Ben Strachan

Bowling – Opening Bowler NSW Anchor / accumulator
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Competitions
Registered with: Dubbo CYMS Cricket Club · Western Plains Outlaws · Macquarie Cricket Club Dubbo · Western Cricket Zone · Dubbo District Cricket Association
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Overall Needs Work
8/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding Needs Work
20/100
Batting Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling Proficient
52/100

Representative pathway — 2 pathway points in the overall rating

  • ● Regional representative — 4 matches (+0.6)
  • ● Body of work — 77 imported matches (+1.5)

Critical recommendations

high Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work

Strike rate of 47.4 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.

medium Batting
Not converting fifties into hundreds

Only 10% of 50+ scores become hundreds (9 fifties, 1 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.

medium Fielding
Low overall fielding impact

0.23 dismissals per match across 77 matches. Add direct-hit and ground-fielding reps to turn half-chances into run outs.

Strengths

  • ✓ Builds pressure with a tight economy of 3.68.
How these ratings are calculated
Overall
Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 20 × 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
×0.31 for the level played (Rep Div 1 4 · Club 73). 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: 18 catches + 0 run outs (0 direct, 0 assisted) in 77 matches — 0.23 per match.
Batting
Not rated: 62 innings at 26.6 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
Bowling
96 wickets in 68 matches bowled in (of 77 played) — 1.41 per match at 20.6, economy 3.68, strike rate 33.6.

Fielding — imported matches (77)

18
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.23
Catches / match
0
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
18
Total dismissals
0.23
Dismissals / match

Batting — imported matches

1398
Runs (62 inns)
26.55
Avg (adj)
47.44
Strike rate
153
High score
11
Not outs
5
Median position
Century (100+) Fifty (50–99) Not out (under 50) Out (under 50)

Bowling — imported matches

96
Wickets (537.5 ov)
3.68
Economy
20.59
Average
101
Maidens
0.1
Extras / over
33.6
Strike rate

Dismissal pattern

Imported-match summary

Matches 77 imported
Batting 1398 runs in 62 inns @ 26.55 (SR 47.44)
Milestones 1×100, 9×50, HS 153, 9 ducks
Bowling 96 wkts @ 20.59 (econ 3.68, SR 33.6)
Best / 5WI 8-37 · 4 five-fors
Fielding 18 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 18 dismissals they were involved in.

Per-match fielding rate

0.23
Catches / match
0.23
Dismissals / match

Across 77 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
2021/22 7 1 44 25 7.18 61.97 0 0
2020/21 8 1 137 48 19.27 157.47 0 0
2019/20 5 1 128 51 30.72 — 1 0
2018/19 17 1 403 153 25.1 — 1 1
2017/18 7 4 169 82* 37.94 1408.33 2 0
2016/17 8 0 221 91 27.63 4420 2 0
2015/16 2 1 18 17 13.5 — 0 0
2014/15 2 1 4 4 3 — 0 0
2012/13 4 1 236 92 73.75 — 3 0
2011/12 2 0 38 24 19 — 0 0

Bowling

Season Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Avg Econ SR
2021/22 34 6 167 5 33.4 4.91 40.8
2020/21 52 14 199 11 18.09 3.83 28.4
2019/20 25.7 5 86 3 28.67 3.35 51.3
2018/19 134 28 459 26 17.65 3.43 30.9
2017/18 83 13 315 13 24.23 3.8 38.3
2016/17 58.7 8 273 10 27.3 4.65 35.2
2015/16 61 10 192 8 24 3.15 45.8
2014/15 30 2 109 14 7.79 3.63 12.9
2012/13 47.2 10 142 5 28.4 3.01 56.6
2011/12 12 5 35 1 35 2.92 72

Fielding

Season Ct WK Ct RO St Dismissals
2021/22 1 0 0 0 1
2020/21 2 0 0 0 2
2019/20 4 0 0 0 4
2018/19 4 0 0 0 4
2017/18 1 0 0 0 1
2016/17 2 0 0 0 2
2014/15 1 0 0 0 1
2012/13 3 0 0 0 3
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