Taj Ballantyne (19)
★ Div 1 Rep
Bowling – Second-Change Bowler
U17 (2023/24)
WA
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Teams played for
Competitions
Registered with:
SJ Blues Cricket Club · Perth Cricket Club (WA) · Kent Street Senior High School · WA Government Schools XI
Age:
Born on/after 1 Sep 2006
(inferred from U17 eligibility, 2023/24 season)
Green Shield:
0 season(s) played
· last GS year 2022/23 (ages out of U16 after this)
🏏 Century highlight · ball-by-ball
111 off 117
Kim Hughes Shield · 2023/24 · 11×4, 0×6
· SR 95
The story is the acceleration: a measured first fifty off 55 balls (SR 91), then 50 to 100 in just 49 (SR 102) — more than double the tempo.
Scoring breakdown
44 of 111 runs (40%) in boundaries · 44% dots
Runs vs balls faced
0→20
· 25 balls · SR 80
watchful
20→40
· 17 balls · SR 118
steady
40→50
· 13 balls · SR 77
watchful
50→60
· 8 balls · SR 125
brisk
60→80
· 15 balls · SR 133
brisk
80→100
· 26 balls · SR 77
watchful
Overall
Needs Work
25/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
23/100
Batting
Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling
Proficient
53/100
Representative pathway — 18 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Division 1 representative (+4)
- ● Premier or state pathway — 28 matches (+10.0)
- ● Regional representative — 12 matches (+1.8)
- ● Body of work — 99 imported matches (+2.0)
Critical recommendations
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 8% of 50+ scores become hundreds (12 fifties, 1 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.
Strengths
- ✓ Builds pressure with a tight economy of 3.21.
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 23 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling 53 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
- Level
- ×0.58 for the level played (1st grade 9 · 2nd grade 24 · 3rd grade 7 · Club 7). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
- Form
- Rated on the last 47 matches since 30 Oct 2024. Older cricket still shows in the career figures but does not count.
- Fielding
- Outfield: 28 catches + 4 run outs (1 direct, 3 assisted) in 99 matches — 0.32 per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 94 innings at 24.2 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- 105 wickets in 88 matches bowled in (of 99 played) — 1.19 per match at 20.6, economy 3.21, strike rate 38.5.
Fielding — imported matches (99)
28
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.28
Catches / match
1
RO (direct)
3
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
32
Total dismissals
0.32
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
2020
Runs (94 inns)
24.23
Avg (adj)
69.85
Strike rate
111
High score
12
Not outs
2
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
105
Wickets (674.2 ov)
3.21
Economy
20.61
Average
120
Maidens
0.06
Extras / over
38.5
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 99 imported |
| Batting | 2020 runs in 94 inns @ 24.23 (SR 69.85) |
| Milestones | 1×100, 12×50, HS 111, 10 ducks |
| Bowling | 105 wkts @ 20.61 (econ 3.21, SR 38.5) |
| Best / 5WI | 6-20 · 1 five-fors |
| Fielding | 28 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 32 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.28
Catches / match
0.32
Dismissals / match
Across 99 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 5 | 2 | 96 | 51 | 26.88 | 84.21 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025/26 | 24 | 2 | 393 | 67 | 17.74 | 80.37 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024/25 | 19 | 3 | 219 | 62 | 13.35 | 41.56 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023/24 | 46 | 5 | 1,312 | 111 | 31.62 | 78.28 | 6 | 1 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 32 | 2 | 106 | 3 | 35.33 | 3.31 | 64 |
| 2025/26 | 237.3 | 52 | 686 | 47 | 14.6 | 2.89 | 30.3 |
| 2024/25 | 149 | 24 | 535 | 21 | 25.48 | 3.59 | 42.6 |
| 2023/24 | 255.8 | 42 | 837 | 34 | 24.62 | 3.27 | 45.1 |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025/26 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 2024/25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2023/24 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 |
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