James O'Connell
Bowling – First-Change Bowler
VIC
Anchor / accumulator
📈 Journey
📊 Rankings
🎥 Video
4
Merge duplicate records
Search for this player's other accounts and combine them into one player. Records that share a match can never be merged.
Likely same player — one-click merge
play.cricket
James O'Connell
— · 30 matches ·
25% match
Or search manually:
No players found — check the spelling, or try part of the name.
Teams played for
Competitions
Registered with:
Red Hill Cricket Club · North Balwyn Cricket Club · Camberwell Magpies Cricket Club
Overall
Needs Work
13/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
26/100
Batting
Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling
Proficient
41/100
Representative pathway — 11 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Premier or state pathway — 37 matches (+10.0)
- ● Body of work — 54 imported matches (+1.1)
Critical recommendations
high
Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work
Strike rate of 53.3 means long dot-ball chains and pressure on partners. Drill singles into gaps, soft-hand placement, and calling.
medium
Bowling
Tight but not threatening
Economy of 3.81 is excellent but a wicket every 51 balls is slow. Develop a genuine wicket-taking variation and attack the stumps more.
medium
Fielding
Low overall fielding impact
0.20 dismissals per match across 54 matches. Add direct-hit and ground-fielding reps to turn half-chances into run outs.
Strengths
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 26 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling 41 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
- Level
- ×0.40 for the level played (1st grade 4 · 2nd grade 14 · 3rd grade 14 · Club 17 · 4th grade 5). 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: 11 catches + 0 run outs (0 direct, 0 assisted) in 54 matches — 0.20 per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 40 innings at 21.3 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- 32 wickets in 38 matches bowled in (of 54 played) — 0.84 per match at 32.4, economy 3.81, strike rate 51.1.
Fielding — imported matches (54)
11
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.2
Catches / match
0
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
11
Total dismissals
0.2
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
668
Runs (40 inns)
21.29
Avg (adj)
53.29
Strike rate
60
High score
11
Not outs
8
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
32
Wickets (272.5 ov)
3.81
Economy
32.41
Average
33
Maidens
0.15
Extras / over
51.1
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 54 imported |
| Batting | 668 runs in 40 inns @ 21.29 (SR 53.29) |
| Milestones | 0×100, 3×50, HS 60, 1 ducks |
| Bowling | 32 wkts @ 32.41 (econ 3.81, SR 51.1) |
| Best / 5WI | 4-40 · 0 five-fors |
| Fielding | 11 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 11 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.2
Catches / match
0.2
Dismissals / match
Across 54 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 | 2 | 1 | 44 | 36* | 33 | 64.71 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020/21 | 5 | 1 | 75 | 38 | 18 | 77.32 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019/20 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 15 | 7.68 | 29.09 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018/19 | 2 | 1 | 67 | 60* | 50.25 | 36.61 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017/18 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 21 | 21 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2014/15 | 6 | 1 | 62 | 28 | 12.06 | 112.73 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013/14 | 5 | 0 | 96 | 46 | 19.2 | 320 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012/13 | 5 | 1 | 118 | 52 | 28.32 | — | 1 | 0 |
| 2011/12 | 1 | 0 | 57 | 57 | 57 | — | 1 | 0 |
| 2010/11 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 14* | 18.75 | 92.59 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009/10 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 20* | 10 | 86.96 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007/08 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 5.78 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2005/06 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 38* | 38 | — | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | — | 6.5 | — |
| 2020/21 | 19 | 1 | 85 | 4 | 21.25 | 4.47 | 28.5 |
| 2019/20 | 28 | 4 | 109 | 3 | 36.33 | 3.89 | 56 |
| 2018/19 | 5 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 28 | 5.6 | 30 |
| 2017/18 | 1.7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 3.6 | — |
| 2014/15 | 10 | 1 | 50 | 1 | 50 | 5 | 60 |
| 2013/14 | 28 | 2 | 112 | 2 | 56 | 4 | 84 |
| 2012/13 | 50.8 | 13 | 169 | 5 | 33.8 | 3.32 | 61 |
| 2011/12 | 9 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 30 | 3.33 | 54 |
| 2010/11 | 15 | 1 | 47 | 4 | 11.75 | 3.13 | 22.5 |
| 2009/10 | 49 | 3 | 187 | 4 | 46.75 | 3.82 | 73.5 |
| 2008/09 | 19 | 5 | 55 | 0 | — | 2.89 | — |
| 2007/08 | 27 | 2 | 106 | 3 | 35.33 | 3.93 | 54 |
| 2005/06 | 9 | 1 | 40 | 4 | 10 | 4.44 | 13.5 |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020/21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019/20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017/18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014/15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009/10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007/08 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005/06 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pathway benchmark
How does James compare?
Year-by-year, aligned by age — against Sam Konstas or any player you pick.