Ben O’Connell
Batting – Opening Batter
NSW
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Teams played for
Competitions
Registered with:
Epping Bulls Cricket Club · Epping District Cricket Club
🏏 Century highlight · ball-by-ball
129* off 230
First Grade (The RB Clark Cup) · 2022/23 · 20×4, 0×6
· SR 56
A front-loaded hundred: a quick first fifty off 90 balls (SR 56), then 50 to 100 at a steadier 98 balls (SR 51).
Scoring breakdown
80 of 129 runs (62%) in boundaries · 71% dots
Runs vs balls faced
0→20
· 20 balls · SR 100
steady
20→40
· 38 balls · SR 53
watchful
40→50
· 32 balls · SR 31
watchful
50→60
· 34 balls · SR 29
watchful
60→80
· 17 balls · SR 118
steady
80→100
· 47 balls · SR 43
watchful
Overall
Needs Work
5/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
16/100
Batting
Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling
Not enough data
Representative pathway — 3 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Body of work — 139 imported matches (+2.8)
Critical recommendations
high
Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work
Strike rate of 43.5 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 12% 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 16 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling not rated (weight redistributed). 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 5). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
- Form
- Rated on the last 5 matches since 26 Oct 2024. Older cricket still shows in the career figures but does not count.
- Fielding
- Outfield: 40 catches + 3 run outs (2 direct, 1 assisted) in 139 matches — 0.31 per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 151 innings at 24.1 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- Not rated: 58 wickets from 429.8 overs across 69 matches bowled in (of 139 played) — 0.84 per match, under the 0.25 floor. Bowls too rarely to judge.
Fielding — imported matches (139)
40
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.29
Catches / match
2
RO (direct)
1
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
43
Total dismissals
0.31
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
3324
Runs (151 inns)
24.05
Avg (adj)
43.55
Strike rate
129
High score
14
Not outs
1
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
58
Wickets (429.8 ov)
4.12
Economy
30.55
Average
49
Maidens
0.69
Extras / over
44.5
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 139 imported |
| Batting | 3324 runs in 151 inns @ 24.05 (SR 43.55) |
| Milestones | 3×100, 14×50, HS 129, 18 ducks |
| Bowling | 58 wkts @ 30.55 (econ 4.12, SR 44.5) |
| Best / 5WI | 6-45 · 2 five-fors |
| Fielding | 40 ct, 3 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 43 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.29
Catches / match
0.31
Dismissals / match
Across 139 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 11 | 0 | 156 | 36 | 14.18 | 39.9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023/24 | 12 | 2 | 290 | 90* | 28.19 | 45.45 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022/23 | 16 | 5 | 482 | 129* | 39.54 | 231.73 | 2 | 1 |
| 2021/22 | 11 | 0 | 113 | 49 | 10.27 | 61.41 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020/21 | 12 | 0 | 252 | 57 | 21 | 164.71 | 3 | 0 |
| 2019/20 | 13 | 2 | 319 | 112 | 28.31 | 69.35 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018/19 | 15 | 0 | 343 | 70 | 22.87 | 659.62 | 2 | 0 |
| 2017/18 | 19 | 2 | 514 | 118 | 29.9 | — | 2 | 1 |
| 2016/17 | 20 | 2 | 416 | 61 | 22.88 | 4622.22 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015/16 | 22 | 1 | 439 | 81 | 20.86 | 731.67 | 2 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — |
| 2023/24 | 10 | 2 | 43 | 1 | 43 | 4.3 | 60 |
| 2022/23 | 45 | 5 | 156 | 3 | 52 | 3.47 | 90 |
| 2021/22 | 38.8 | 6 | 182 | 7 | 26 | 4.69 | 33.3 |
| 2020/21 | 10 | 0 | 41 | 0 | — | 4.1 | — |
| 2019/20 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0 | — | 11 | — |
| 2018/19 | 42 | 5 | 210 | 3 | 70 | 5 | 84 |
| 2017/18 | 156 | 23 | 571 | 20 | 28.55 | 3.66 | 46.8 |
| 2016/17 | 84.7 | 5 | 374 | 13 | 28.77 | 4.42 | 39.1 |
| 2015/16 | 40.3 | 2 | 173 | 11 | 15.73 | 4.29 | 22 |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023/24 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 2022/23 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| 2021/22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020/21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019/20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018/19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017/18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016/17 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2015/16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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