Sam Benson (30)
★ Div 1 Rep
Bowling – First-Change Bowler
U15 (2010/11)
NSW
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Competitions
Registered with:
Wests Illawarra Cricket Club · Cricket Illawarra
District represented:
Cricket Illawarra (junior rep association)
Age:
Born on/after 1 Sep 1995
(inferred from U15 eligibility, 2010/11 season)
Green Shield:
0 season(s) played
· last GS year 2011/12 (ages out of U16 after this)
Overall
Needs Work
14/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
23/100
Batting
Working on Basics
not rated — working on basics
Bowling
Proficient
50/100
Representative pathway — 15 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Division 1 representative (+4)
- ● Premier or state pathway — 16 matches (+6.4)
- ● Regional representative — 14 matches (+2.1)
- ● Body of work — 142 imported matches (+2.8)
Critical recommendations
high
Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work
Strike rate of 34.7 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 13% 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 8% of 50+ scores become hundreds (12 fifties, 1 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.
Strengths
- ✓ Builds pressure with a tight economy of 3.15.
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 23 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling 50 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
- Level
- ×0.37 for the level played (Rep Div 1 36 · Club 106). 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: 39 catches + 2 run outs (2 direct, 0 assisted) in 142 matches — 0.29 per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 123 innings at 22.5 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- 130 wickets in 128 matches bowled in (of 142 played) — 1.02 per match at 19.3, economy 3.15, strike rate 36.7.
Fielding — imported matches (142)
39
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.27
Catches / match
2
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
41
Total dismissals
0.29
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
2328
Runs (123 inns)
22.47
Avg (adj)
34.67
Strike rate
100
High score
23
Not outs
5
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
130
Wickets (796 ov)
3.15
Economy
19.32
Average
129
Maidens
0.08
Extras / over
36.7
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 142 imported |
| Batting | 2328 runs in 123 inns @ 22.47 (SR 34.67) |
| Milestones | 1×100, 12×50, HS 100, 16 ducks |
| Bowling | 130 wkts @ 19.32 (econ 3.15, SR 36.7) |
| Best / 5WI | 5-14 · 2 five-fors |
| Fielding | 39 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 41 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.27
Catches / match
0.29
Dismissals / match
Across 142 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 8 | 0 | 41 | 15 | 5.13 | 136.67 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016/17 | 9 | 1 | 194 | 59 | 23.95 | — | 2 | 0 |
| 2015/16 | 14 | 3 | 200 | 56* | 17.35 | — | 1 | 0 |
| 2014/15 | 14 | 2 | 269 | 71* | 21.96 | — | 1 | 0 |
| 2012/13 | 17 | 2 | 146 | 61* | 9.6 | 324.44 | 1 | 0 |
| 2011/12 | 16 | 4 | 336 | 63 | 26.25 | — | 2 | 0 |
| 2010/11 | 18 | 2 | 445 | 66 | 27.47 | — | 3 | 0 |
| 2009/10 | 16 | 8 | 505 | 100* | 47.34 | — | 2 | 1 |
| 2008/09 | 11 | 1 | 192 | 40 | 19.04 | — | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 42.5 | 5 | 179 | 8 | 22.38 | 4.21 | 31.9 |
| 2016/17 | 60 | 8 | 278 | 5 | 55.6 | 4.63 | 72 |
| 2015/16 | 24 | 4 | 74 | 3 | 24.67 | 3.08 | 48 |
| 2014/15 | 88 | 12 | 315 | 20 | 15.75 | 3.58 | 26.4 |
| 2012/13 | 115 | 14 | 443 | 17 | 26.06 | 3.85 | 40.6 |
| 2011/12 | 102 | 11 | 325 | 17 | 19.12 | 3.19 | 36 |
| 2010/11 | 172 | 43 | 363 | 24 | 15.13 | 2.11 | 43 |
| 2009/10 | 114.8 | 19 | 321 | 21 | 15.29 | 2.8 | 32.8 |
| 2008/09 | 77.7 | 13 | 213 | 15 | 14.2 | 2.74 | 31.1 |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016/17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015/16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014/15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2012/13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011/12 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 2010/11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2009/10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2008/09 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
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