on play.cricket.com.au ↗
Overall Needs Work
16/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding Advance
60/100
Batting Proficient
41/100
Bowling Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics

Representative pathway — 12 pathway points in the overall rating

  • ● Premier or state pathway — 92 matches (+10.0)
  • ● Regional representative — 1 match (+0.1)
  • ● Body of work — 96 imported matches (+1.9)

Critical recommendations

high Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work

Strike rate of 44.7 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 13% 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 (4 fifties, 0 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.

medium Fielding
Keeping dismissal rate below par

0.49 keeping dismissals (WK catches + stumpings) per match. Work standing-up takes and leg-side stumpings — the fastest way for a keeper to add value.

info Fielding
Fielding is a selection weapon

0.73 catches per match is elite for this level — keep it visible by taking the hardest catching positions in big games.

Strengths

  • ✓ Safe hands — 70 catches in 96 matches (0.73 per match), a genuine selection asset.
How these ratings are calculated
Overall
Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 60 × 40% · Batting 41 × 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
×0.34 for the level played (Rep Div 1 2 · 3rd grade 50 · Club 2 · 4th grade 42). 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
Keeping: 43 catches + 4 stumpings + 2 run outs (2 direct, 0 assisted) in 96 matches — 0.51 dismissals per match.
Batting
1,367 runs in 79 innings, adjusted average 19.9, strike rate 44.7. Qualifies on the floors (avg ≥ 20, SR ≥ 40).
Bowling
Not rated: 7 wickets from 99.8 overs across 20 matches bowled in (of 96 played) — 0.07 per match, under the 0.25 floor. Bowls too rarely to judge.

Fielding — imported matches (96)

27
Ct (field)
43
Ct (WK)
0.73
Catches / match
2
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
4
Stumpings
76
Total dismissals
0.79
Dismissals / match

Batting — imported matches

1367
Runs (79 inns)
19.93
Avg (adj)
44.73
Strike rate
83
High score
12
Not outs
5
Median position
Century (100+) Fifty (50–99) Not out (under 50) Out (under 50)

Bowling — imported matches

7
Wickets (99.8 ov)
3.55
Economy
50.57
Average
20
Maidens
0.12
Extras / over
85.6
Strike rate

Dismissal pattern

Imported-match summary

Matches 96 imported
Batting 1367 runs in 79 inns @ 19.93 (SR 44.73)
Milestones 0×100, 4×50, HS 83, 10 ducks
Bowling 7 wkts @ 50.57 (econ 3.55, SR 85.6)
Best / 5WI 1-0 · 0 five-fors
Fielding 70 ct, 2 RO, 4 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 76 dismissals they were involved in.

Per-match fielding rate

0.73
Catches / match
0.79
Dismissals / match

Across 96 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 71 24* 22.19 60.68 0 0
2021/22 7 1 130 38 21.22 54.85 0 0
2020/21 9 1 291 83 35.93 67.36 2 0
2019/20 7 1 68 23 11.1 61.26 0 0
2018/19 4 1 118 62 36.88 54.88 1 0
2017/18 17 3 177 44 12.25 74.06 0 0
2016/17 11 1 140 41 13.88 102.19 0 0
2015/16 6 0 149 49 24.83 41.27 0 0
2014/15 6 1 133 75* 25.86 109.02 1 0
2013/14 5 0 86 34 17.2 36.91 0 0
2011/12 1 1 3 3* 3 — 0 0
2008/09 1 1 1 1* 1 — 0 0
2007/08 1 0 0 0 0 — 0 0

Bowling

Season Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Avg Econ SR
2021/22 2 0 10 0 — 5 —
2017/18 1 0 6 0 — 6 —
2016/17 1 1 0 1 0 0 6
2015/16 4 0 13 1 13 3.25 24
2014/15 13.5 1 77 1 77 5.7 81
2013/14 35.3 10 88 1 88 2.49 212
2011/12 31 8 98 3 32.67 3.16 62
2008/09 12 0 62 0 — 5.17 —

Fielding

Season Ct WK Ct RO St Dismissals
2022/23 1 10 0 1 12
2021/22 0 20 0 0 20
2020/21 5 1 0 1 7
2019/20 0 6 0 2 8
2018/19 2 6 0 0 8
2017/18 8 0 0 0 8
2016/17 2 0 0 0 2
2015/16 5 0 0 0 5
2014/15 1 0 0 0 1
2013/14 2 0 2 0 4
2011/12 1 0 0 0 1
Pathway benchmark

How does Joshua compare?

Year-by-year, aligned by age — against Sam Konstas or any player you pick.

Flag it for review — duplicate records that should be one player, or numbers that look wrong. It joins a queue; nothing changes straight away.