Balapuwaduge Mendis
Bowling – Second-Change Bowler
VIC
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Competitions
Registered with:
Southern Rangers Cricket Club · Chelsea Cricket Club · Blackburn North Cricket Club · Moorooduc Cricket Club · Melbourne Sixers Sports Club · Box Hill North Super Kings Cricket Club · Washington Park Cricket Club · Thunders Sports Club · Casey Tuskers Sports Club · Moorabbin Park Cricket Club · Epsicon Sports Club · Victorian Sunday Cricket Club · Southern Cricket Club (VIC)
Overall
Needs Work
7/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
19/100
Batting
Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling
Proficient
52/100
Representative pathway — 1 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Body of work — 62 imported matches (+1.2)
Critical recommendations
high
Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work
Strike rate of 64.2 means long dot-ball chains and pressure on partners. Drill singles into gaps, soft-hand placement, and calling.
medium
Batting
Not converting fifties into hundreds
Only 0% of 50+ scores become hundreds (10 fifties, 0 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.
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Fielding
Fielding is a selection weapon
0.84 catches per match is elite for this level — keep it visible by taking the hardest catching positions in big games.
Strengths
- ✓ Strikes regularly — a wicket every 25 balls.
- ✓ Safe hands — 52 catches in 62 matches (0.84 per match), a genuine selection asset.
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 19 × 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
- ×0.30 for the level played (Club 15). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
- Form
- Rated on the last 15 matches since 31 Oct 2024. Older cricket still shows in the career figures but does not count.
- Fielding
- Keeping: 34 catches + 3 stumpings + 3 run outs (0 direct, 3 assisted) in 62 matches — 0.65 dismissals per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 65 innings at 25.1 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- 31 wickets in 27 matches bowled in (of 62 played) — 1.15 per match at 20.9, economy 5.02, strike rate 25.0.
Fielding — imported matches (62)
18
Ct (field)
34
Ct (WK)
0.84
Catches / match
0
RO (direct)
3
RO (assist)
3
Stumpings
58
Total dismissals
0.94
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
1454
Runs (65 inns)
25.12
Avg (adj)
64.23
Strike rate
75
High score
8
Not outs
4
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
31
Wickets (129 ov)
5.02
Economy
20.9
Average
4
Maidens
0.13
Extras / over
25
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 62 imported |
| Batting | 1454 runs in 65 inns @ 25.12 (SR 64.23) |
| Milestones | 0×100, 10×50, HS 75, 0 ducks |
| Bowling | 31 wkts @ 20.9 (econ 5.02, SR 25) |
| Best / 5WI | 4-17 · 0 five-fors |
| Fielding | 52 ct, 3 RO, 3 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 58 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.84
Catches / match
0.94
Dismissals / match
Across 62 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 | 3 | 0 | 47 | 34 | 15.67 | 77.05 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024/25 | 8 | 0 | 126 | 35 | 15.75 | 252 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022/23 | 6 | 1 | 76 | 44 | 14.78 | 292.31 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021/22 | 2 | 0 | 81 | 67 | 40.5 | — | 1 | 0 |
| 2019/20 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 18 | 13.5 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018/19 | 2 | 0 | 53 | 52 | 26.5 | — | 1 | 0 |
| 2017/18 | 2 | 1 | 76 | 57 | 57 | — | 1 | 0 |
| 2015/16 | 18 | 4 | 470 | 73 | 31.91 | — | 4 | 0 |
| 2014/15 | 18 | 2 | 434 | 75* | 26.79 | — | 3 | 0 |
| 2013/14 | 2 | 0 | 57 | 37 | 28.5 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2012/13 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 3.5 | — | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | — | 8 | — |
| 2024/25 | 38 | 1 | 190 | 10 | 19 | 5 | 22.8 |
| 2022/23 | 17 | 0 | 99 | 5 | 19.8 | 5.82 | 20.4 |
| 2021/22 | 11.3 | 0 | 57 | 1 | 57 | 5.03 | 68 |
| 2019/20 | 13 | 2 | 48 | 1 | 48 | 3.69 | 78 |
| 2018/19 | 14.7 | 0 | 77 | 5 | 15.4 | 5.25 | 17.6 |
| 2017/18 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2.33 | 1.4 | 10 |
| 2015/16 | 15 | 0 | 76 | 5 | 15.2 | 5.07 | 18 |
| 2014/15 | 7 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 34 | 4.86 | 42 |
| 2013/14 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 0 | — | 8 | — |
| 2012/13 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0 | — | 6.67 | — |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024/25 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 2022/23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2018/19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015/16 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 22 |
| 2014/15 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 2013/14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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