Ben Mathews

Bowling – Second-Change Bowler NSW Anchor / accumulator
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Registered with: Sydney Cricket Club · North Shore Cricket Club · UTS North Sydney Cricket Club
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Overall Needs Work
7/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding Proficient
38/100
Batting Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling Proficient
42/100

Representative pathway — 6 pathway points in the overall rating

  • ● Regional representative — 92 matches (+4.0)
  • ● Body of work — 93 imported matches (+1.9)

Critical recommendations

high Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work

Strike rate of 40.7 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 (13 fifties, 0 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.

medium Bowling
Tight but not threatening

Economy of 3.55 is excellent but a wicket every 41 balls is slow. Develop a genuine wicket-taking variation and attack the stumps more.

info Fielding
Fielding is a selection weapon

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

Strengths

  • ✓ Builds pressure with a tight economy of 3.55.
  • ✓ Safe hands — 40 catches in 93 matches (0.43 per match), a genuine selection asset.
How these ratings are calculated
Overall
Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 38 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling 42 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
Level
×0.22 for the level played (Club 1 · 4th grade 15 · 5th grade and below 77). 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: 40 catches + 0 run outs (0 direct, 0 assisted) in 93 matches — 0.43 per match.
Batting
Not rated: 99 innings at 18.4 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
Bowling
56 wickets in 55 matches bowled in (of 93 played) — 1.02 per match at 24.0, economy 3.55, strike rate 40.6.

Fielding — imported matches (93)

40
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.43
Catches / match
0
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
40
Total dismissals
0.43
Dismissals / match

Batting — imported matches

1729
Runs (99 inns)
18.35
Avg (adj)
40.71
Strike rate
84
High score
5
Not outs
2
Median position
Century (100+) Fifty (50–99) Not out (under 50) Out (under 50)

Bowling — imported matches

56
Wickets (378.5 ov)
3.55
Economy
23.96
Average
70
Maidens
0.07
Extras / over
40.6
Strike rate

Dismissal pattern

Imported-match summary

Matches 93 imported
Batting 1729 runs in 99 inns @ 18.35 (SR 40.71)
Milestones 0×100, 13×50, HS 84, 13 ducks
Bowling 56 wkts @ 23.96 (econ 3.55, SR 40.6)
Best / 5WI 4-29 · 0 five-fors
Fielding 40 ct, 0 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 40 dismissals they were involved in.

Per-match fielding rate

0.43
Catches / match
0.43
Dismissals / match

Across 93 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
2016/17 11 1 168 74 16.66 454.05 1 0
2015/16 13 1 143 67 11.85 4766.67 1 0
2014/15 14 2 309 84 25.22 835.14 2 0
2013/14 16 0 258 50 16.13 318.52 1 0
2012/13 11 0 207 59 18.82 85.54 1 0
2011/12 16 1 224 76 14.88 119.79 1 0
2010/11 11 0 298 77 27.09 131.86 4 0
2009/10 7 0 122 54 17.43 — 2 0

Bowling

Season Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Avg Econ SR
2015/16 52.8 11 185 6 30.83 3.5 52.8
2014/15 89.2 19 280 9 31.11 3.14 59.4
2013/14 86.8 14 339 15 22.6 3.9 34.7
2012/13 57.2 13 172 7 24.57 3.01 49
2011/12 34.5 2 160 11 14.55 4.64 18.8
2010/11 19 3 91 2 45.5 4.79 57
2009/10 39 8 115 6 19.17 2.95 39

Fielding

Season Ct WK Ct RO St Dismissals
2016/17 6 0 0 0 6
2015/16 2 0 0 0 2
2014/15 4 0 0 0 4
2013/14 8 0 0 0 8
2012/13 5 0 0 0 5
2011/12 8 0 0 0 8
2010/11 5 0 0 0 5
2009/10 2 0 0 0 2
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