Darren Cheek
Batting – Top-Order Batter
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Competitions
Registered with:
SA Veterans Cricket Association - Representative · Grange Cricket Club · Brighton Cricket Club (SA) · Coromandel Cricket Club
Overall
Needs Work
6/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
19/100
Batting
Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling
Strong
~27/100
discounted — banded on wickets per match
Representative pathway — 2 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Regional representative — 12 matches (+1.8)
- ● Body of work — 20 imported matches (+0.4)
Critical recommendations
medium
Batting
High duck rate
Out for 0 in 10% of imported innings. Build a repeatable start routine: watch the ball out of the hand, score first run with low-risk pushes.
Strengths
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 19 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling 27 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
- Level
- ×0.30 for the level played (Club 13). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
- Form
- Rated on the last 13 matches since 26 Oct 2024. Older cricket still shows in the career figures but does not count.
- Fielding
- Outfield: 4 catches + 2 run outs (1 direct, 1 assisted) in 20 matches — 0.30 per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 19 innings at 17.4 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- 13 wickets in 16 matches bowled in (of 20 played) — 0.81 per match at 28.6, economy 4.84, strike rate 35.5.
Fielding — imported matches (20)
4
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.2
Catches / match
1
RO (direct)
1
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
6
Total dismissals
0.3
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
299
Runs (19 inns)
17.39
Avg (adj)
76.29
Strike rate
41
High score
2
Not outs
4
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
13
Wickets (76.8 ov)
4.84
Economy
28.62
Average
3
Maidens
0.25
Extras / over
35.5
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 20 imported |
| Batting | 299 runs in 19 inns @ 17.39 (SR 76.29) |
| Milestones | 0×100, 0×50, HS 41, 2 ducks |
| Bowling | 13 wkts @ 28.62 (econ 4.84, SR 35.5) |
| Best / 5WI | 3-29 · 0 five-fors |
| Fielding | 4 ct, 2 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 6 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.2
Catches / match
0.3
Dismissals / match
Across 20 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 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 142.86 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025/26 | 7 | 1 | 83 | 33* | 13.55 | 62.88 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024/25 | 3 | 0 | 56 | 39 | 18.67 | 74.67 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023/24 | 6 | 0 | 79 | 19 | 13.17 | 111.27 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022/23 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 41* | 41 | 67.21 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 5 | 0 | 38 | 0 | — | 7.6 | — |
| 2025/26 | 22 | 0 | 135 | 3 | 45 | 6.14 | 44 |
| 2024/25 | 13 | 0 | 43 | 2 | 21.5 | 3.31 | 39 |
| 2023/24 | 32.8 | 3 | 135 | 8 | 16.88 | 4.11 | 24.6 |
| 2022/23 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | — | 5.25 | — |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024/25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023/24 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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